a call for help

[lagilman]

In her journal, cmpriest is talking about the situation in Texas. Having survived the storm itself, the aftermath is doing even more damage.

Via CNN: The Houston Food Bank is “utterly overwhelmed with people asking for help,” its president, Brian Greene, said Tuesday. The food bank needs 500,000 pounds of food a day for the next six weeks to satisfy the “staggering” needs of Texans who have no food or water after the storm, he said.

“People don’t grasp just how many people live here,” said Greene, who was executive director of New Orleans’ Food Bank when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in 2005. He lost his home in Katrina, and lived at the New Orleans food bank for weeks using a garden hose as a shower. Most of the Houston food bank’s volunteers’ homes were damaged and they don’t have power.

“It’s a very similar situation that I saw following Katrina: when the caregivers themselves [are] victims, it just becomes difficult on a far larger scale than you would think,” he said.

She has a list o' links where you can help out, including food banks, and the local ASPCA. What, you were going to invest that $10 in the stock market? Put it to a better use.


meanwhile, from MSNBC: "Alaska's investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power, a potentially damaging distraction for John McCain's presidential campaign, ran into intensified resistance Tuesday when the attorney general said state employees would refuse to honor subpoenas in the case."

Because being a Republican, apparently, means you don't have to answer to the law. Cheeney did it, Palin's doing it...

Does that mean Republican=Anarchist? It would certainly explain the "fkcu you" attitude they seem to be cultivating...

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[windrose.livejournal.com]

Does that mean Republican=Anarchist? It would certainly explain the "fkcu you" attitude they seem to be cultivating...

No, it just means they're crooks.

(At some point I'm going to have to do a post about how anarchism does not mean what most people--including many so-called anarchists--think it means.)

[lagilman]

s'okay, most people don't know what "Liberal" actually means, either. Are we talking about the political aspect, the social aspect, the cultural aspect, or the insult/pride aspect?

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

I hear you!

[caryabend.livejournal.com]

From USDOJ http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/:

The Judiciary Act of 1789 created the Office of the Attorney General which evolved over the years into the head of the Department of Justice and chief law enforcement officer of the Federal Government. The Attorney General represents the United States in legal matters generally and gives advice and opinions to the President and to the heads of the executive departments of the Government when so requested. In matters of exceptional gravity or importance the Attorney General appears in person before the Supreme Court. Since the 1870 Act that established the Department of Justice as an executive department of the government of the United States, the Attorney General has guided the world's largest law office and the central agency for enforcement of federal laws.

This tells me that the AG's job is to advise the Executive Branch on legal issues first, and enforce the law second. Sadly, when these two functions come into conflict, "advise" apparently mutates into "CYA can override enforcement." Sigh.

I suppose that the States use a similar model for State Attorneys General. Double Sigh.

[arouraleona.livejournal.com]

The AG also doesn't have that attorney/client privilege thing with government employees so they should be able to legally speak freely when they're actually at hearings, but they don't.

Seriously, I don't get how republicans get off saying they're the party of change and blah blah blah, shakin' up the government, for the little people, blah blah blah... they are everything America fought so hard against. They are the British Empire deciding what laws should apply to government officials in the colonies, they are the Confederacy deciding not to give a crap about the government, they are Terrorists, destroying our freedoms and undermining our Constitution. It makes me weep. It makes me rage.

I just do not understand it. How do they get away with it. Why does avoiding a subpoenas get them points half the time? Why do my parent's say the democrats aren't showing proper respect to the president when crap like this comes up? When it's not the democrats doing it and it's got sh** to do with respect and everything to do with the LAW. Why don't the majority of people stand up and say, "What the HELL? WE wouldn't be allowed to just IGNORE a subpoena. WE would have our a**es hauled off to jail.

Why are people so damn complacent? God, I'm in a bad mood today.

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

People are sheep?

[arouraleona.livejournal.com]

Yup. Indeed they are.

[shana.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link to the links; I wouldn't have thought to look for the food banks.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I just LOVE how they're campaigning on an open, honest, and honorable campaign and then refusing to comply with legal enquiries and lying so badly that Karl friggin' Rove is saying "ooo, that's just not on."