1/20    So I want to give some money to Haiti relief funds and my employer
        \_ SOCIALISM
        is willing to match it, but I am not really that big a fan of
        The Red Cross (they take your donations and then spend them
        however they like, not neccessarily on what you gave it to them for).
        Who else is a good charity? UNICEF?
	...

1/20    So I want to give some money to Haiti relief funds and my employer
        is willing to match it, but I am not really that big a fan of
        The Red Cross (they take your donations and then spend them
        however they like, not neccessarily on what you gave it to them for).
        Who else is a good charity? UNICEF?
        \- I believe after some criticism the Red Cross is better about
	...

5/12    Another big disaster in Asia in a week:
        "Death toll in China earthquake up to nearly 9,000"
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080512/ap_on_re_as/china_earthquake
        \_ my work place is full of mainlanders trying to get funding
           to help their fellow mainlanders. however, they're also the
           people who are insulted at FREE TIBET and LEAVE TAIWAN ALONE
	...

11/5    It's a little hard to sympathize with Georgia over the Atlanta
        water troubles.  Their population has been growing but they
        have invested nothing in new water infrastructure for Atlanta,
        for ~50 years.  Let's hope other areas learn from the problems.
        \_ The private sector will fix the problem, just like during Katrina.
           If they have problems it's because things weren't privatized enough.
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11/3    How much of this is conspiracy theory and how much has a basis in
        reality?
        http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=17432
        \_ Wasn't Bush criticized heavily after Katrina for NOT deploying
           the Natl. Gaurd to keep order?
           \_ Could he have deployed?  National Guards are under states'
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11/3    Keith Olbermann on Bush and political manipulation:
        http://csua.org/u/hd9 (rawstory.com, YouTube video)
        \_ Just don't call them Brown Shirts...
           \_ Unless you are a Conservative, then it is okay:
              http://www.mrc.org/press/2006/press20061102.asp
              \_ The mind utterly reels. OTOH, what a superb illustration of
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8/29    http://tinyurl.com/ez7fl (yahoo.com)
        Bush Katrina memorial photo-op.  Oh look, who are the token black
        folks in the back?
        http://tinyurl.com/k9t6b
        Uh oh, even a couple of the white folks looks pissed.
	...

8/23    Uh, the story "Katrina Survivor Meets Bush at White House" in the
        motd, the Washington Post completely re-wrote the article, taking
        out the "small man" comment and making it look like the Bush
        administration was modest and humble.  Go Dubya!
        \_ What's Bush have to do with what the WP does to a story online?
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