Here's a website with a good list of reputable charities to donate to for victims of the Asian tsunami this past weekend.
Don't donate because you feel pressured or obligated, or guilt-ridden if you don't. Do it because your heart tells you it's the right, decent and humane thing to do.
I personally have donated to Doctor's Without Borders --- they're a fantastic organization and very reputable.
Here's the website with the lists of charities:
Click here.
Friday, December 31, 2004
G.W. Bush - - Faux Christian . . . .
Worth printing in it's entirety here. An expose' on the phony Christian Bush and his phony right-wing religious worshippers. It's also a pretty fair explanation as to why I'm not a Christian -- too many like Bush's ilk claiming ownership of the faith.
Here it is courtesy of AMERICAblog:
Bush is not a good Christian by John in DC - 12/30/2004 01:48:26 PM
If President Bush wants to flaunt his Christianity, invoke it to defend his policies and use it to promote legislation like the anti-gay constitutional amendment, then it's fair game for us to consider just how good a Christian President Bush really is.
The devastating Tsunami this past weekend, and Bush's reaction to it, prove beyond a doubt that this man is hardly a good Christian.
Bush's first reaction on hearing of the devastation, as leader of the free world, should have been to immediately annonce that the US was taking the lead in coordinating disaster relief. When we've already spent over $200 billion on Iraq, we shouldn't have said we were committing $15m to the relief effort, we should have announced the creation of a billion dollar global fund and called on all the nations and private citizens of the earth to come together and help finance it. He should have called on all the liberal and conservative donors to both presidential campaigns, red state and blue state, to put aside their differences and donate to this worthy cause.
But he didn't.
Bush stayed on vacation and had a deputy press secretary, not even his real press secretary, answer questions on the disaster. Not until 5 days after the disaster struck, and after news reports indicated the death toll was approaching 100,000, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, not until after the Washington Post ran a story saying that Bush was being criticized for ignoring the humanitarian crisis did Bush finally speak publicly on this matter.
I return to the issue of Bush's Christianity. A good Christian would be mortified by the death and destruction in the East. Occuring just a day, ONE DAY, after Christmas, his heart would go out to the millions of lives affected by this tragedy. He'd demand his aides come up with an immediate Marshall Plan for helping Asia. He'd go on TV immediately to convey his condolences - not simply because it's the right thing to do, but also because we're dealing with a region of the world where such ceremony and attention to such public statements are given great weight. He'd do it not only because it's the right thing to do, but because the disaster has struck a region of the world with the largest Muslim population on the planet. Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the WORLD. They have been the worst hit by this disaster.
Imagine the political and public relations impact of the United States coming to the rescue of the world's Muslims during our own high holiday.
Alas, it never happened.
It never happened because it's something a good Christian would do. It's something a good church, a good faith, would do. It's something that any decent human being, let alone a decent person of faith, would do. But it's not something that George Bush did, and it's not something that the religious right in America did. You didn't hear Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell organizing any telethons to help the dead and dying. You didn't hear the religious right demanding the White House get more involved to help the devastated. No. Hurricane Gay is a call to arms for the religious right and this president, but Tsunamis in Asia killing over 100,000 people? Not so much.
George Bush is a bad Christian and a bad president. And the religious right and their pseudo faith in God is right there along side him. One wonders if the reaction would have been different had the victims been European and Christian.And white.
Here it is courtesy of AMERICAblog:
Bush is not a good Christian by John in DC - 12/30/2004 01:48:26 PM
If President Bush wants to flaunt his Christianity, invoke it to defend his policies and use it to promote legislation like the anti-gay constitutional amendment, then it's fair game for us to consider just how good a Christian President Bush really is.
The devastating Tsunami this past weekend, and Bush's reaction to it, prove beyond a doubt that this man is hardly a good Christian.
Bush's first reaction on hearing of the devastation, as leader of the free world, should have been to immediately annonce that the US was taking the lead in coordinating disaster relief. When we've already spent over $200 billion on Iraq, we shouldn't have said we were committing $15m to the relief effort, we should have announced the creation of a billion dollar global fund and called on all the nations and private citizens of the earth to come together and help finance it. He should have called on all the liberal and conservative donors to both presidential campaigns, red state and blue state, to put aside their differences and donate to this worthy cause.
But he didn't.
Bush stayed on vacation and had a deputy press secretary, not even his real press secretary, answer questions on the disaster. Not until 5 days after the disaster struck, and after news reports indicated the death toll was approaching 100,000, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, not until after the Washington Post ran a story saying that Bush was being criticized for ignoring the humanitarian crisis did Bush finally speak publicly on this matter.
I return to the issue of Bush's Christianity. A good Christian would be mortified by the death and destruction in the East. Occuring just a day, ONE DAY, after Christmas, his heart would go out to the millions of lives affected by this tragedy. He'd demand his aides come up with an immediate Marshall Plan for helping Asia. He'd go on TV immediately to convey his condolences - not simply because it's the right thing to do, but also because we're dealing with a region of the world where such ceremony and attention to such public statements are given great weight. He'd do it not only because it's the right thing to do, but because the disaster has struck a region of the world with the largest Muslim population on the planet. Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the WORLD. They have been the worst hit by this disaster.
Imagine the political and public relations impact of the United States coming to the rescue of the world's Muslims during our own high holiday.
Alas, it never happened.
It never happened because it's something a good Christian would do. It's something a good church, a good faith, would do. It's something that any decent human being, let alone a decent person of faith, would do. But it's not something that George Bush did, and it's not something that the religious right in America did. You didn't hear Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell organizing any telethons to help the dead and dying. You didn't hear the religious right demanding the White House get more involved to help the devastated. No. Hurricane Gay is a call to arms for the religious right and this president, but Tsunamis in Asia killing over 100,000 people? Not so much.
George Bush is a bad Christian and a bad president. And the religious right and their pseudo faith in God is right there along side him. One wonders if the reaction would have been different had the victims been European and Christian.And white.
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Hackworth says Bush/Cheney/Rove hate our troops . . .
America's most decorated living soldier, Col. David Hackworth, tells the ugly truth about King George and his merry court of yes-men jesters and how they've managed to take the world's most powerful military left to them by Bill Clinton and turn it into a bedraggled, exhausted and rudderless entity.
But then, we all know that red-state America believes their bible-thumping boy-king can do no wrong -- right? Fucking moron Americans ---- will they ever pull their heads out of their pious asses long enough to see the truth and error of their actions?!
But then, we all know that red-state America believes their bible-thumping boy-king can do no wrong -- right? Fucking moron Americans ---- will they ever pull their heads out of their pious asses long enough to see the truth and error of their actions?!
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Proof that crime does pay -- if you are a GOP political operative that is . . .
There was a time in this country when a story like this would be front-page headlines and people would be outraged.
However, since Republicans have consolidated their grip on political and media power it's simply a ho-hum little back-page story that simply adds another name to the long list of GOP political and business pondscum who've enriched themselves at the expense of Joe Public taxpayer dollars.
It's also behavior which is, quite frankly, par for the course for the Bush administration ---getting rewarded for incompetence, malfeasance and traitorous actions while in public office.
Click here and gag on this story.
However, since Republicans have consolidated their grip on political and media power it's simply a ho-hum little back-page story that simply adds another name to the long list of GOP political and business pondscum who've enriched themselves at the expense of Joe Public taxpayer dollars.
It's also behavior which is, quite frankly, par for the course for the Bush administration ---getting rewarded for incompetence, malfeasance and traitorous actions while in public office.
Click here and gag on this story.
American morals -- as projected by Bush, Inc. . . . .
Here's some good old fashioned, conservative, Republican, Bush/Cheney/Rove moral values for you.
The King George administration pledges a measly $15 million in aid to Asian countries devastated by recent 9.0 earthquake which thus far has claimed 45,000 human lives -- click here.
Yet,
They somehow are able to come up with $30 - $40 million to stuff the fat-cat faces of their corporate whore donors and political cronys at Bush's sleazy inauguration and ball in January -- click here.
And these are the same moral values defenders who insist that a black woman's nipple exposed for a millisecond on national television is immoral??? What the fuck is wrong with this picture???
I'm sticking to my guns about loving this country, but I'm beginning to hate it's people and it's phony, hypocrite-inspired, anti-humane culture.
The King George administration pledges a measly $15 million in aid to Asian countries devastated by recent 9.0 earthquake which thus far has claimed 45,000 human lives -- click here.
Yet,
They somehow are able to come up with $30 - $40 million to stuff the fat-cat faces of their corporate whore donors and political cronys at Bush's sleazy inauguration and ball in January -- click here.
And these are the same moral values defenders who insist that a black woman's nipple exposed for a millisecond on national television is immoral??? What the fuck is wrong with this picture???
I'm sticking to my guns about loving this country, but I'm beginning to hate it's people and it's phony, hypocrite-inspired, anti-humane culture.
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