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Dept of not getting it
Oct. 23rd, 2006 03:04 pmAnd on the left side of the plane if you'll look out you can see a sick man, a beggar, and a corpse...
GO GO GADGET 401(K)!!!
Oct. 13th, 2005 11:44 pm Your Personal Rate of Return from 01/01/2005 to 10/13/2005 is -5.6%
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"Thunderbird is a marvelous drink for anybody wishing to affect a tough-guy, self-destructive rebel posture. Its surprising more rock stars don't cement their subterranean posing by swaggering into their favorite dive watering hole and demanding a Donnington Brainstorm, which is a potentially lethal mixture of Thunderbird and vodka."
Daily Lush takes on wino wine!
Daily Lush takes on wino wine!
St. Bernard and Plaquemines are screwed.
Sep. 13th, 2005 11:14 pmOxfam has a report from the poor and isolated St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes in southern Louisiana.
The rural areas there are pretty much totally depopulated and everyone's livelihoods are destroyed. There were a lot of farmers and fishermen there, and that ain't happening. And, in general, the people in those parishes get screwed when government money is being handed out because they lose at the political game. Plus, as a bonus, the place is full of heavy chemical industries and refineries which got all stirred up and spread on those parishes like peanut butter. Householders are being told not to return home until they have tetanus and hep A and B inoculations.
Oxfam is trying to raise $2 million for both short- and long-term aid to St. Bernard and Plaquemines. Help if you can!
The rural areas there are pretty much totally depopulated and everyone's livelihoods are destroyed. There were a lot of farmers and fishermen there, and that ain't happening. And, in general, the people in those parishes get screwed when government money is being handed out because they lose at the political game. Plus, as a bonus, the place is full of heavy chemical industries and refineries which got all stirred up and spread on those parishes like peanut butter. Householders are being told not to return home until they have tetanus and hep A and B inoculations.
Oxfam is trying to raise $2 million for both short- and long-term aid to St. Bernard and Plaquemines. Help if you can!
Famine in Niger, war and famine in Sudan, famine and disease after the tsunami, predatory landlords, dirty drinking water, the abuse of women and children, yet more war everywhere, AIDS, hurricanes, the impossible life of the subsistence farmer, drought, endless cycles of poverty and corruption, malaria, and still more war.
What's a person to do?
Give a few bucks to Oxfam if nothing else. 77% of their donations and 90% of their emergency fund donations go directly to operations. They help in emergencies and crises, and they fight the root causes of the world's miseries too. They do it locally, with global reach.
For those outside the U.S., the donation link is this one.
