What are YOU doing for the victims of Katrina?
What are YOU doing for the victims of Katrina?
We all need to do our part. I thought posting what WE are doing might prompt others in doing their par. chaz I am giving money to the Red Cross. I will send clothes if thats a viable thing to do. I know cash always works. |
"chaz" wrote in message
ink.net... What are YOU doing for the victims of Katrina? We all need to do our part. I thought posting what WE are doing might prompt others in doing their par. chaz I am giving money to the Red Cross. I will send clothes if thats a viable thing to do. I know cash always works. Donating supplies, while appreciated isn't as helpful as cash. The red cross then has to pay to ship the supplies, and they often aren't the needed supplies. When the redcross spends money locally, they can get the supplies they need, and it helps restart the local economy. -S |
chaz wrote:
What are YOU doing for the victims of Katrina? We all need to do our part. I thought posting what WE are doing might prompt others in doing their par. chaz I am giving money to the Red Cross. I will send clothes if thats a viable thing to do. I know cash always works. I'm not doing anything at the moment because I'm stuck out-of-town to attend a funeral. When I get back home next week I'm gonna figure out the most tax efficient way to make a large contribution to the Southern Baptist's North American Missions Board. (I'll probably donate a bunch of appreciated stock so I can write off the whole amount without paying capital gains tax first) NAMB sends 100% of contributions to aid disaster victims (I believe they pay their overhead costs from the SB's general fund), and they coordinate their efforts with the Red Cross and the Salvation Army. P.S. Chaz, donate the clothes locally. Local relief agencies are gonna be hurting as hurricane and tsunami relief suck up a lot of the available charity resources. -Bob |
I was going to donate until I heard that they a
1) Looting 2) Raping each other 3) Slitting each others throats 4) Shoooting at police and emergency assistance personnel 5) Robbing jewelry and other valuables from the dead Now I can't even watch TV because of the anarchy/chaos/barbarism, etc. by those affected. I know that desperate times cause for desperate measures, but gangs raping children, and people looting big screen TV's, jewelry and guns makes me sick, and quickly squashes any feelings I may have to donate to this cause. I have been in some pretty bad situations (I am a 18-year military vet), but the things those "Americans" are doing to each other makes me wonder what the world has come to. I expect them to start eating each other pretty soon. If it was me, I would take all the wood that's loose, and make a raft and float and everyone else I can carry back to dry land. And then start walking. I wouldn't be shooting people or raping or any of the other sick things that are happening there. It's just sad. "chaz" wrote in message ink.net... What are YOU doing for the victims of Katrina? We all need to do our part. I thought posting what WE are doing might prompt others in doing their par. chaz I am giving money to the Red Cross. I will send clothes if thats a viable thing to do. I know cash always works. |
chaz wrote in message ... What are YOU doing for the victims of Katrina? ========== None of YOUR ****ing business. |
"zxcvbob" wrote in message
... I'm not doing anything at the moment because I'm stuck out-of-town to attend a funeral. When I get back home next week I'm gonna figure out the most tax efficient way to make a large contribution to the Southern Baptist's North American Missions Board. (I'll probably donate a bunch of appreciated stock so I can write off the whole amount without paying capital gains tax first) Ultimately it's your choice where you donate send your money, however faith based organizations have a history of attempting to bring religion along with their assistance. Better to donate to secular organizations such as the Red Cross. The Red Cross will accept equities as well. -S |
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wrote: "zxcvbob" wrote in message ... I'm not doing anything at the moment because I'm stuck out-of-town to attend a funeral. When I get back home next week I'm gonna figure out the most tax efficient way to make a large contribution to the Southern Baptist's North American Missions Board. (I'll probably donate a bunch of appreciated stock so I can write off the whole amount without paying capital gains tax first) Ultimately it's your choice where you donate send your money, however faith based organizations have a history of attempting to bring religion along with their assistance. Better to donate to secular organizations such as the Red Cross. The Red Cross will accept equities as well. -S DONATIONS TO THE RED CROSS CAN BE DOUBLED IN VALUE by donating through such companies as Kroger stores that have a "matching funds" policy for Katrina relief. Check right where you work to see if they have a matching fund policy, as many do whether you donate to Red Cross or National Public Radio or the local symphony orchestra or the SPCA's Katrina Response. The Red Cross of course uses "popular" crises to raise money broadly, so whoever gives has to not care that Red Cross money is used for crises they never heard about. Anyone who wanted to target specifically Louisiana or New Orleans for personal emotional reasons would want to give to that state's agencies only. Or to Alabama charities; Alabama has it just as bad but they don't have any one city as wonderful as New Orleans so they're getting a bit screwed on this charity business. But one also has to be aware that there have instantly grown up dozens of donation scams (several with their own domain names that look very authentic for on-line giving) & if you never heard of the organization there's way too high a chance it's a fraud. Just because 150 different blog sites say "click here to donate to Katrina" doesn't mean it's legit. It is sometimes just best to stick to places like www.salvationarmyusa.org or redcross.org just so you know you're not giving your credit card info to a fake-out criminal. I wouldn't give to any religious organization unless it was my own faith supposing I had one, as faith charity effectiveness is highly hit & miss with some using a minimal percentage of donations to assist anyone but their own institutional perpetuation. A very few, like the Menonite charity, use the majority of donations to assist, but in the main we individuals aren't qualified to figure out if the methodist or catholic or islamic Katrina charitable claims are wasteful good intentions, badly or well run, or out to do nothing but rebuild a few ruined church properties. Anyone who wants to assist the much overlooked pet population should contact the Louisiana SPCA at www.la-spca.org to make a donation or the Human Society Katrina Response Team. Red Cross has a harmful policy to help no animals, so end up turning many people away from shelters for having a pet they are unwilling to abandon immediately. So the work of the Human Society's Katrina Response Team becomes more important than may at first blush seem probable -- people carrying their dogs or cats are not going to be helped by the Red Cross or most other charities, so give at www.hsus.org or la-spca.org. -paghat the ratgirl -- Get your Paghat the Ratgirl T-Shirt he http://www.paghat.com/giftshop.html "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot." -Thomas Jefferson |
"Gideon" wrote in message . .. chaz wrote in message ... What are YOU doing for the victims of Katrina? ========== None of YOUR ****ing business. you are correct, killfile |
With all the help the United Nations is kicking in any meager amount I
could give is too small to make a difference, guess I'm tapped out after donating to the tsunami relief fund. Not being cynical just tired of being the redheaded stepchild. |
I'm donating all my disposable income to the local Sunoco station!
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On 3 Sep 2005 05:34:34 -0700, "tomkanpa" wrote:
I'm donating all my disposable income to the local Sunoco station! Good thinking, Tom. It's the only way to accept that life is a gas! Best wishes Geoff |
wrote in message ... On 3 Sep 2005 05:34:34 -0700, "tomkanpa" wrote: I'm donating all my disposable income to the local Sunoco station! Good thinking, Tom. It's the only way to accept that life is a gas! Best wishes Geoff so what is petrol costing in Scotland, Geoff?? maddie |
tomkanpa wrote:
I'm donating all my disposable income to the local Sunoco station! I'm assuming that the refiners will be donating their extra profits to the relief effort. Here in the Pacific Northwest, our gas prices traditionally have been higher than in the East. And the reason they've always given us is that we can't take advantage of the plentiful supplies in the East because there's no economical way to get any excess over to us except via the Panama Canal. Yet our gas prices have jumped 40-cents a gallon in the last couple of days, and the answer is that it's a shortage because of Katrina. Hmmm. Something isn't adding up here. We don't get the benefit of plentiful supplies in the East, but we suffer the same problems when there's a shortage? So I'm guessing that the refiners on the West Coast are taking advantage of our willingness to accept the higher prices because the extra profit will be donated to the relief effort. It certainly can't be price gouging. Nor could it be that they lied about how the supplies are separate. So it must be that the extra cost at the pumps will be donated to the relief effort. Right? -- Warren H. ========== Disclaimer: My views reflect those of myself, and not my employer, my friends, nor (as she often tells me) my wife. Any resemblance to the views of anybody living or dead is coincidental. No animals were hurt in the writing of this response -- unless you count my dog who desperately wants to go outside now. Have an outdoor project? Get a Black & Decker power tool:: http://www.holzemville.com/mall/blackanddecker/ |
On 2005-09-02 15:09:27 -0400, "chaz" said:
What are YOU doing for the victims of Katrina? We all need to do our part. I thought posting what WE are doing might prompt others in doing their par. chaz I am giving money to the Red Cross. I will send clothes if thats a viable thing to do. I know cash always works. I donated to the Red Cross. -- Chris: "Dad, what's a blowhole for?" Peter: "I'll tell you what it's NOT for and then you'll know why I can never go back to Sea World." |
chaz wrote:
What are YOU doing for the victims of Katrina? I'm doing nothing. During 9-10 January, record-breaking rains hit southern California, resulting in a Presidential disaster declaration. The hill in my backyard decided to become part of my lawn. The cost to repair will be about 1.5 times what I originally paid for my house, if I could only get a grading contractor to return my phone calls. This is a loss for which there is no insurance and never was. It's not a flood or earthquake; it's a landslide. And when it is finally repaired, there is no guantantee that it won't slide again. No one had a fund-raising to provide me with any disaster relief. While I have secured a federal disaster loan to pay for the repair, I will have to repay the loan -- from my Social Security and pension since I'm retired. The rains may return in two months and make the slide worse, endangering two homes on the street above me. But no grading contractor will talk to me. In the meantime, the Los Angeles Times today reported that the Army Corps of Engineers repeatedly asked for more funds to renovate and strengthen the levies around New Orleans. But President Bush and Congress repeatedly cut the funding to half or less than what the Army requested. -- David E. Ross |
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