Hurricane Katrina - Blog for Relief Day

Bloggers are organizing a Blog for Relief Day, where participating blogs join by indicating the charities they recommend readers make donations to help survivors of Hurricane Katrina through. It started today. See Glenn's roundup post, and check out the Technorati flood aid and hurricane katrina tags.

My preferred charity is the Red Cross. Donate Here.


My suggestion for the future is to Vote out the president who used our National Guard and their equipment overseas. I have had fits about this. The National Guard is to guard the NATION! Diasters like Hurrican Katrina are where they shine! Michigan is deploying guardsmen to help because the states being wiped out have the majority of their guardsmen in Iraq.

I told the mate last night that someone would say it on TV before the night was over and was lucky enough to be sitting there when it happened on CNN! A reporter stated that the police were unable to meet the demands being forced on them by the circumstances and stating that over 4000 of the three states guardsmen were overseas which is why the governors were unable to muster enough help by calling on their National Guard. And our federal government has only 150 generators to send. For crying out loud people, only 150? Sears had more than that!

I am not against helping the Iraq people form a democratic government. I am against not having a large enough standing army to do it without taking resources and people needed here.

So there ya go. I'm ranting again.