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I spoke with the Asheville Red Cross. I asked what are we doing and what can we do to help. here’s the response (emphasis added is mine) -
The American Red Cross deployed about 5600 disaster relief volunteers from all over the country to assist the evacuees affected by Hurricane Gustav. Fifteen of them are from Western North Carolina. Hundreds of these volunteers are being moved to Florida this weekend, as part of an estimated 2500 volunteers who will be needed for shelters, mass care and feeding there in the coming week. Other volunteers from WNC, along with Emergency Relief Vehicles ...
John McCain says he is a maverick.
Yet instead of picking Joe Lieberman of Connecticut as his running mate, as he had wanted to do, he chose a candidate to satisfy the far right.
Mr. McCain lacked the political courage to be his own man.
Instead of a maverick, Senator McCain is a pack mule for the far right. You see him there above–Carrying the load… Waiting for the next command.
Mr. McCain is not even “stubborn as a mule.” He just allows the right to strap that gay-baiting, book-banning, no sex ed, everybody for themselves load right on his back.
Anything to win an election.
Here is information about mules from the British ...
I haven’t had a change to do the background on this yet but a reader sent me a link which suggests that Sarah Palin helped her church get funding for a new youth center. Read for yourself. I have to get back to work. I’ll do a little bit more reading on this subject this afternoon.
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