How To Help Harvey Victims

Hurricane Harvey, now a tropical storm, has affected many people in southern Texas. In addition to all of the services the Red Cross typically provides during a disaster, this storm has necessitated the need for long term shelter for people who now have nowhere to live. To donate to the Red Cross, you can call 1-800-REDCROSS, or to make an immediate $10.00 donation, you can text "Harvey" to 90999.

Pictured below, is what those affected by the storm do not need. Donald Trump visited Baton Rouge last year, after some serious flooding displaced a large number of people. He was convinced that they needed Play Doh. He is scheduled to visit the Houston area on Tuesday. Hopefully, he will not make the same mistake again.

Tell The Red Cross The Money Is For Haiyan

 

One of my friends, who has volunteered for the Red Cross in the past, recently made this point: when making a donation by check to the Red Cross for victims of a specific disaster or cause, it is well to write the cause on the "memo" line on the check. You can also donate online.

 

Tornado Footage

This is footage, snagged from the Marysville Advocate, of a tornado that went through Corning, Kansas at the end of May. Lists of clothing and other items needed have been passed around of Facebook and other social media websites, but the most constantly needed items in situations such as this are usually cash and blood. Not everyone can donate blood, and of those who can, only a fraction usually do. It's a big deal.

 

Storm Relief: Romney's A Bigger Liar Than I Thought

 

Last night, I posted about Mitt Romney's misguided photo-op involving donated food for victims of Hurricane Sandy. But I was unaware that a Mormon bishop would actually stoop low enough to send his aides to Walmart with 5,000 dollars for goods to use as props for pictures, even after the Red Cross specifically asked for cash and blood! Then, when the Red Cross told the Romney campaign that the food donations could not be used at this time, they threw them away. Instead of washing clean dishes and posing with goods that will never make it through West Virginia during a blizzard warning, the Red Cross suggested grocery store gift cards......but it is harder to pose with grocery store gift cards. If the Mormon Church is really all about sweetness and goodness, they will excommunicate Mitt Romney after this stunt. If Mitt Really wants to help, why doesn't he just help? Quietly? Without telling anyone? He certainly has enough money to just make a quiet donation, and then move forward with whatever pandering he still intends to do, while pushing to dismantle FEMA.

Mitt Romney Panders At The Expense Of Storm Victims

 

Mormon Republican, Mitt Romney, doesn't stop. He said he was going to stop campaigning and leave everyone alone because of Hurricane Sandy, but he went ahead and had his pandering session anyway, and renamed it a "storm relief effort". Here's the problem: the Red Cross needs donations of cash and blood. He is collecting food and other goods, which currently cannot be transported from Ohio to the places that would need it if the Red Cross were able to use it. The people who showed up with goods were told to wait until he arrived, and pose with him for pictures while giving the items, personally, to Mitt Romney. Had Joseph Smith ever heard of a pharisee?

Here's a description of what went on: "The event itself was billed as a “storm relief” benefit, and the Romney campaign asked supporters to bring with them food and other goods to donate to victims of the storm. But soon, reporters poked holes in the campaign’s explanation for staging the rally. First, the relief event was scheduled for the same time and location as a recently canceled political rally. Then, photos emerged, showing that donors were asked to wait to drop off their goods until Romney arrived to accept them himself, suggesting a photo op not unlike the one his running mate Paul Ryan staged earlier this month in a soup kitchen. And Salon noticed that the targeted recipient of all of the donations — the Red Cross — doesn’t even accept most of what the Romney campaign collected in Ohio."....thinkprogress

Here's a picture of the condition of a lot of the roads on the East Coast right now:

Don't listen to Mitt Romney. He's a liar. The Red Cross needs cash and blood right now, more than it needs anything else.