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.

 

Liar Alert! Baby Lisa's Mom Wants More Money

To anyone following the Lisa Irwin missing persons case, there is a liar alert concerning Debbie Bradley's pleas for more money. The "Find Lisa Irwin" site has a paypal button for donations, but why? There are no searches for Lisa, who would be two years old by this time, in progress. There are no awareness campaigns. There isn't even an age progressed picture of Lisa. The monies collected by the site have not been accounted for properly, and all of the attempts to find Lisa have been funded by taxpayors. Lisa's parents, Debbie Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, have worked hard to keep Lisa's case out of the news lately, instead of in the news. They get angry and threaten anyone who writes about Lisa or holds vigils for Lisa. They refuse to assist law enforcement in any way to solve the mystery of what happened to their daughter. So why do they need money? The only people who need to be paid are the two criminal defense attorneys hired by Lisa Irwin's parents and the local liquor stores.

 

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.
 

Causes Worthy Of Charitable Donations

Here are two causes that should have more attention, and need to stay in operation. The first is Kansas based Media For The Missing, which seeks to keep pictures of missing persons in places where they can be seen at all hours by the public, along with information about how to report sightings or knowledge of cases. In my opinion, Kansas is important for such a mission, because Kansas City has networks of highways that can take a person almost anywhere in the United States.

The other one is GoFundMe, for the lawsuit Desiree Young has been obliged to file against Terri Horman, who was living in the home with Kyron Horman when he disappeared from his Portland, Oregon school at age seven, just over two years ago. Terri Horman was Kyron's step parent, but is no longer, as she is separated from Kyron's father, Kaine Horman. She has not only refused to testify or establish her timesline of activities for the day Kyron went missing, but is now trying to block the testimony of other family members. This fund was established by Desiree's sister, Kelly Ramirez.