Petition signing...

a note i added to the new harry reid petition:

Most people understand that we have issues with refinaries and the like, however with record profits, you should work with the American people to get through this time instead of ignoring their need. If you call yourself an American, than work with US. Don't use and abuse your fellow citizens.

places to help, things to view:

we already posted that we have space available to both http://www.hurricanehousing.com AND http://www.shareyourhome.org to see if we can find people to open our doors to. no responses yet, but god only knows what and when we'll find a match through the case workers. we signed up for both yesterday.

seeing trolls attacking texans makes me angry. i wonder if this means i've become texan? i mean we've only lived here a year and a half and we came within a split second decision from moving to nola instead of purchasing this house, but i think that buying the house has made a huge difference in my outlook. meeting all the people coming here to give me price quotes on things we need to have done and so many stories ... i know we have no money and a hell of a lot of debt, but if we can help people (a person?) have a stable safe place for a few weeks, we'll offer it.

and i don't think it's just because i'm some wishy-washy socialist with warped morals that comes from a long history of living in "blue" states. i think it's some human's nature to care and want to help others with less.

** for viewing and hearing **

Nagin speaks his fury (an .mp3)

from the rude pundit: mr bill foresees the future