It was reported that Exxon/Mobil donated 1 million. It is great that they
are donating about 1/10 of 1% of one quarters profits. They are lucky the
donation is tax deductible and the new energy bill offers $14 billion in tax
breaks to oil companies to cover this expense.
Dean, who road a bike to work today
-----Original Message-----
From: John Hermanson [mailto:omtech@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 8:21 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: OT: "Its all Bush's fault" was: Re: Re: List members
in hurricane path
Did you see Tony Perkins of the "Family Research Council (I think)?. He
holds up a picture of space image of Katrina, then he holds a picture of a
fetus . "see, hurricane looks just like a fetus. God sent the hurricane
because of abortions......." nut job.
Gov. Blanco sent the letter declaring a state of emergency and requesting
official federal intervention on 8/26, the Pres. signed it and sent it
back. Head of Homeland Security (Chertoff) that now controls FEMA,
decided he had to wait 2 days after the storm to send in help, because "FEMA
employees needed training first". Chertoff's original plan was to send
1,000 FEMA disaster workers AFTER 2 days, and another 2,000 after_a_WEEK.
Now that's pathetic. Amtrak offered trains to take the homeless out, FEMA
sent them away.
Exxon/Mobil reported profits of $8 billion last quarter, but I don't know if
their name is on the donors list. Would be nice. Wal-Mart has done quite a
lot, hats off to them.
John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
21 South Lane, Huntington, NY 11743
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Wayman" <hiwayman@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 12:46 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: OT: "Its all Bush's fault" was: Re: Re: List members in
hurricane path
> How can anybody blame a hurricane on Bush? He's not that powerful. Maybe
> it's Pat Robertson's fault because he was too busy getting his shorts in a
> wad about some commie in South America and forgot to pray this one away.
>
> Seriously, I don't have either the time or the inclination to get into
> this. I'm busy applying the annual autumn coating of Turtle Wax to the
> OM-4Runner, just taking a cold-beer break, and I really don't give a rat's
> ass about who's to blame for what.
>
> I will note, however, that TWO DAYS after Katrina hit, Bush was off in
> California speechifying, still trying to justify and drum up support for
> his and the vice-draftdodger's lie-based invasion of Iraq. Like Sen. Bill
> Frist's video tape diagnosis of the brain-dead Terry Shiavo, I guess he
> was just being inattentive.
>
> And this from the Associated Press, which I have seen no rebuttal of:
> "New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson offered Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco
> help from his state's National Guard on Sunday, the day before Hurricane
> Katrina hit Louisiana. Blanco accepted, but paperwork needed to get the
> troops en route didn't come from Washington until late Thursday."
>
> Lots of stuff wasn't, and still ain't, right, but let's stop arguing about
> it and do whatever little bit we can to help and to urge those who can do
> more to get off their asses and do it.
>
> I don't like and don't patronize Wal-Mart, but I notice they've donated
> $15M, as has GE, and Coca-Cola has pitched in $5, and I'm sure there are
> other large corporations whose donations I must've missed -- like Exxon,
> Shell, BP, Conoco, who are raking in billions in profits and I'm sure any
> day now will pony up with huge contributions. If not, may they and theirs
> live 1000 years with the dribbling s**ts.
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Patriotism means being loyal to
> your country all the time and to
> its government when it deserves
> it." -- Mark Twain
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