@jakedeyton1 Please help in any way you can #hurricane #northcarolina #appalachia #disaster #asheville #appalachian ♬ original sound - Jake Deyton
September 30, 2024
"The river that has flooded this street is normally 20 feet below it...."
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Media event. Every hurricane is misfortune for somebody and entertainment for everybody else, covered because of ratings until finally the ratings begin to fall. It's scripted from beginning to end the same as the last hurricane.
There's the New Orleans Katrina and the Mississippi Katrina. In the Mississippi Katrina, if you have a million victims, you right away have a million helpers.
Meat in the freezer? Have a neighborhood BBQ until it's all gone or all gone bad. etc.
As if the government were the resource you needed.
Was this Thursday? Five days ago: in five days 40,000 Americans have died.
What does the news claim to know that you don't know? It claims to know what is important.
Boy, rhhardin. You're a hell of a human being, aren't you?
Rivers expand sideways until they can pass enough volume to keep up. The narrower the river bed, the more it rises.
Not everybody can recognize entertainment, in particular entertainment at other people's misfortune, as entertainment.
Do you know why your boss says, "Sorry about your father"? It doesn't mean that he's sorry. It means that he's cutting you some slack for a while on job deadlines and social requirements like laughing at the same joke he always tells. That's sympathy that you have use for, and that's why it's given.
If you don't know the guy, your sympathy is you entertaining yourself with your own goodness. It's worth zero.
Jeselnik "Thoughts and Prayers" it turns out covers the matter.
Jeselnik
Erick Erickson recommends The Salvation Army if you want to donate to help the Helene victims. He said over 95% of the donations go towards the causes. They do better than anybody else. (Yes, I've donated)
link to The Salvation Army Relief page
btw. if i'm in violation of blog rules, please, somebody let me know and i will delete this. thanks
Thankfully there is not a Republican president or this would be a real emergency.
"Thankfully there is not a Republican president or this would be a real emergency."
It also helps that many of those affected are not Democrats.
I recommend Samaritan's Purse. The brought 17 tons of supplies into Maui after the fire, and IIRC they were the first charity on the scene. It’s my understanding that they are bringing supplies into western North Carolina while CEMA dithers.
I recommend Samaritan's Purse. The brought 17 tons of supplies into Maui after the fire, and IIRC they were the first charity on the scene. It’s my understanding that they are bringing supplies into western North Carolina while FEMA dithers.
Thanks for caring, you dick.......
Samaritans Purse is headquartered located in Western NC in Boone where the App State football stadium was severely damaged. It is run by Franklin Graham, the son of Billy Graham, and a political hack who has rebranded evangelicalism as a fearful and homophobic movement. One million dollars is stripped from donations to cover his annual salary. He also draws $500K from the Billy Graham Foundation.
Well, this post brought out cockroach commentators.
Yep. They are the typical Progressives who won't be happy until the country burns down.
Not too long ago I saw a standup on TV lay down a run of callous, offensive jokes, getting a laugh for every one, until the audience finally recoils and he goes meta and says something like: "So that's what it takes, huh?" I think maybe it was Anthony Jeselnik.
Ashville, NC is a bright blue Democratic city in a deeply red bowl of surrounding Republicans. Think of it as an Appalachian Portland. The City Council there voted for reparations for Af-Am even historically that part of Western NC had very few slaves.
Nothing in your diatribe changes the fact that they were the first in the scene in Maui.
We can't control the weather. We can't control the climate. We can control where we live, and we can control how we live. Let's stop whining about the first two and start making smart decisions about the last two.
It's so nice living on the beach -- the beautiful sun rises and picnics on the beach. Hurricanes? Not so much.
I like how the guy says satellite internet not Starlink.
Terrible situation, but this is not the first time a hurricane has stalled.inland and dumped lots of rain, and climate change is not the cause. Those valleys in the Appalachians weren't cut by wind.
Sally Army are good. As are Samaritan's Purse. In the UK our Church uses Samaraitan's Purse for Harvest Festival Donations and at Christmas. Sally Army are also very good. I'm surprised not to hear of Christian relief charities or churches not being on the scene, but maybe that doesn't suit media narratives.
It looks awful out there.
Where's the President, by the way?
Or the Governor?
Southern Baptists are also on the scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVpBGhjVGj0&t=55s
Mennonites, too.
I would gi wity samaritans purse
Now it's even easier to skip past rhhardin's comments.
I woke up wondering when people stopped evaluating charities based on how well they perform in times when people desperately need their support, and started evaluating them based solely on politics. I’d be ashamed if I fell into that trap, but I perceive that Democrats and other lefty extremists have their sense of shame surgically removed.
And here I thought that I was a cynical SOB. Wow.
Gadfly, the CEO of the American Red Cross earns about a million a year in salaries and benefits. 13 other employees earn six figures, almost all of them in the high six-figures.
And that's just at the National. God bless both of those organizations' volunteers and donors for stepping up. I'd probably take a grifter minister pocketing some bennies over the horrors committed by Elizabeth Dole when she was the head of the Red Cross and used her political power to prevent adequate safety measures to be applied in both choices made in collecting blood and distributing, for a pretty price, deadly untested infected serum to hemophiliacs despite warnings from other scientists.
The Salvation Army is a church, but it provides some public financials. Last year it spent 6.65 million on all administration, which includes not just top but all salaries, plus facilities, legal, fundraising fees, etc. That's a pretty lean organization.
Yeah. When they're out ringin' that damn bell they always get the content of my pockets.
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