We need answers: Sign the petition
Posted by Jim Dean at 3:18 p.m.
We need answers: Sign the petition
Americans want the truth. We cannot allow for the Republican leadership to investigate itself. And we cannot allow Congress to be distracted from the main task at hand—aiding the victims of this disaster and providing extensive recovery relief.
We need to find out what went wrong—and we need to find out the truth. But the only way to successfully achieve this is through an Independent Commission. Join me today:
www.democracyforamerica.com/accountability
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From Democalypse blog:
Five New Indictments in DeLay Investigation
Kos diary by jaywillie: The Best Picture Ever
HELP! Urgent! FEMA says decision imminent for animal rescue by the gnostic
Right now the pets aren't being rescued by FEMA or the other regular rescue workers, only pet rescue groups... they are slowly starving to death!!!
I just got off the phone with FEMA in Washington and was told that a decision is upcoming in regards to evacuating pets with the holdouts.
Also as part of that decision will be whether FEMA orders rescue workers to rescue pets when they can.
Please PLEASE provide whatever polite urging that you can with this decision:
The Honorable Michael Brown
Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Emergency Preparedness and Response
500 C St. S.W.
Washington, DC 20472
202-646-3900
202-646-3930 (fax)
FEMAOPA@dhs.gov
They say they will post their decision on their web-site.
If you're a Kos member and animal lover, please recommend this diary.
Finally, over at my blog, Sacred Space: Reflections from the religious left, I have posted an excerpt from Cindy Sheehan's most recent Kos diary: Peacemakers.
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ReplyDeleteI was just coming over to post about Jim's latest BFA entry and here was the title:
ReplyDeleteDon't Just Stand There--Start A Petition!
And that is with my tongue planted firmly in my cheek. Why?
Because I have yet to see someone give me a metric that ties a petition to a successful outcome.
I'm not convinced that signing a petition will help tilt congressional opinion that we need an independent investigation.
Petitions are quick and easy to do and it gives the appearance of doing something---but doesn't result in very much.
What will get an independent investigation moving are people who have direct experience with the event (yes, like the Jersey girls and 9-11) who are tenacious and will not take no for an answer.
Howard was on the Ed Schultz show today.
I'm sick of petitions.
ReplyDeleteOff to pick up the birthday girl from the school bus. I hope I can still take her to the potluck Bring Them Home Now event this evening, but at the moment Demetrius is still up working on the roof.
That photo of Bush with the caption "Worse Disaster to the Hit the U.S." ought to be on billboards and bus billboards all across the nation. It says it all!
ReplyDeleteThanks again for the good work!
When I was a child, there was a birthday party game called pin the tail on the donkey. They blind folded you, turned you around til you were slightly dizzy, and sent you off in your blindness with a pin in your hand. In the dark, you could hear them laughing at you. It required enormous trust to let them do this to you.
ReplyDeleteNow: we're asking the same of the survivors. The problem is, they have no reason to trust anyone. . . .
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