I would like to thank

[Leslie]

AOL is thattaway ->

 

[Gato_Solo]

AOL is thattaway ->

Rare for tonight. Your business must be doing quite well.

 

[Leslie]

lol their heads look photoshopped on!

 

[crystal scan]

lol their heads look photoshopped on!

i am at you

 

[Leslie]

Gee whiz! That never happens!!111!

 

[Gato_Solo]

Is he still here? You'd'a thunk he'd'a learned by now that you can be annoying and funny, or you can be funny, but you can't be annoying.

 

[crystal scan]

Gee whiz! That never happens!!111!

well it does

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

Is he still here? You'd'a thunk he'd'a learned by now that you can be annoying and funny, or you can be funny, but you can't be annoying.

Key word:

learned

Implies active brain cells.

 

[Gato_Solo]

Key word:



Implies active brain cells.

Sorry. I meant learnt. It's really hard to dumb anything down past a certain level...

 

[A.B.Normal]

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/08/31/Canadian_relief_Katrina20050831.html

In Edmonton, Canada's Public Security Minister said Canada will do whatever it can for the U.S.

Anne McLellan said that could involve a wide variety of things, including sending military engineers.

But McLellan said medical drugs may be among the first items Canada is called upon to ship south.

She said an American government agency asked Ottawa to do an inventory of medication that could help stop the spread of infection. McLellan said the inventory has been done and the U.S. government has been informed of Canada's ability to ship the drugs.

Its not in that story ,but we've also offered water purification equiptment(the same ones/type we sent to Indonesia),but as of yet hasn't been acknowledeged by US sources as being needed or not.Prime Minister Paul Martin will be calling Bush tomorrow to discuss the specifics as to what the US needs.

 

[Gato_Solo]

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/08/31/Canadian_relief_Katrina20050831.html



Its not in that story ,but we've also offered water purification equiptment(the same ones/type we sent to Indonesia),but as of yet hasn't been acknowledeged by US sources as being needed or not.Prime Minister Paul Martin will be calling Bush tomorrow to discuss the specifics as to what the US needs.

The US Navy has two ships that can desalinate/purify water on the way there from Virginia. The hospital ship USS Comfort is also in the area.

 

[A.B.Normal]

The US Navy has two ships that can desalinate/purify water on the way there from Virginia.

Thats fine for the coastal areas,but wouldn't they still need water where the ships can't affect ,remember there is probably millions of people affected.

The hospital ship USS Comfort is also in the area.

It was the US government that asked for the medical supplies.

She said an American government agency asked Ottawa to do an inventory of medication that could help stop the spread of infection. McLellan said the inventory has been done and the U.S. government has been informed of Canada's ability to ship the drugs.

 

[Gato_Solo]

Thats fine for the coastal areas,but wouldn't they still need water where the ships can't affect ,remember there is probably millions of people affected.

LCAC's are part of the package.

It was the US government that asked for the medical supplies.

Because those ships don't carry enough for all of those people. They even evacuated the hospital at Keesler AFB, which is in Biloxi. The area affected has over 500,000 people living there, and even if 90% of them left when the evacuation was ordered, you'd still have 50,000 people left to deal with. That's 5 entire US Army division's worth of people to feed, and keep healthy for an extended period of time in an extremely hostile area.

 

[Gonz]

After nearly a week, the list is much better & I do offer a sincere thank you to the countries listed.

Offers have been received from Russia, Japan, Canada, France, Honduras, Germany, Venezuela, Jamaica, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, Hungary, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, China, South Korea, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, NATO and the Organization of American States, the spokesman said.

Also, the Singapore embassy said the Southeast Asian country was sending three Chinook helicopters with 38 air force personnel from military exercises in Texas, to Louisiana to support relief efforts by the Texas National Guard.

I'd like to especially praise Sri Lanka for its effort considering their own disaster just a few months ago.

President Chandrika Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, in China on a state visit, sent messages of sympathy to Washington while her government contributed $25,000 through the American Red Cross

 

[HomeLAN]

A big thank you from this corner of the US as well.

They did a one night TV dealie here, tied in with 3 days of radio begging. I heard about 6 hours ago that they'd topped 1.7 million, pretty much all individual citizens.