Family at Camp Casey w/ daughter in LA needs your help! (Please Read!)

Buddy Spell (aka Dylan Garcia) is one of Cindy Sheehan's lawyers. He and his wife are here at Camp Casey helping to make this action as smooth as possible.

When they left Louisiana they left their 7-year old daughter, Sarah, with a friend in Washington Parish. (In LA, counties are called "Parishes")

Due to the hurricane, they have lost all contact with their friend and they fear the worst. The Spells are frantic for solid information about the state of Washington Parrish or their daughter.

If you have solid information about what is going on in Washington Parrish, please call 612-578-0130. This is the cell-phone number of Alex, a close friend of the Spells. I have full permission from the family, mods and Admins to post this personal information.

The reason I have to post a telephone number is because internet access out of Camp Casey is spotty at best. Due to the nature of this emergency, he can't spend time monitoring his PM box and emails.

Please keep this thread kicked. I will post in this thread when we have the information we need.

Do not call the number unless you have solid, first hand information about the state of Washinton Parrish or Sarah Spell.

ON EDIT: If you have a blog, feel free to post the above information on your site.

Institutional Racism Alive And Well

George Bush's Day VS Reality

Man Drops F-inheimer On Fox News

quote[SHEPARD SMITH: You’re live on FOX News Channel, what are you doing?

MAN: Walking my dogs.

SMITH: Why are you still here? I’m just curious.

MAN: None of your fucking business.

SMITH: Oh that was a good answer, wasn’t it? That was live on international television. Thanks so much for that. You know we apologize.]

Man, I so hope I someday get interviewed by the asshats at Fox.

Messing With Mother Nature

quote[But wouldn't you know, the biggest dittohead on the block, Rush Limbaugh, is calling the storm Hurricane Katrina vanden Heuvel and warning that the left is going to use this tragedy against the right. Jonah Goldberg, who has never seen a bad joke bandwagon he could resist jumping on with both feet, blogged, and I quote, "It would be pretty cool if Fox played to caricature and repeatedly referred to the hurricane as Katrina vanden Heuvel." Not satisfied, he went on to imagine the headlines, "The destruction from Katrina vanden Heuvel is expected to be massive...The poor and disabled are particularly likely to suffer from the effects of Katrina vanden Heuvel."]

Rush has no shame, does he?

Just This Year: Bush Refused To Expand New Orleans Hurricane Protection

quote[The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has identified millions of dollars in flood and hurricane protection projects in the New Orleans district.

Chances are, though, most projects will not be funded in the president's 2006 fiscal year budget to be released today.]

Another one of Bush's bad ideas coming back to bite us on the ass.

Louisiana National Guard troops watch Katrina from Iraq

quote[More than 3,000 members of the Louisiana National Guard’s 256th Brigade serving in Iraq can only watch from Baghdad as Hurricane Katrina bears down on their families and homes in New Orleans and the other south Louisiana communities from which they hail. The deployed soldiers and their equipment, which includes high water vehicles, Humvees and generators, will be sorely missed as Louisiana attempts to prepare for and recover from the historic Category Five storm.]

This is yet another reason why we shouldn't be abusing our National Guard for wars of aggression.

US sniper kills Reuters soundman in Iraq

quote["American soldiers opened fire on the team, killing the soundman and wounding the cameraman before detaining him," the police said..."His US military and Reuters press cards, clipped to his shirt, were caked in blood. In one, there were two bullet holes," it said.]

You can target the goddamned face, but not see the press badge????

WTF???

Do you think assasination of foreign heads of state is ever acceptable as U.S. Policy?

This is in response to my Pat Robertson thread, in which I misunderstood a reader and acted completely innapropriately.

Please add your thoughts to the comments of that thread (or here if you prefer).

Family Terrorized After Fox News Wrongly IDs Them As Terrorists

quote[A couple whose home was wrongly identified on national television as belonging to an Islamic radical has faced harassment, and police are providing special protection.

After the report ran on Fox News on Aug. 7, people have shouted profanities at Randy and Ronnell Vorick and spray-painted "terrorist" (spelling it "terrist") on their property.

"I'm scared to go to work and leave my kids home. I call them every 30 minutes to make sure they're OK," Randy Vorick said. John Loftus, a former federal prosecutor who appears on the Fox News segment "Inside Scoop with John Loftus," gave out the house address during the broadcast.]

Yep, FOX is family friendly alright.