YOU can rescue pets saved from the hurricane

Room Desperately Needed For the Animal Victims of Katrina - Transport Provided to Anywhere

Please feel free to pass on this information everywhere. Every forum, every list, every community.

Contact: Lynda V. at: 203 515 3024 (cell)
Home: 203 227 5308
Email: Lynda@portone.com

There is transportation provided, with people ready and waiting, for upwards of 200 dogs and 150 cats so far rescued from the devastation of hurricane Katrina. What these animals need is a place to go. Kennels, boarding, vets offices, shelters with any extra space, foster homes and rescues. Even one or two open kennels would greatly help.

From what we know, all animals have been vaccinated and are in good health considering the conditions. There are dogs and cats of every breed and size. Some are in groups of two, three or four, hailing from the same family, while some are solitary. ANY KENNEL SPACE AVAILABLE CAN CERTAINLY BE USED. These drivers are willing to move these animals ANYWHERE they need to go. Absolutely anywhere.

The current safe houses for these animals are being inundated and some of these pets will have to be euthanized if they are not moved to make room for the incoming animals.

REMEMBER THESE ANIMALS WILL BE TRANSPORTED TO YOU.

If you know anyone, anywhere, that is willing to take in even one cat or dog, please have them contact Lynda at the information provided below.

They are also asking for ANY kind of donations for the animals - money, food, bedding, water, etc.

Please contact at any time, day or night. These volunteers, rescuers and shelter workers are working around the clock.

I never should have said I'd only post once on Katrina

Direct from the Red Cross website: Department of Homeland Security blocking Red Cross from entering New Orleans.

Why? Because according to Homeland Security's opinion of those in New Orleans suffering wretched torments most of us can't imagine in our nightmares, *they won't leave if food and water show up*.

And thank goodness for the DHS, no? Since September 11, they've supposedly been working on a Master Plan for how to respond to another large disaster in a major U.S. city - and now they've finally unveiled it for us! Here's how it goes:

Day 1: Nothing.
Day 2: The President will play a guitar at a birthday party for a crony.
Day 3: The Secretary of State will go shoe-shopping and take in a show.
Day 4: Desperate citizens looking for food and water will be shot.
Day 5: More nothing.
Day 6: Spin.

The National Guard isn't letting photographers take pictures of the bodies inside the Convention Center. From the article:

A National Guardsman refused entry. "It doesn't need to be seen, it's a make-shift morgue in there," he told a Reuters photographer. "We're not letting anyone in there anymore. If you want to take pictures of dead bodies, go to Iraq."

People who had been staying at the Hyatt interrupt evacuation of Superdome

At one point Friday, the evacuation was interrupted briefly when school buses pulled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt Hotel could move to the head of the evacuation line — much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the Superdome since last Sunday.

"How does this work? They (are) clean, they are dry, they get out ahead of us?" exclaimed Howard Blue, 22, who tried to get in their line. The National Guard blocked him as other guardsmen helped the well-dressed guests with their luggage.

I've had it. FUCK YOU, YOU FUCKING FUCKS. If any Bush Apologists still think this Administration has anything to offer us other than war and death and scorn for everyone but rich white straight Republican men and their brain-dead whores, you can go SET YOURSELF ON FUCKING FIRE. And take the whole fucking lot of them with you. RAZE THESE FUCKERS AND START OVER. If I listed everything that has been completely bungled, lied about, embarrassing, SHAMEFUL, and flat-out FUCKED UP this past week, your friendslist would consist entirely of my post. For about three pages. And *yes* it *IS* Bush&Co's fault. YES IT FUCKING WELL IS. Don't politicize? FUCK YOU.

No matter how cynical you get....

...but perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment. - From Senator Landrieu, who only yesterday was falling over herself to thank President Bush on CNN.

ZDF News reported that the president's visit was a completely staged event. Their crew witnessed how the open air food distribution point Bush visited in front of the cameras was torn down immediately after the president and the herd of 'news people' had left and that others which were allegedly being set up were abandoned at the same time. - from Frank Tiggelaar, a human rights activist.

German link, translation: "[German] ARD correspondent Christine Adelhardt, who witnessed Bush's visit to Biloxi, was shocked about the extent to which the event was staged. The President brought with him vehicles to cut though the debris and people supposed to search for bodies, which Biloxi had been waiting for for days. But they didn't actually go to work where victims were waiting, but only served as telegenic background props in remote areas of the town, she explained."