October 23, 2007
California and Disaster Accountability Project
Southern California continues to burn and more than 500,000 people have been evacuated. This will be a disaster long after the fires are out. While the diaster response seems to be improved over Katrina, there are likely issues that need to be addressed. The Disaster Accountability Project (DAP) has set up a hotline for gaps in the response. Please share this number with those you know in the impacted areas - 866-9-TIP-DAP - 866-984-7327. The purpose of calling this number is to report gaps in response, and DAP will make those issues public and pass them on to authorities. This will increase the responsiveness to needs that may not be addressed adequately. DAP does not respond to emergency needs, but monitors response and tries to get improvements in response.
The toll-free hotline (866-9-TIP-DAP) is available as a public service for disaster survivors, workers and volunteers to report critical service gaps that must be made public and addressed. The group is recruiting a network of Disaster Accountability Monitors and Bloggers to help report, verify, and raise awareness about gaps in disaster relief services.
DAP is a network of citizens who are willing be observers and communicators. There are a number of ways to get involved and to contribute to the project. DAP provides one form of oversight and input that is sadly lacking in other areas of our national lives.
Posted by rowan at October 23, 2007 7:42 PM | [eMail this article!] |Thanks for posting this. This type of public accountability will only work if people know that we exist. Please continue to help spread the word!! Ben
Posted by: Ben at October 23, 2007 8:17 PMGood information.
Then we have this kind of thinking:
Story Updated. Glenn Beck's Producer Stands By Statement
by Hunter
Tue Oct 23, 2007 at 02:57:59 PM PDT
Yesterday, Glenn Beck said, on his radio program:
I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today.
Today, USA Today got a reaction:
A spokesman for Beck expressed surprise that bloggers are seizing on this quotation as an example of incivility. "To most rational people, unfortunately still means unfortunately," Chris Balfe, the show's producer, tells On Deadline through a spokesman.
So Glenn Beck and his entire staff don't see anything wrong with claiming that some unknown percentage of the half million Southern Californians fleeing wildfires, some of whom have already lost their homes, "hate America". They don't think that part is even in issue at all -- it would only have been a problem if he hadn't added that it was "unfortunate" that these people who "hate America" were losing their homes.
Still no reaction from CNN, but why would there be? Beck was a hateful jackass when they hired him -- of course they support his statements. This isn't like the Imus or Limbaugh cases, where eventually the company is going to show a minimal shred of class.
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There are some confusing sentiments here I can't quite get straight and I am pretty sure my thoughts are going to piss off more than a few, but there seems to be a lot of stuff that plays into the hopelessly pathetic views of the Vatican (motivated chiefly to leave no one that is not their version of "Christian" standing on he last day) and the idea that humans shod reproduce as many of themselves as possible to please God, make worker and soldier bees, and"YOU MUST OBEY...YOU MUST OBEY...YOU MUST OBEY!), but ignore that as far back as any prehistory effort to create a civilization we know about, humans have shown absolutely no sense in this area and given any excuse have overpopulated themselves repeatedly out of fire wood, food, and all possibility of defending themselves against each other, justifying themselves every time with the insane ideal that "We Are humans and divine and We have every right to fuck and reproduce and that is why we are here...to replace the wilderness!" WRONG! We are here to be wise stewards, which above all else requires deep abiding humility. If we had any brains or guts, we would realize all this misery is because we really need to sterilize at least seven out of ten of the human babies born on the whole planet for the next one hundred years and keep our population down to about one billion, or lose it everything even before the species extinction causing asteroid, or catastrophic eruption of a caldera, etc. for which we are doing nothing to save ourselves, because we are too busy chopping down all the oil trees to base economy and everything else on a nonrenewable resource! Stupid Assholes! Sam Kinison said it best. These people don't need food. they need u-hauls. DON'T LIVE WHERE THERE IS NO FOOD! But the idea of land ownership and boarders that come out of European selfishness has about refined itself into a planet killer we can't shake....Norman Borlog, on receiving the Nobel Prize for developing a strain of wheat that now feeds billions more, said, this is not he blessing you think it is. It is a curse, because it means billions more will be born into a world that has no self discipline and it will be soon there will be monumental numbers more living in starvation. The inequities of the op two percent and the bottom sixty percent in the disaster happening in California should show that we all need each other and we need o use or minds together to prevent such loss, which seems to be mostly measured in loss of property, for god's sake, not humanity...I have no particular compassion for the ultra rich there. For years and years everyone with any intelligence knew New Orleans is eight to fifteen feet below sea level and did nothing abou the racist corruption that did nothing to prepare, then we get those people's President telling us, "No one cold have foretold such a disaster!" US Americans preoccupied figuring out how to get rich are a blight on the species!
Posted by: Ed at October 24, 2007 9:41 AMSorry! Sometimes I just go Berserk!
Posted by: Ed at October 24, 2007 9:54 AM