Is there a specific charity you'd recommend we support? Is Red Cross best or is there a local non-profit? Baton Rouge United Way? Just give the word and I'll make a donation. Stay well and good luck!

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/members-of-frin.html

I was taking notes. In a notebook. Far from the protestors. If that's grounds for pepper-spraying, I hope somebody walks up and pepper-sprays you next time you post a comment.

She probably endorses rendition and torture (cuz, ya know, it's war) too.

Sargon, any place worth living has its own set of risks. The west coast suffers awful earthquakes. New York and Washington, D.C. will continue to be targets of terrorism. And droughts, floods, blizzards, will increasingly wreak havoc as global warming throws our climate off kilter.

This country is not worth living in if Louisiana is not part of its union. It has more diversity, history, and culture than any square block of Seattle.

If you drive a car, you owe Louisiana.
If you consume sugar, you owe Louisiana.
If you listen to modern American music, you owe Louisiana.

I hope you knocked on wood when you typed your awful post. Because remember that earthquake in Vancouver last week? Well, that could happen in Seattle at any moment. If and when it does, I hope your ass is pinned beneath the viaduct and you die a slow death.

This country is better because Louisiana is a part of it.

I hope the earth swallows you whole.

Don't worry. The folks up in the
Pacific Northwest love to criticize other peole not noticig the plank in their own eye. When they have the Big One, with tremblors knocking down half the buildings, andhighways, so you can't even get from 90% of Seattle to a hospital, and when the lava fow fills up the Kent Valley with a wall of red hot lava and debris 400 feet high moving 100 mph....they'll get this whole "United" States thing. Till then they are as oblivious as third graders to their own brand of ignorance which they like to pass off as a charming kind of snarkiness.

The very idea anyone living i Earthquake land would lecture others on where they live is laughable. Unfortunately, the locals here are blind to the ironic conundrum in which they place themselves.

And don't talk about who contributed all jazz and blues or else you're going to be caught in what of those ultra ignorant chauvinistic rants about Quincy Jones Hendrix and Bing Crosby.

(NB: they all left asap never to come back).