In a message dated 12/20/2007 2:00:43 AM Central Standard Time, Ken writes : > One of the issues that has been of concern to me in work to help folks > in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region is that we not show up as > 'tourists of disaster' Using gallows humor I must say if we look at the present state of the united states and that of the world its evident that "WEAREALLTOURISTS OF DISASTER"...that said having grown up listening to "Think of the poor starving children of Europe " as I gagged on the brussle sprouts ......nothing subsitutes the reality of disaster seen face to face Its one thing to rubber neck at a car crash its another if there is a red cross can to toss money into after you pass brussle sprouts aside ..the american people are willing to give they just don't know how.... during Katrina I was pleasantly besiged with phone calls wanting the inside track on where to give to help directly with suffering (imagine calling a pyrate for that info ?... ) the truth was they didn't trust the system to give to it a system where the directors pay themselves 3/4 of a million to handle your dollar anyway I got them in touch with some local camps that had been transformed into barracks for the displaced .. .which was good because it gave them cash in hand rather than handing out govenment script (which looked alot like confederate iou's) ....now back to those brussle sprouts ...any recipees I can seek on the Peanut PY ************************************** See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>