Burnt Orange Report

Helping with Housing

By Karl-Thomas Musselman

MoveOn has a really great thing they have developed to help match up people who need housing with those willing to offer it. Hurricane Housing. It's a great use of a political tool normally used to match volunters up with events or rideshare programs, but now for hurricane victims in need of longer term housing that they may not be able to pay for. As Internet access gets set up at various shelters and at the AstroDome, this should be a workable resource. Sign up if you are in Texas where any of the refugees can stay.

Also, we have approved the BlogAd for free and the AID graphic at the top left as part of the online effort to help support and aid hurricane victims. This gives the rest of us who can't spare a room (since all I have is one total here on campus) but can spare a dime. This one goes by paypal which is a lot easier for me certainly, and many online readers and activists. (And yes, it is legit, read throught the comments on the donation site if you are concerned. And if you want to ad the ad to your site or to your blogads list, look here for cut and paste code.)

Of course, on campus the College Republicans and University Democrats are working together to gather donations, though it would be nice if their parent organization took up similar "compassionate" action instead of sitting around blasting Democrats about John Roberts, or the RNC from using their e-mail list to send a message about of all things, the death tax.

Yeah, I'm worried about the death tax- the kind that death that's taxing millions of families in the Southern United States right now.