Where is George Clooney...Where is Bono...

Where is Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Goldie Hawn....where is Bruce Springstein, Madonna... where is Hollywood in general?  For that matter, where are our allies of the world?  It's the day after Katrina and we've heard nothing....

The United States was the first to mobilize and launch aid missions to the devastated regions effected by the tsunami.  It was only a matter of hours after the tsunami before Hollywood started organizing their aid benefit.  So where are they now?  Where is the offer of assistance from our allies?  Has the President heard from Tony Blair?

I popped through and visited some British blogs and only came across one that even mentioned the hurricane and I want to thank him for his post.  Gray Monk poses some questions that are in line with mine.  He also makes a very interesting observation:

"The US is not the "enemy" of the rest of the world, it is the powerhouse and the engine of the world economy, whenever it falters or takes a serious hit, the world catches cold! That is something we all do very well to remember, and it is something that the Liberal Left of the EU and the UK would do very well to learn. The funds they are so generous in handing out to every tinpot dictator of every really deprived and oppressed nation they love to patronize will dry up very rapidly if we do not recognize the damage being absorbed by the US at present affects us all. One look at the oil prices in the last 72 hours will tell you that!"

His post is well worth the read.  Thank you Gray Monk...thank you for acknowledging our generosity to the world and thank you for your generosity towards my country.  You are a rare friend across the pond.

The devastation from this storm is still continuing even after the storm as passed.  The amount to people who lost everything is just overwhelming.  These people effected by Katrina are not wealthy people.  They are good hard working Americans who are trying to survive in this world.  Some of them had nothing before Katrina and are left with even less now.  They need help and they need it now.

So, knowing that George and Tom and Julia frequent Two Babes...(OK in my world they do and this is my post)... I want to show them the people living with this disaster....people who have paid their hard earned money to watch their movies.  It's time to help at home.

Hollywood.......these people need your help.

Lisa

PS... I am making a $100 donation to the Red Cross....putting my money where my mouth is.

Comments

[USMC Steve]

Helping AMERICANS is neither trendy nor cool. No one is going to do shit for us, other than carp about why America doesn't give more money and be nicer to other countries.

I h ave an idea -- since not one other country will do shit for us, we deduct the entire cost of all repair work in our country from the money we would have given the UN.

Cost of doing business.

[catastrophile]

Gee, you're right. Why isn't anybody out there talking about this disaster? Why the media blackout? How's anybody going to know what's going on?

MY GOD!!! Only 4,650 articles today!!!

http://news.google.com/news?svnum=10&as_scoring=d&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=Katrina+%22New+Orleans%22&btnG=Search+News&as_drrb=b&as_minm=8&as_mind=30&as_maxm=8&as_maxd=30

[Nurse Judy]

I've been wondering all day when the UN was going to start calling other countries stingy.

[Lisa]

Hey cat (I was very close to referring to you as dumbass, but right now, I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt)... if you read my post, I visited blogs over in Britain. Of course our media is talking about it dingbat.

But I haven't seen Mr. Clooney mobolizing Hollywood like he did for 9/11 and the tsunami.

Judy...you have a great point, where is the UN and why haven't they offered anything.

Once again, this country will absorb the cost of this through government funds and the generosity of the of the private citizens...just like we always do...with absolutely no assistance from any other nation.
And while we're absorbing this cost, we will continue to send money and aid to third word countries...just like we always do and we will get through this disaster...just like we always do.

[catastrophile]

Sorry -- I ignored Gray Monk and the allusion to liberals supporting "tinpot dictators" as gibberish unworthy of comment. Considering that the people who orchestrated the Iraq clobberation once praised Saddam as "somebody we can work with" and scurried to cover up his gassing of Iranians and Kurds during Reagan, Mr. Monk's condescending tone rings hollow.

When I see Hollywood hacktivists out there trying to drum up support, it's generally because they've latched on to some cause that they think is being ignored in the media. Maybe some of them *are* out there -- but are themselves being ignored because the media has good instant disaster pix to show instead. Ever think of that?

In other news, New Orleans is at the top of Google's UK world news section, too:
http://news.google.com/?region=uk&topic=w

[catastrophile]

(I should also note that the reason Rumsfeld & Cheney liked Saddam so much, even while he was committing genocide and fighting wars, was because his secular government was friendlier to our interests and more susceptible to reason than Islamic theocracies in the region. LOL!)

[Lisa]

Cat...

I don't give a rats ass WHY Hollywood gets involved and drums up supports...I just want them to do it.

[Lisa]

By the way.... have you sent in your dontation?

[docjim505]

Why should Hollyweird or the Euros help us out? They think it's all Bush's fault. Seriously.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372179,00.html

(hat tip: The Daily Missive
http://thedailymissive.blogspot.com/)

[Chris]

I am only going to say this once so listen up--George Clooney is at home in bed with the waitress he picked up last night...

Well, there are some Canadians who still like us:

http://angrygwn.mu.nu/archives/114675.php

[HC Steve]

Lisa

I do not know if Cat made a donation, but I know a lot of people do not broadcast their donations. I donate money to many causes and rarely tell anyone when I do.

As far as Hollywood, it is way to early to condemn their efforts to help.

BTW Bullies are rarely loved.

[catastrophile]

Lisa: I gave what I could. (Very little.)

Anyway, the reason I came back is that I thought this piece might be of interest to you guys, since you were talking about this earlier.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001051313

E&P reports that ongoing projects to floodproof the city -- approved by Congress after floods killed several people in 1995 -- were all but aborted in 2003 because the funds were diverted to Iraq.

State and local governments tried to fill the funding gap, but it's not easy to scrounge up money when federal cuts are busting state budgets across the board.

Lord only knows whether anything could have been done in the last 2 years to ease the impact, but there it is.

[rightousone]

it is entirely impossible to explain something when someone thinks that the Federal government (or any government) has anything that has not been 'stolen' through taxes from people. If they didn't take it in the first place that means that it remains in the pockets of people who can decide how they are to spend it. If there desire is to expand their local government by 'giving' their money to their local government for infrastructure improvements,that would then be their call.

There it is.

[Lisa]

Cat...

It doesn't matter what you gave. The fact that you did shows that you too put your money where your mouth is. I like that.

You're OK in my book.

HC...

It's certainly not too late to wonder where Hollywood is. If this had happened anywhere but the United States...we'd see their faces plasterd all over the televisions.

[Rita]

I sent in a donation....by the way, it is a Hurricane, and Mother Nature is a bitch, and does not care if the government cut funds. She does not care, and really how will you stop her. All we can do now as a Nation is help those in need instead of bitching.

[dr wnc]

This article was reported as news, when are editorials going to stop being used as factual.
"E&P reports that ongoing projects to floodproof the city -- approved by Congress after floods killed several people in 1995 -- were all but aborted in 2003 because the funds were diverted to Iraq."
While a well written editorial contains facts, it also makes assumptions and opinions based on hear-say and unsubstantiated facts.

[catastrophile]

Dr. WNC -- which assumptions and opinions in the E&P article are unsubstantiated? The assertion that the money was diverted to Iraq came from the Army Corps of Engineers, not exactly a liberal mouthpiece.

righteousone -- the federal income tax has taken over the role of primary revenue generator for the whole national apparatus. If you want to eliminate that and put the states back in charge of funding the fed, I'm good with that. Until then, the federal government holds the purse strings and is responsible for this crap.

[mike]

the reason that these actors are not coming forward is because they do not have a movie coming out and right now don't need the publicity. they are a bunch of scumbag oppotunists who only have one interest in mind----their own. i hope they all rot in hell.

[mike]

where is that sissy tom cruise? oh i forgot, his movie already came out and he got the publicity he needed. what a poor excuse for a human being , stooping so low as to get engaged to someone he auditioned to be his girlfriend. cruise, you are a pathetic little man who needs a monkey stomping.