Day: November 25, 2012

The other day, after posting Extreme  wings of GOP denying culpability in loss, some of our readers felt that it was a case of liberals telling conservatives how to win elections.   Part of me wanted to snidely and snarkily say,” well, it looks like you guys need a little help here.”  I resisted and have been thinking about it ever since.

Let’s move the shift away from conservatives vs. liberals.  Conservatives and liberals are NOT  posts, but political positions on a continuum.  What’s a liberal?  What’s a conservative?  Are there positions in between?  Of course.  Let’s deal with the terms  Republican and Democrat since those words can be exact.  You either vote Republican or Democrat.  You don’t vote sorta.

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Temperatures are dropping to around zero and freezing winds are blowing in off of both the deserts and mountains in the region.  Many refugees left their homes wearing just  T-shirts and flip-flops.  It was summer and fighting was fierce.  The tent shelters do little to block the cold.

Relief efforts are slow to arrive and money is short.  Some of the refugee camps aren’t reachable because of fighting.  Some aren’t in country.  At least 7 members of the Red Crescent have been killed already.

Huge sums of money are needed to provide food, shelter and warmer clothing for displaced families, many of them children.  The United States has given $8.5 million and Great Britain has contributed $7.8 million.  With the exception of Kuwait who has contributed $1 million, the surrounding Arab countries have not contributed to the aid of these people at all.

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