Yo, continue to listen up!

Things are getting worse in South Asia, they need our help more than ever. Our Dear Leader took a break from his vacation today to give us some "moral leadership," but we need to help them too.

A reader recommended Doctors Without Borders (Medicins Sans Frontieres) as an alternate to Americares as a worthy recepient for your tsunami relief dollars. When I was a full time Fed, they were on my list of recepients for my Combined Federal Campaign dollars, but retired folks can’t participate in that for some reason. Oh well.

But I digress. I checked them out with www.charitynavigator.org, and the US affiliate’s “efficiency” is 85.7%, compared to the Red Cross at 91.1% and Americares at 99%.

They are nonetheless, an incredibly “ballsy” gang, going into some really dangerous places. Their web site is at www.doctorswithoutborders.org/.

Americares is at www.americares.org. The Red Cross is at www.redcross.org. It really doesn’t matter to whom you give. Just give.

These poor blokes have lost their family members, their homes, and their means of earning a living. They can't even get a clean drink of water. You and I need to help them.