I lived in the Biloxi, Gautier, Ocean Springs, and the Mobile area for many years and I have already lost one good friend there. No contact with anyone else. It is frustration to say the least.

I was really pleased to see foreign countries offering to help. Even Saudi Arabia has offered to drop oil prices. Venezuela has also offered assistance even after the American Christian Fanatics have called for his assassination. I do not know if Bush has condemned this rhetoric from the Christian Fanatics but I see the president of Venezuela if smart enough to know that these fanatics are a minority. This is also the first time that I can remember where other nations have offered to help us out.

Can anyone tell me what has Bush done in regards to this disaster? Besides his call for prayers, giving up a couple of days of vacation, and releasing some token stockpiles of oil.

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The idea is this: create a community website that allows people to centralize job opportunity information for employers to post and for those who need it to review. This will be a free service. I will host and provide the design and create the html. I have a programmer who can create almost any type of functionality you can imagine (he was a top IBM programmer for years). I can create simple forms to collect the data initially, but will need to push beyond that (create security, store information in a database, create search capapbilities and so on).

I will need help to create a viable website. I don’t see this as my website or my idea. I’m hoping that by starting this now we can create a real way of helping the people of new orleans in a significant way that can last for a long time and become more robust if it actually takes off.

If you have organizational skills, writing skills, or job placement experience, it would certainly be appreciated. Help from lawyers would also be appreciated.

Anyone who has ideas or wants to help in this, please let me know. You can reach me at studio@yellowhousedesign.com or 800-204-6756. This will be a non-religious site and will not be pushing anything other than helping people from New Orleans find jobs. I suspect this will become an even bigger issue in weeks and months to come.