Your country's GOVERNMENTAL welfare organizations should take care of feeding them! oh…I forgot…THAT mone was given to the military and Bush s weapon industry clansmen already!

Good cause, first btw

THANK YOU PEREZ FOR THIS AS A HOUSTONIAN I WULD LIKE YOUR READERS TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE MANY MANY MANY FAMILIES SUFFERING WITHOUT ELECTRICITY AND WATER- GAS & FOOD IS HARD TO GET LETTING 2 AT A TIME.
THANK YOU FOR ACKNOWLEDGING US I LIVE OUTSIDE OF HOUSTON WE HAVE HAD NO GOVERNEMNT HELP- MY HOUSE IS NOT LIVABLE AND I WAS DENIED FEMA AID- THIS IS LIKE KATRINA HOWEVER NO ONE ON THE NEWS OR GOVERNMENT IS HELPING US- TEXANS ARE STRONG AND WE WILL GET THROUGH THIS BIGGER AND BETTER THEN BEFORE PLEASE KEEP US IN YOUR THOUGHTS & PRAYERS!

Thanks so much for posting this! I live in texas and was effected by Hurricane Ike, luckily we weren't hit as hard as everyone…and definately not as bad as Rita tore us a new one, but others were. So thanks to everyone that has kept the victims in mind!

Re: Bavaria – Re: Bavaria –

WOW…I really hope if something happens to you and your family/friends, the government is right there to jump in and fix it all…..it's about neighbors helping neighbors……treating others as you would treat them.

TO ALL WHO READ THIS:
As a Houstonian and proud American citizen, my home was spared from major damage, we have a generator providing us with basic electricity.

MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE WITHOUT POWER…PEOPLE ARE HELPING AND WORKING LIKE CRAZY TO RESTORE POWER, AND FILL FOOD NEEDS ETC. PLEASE BE PATIENT..EXTREMELY STRESSFUL AND DIFFICULT FOR EVERYONE AFFECTED, HOWEVER, COMPLAINING IS NOT GOING TO MAKE THE SITUATION BETTER…OR GO AWAY

Re: JennioChooBaby –

MY Governemnt DID exactly that when there was great flooding in the Eastern part of Germany a few years ago! Those who lost their HOUSES, e.g., got money from the German government (= tax payers money!) to buil new houses….

Scruffy, no food or water but you are surfing celebrity web sites on a computer??? Things that make you go, hum…

Thank you Perez… we are STILL without electricity at home.. and will be for another week or so.. My area was hit pretty hard by Hurricane Ike and Centerpoint Energy has predicted they get our power back on AFTER monday 9/22/08. We are running low on fuel & food. We need all the help that we can get.

Re: yup – If I could slap you.. I would. The only reason we are able to get on this site is because of work.. Centerpoint Energy's primary focus was getting businesses, emergency facilities, and schools their power back to get things back to normal quicker. THANK YOU FOR BEING A SMART ASS WHILE WE ARE TRYING TO GET BACK ON OUR FEET!

Re: JennioChooBaby –

AND: No where did I write that one (i.e. Governement finaancial help) does or should AXCLUDE the other (help from citizens!) - just for your information: I myself gave and transferred a little bit of money from Germany to a U.S. /internationally working aid organization

I wonder also, HOW MANY floods, increased number of more and more FIERCE hurricanes it ACTUALLY TAKES until the USA "realizes" that maybe there might possibly be some TRUTH in the world-wide worrying about global warming, wich th eU.S. Governemnt is still DENYING and doing NOTHING against it out of greed and not wanting to change your environmental damanging lifestyle! (heated up oceans for example contribute and are the reason for severe storms and floods!)

Okay, I live near Baton Rouge, LA and there are STILL people without power and this is more than 2 weeks after Gustav! But you don't hear any of that on the news. There are trees down all over down, houses crushed, debris everywhere, but since NOLA wasn't flooded the media packed up and went home, waiting for the next big disaster to occur, i.e. Galveston. I feel for the people in Texas who suffered damage, but to hear that Louisiana "dodged a bullet" with Gustav is maddening. Just because Baton Rougeans (and south Louisianians in general) weren't standing on our rooftops screaming and hollering for FEMA to come do something, it's not a good story. Instead, the day after Gustav, residents were outside, cleaning up their homes and property, helping their neighbors, and doing for THEMSELVES. We had the hours-long lines for gas, food, water, ice, and tarps, but, again, you didn't hear any of that on TV. No Superdome-type horror = NO story. Sorry to go on and on, but where was the "Worthwhile cause" for Louisiana residents?

thanks perez! it's been a mess… we drove around for 3 days till we finally were able to get our hands on some charcoal and gas fluid to be able to cook outdoors. it's a mess… ice, that took 3 days. we were lucky though, we got electricity on the 3rd day as well and i have friends who are well on their 5th day without it. we need all the help we can get! houston needs to spring back!

THANKYOU IF I COULD SLAP HER/HIM I WOULD TO- I LIKE YOU AM AT WORK AND WORKING/SURFING ETC THERE IS POWER AT MY OFFICE- I WAS JUST GLAD TO SEE THAT PEREZ ACKNOWLEDGE THE FOOD BANK BECAUSE THEY NEED HELP- GOOD LUCK TO YOU- HOPEFULLY WE WILL ALL HAVE POWER BY NEXT WEEK

I'm sorry………. gotta call BULLSHIT on this one. If all these posters; in Houston and surrounding areas are doing so bad, WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU POSTING HERE??How do you have power for internet and a PC? I live in Wichita Falls, north of Dallas, and let me tell you……… Houston will be fine. Everyone from here and the surrounding areas are helping out, as well as the State gives ALL victems DOUBLE FOOD STAMPS NO MATTER YOUR INCOME!!! Between FEMA, insurance, and all the State and local help, plus fundraisers and volunteers going there from ALL OVER THE STATE, they are gonna be fine. Have you seen pics on the news of dead people in the streets like Katrina? Nope. Just busted up buildings.
Hell, the town I live in was COMPLETELY WIPED OUT by a tornado on April 10, 1979, Terrible Tuesday. Guess who rebuilt our town? We did. Texas is that way. We do things ourselves and go on with living.

Re: Monalicious –

people are at work with power smartass….

Perez! You are my hero. Thank you for posting this. I also live in Houston and food is so scarce right now. I'll tell you right now I'm going crazy living on crackers and water! Very few stores, gas stations, or fast food/ restaurants are open and I live in the busiest part of the city….Galleria.

Re: TexasMegs – Thanks TexasMegs! I know what y'all are going through-I was without power for 8 days, and I consider myself one of the lucky ones! Hopefully, all the wonderful workers from across the nation who came down here to help us get power back will now be able to help out our Houston neighbors. If it weren't for them, we'd be in the dark for months. I now know how the Mississippi Gulf coast felt after Katrina-forgotten!! LOL All you saw on TV was NOLA, when they were basically wiped out. Oh, and by the way, I apologize for the evacuees we sent to Houston during Katrina! Hope you all don't hold it against our entire state!

A Houston radio station gave a shout out to Perez Hilton today for mentioning the Houston Food Bank's desperate need for donations. Thanks Perez for being so selfless and remembering those in need.

Thank you for your support, Perez. I will speak for any Houstonians (that haven't posted at least) and thank you for this post. Many of those who truly need this assistnace cannot access a computer to thank themselves. Many of us were greatly humbled by the devastation — in North Houston we all learned that money can only buy so much when there is nothing. I am lucky by comparison as I still have a roof over my head and the capability to drive for gas and ice. I have lived in Houston for just over a year and I will say that I have never seen a community unite in such a way in the wake of such disaster. Before FEMA or any other government or private aid arrived, communities were banding together and providing for others where able (i.e.: food, ice, tree removal, medication, etc). I hope that this assistance goes to those communities that have nothing to give. Please keep those areas in your thoughts. Those of us with food, ice and a roof over our head need not complain about losing TV or A/C for a week or two. We're six weeks out from electricity and I'm still here for the ride!

Below are a few lines from Obama's books, IN HIS WORDS!
From Dreams of My Father: 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.' / 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.' / 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.' / 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.' / 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.'
************'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'**************
Hmmmm….NO THANKS! McCain / Palin 2008!

Re: Monalicious –
Thats not true. No one is getting double foodstamps regardless of income.