F**k politics. Time to put Radio Nosferatu to work to help somebody out.

You're probably going to see this a lot today. If your soul is so shrivelled you get pissed at people posting about trying to help somebody out who has lost everything they own thanks to a fire, then pray I never meet you. Anyway, here we go.

kittybecca's house has burned down, and her family has lost everything - she and the kids and their pets got out, but nothing else did. Nothing.

They now own nothing. No clothes but the ones on their backs. The kids lost clothes, toys, books, everything that they have ever owned.

Help them. As angryvixen, who knows kittybecca from their CD swap, said: "I can't think of many people on my friends list who couldn't spare $5 to help them out.. So how about it folks?"

The donation page with PayPal link is here. That page also has additional size information for clothing donations for her and her two little girls. Go look there to see the extent of their loss. Please give as much as you can afford.

This very weekend, Radio Nosferatu will be stepping up to the plate with an obviously hastily planned internetathon to help raise money and materials for these folks. At this point, I have no clue what I'll run, but I/we have to do something to help this lady, her kids and her pets out. We have to.

In case you've never listened to/attended one of the Radio Nosferatu shows, here's how: you use either Winamp 5.0 (I prefer classic Winamp, myself) or RealPlayer 7.0 or later to listen to the stream. The addresses to point the listening proggies to will be in the topic line of channels #rf-callahans and #RadioNosferatu on Undernet IRC, which you point your IRC clients to. I will also be on AIM to gab with people (my ID is on my info page).

I'll also be taking requests, so let's raise some money and help this lady out! This will be going on Friday night through Sunday morning, so let's get ready to tear some shit up for a good cause!

These are the kids in question, btw:

Bully!

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."

- Teddy Roosevelt, 1918

Sorry to disappoint the kittybecca cynics, but..

Hot off the press from christine9600, I cut/paste the following:

I just got off the phone with the dispatch department for Oconee County. The fire department was dispatched to a fully involved house fire on Old Bishop Rd. The call came in at 8:11pm. The house was destroyed. A woman with two children and one man escaped the fire relatively unharmed.

End of story. Put it to rest RIGHT NOW. If you want further information, email me.

Thank You.

UH oh..

(AP) - NASA's Spirit rover has stopped transmitting data from Mars in an ominous turn that baffled engineers and sent them scrambling desperately Thursday to figure out what brought the mission to a potentially calamitous halt. NASA received its last significant data from the unmanned Spirit early Wednesday, its 19th day on the surface of Mars. Since then, the six-wheeled vehicle has sent either random, meaningless radio noise or simple beeps acknowledging it has received commands from Earth.

"'The chances of anything coming from Mars, are a million to one', he said. 'The chances of anything coming from Mars, are a million to one', but still they come." - Jeff Wayne's rock opera of "War Of The Worlds", 1978