This is from Michelle Malkins, Most excellent blog..If anyone can help, or would like to participate in helping.. please contact Michelle!
Readers, I need your help. I just received an e-mail from Hurricane Katrina relief volunteer Nora Craig. She’s a small-business owner in Franklin, N.J., who led the effort for her city to “adopt” the devastated town of Lumberton, Miss. She has heard from another small town in need of help and is sending out an S.O.S.:

Hi Michelle, I am an aid coordinator for the Katrina effort. My entire community jumped in with me and we adopted the town of Lumberton Mississippi. I have been working with Lumberton for a month now getting to know the people. My adoped town is inland a ways and as we ship aid to them they have been sharing with towns harder hit south of them. Yesterday my distribution contact in Lumberton got a call from Pearlington for help. He and the pick up truck brigade took what they could to Pearlington. He called and said to me “Nora, is there anything you can do for those folk? It’s the worst I have seen. They have 300+ people sleeping on the ground on their football field. The whole town is just flattened. ”
…This small town needs someone to adopt them so they get some attention.

I have kicked what ant hills I can in Mississippi Municipal League and elsewhere but more is needed. I don’t know how to blog and get word out via web media. I’ve been using telephone and fax.

CAN YOU HELP ME get this poor town adopted and get them help. Their population is only about 1500. They are the small whistle stop no one will care about unless we can get the word out they are in dire need.

They are right across the water from New Orleans. I am so distressed that N.O. gets all the media and the little towns get nothing. Please can you help me find a way to raise visibility to the plight of the small Mississippi towns?

If you’d like to help Nora, send me an e-mail (malkin@comcast.net) and I will put you directly in contact with her. Thanks!

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Rednecks - An Alternative View
This is from Rusty…

We have enjoyed the redneck jokes for years. It’s time to take a reflective look at the core beliefs of a culture that values home, family, country and God. If I had to stand before a dozen terrorists who threaten my life, I’d choose a half dozen or so rednecks to back me up. Tire irons, squirrel guns and grit — that’s what rednecks are made of. I hope I am one of those. If you feel the same, pass this on to your redneck friends. Ya’ll know who ya’ are…
You might be a redneck if: It never occurred to you to be offended by the phrase, “One nation, under God.”
You might be a redneck if: You’ve never protested about seeing the 10 Commandments posted in public places.
You might be a redneck if: You still say “Christmas” instead of “Winter Festival.”
You might be a redneck if: You bow your head when someone prays.
You might be a redneck if: You stand and place your hand over your heart when they play the National Anthem.
You might be a redneck if: You treat Viet Nam vets with great respect, and always have.
You might be a redneck if: You’ve never burned an American flag.
You might be a redneck if: You know what you believe and you aren’t afraid to say so, no matter who is listening.
You might be a redneck if: You respect your elders and expect your kids to do the same.
You might be a redneck if: You’d give your last dollar to a friend.

Southern Expressions from strangecosmos.com

Exclamations:
“Well knock me down and steal muh teeth!”
“Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit.”

Threats:
“I’ll slap you so hard, your clothes will be outtastyle.”
“This’ll jar your preserves.”
“Don’t you be makin’ me open a can o’ whoop-ass on ya!”

Good Things/Compliments:
“Cute as a sack full of puppies.”
“If things get any better, I may have to hire someone to help me enjoy it.”
“Gooder than grits.”

The Weather:
“It’s so dry, the trees are bribing the dogs.”
“It’s been hotter’n a goat’s butt in a pepper patch.”
Wintry roads are said to be “slicker than otter snot.”

Descriptions:
A bothersome person is “like a booger that you can’t thump off.”
When something is bad then you say, “that ain’t no count.”
If something is hard to do, it’s “like trying to herd cats.”
“He ran like his feet was on fire and his ass was catchin.”
A hectic schedule keeps you “Busier than a cat covering crap on a
marble floor.”

Insults:
“She’s uglier than homemade soap.”
“Your momma’s so fat, when she stepped up on the scale to be weighed, it said ‘To be continued.’”
“He fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.”
“Uglier than a lard bucket full of armpits.”
“The wheels still turning, but the hamsters dead”
Any insulting statement is always followed by “bless his/her heart.”
Example: “She’s dumber than a door knob, bless her heart.”