with no luck. IIRC the Red Cross board or advisory committee has been packed with Homeland Security/neocon/government cronies. Based on their nonperformance during hurricane Katrina, and what we know about Bush privatization, I guess that the plan may be to have Red Croos pay private companies to provide the services that the Red Cross traditionally provided in the past. Thus, if one donates to the Red Cross, the Red Cross will spend that money paying Wal-Mart to deliver bottled water, etc. Thus, instead of Wal-Mart donating the water, they make a profit off of it. Thar's merely my guess based on a very healthy bs detector.