My thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Haiti. Please donate to the Red Cross and other charities.
And Pat Robertson can burn in hell.![]()
My thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Haiti. Please donate to the Red Cross and other charities.
And Pat Robertson can burn in hell.![]()
RIP Tosa
"If given the choice to be the shepherd or the sheep... be the wolf"
-Josh Homme
"That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!"
- Calvin
A true tragedy.
From the US State Department:
And Ronin - that's a lot different than Mr. Robertson and shaky sourcing.Private Offers of Assistance for Haiti Relief Efforts
Anyone wishing to donate or provide assistance in Haiti following the devastating earthquake that struck near Port au Prince on Jan 12, 2010, is asked to contact the Center for International Disaster Information. The Center, operated under a grant from the United States Agency for International Development's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and initial support from IBM, has become a valuable resource to the public, as well as US government agencies, foreign embassies and international corporations. CIDI has established a dedicated page to coordinate Haiti support at: http://www.cidi.org/incident/haiti-10a/
You can also text "HAITI" to "90999" and a donation of $10 will be given automatically to the Red Cross to help with relief efforts, charged to your cell phone bill. Or you can go online to organizations like the Red Cross and Mercy Corps to make a contribution to the disaster relief efforts.
CR
Ja Mata, Tosa.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
Poor Haitians. First they get their forests cut up for charcoal, ruining whatever fertility they had, and now this. Although apparently, the poorer quarters were better off, as their shacks were too light to seriously injure someone if they collapsed. Of course, it won't change anything, and Haiti will probably continue to be dirt poor. A sad existence.
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- Proud Horseman of the Presence
Yeah, the worstalways happens to the poorest wretches... I read a few years ago the Haitian GDP growth ground down to -4% just as a result of a single hurricane. And now this... How can one say there is a God and He controls nature if calamities befall randomly, on anyone, and only where it makes geologic sense?...
As for Rush... Him showing some decency and wisdom will only come after after Putin becomes a hippie and apologises to Georgia... He stopped surprising me. The only question is such: Rush or beck - who is worse? Oh, and Palin will soon join. As if Fox had not already gathered the vilest and sauciest blockheads from all of US.
For those who wish to donate to aid the Haitians, beware the inevitable scams that are going to be out there.
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." *Jim Elliot*
Red Cross can get my donation from the 700k their co makes.
Nah, everyone in and near the Tropical line seems to get a lot of disasters recently, we have minor flood![]()
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CNN was first with feet on the ground that I saw, with CBS ABC & NBC borrowing their clips. FOX is off in fantasy land talking elections 8 months away, as of last night.
I hope relief gets there soon. I saw video of a thousand people, sleeping in a park; someone shouted "Water", and they all ran, dropping their meager armful of stuff on the ground, in mob-panic, only to return, empty-handed, 30 minutes later when "Water" proved to be a hoax.
Be well. Do good. Keep in touch.
So is this a thread about the earthquake in Haiti or people venting their own political rant?
Or another perspective: As terrible as the plague was, didn't it lead to an improvement of life in Europe?
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
Ik hou van ferme grieten en dikke pintenOriginally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars
Down with dried flowers!
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Don't count on it
For one, Europe was pretty well off for its time, or at least not lacking the resources. Secondly, it was a once-in-a-several-millennia cataclysm. Anything less rarely spurs people into meaningful action. Even if Haitian wanted to, say, build better buildings, they lack the money and building materials to do so.
Last edited by Vladimir; 01-14-2010 at 17:02.
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
Ik hou van ferme grieten en dikke pintenOriginally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars
Down with dried flowers!
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Less people, more demand, must appease those people with better rights.
But this is Haiti we're talking about. It isn't feudal. They can't grow anything.
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
- Proud Horseman of the Presence
Such a tragedy. Those people had very little and now they have nothing.
Haiti has one of the longest histories of straight-up sadness. They're some kind of record-holder. They're like Sri Lanka without the Grameen Bank.
There's a (somewhat) local group that was already setting up a clinic in Port-au-Prince, now they're trying to treble the capacity to help the victims. I guess I'll be talking to them later today, see what they need.
If there is a better example of a "failed state" than Haiti, I have yet to see it. Toussaint L'Overture wasn't just the founder, he was the high point. Sadder, in its own way than is the tragedy as a whole.
"The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.” -- Milton Friedman
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." -- H. L. Mencken
Somalia. It fails so hard it doesn't even have a State. I shudder to imagine what would happen if an equal Earthquake hit Somalia. At least in Haiti you can get relief aid there. In Somalia, the world'd be welcomed by Warlord Clans seeking desperatly to remain in control after a natural disaster restricting aid as much as possible to avoid external influences seeping into their domains, religious fanatics hoping to exploit such a tragedy and the incoming relief people so they could then target Westerners for maximum kidnapping and deaths possible, pirates welcoming the great influx of ships in the region to take their slice of the pie, etc.
The end result is that if there was something like what happened in Haiti, in Somalia... Wretched, wretched Somalis.
Last edited by Jolt; 01-15-2010 at 09:32.
BLARGH!
If you're interested, this is a pretty decent guide to charities working in Haiti.
Here's another guy for hell - Danny Glover, actor;
“When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’?”
Perhaps we should let Robertson and Glover fight it out over who's to blame, and why they're punishing Haiti.
CR
Ja Mata, Tosa.
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter; the rain may enter; but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! - William Pitt the Elder
Did anyone see what Danny Glover said about the crisis? He's as nutty as Rush and Robertson
LOL, the Rabbit beat me to it..
Last edited by Devastatin Dave; 01-15-2010 at 19:24.
RIP Tosa
Last edited by Vladimir; 01-15-2010 at 19:27.
Reinvent the British and you get a global finance center, edible food and better service. Reinvent the French and you may just get more Germans.
Ik hou van ferme grieten en dikke pintenOriginally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars
Down with dried flowers!
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Glover is getting to old for this human excrement
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
Well, if we can look past the ramblings of drug-addled radio race-baiters and washed-up Mel Gibson sidekicks, the Red Cross is reporting record-breaking funds pouring in. That's the good part. Now let's see how quickly they can translate that into action on the ground.
The biggest issue right now is the deplorable infrastructure, which was almost as bad before the earthquake. Right now many countries are organising centralised dumping stations and spreading supplies by helicoptor. Unfortunately, with the lack of water and medical supplies, we are going to witness more suffering than previously predicted. We must hope that there are not any large aftershocks.
RIP Tosa
I think Lemur you are on to something. The money is good but doesn't amount to crap if its not used properly at a neck breaking speed.
Last edited by Devastatin Dave; 01-16-2010 at 00:01.
RIP Tosa
Here is the Pat Robertson vid mentioned earlier, love that Christian compassion.
Lovely chap, this Pat Robertson character
"All things are born from darkness, and all things return to darkness". Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
Apparently, the US annexed the Airport, they say it's "US Territory" now
Them yankees taking every opportunity to annex things![]()
Last edited by Skullheadhq; 01-16-2010 at 10:23.
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