haiti earthquake.

[Byron In Exile]

Sooner or later, that's going to happen in LA.

It already did, January 17, 1994.

 

[blunt_trauma]

Another easy answer. It's all fine and good to send a couple of bucks or some can food.

If she can pick up a shovel and dig, then she's skilled enough to help bury people.

twittish twit.

 

[Byron In Exile]

Sooner or later everyone in California will have to surf to Denver.

Props to Robin Williams..

No, but the distance between Los Angeles and San Francisco is gradually decreasing.

 

[butters]

I want to hear from her. If she don't want to volunteer over there, then her comment is just talk and means nothing.

she may wish to, but that doesn't mean it's feasible or sensible - as blunt's already pointed out.

Another easy answer. It's all fine and good to send a couple of bucks or some can food.

If she can pick up a shovel and dig, then she's skilled enough to help bury people.

there's limited space on the planes and they're taking people who can do MORE than dig a grave. People with multiple and necessary emergency skills as well as those with construction/electronics/physics knowledge. With the tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) dead, a shovel will be woefully inadequate. I rather think this will call for diggers and mass graves once bodies have been recovered and identified.

 

[RojUpNorth]

It's sad, really, really sad. Horrific even.

And I find it disappointing that people rush in to say 'but it's not our problem'.
If everyone said that nobody would ever do anything for anyone else.

Thank goodness we don't all think like that.

Good people don't say that.

Good people know that as long as there is human suffering in the world, each of the rest of us have a moral obligation to do what we can to help. It's not like those poor people had an earthquake on purpose. The bad buildings are not their fault any more than the earthquake was. It isn't a matter of right or wrong but a matter of helping people in there time of need.

 

[trysail]

Good people don't say that.

Good people know that as long as there is human suffering in the world, each of the rest of us have a moral obligation to do what we can to help. It's not like those poor people had an earthquake on purpose. The bad buildings are not their fault any more than the earthquake was. It isn't a matter of right or wrong but a matter of helping people in there time of need.

Jeeeeezzuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuzzzzzzzzzzz. Do all the world-saving you want; just use your own dime, Mother Teresa, and keep your goddamn fingers out of my pocket.

Get off the pulpit. I'll choose for myself. In the meantime, your sanctimonious preaching is the stuff of nausea.

 

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[RojUpNorth]

Jeeeeezzuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuzzzzzzzzzzz. Do all the world-saving you want; just use your own dime, Mother Teresa, and keep your goddamn fingers out of my pocket.

Get off the pulpit. I'll choose for myself. In the meantime, your sanctimonious preaching is the stuff of nausea.

Well, see now, you would be a much happier person if you weren't so angry at others all the time. I put my fingers where I like (I'm rich so I get away with it) and believe me, they would come nowhere near your pockets. I never met Mother Teresa, but a few members of my lodge went to visit her years ago. They said she was a fine woman and had a great sense of humor. If you weren't such a sour-puss you might have enjoyed a chuckle or two with the good woman yourself.

 

[JustSkye]

so much compassion in this thread.

 

[RojUpNorth]

Speaking of religion, I think Pereg should move his church down there and preach tree hugging wind power, with his help they might be able to grow some trees so they can repair their country.

I don't think they use trees in building over there. I think it is all sand and mud.

 

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[RojUpNorth]

That's because they cut them all down for fuel.

There autos run on wood?

 

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[Luk]

Don't worry our actions will speak louder than our words. We're about to move Heaven and Earth for those people.

By those people you mean human beings, right?

 

[butters]

Don't worry our actions will speak louder than our words. We're about to move Heaven and Earth for those people.

as you'd be entitled to hope others would for yourselves if you ever fell victim to similar circumstances

unfortunately, not all americans can expect that kind of help from fellow americans, only from some of them.

 

[koalabear]

By those people you mean human beings, right?

People, usually means human beings.

 

[daus42]

People, usually means human beings.

but not those people

 

[RojUpNorth]

Lord knows, they probably import it across the border. I was speaking of cooking and heating fuel. Most of their trees are gone.

They ate the trees?
I thought it was hot there. Why would they burn trees to make it hotter?

 

[Luk]

People, usually means human beings.

but not those people

Yeah, we all know (well, besides koala) what vette meant.

 

[RojUpNorth]

as you'd be entitled to hope others would for yourselves if you ever fell victim to similar circumstances

unfortunately, not all americans can expect that kind of help from fellow americans, only from some of them.

We tend to pour out compassion when a hurricane strikes white suburbs and trailer trash parks get hit by tornadoes, but when something happens like to the people of New Orleans, nobody does anything to help them.

 

[butters]

That's because they cut them all down for fuel.

did they have any choice?

the sort of comments you're making, from your position of privilege ... are they intended as wit?

 

[butters]

We tend to pour out compassion when a hurricane strikes white suburbs and trailer trash parks get hit by tornadoes, but when something happens like to the people of New Orleans, nobody does anything to help them.

I cannot agree with this - many people offered all the help they were able to in that tragedy; it simply wasn't close to anything like enough. But to say no-one helped is as misguided as saying everyone did.

 

[KingOrfeo]

We tend to pour out compassion when a hurricane strikes white suburbs and trailer trash parks get hit by tornadoes, but when something happens like to the people of New Orleans, nobody does anything to help them.

To be fair, there was a big celebrity telethon right after Hurricane Katrina (how much money it collected I don't know).

 

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