Haiti: WTF?

it seems 100 UN officers in port-au-prince are missing after the headquarters building collapsed

grab someone else's phone, rabies

Yeah I'm gonna point it out to my gf when she gets off work.

for Brits: http://www.redcross.org.uk/donatesection.asp?id=102168

canada: https://www.paypaq.com/redcross/en/corporation/index.php?login=haiti&password=support

i just c/p'ed that from here btw: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34835478/ns/world_news-haiti_earthquake/

true story: i was spacing out on a train into nyc and this haitian guy asks me why I'm staring at him. then he asks me if I've ever seen a black person before. (I had, btw, at least 2.) then he tells me I should come visit haiti because it is warm and beautiful there.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/13/haiti.earthquake/index.html

Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) -- "Port-au-Prince is flattened" after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian capital, Haiti's consul general to the United Nations said Wednesday.

"More than 100,000 are dead," Felix Augustin told reporters.

The hospitals are gone, he added, and medical supplies and heavy equipment are desperately needed.

The Haitian prime minister said Wednesday several hundred thousand people may have died in the powerful earthquake.

"I hope that is not true, because I hope the people had the time to get out," Jean-Max Bellerive told CNN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ4dA6kZsEs

Every time I'm convinced "okay, THAT'S the most ridiculously stupid thing he's ever said," he tops himself.

True story.

he's an amazing troll

wtf why do tragedies bring out the extra crazy in televangelists? see also: Falwell, 9/11

why do tragedies bring out the extra crazy in televangelists?

Anything that happens is 'god's will' = it has to be interpreted accordingly.

i believe it is god's will that someone push that mfer down a tall flight of stairs.

although to be honest, when individuals known to be mental fuckwads say mental, fuckwaddy things, it barely even elicits a yawn anymore.

case in point:

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001130018

(actually, this^ is pretty detestable)

Anything that happens is 'god's will' = it has to be interpreted accordingly.

god haits haiti

Every time I'm convinced "okay, THAT'S the most ridiculously stupid thing he's ever said," he tops himself.

Ditto for Rush. I refuse to click on that thread.

https://donate.pih.org/page/contribute/haiti_earthquake?source=earthquake&subsource=homepage

think we'll be organizing some kind of fundraiser here soon

fucking awful, literally just found out about this via fellow student who lived in Haiti for years and is worried sick about her friends

btw if you want to donate more than $10 (or just not have it on yr cellphone bill) the red cross' site will pull your saved payment info from amazon.com--pretty neat and donating will take less than a minute.

another good donation point is doctors w/o borders (MSF). they're gonna have their hands full down there.

I swear, as soon as I saw the news about Haiti, I said, "Wonder how long before the fundies start saying they were asking for it."

every day, the people of Haiti pray for more suffering to befall them

Shep Smith tells Robertson to eat a dick: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001130030

heard that some MSF docs are missing :(

rush fucking limbaugh now http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001130018

wtf is wrong with right-wingers. are they *all* sociopaths?

Well, yeah.

I don't think it's really sunk in here just how bad this is, political leanings aside.

so what the hell evil act against god did we perpetrate to be saddled with limbaugh and robertson

Another aftershock happening now, CNN says.

red cross is saying this might be worse than mexico city '85???

mexico city quake killed about 10,000, they're suggesting 10 times as many in haiti (plus haiti doesn't have the infrastructure mexico had to deal with an event of this magnitude.)

the worst earthquake of modern times was this one:

The Tangshan Earthquake also known as the Great Tangshan Earthquake,[1] was a natural disaster that occurred on July 28, 1976. It is believed to be the largest earthquake of the 20th century by death toll.[2] The epicenter of the earthquake was near Tangshan in Hebei, People's Republic of China, an industrial city with approximately one million inhabitants. The number of deaths initially reported by the Chinese government was 655,000, but this number has since been stated to be around 240,000 to 255,000.

It wouldn't surprise me if it's that bad, tbh. Huge, dense (too dense) city, all of it built on the ultimate cheap. This is horror on a very large scale.

and the toll won't be just the people killed or hurt yesterday and today, it's going to be everything that comes next. the country was so fragile to start with, something like this could almost literally break it to pieces.

bump so u do not forget

and tipsy otm: the people that died ~in~ the quake will be the lucky ones (to be blunt). the public health structure in Haiti was so frightfully fragile-to-non-existent, that the aftermath is surely to be horrific. i earnestly hope that we see the same kind of global mobilization like we saw after the tsunami, but i'm pessimistic. no one gives a fuck about haiti.

CNN's Gary Tuchman reports that bodies are lying in the streets of Port-au-Prince. He says there are no emergency officials in sight, and residents are watching the flies to find out where to dig in the rubble.

no one gives a fuck about haiti.

tragically otm.

cf rush limbaugh using 100k dead as an excuse to zing obama and collaterally the dead 100k.

Not to defend Rush, AT ALL, but I think if the reporting was more thorough and explained how grave a situation we're talking about, not even Rush would have said that. He probably just thought it was a standard-issue natural disaster. Not so.

He'll backpedal a bit, I'm certain of it. But so what. Fuck him right in the ear.

how about maybe shotting him into the sun

like i'm not even going to click on those links because i am afraid i will punch my fucking computer

hang on this is...this is...i can't even get my head around this

get started

I'm googling around for where to send money. I don't trust that cell phone thing above.