Haiti: WTF?

haha if this is evidence of him going senile now he's been senile for decades, poor guy

yeah it doesn't help me actually...

Let's take a moment to imagine what Pat Robertson would have said if Haiti had been a white, Christian country.

No, nevermind, if it was that, they wouldn't have been getting fucked so hard for the last 500 years, and this would be a bad earthquake instead of something almost impossible to wrap your head around.

Let's take a moment to imagine what Pat Robertson would have said if Haiti had been a white, Christian country.

let's take a moment to stare into the mouth of madness and pure rage

pat robertson is the number 2 trending topic on twitter and NOT ONE person is defending him anywhere in the entire world. not one.
the most common retweet being "I thought "Pat Robertson" was trending because was dead. Turns out it's just because everyone wishes he was."

who knew that tweeting could feel so good

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.

I really don't think we're able to predict just how bad this is going to be. I mean, Katrina was a straight mind-bludgeon that something that bad and that negligent could happen in the USA.

Not to make light of the sitch in NOLA, but this is going to make Katrina look like the acid trip sequence from Easy Rider. Fuck, this is really depressing.

And yeah, Pat Robertson should be banned from all media outlets. By Constitutional amendment, if need be.

The Constitution won't let us make a law like that, unfortunately.

my tommy gun will

j/k federal observers, i do not own a tommy gun nor have any desire to use one

xp Forming a militia now, are we?

Too much Montana, obv.

i still haven't watched footage/seen pics from this, i'm kinda not ready, tbh.

I WAS KIDDING

still think we should send him into the sun once we have the technology

I WAS KIDDING TOO

shhhh kenan the feds are watching u

Not really sure why this thread has become 2/3 devoted to Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson. Seems kind of besides the point.

xp "Guns don't kill people, the government kills people." -- Dale from King of the Hill

My first destination for international disaster related charitable giving is always the Red Cross. Is this in fact the best place to give?

Seems kind of besides the point.

You get a patch for honor. But what are we going to do? Besides give money? Which I have to believe helps.

Not really sure why this thread has become 2/3 devoted to Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson. Seems kind of besides the point.

pls allow me impotent rage

Yes, give to the Red Cross.

I didn't do myself any favors by going to Rush's website :\

it does help Kenan.

give to: MSF, PIH, Red Cross

I agree there isn't much to do, or say. I just hate the idea of talking about these fuckers and their smallness.

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What really galls me is how big they are, though.

PIH is probably my choice, fwiw, but anything helps

gave $10, thanks for links and info upthread

kenan, haiti IS a christian country.

freaking out that there's not more i can do :(

xp I realized soon after I posted that I had used an unnecessary comma. I said "white, Chiristian country" when what I meant was "white Christian country."

Nevertheless, the perception persists that all Haitians practice voodoo.

And anyway they're rally poor! Something must be wrong with them.

I read the archdiocese of Port-au-Price died in the quake.

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Archbishop that is.

kenan, haiti IS a christian country.

Also -- big difference between a Catholic country and a Protestant one, at least from where Pat Robertson sits.

enough

The Port-au-Prince Cathedral was destroyed

Before
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Papcathedrale.jpg

After
http://s3.amazonaws.com/twitpic/photos/large/56934134.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0ZRYP5X5F6FSMBCCSE82&Expires=1263432095&Signature=NXNNUpIb7f%2FdIwFwCLQhwok73t4%3D

holy

btw kenan, not to be pedantic, but many haitians actually DO practice some kind of syncretic version of christianity and voodoo. my bro spent a lot of time down there (and in benin, where voodoo is thought to have originated, as well as in queens, where many recent immigrants live) the boundaries are blurrier than you might think

beside the point, however

jesus :C xp

oh wow

http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw738qewt51qzpwi0o1_500.jpg

but many haitians actually DO practice some kind of syncretic version of christianity and voodoo.

The western version of Christianity is filled with paganism, too. So, of course. But that's not a line that most western Christians would draw, and in fact would balk at.

well yeah but bear in mind that western christianity was pagan long before it was introduced to haiti

true, true. We still observe Druid holidays, ffs.

But yes, very beside the point.

Those pics, god.

btw kenan, not to be pedantic, but many haitians actually DO practice some kind of syncretic version of christianity and voodoo. my bro spent a lot of time down there (and in benin, where voodoo is thought to have originated, as well as in queens, where many recent immigrants live) the boundaries are blurrier than you might think

beside the point, however

― everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:12 PM (25 minutes ago)

and even if the don't themselves practice it, they may believe in it - as you probably know, gbx, lots of these people are loath to have bloodwork for this reason

I'd like to read something suggesting that the U.S. is sending loads and loads of help. Something approaching the scale of the problem.

And I'm reading that the European Union has pledged...4.4 million dollars?

4.4 million dollars?

This is fucking ridiculous.