Yeah I'm gonna point it out to my gf when she gets off work.
― Miss Bannister (╓abies), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
for Brits: http://www.redcross.org.uk/donatesection.asp?id=102168
― what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
canada: https://www.paypaq.com/redcross/en/corporation/index.php?login=haiti&password=support
― nutrition na'vi (s1ocki), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
i just c/p'ed that from here btw: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34835478/ns/world_news-haiti_earthquake/
― harbl, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― bnw, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
"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.
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ4dA6kZsEs
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Every time I'm convinced "okay, THAT'S the most ridiculously stupid thing he's ever said," he tops himself.
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
True story.
― Miss Bannister (╓abies), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
he's an amazing troll
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf why do tragedies bring out the extra crazy in televangelists? see also: Falwell, 9/11
― smothered in country gravy (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
why do tragedies bring out the extra crazy in televangelists?
Anything that happens is 'god's will' = it has to be interpreted accordingly.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i believe it is god's will that someone push that mfer down a tall flight of stairs.
― what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
although to be honest, when individuals known to be mental fuckwads say mental, fuckwaddy things, it barely even elicits a yawn anymore.
― what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
case in point:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001130018
― louis malle-rat (donna rouge), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
(actually, this^ is pretty detestable)
― louis malle-rat (donna rouge), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
god haits haiti
― Big K.R.U.T. (Curt1s Stephens), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Ditto for Rush. I refuse to click on that thread.
― Such A Hilbily (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
another good donation point is doctors w/o borders (MSF). they're gonna have their hands full down there.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 21:20 (fourteen years ago) link
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."
― kenan, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
every day, the people of Haiti pray for more suffering to befall them
― i am under no illusions that my opinions are even that interesting to me (dan m), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 21:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Shep Smith tells Robertson to eat a dick: http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001130030
― Snake Effect Low (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
heard that some MSF docs are missing :(
― everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
rush fucking limbaugh now http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001130018
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
wtf is wrong with right-wingers. are they *all* sociopaths?
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, yeah.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 21:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think it's really sunk in here just how bad this is, political leanings aside.
― kenan, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
so what the hell evil act against god did we perpetrate to be saddled with limbaugh and robertson
― i am under no illusions that my opinions are even that interesting to me (dan m), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Another aftershock happening now, CNN says.
― stet, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
red cross is saying this might be worse than mexico city '85???
― ┌∩┐(◕_◕)┌∩┐ (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 21:48 (fourteen years ago) link
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.)
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 21:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― kenan, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― hellzapoppa (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 22:14 (fourteen years ago) link
bump so u do not forget
― everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:30 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
no one gives a fuck about haiti.
tragically otm.
― what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:36 (fourteen years ago) link
cf rush limbaugh using 100k dead as an excuse to zing obama and collaterally the dead 100k.
― A™ machine (sic) (omar little), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― kenan, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
He'll backpedal a bit, I'm certain of it. But so what. Fuck him right in the ear.
― kenan, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
how about maybe shotting him into the sun
― everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Do the english boil pizza? (acoleuthic), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
get started
― everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm googling around for where to send money. I don't trust that cell phone thing above.
― kenan, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
the text thing comes from the state department website and goes to the red cross. if you want to give more than $10 or are afraid you can go to the red cross website http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main&s_subsrc=RCO_ResponseStateSection
― harbl, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
that these vile creatures can see no further than the length of their own political agendas, even while staring down a humanitarian crisis of unimaginable scale, a country literally crumbling to dust... are they even human themselves?
― what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Wednesday, 13 January 2010 23:54 (fourteen years ago) link