Haiti: WTF?

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.

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

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?

cell phone thing is legit. it was set up by the us state dept.

http://www.state.gov/p/wha/ci/ha/index.htm

xp

if someone runs over pat robertson with a mack truck several times, can we just presume it was because he had a pact with the devil?

what a despicable, evil man.

For fuck's sake why didn't Rush die from those chest pains.

enough about those cunts - what the fuck @ this earthquake, this is terrible

Thanks for the clarification and links re: cell phone contributions. I'm very given to distrusting my cell phone company.

well accidentally watched that pat robertson thing on another website and am going fucking apoplectic

rush is looking ill recently, i kinda "worry" about his health!

honestly i think pat robertson is going senile

i don't care

yeah there are def scams around i just posted it because i know it's easy to put stuff off and it's a small enough amount. that one and the wyclef one are legit.

actually, no, i do. because telling myself he's senile is probably the only thing making me believe that basically people are ok.

see that's what i try to think, otherwise i lose my shit. incredible asshole drivers = they're en route to the emergency room to see their grandmother. etc

yeah, i don't really believe that anymore.

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.