Death toll reaches 100,000

[Roon]

The death toll in the tsunami disaster soared past 100,000 today - and is set to climb higher.
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/15630695?source=Evening%20Standard&ct=5

[Penguin31]

1. ...And the disease hasn't yet appeared...(n/t)

[TheDebbieDee]

2. Did they ever get anymore numbers from Burma?

Last I heard, the gov't there was reporting only 90 deaths, but the speculation was that the gov't was low-balling their numbers.

[Roon]

3. Haven't heard eom

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. In the meantime

Bush is too busy playing cowboy in Texas to even notice.

[AFSCME girl]

7. Not to take away from the true subject.....

of this thread, but this is truly one of the most frightening pictures of * I have ever seen! :scared:

[Truman01]

9. You know, 100,000 people are dead, can we please

not make this into a * thread?

TC

[Squatch]

11. Without fail, friend, without fail.

[yella_dawg]

10. Holy Shit!

It's Neo in a Spagetti Western!

Free your mind.

[lpbk2713]

28. It would be downright hilarious as Hell

if the number on the bumper of that car was 8643. Close but no cigar.

[Squatch]

5. That's over twice the population of Olympia, WA

That's 25,000 more people than are seated here at Alltel Stadium:



Truely a mindboggling loss of life.

[SariesNightly]

6. Why they don't care..

Signs
Posted by Jeffrey Tucker at 03:59 PM

Overheard this morning at the doctor's office: two perfect strangers simultaneously concluding that the tsunami is another "sign." They flashed knowing looks at each other. I can only assume that this has something to do with the Apocalypse, an extension of Dispensationalist theology, a crazy 19th century creation accepted by nearly every red-state evangelical in this country (and only in this country). Dispensationalism teaches against peace, and says that the AntiChrist will be a world leader who calls for peace (and presumably, then, godly leaders go to war). All dredful things are regarded as works of God. This stuff is deeply ingrained in American culture. It is a view held by vast amounts of the voting population and probably the president and much of his staff. It is another example of mass lunacy stemming from bad theology, and yet hardly anyone really wants to talk about it. And I suppose the eschatological position of the masses wouldn't matter in the slightest if the US weren't the world's only superpower or if people who believed this stuff had no influence over policy. Sadly, this is not the case. I have no idea just how influential these beliefs are over the direction of American political culture--and I suppose no one really does--but somehow I suspect it is greater than we think.

http://blog.lewrockwell.com/

[Ripley]

18. That is so true.

I haven't been in the news loop for a while, but I bet the Fundie community is slobbering about this catastrophe. Wasn't it James Watt who said we shouldn't try to prevent Global Environmental disasters because it was God's plan?

Don't be Grounded when the Rapture Comes!!

[Historic NY]

8. I'm afraid we will never know the true total since many families...

were completely wiped out. Who knows who is missing. Some of the small islands have no one left at all.

[Walt Starr]

12. Before this is over I believe we will see that number times five

Half a million people is my projection.

[opihimoimoi]

13. Perhaps even higher as the aftermath hits/loss of water food supplies

and disease. Here was a chance for America to look good and instead it does the opposite. Bush still sits on his country club throne clearing brush with a wedge or 9 iron. He coulda take Condi and fly there with plastic rice or something, FGS

[Walt Starr]

14. And if you look at the turmoil in the affected nations

Bush's inaction has just made us even bigger targets for terrorism. There are Islamic terrorist factions in every last nation affected by this just waiting to use it as an excuse against the existing government and the United States.

[opihimoimoi]

17. It looks like America is only interested in sending Armies and not HELP

Those poor survivors...w/o water/food/meds/etc etc all the while he (Bush) clears more brush with his pitching wedge.

[ProfessorGAC]

15. I Said Yesterday, That It Would Go Above 100k

They numbers were going up too fast (22k, then 40k, then 55k) and there was no possible way they could have covered all the areas where that wave hit.

I thought the growth curve was way too steep to stop at 100k. I wish i'd been wrong, but given the magnitude of this event, i just didn't see any possible way that this wasn't going to be the biggest loss of life in any one event in my lifetime.
The Professor

[Shadowen]

16. Jesus...

...that's like 1/6th, or more, of the city where I live in wiped out. In days.

[Oversea Visitor]

19. Facts

The south westen cost line is Sumatra Indonesia has an estimate population of 1 million people
They was hit by the quake and then follow by the tsunami
Report slow inc cause road bridges and communication are down
Casualty figure shown are of area reach so far
17 villages are almost totally oblitrated from air recon report
No ground relief have reach there yet
The finally tally in Indonesia will be over 100,000 for easily

[Ripley]

20. Was Sumatra the island that was physically moved meters?

I wondered how anyone on the entire island could survive that!

Was your country affected?

[Oversea Visitor]

23. Yes

I am from Malaysia 70 are dead high damage but most of our popular beach was evacuated. The heros are the beachboys/lifeguards.
They put up red flag alert when the sea turn choppy. They spotted inc from binoculars and evacuated the beach. I am refering to our beach resorts in Penang. The tourist are all back to sunbathing this
morning.

We pouring man and supply now into Indonesia. Our Mercy teams was in Indonesia and Sri Lanka since Monday.

Timing of the disaster was shit. Morning after Christams and on a Sunday. Relief reaction was slow because of that. Everyone was on holiday with skeleton crew. Shits happen.

[Ripley]

24. I'm sure your country is doing all they can to help their neighbors.

Glad you are okay and they evacuated the beaches in time to save people in your area.

:hi:

[Oversea Visitor]

25. We have lifeguards on duty at our beaches

Also we dont have any tsunami incident here before.

[Endangered Specie]

21. After the disease if could end up being over a quarter million

:cry:

[opihimoimoi]

26. I think much higher if help is delayed.... perhaps 5oo,ooo or more

from disease/ starvation, etc.

[Squatch]

27. Sounds like you're taking bets.

[opihimoimoi]

29. LOL, no I am not..that would be kinda tacky at best and rudely insensitive

if I was.

[Endangered Specie]

22. Just to put this in perspective:

that is about 35 9/11's, more than a months worth of days.

:cry:

[Dangerman]

30. SHEESH!

The media wants us to care for that 100,000 who died in that tsunami disaster, but not to give a damn about the exact same number of people who were slaughtered in Iraq by our "compassionate conservative" leader.

[Shrubhater]

31. That would be nearly

5 times the population of Painesville! How can so many people die so fast? Thats 1/62,000th of the world's population! It's baffling!