Haiti... President Obama

[Texasgal]

Do people not get it????

There are plenty of other countries helping with the tragedy in Haiti!!!

If things go wrong, or are not 100%... it's OBAMA'S FAULT??? :wtf:

I get so sick of this place sometimes. :GRRRRRRR:

[rebel with a cause]

1. Hahahahahahaha

I get so sick of every place sometimes. Especially this place lately..

It is always going to be Obama's fault with most of these people and if we don't agree then we have drunk the koolaid or he is our messiah. If we point out that the USA is not totally in charge over there, they want to know why not or deny it and say we are making excuses for him. I even saw someone a few days ago accuse him of going into Haiti in order to occupy it... Are you nuts people? Haiti is not someplace you want to go occupy because it needs you much more than you need it. And I am not sure what you would need it for anyway. So we can watch Cuba?..We have a base on Cuba!

I agree and I have ranted. :GRRRRRRRRRRRR:

[SeattleGirl]

2. They don't want to get it, would be my guess.

Their dial is just stuck on "Rage" and no amount of facts will change their minds.

[ginnyinWI]

13. Yes--rage is the only political attitude they know. nt

[Cha]

3. They have no lives..

small minded and self righteous. :nuke:

[rebel with a cause]

4. Hey, I have no life that is no excuse. :D

By the way the American rescue teams are working after dark tonight trying to find survivors. We sent firemen over there. Fireman from the cities are use to riots, they ain't afraid of a little gunfire. ;)

Only joking, but any way that is something positive about us. Now if we had only sent more teams....forget I said that...don't give fuel to the haters...

[Cha]

5. Thanks for the update..

everyone is trying their best and if something doesn't go off as planned..well, that's part of existing on the Planet Earth..the only failure is not trying.

So easy to sit back and critique when someone else is out there doing the heavy lifting.

[rebel with a cause]

6. You are so right.

What is funny with me is that I volunteered for the Peace Corp when I was young and was turned down. Did so again when I was older and was excepted within days but I had an outstanding debt so they would not take me.

I volunteered for the Red Cross when Katrina happened did not hear anything about it, I did not know yet how sick I was yet. After my health went to the dogs they started calling me wanting me to go to New Orleans. They did not call me once but three times and each time I had to tell them no. I would have had to have my own staff to take care of me while I was trying to help others. :eyes:

So I will never know what it is like to work for such an organization.

[Cha]

7. Well, I think it's

neat that you wanted to and are that kind of person. I was among those who were recipents of the help from the Red Cross and FEMA in '92 when we had a Cat 5 Hurricane on Kaua'i and, of course, I still remember how relieved we felt with their assistance after the water, electricity, and all jobs were shut down on the Island for months.

We lived on sardines and beer steeped in ice:beer: for a long time. By the time the electricity came back I was use to candles and wanted to keep it that way..lol.

[sandnsea]

8. So you're the culprits who put beer on ice

Do you know that's the excuse they gave for not having enough ice after Katrina -- people but beer in the ice chest, the horror! For cripes sake you've got to be kidding, an ice chest with milk, meat, and a couple of beers and that's just too luxurious for those asshats. They need to have Survivor DC and pluck up some of these fat politicians and wall street bankers and send them to some remote island, not Haiti because those people don't need anymore problems.

[Cha]

9. Yeah, some how we always

magically had ice for beer. Those poor people in New Orleans..no I didn't know that:(

Steven Speilberg was filming Jurassic Park on Kaua'i when Iniki was getting ready to hit..so he was able to fly some supplies in that were needed..I remember reading that in the local paper.

<snip>

"Filmmaker Steven Spielberg was one of those caught on Kauai on what was to have been the last day of filming "Jurassic Park," an adaptation of a novel about dinosaurs. The 130 cast and crew members, including the stars of the film -- Laura Dern, Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough -- waited out the storm in a hotel. "This was a real zinger," Spielberg told NBC News of the storm."

<more>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/weather/hurricane/poststories/iniki.htm

[sandnsea]

10. Interesting, I didn't know that

We had some people show up in Montana after the hurricane. I can't quite figure out how they concluded moving from a rare hurricane to annual blizzards was an improvement, and in fact they left after a year. People are funny.

And I think that ice policy has been lifted, although I will never forget it because that to me just sums up the way that class of people really thinks about the rest of us. We're not even worth an extra bag of ice for beer -- and I don't even drink anymore, lol.

[Cha]

11. I don't drink anymore, either..

Montana...180 degrees! They must have had a real traumatic experience in the hurricane. The one on Kaua'i was physically devastating to the whole Island but I think it actually helped in some ways..there was a lot of Aloha as people bonded in their shared experience and my son learned to be a carpenter .. I don't think he was the only one who was renewed by the tearing down and rebuilding of the Island.

[treestar]

17. What was their rationale regarding debt?

[treestar]

12. That whole meme just astounds me

We, and the other countries, are helping a country that is not our country - this is generosity. All the slamming over that is just too much for me!

the President of Haiti said thank you, though.

[Cha]

14. Update News on Haiti~

* Haiti suffers once again: "A 6.1 magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti Wednesday morning, shaking buildings and sending panicked people running into the streets only eight days after the country's capital was devastated by a previous quake."

"Relief efforts nevertheless continued apace: "A strong aftershock rattled nerves but didn't stop a struggling relief effort that saw some positive signs Wednesday -- among them the arrival of a U.S. hospital ship, the restoration of running water at Haiti's largest hospital and news that 2,000 more U.S. Marines were being sent to the quake zone."

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/

Eat your heart out hugo..2000 more US Marines in Haiti..helping them..not taking over! Got that.

[treestar]

18. Aftershocks and the one off Guatamala

That plate is shifting about. Hope it settles soon.

6.1 is high for an aftershock too. There may well be a lot of smaller ones going on.

[Cha]

15. Kick for Haiti updates..

[Cha]

16. Update on Haiti..

"* Haiti: "Aid flowed into the ravaged Haitian capital on Thursday, and relief workers began shifting their focus to longer-term challenges, primary among them providing shelter for as many as a million people displaced by last week's earthquake."

* Mass relocation for Haiti's homeless: "Haitian officials launched Thursday a huge operation to move hundreds of thousands of homeless outside the ruined capital, as medics worked feverishly to treat the countless injured. In a bid to house an estimated 500,000 left destitute by the January 12 quake, the Haitian government said it was seeking to relocate them out of squalid, stinking tent cities into accommodation outside Port-au-Prince."

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/