Haiti: WTF?

one of the awesomest

just wanted to rep for DWB:

Unnecessary levity: I first read this as "just wanted to rep for DMB" and I was like WTF?

I emailed our HR rep to find out if they'd do donation matching like we did for Tsunami...and if not, asked her to at least spread the word about texting $10 donations to Redcross. The more people the better!

My company increased their matching from 50% to 100% for Haiti donations. Woohoo!

TiGeorges Chicken (brilliantly great Haitian restaurant in Los Angeles) is having a fund raiser tonight.

So my wife put a link on Facebook to donate and within 5 minutes two people commented variations on "Why the hell should I bother? I believe the 100 million Obama sent is more than enough since I'm already paying for that!". And this is from Obama supporters. I'm shocked at the level of "oh lol another poor people earthquake *shrug*" going around.

ugh

i mean fine don't do anything whatever but getting haughty about someone suggesting that more aid would be helpful is just o_O

Those are some seriously inhumane people.

Obama's aid package is the equivalent of 35 cents per American or $1 per taxpayer. Those people are cheapskates who can't do math.

^^^^^^

And also don't understand how much it would cost to rebuild basically an entire city. How much will repairing or rebuilding the cathedral and the palace alone cost? Several tens of millions of dollars, at least?

yeah maybe do those last, huh

And also don't understand how much it would cost to rebuild basically an entire city. How much will repairing or rebuilding the cathedral and the palace alone cost? Several tens of millions of dollars, at least?

― Snake Effect Low (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:47 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Prob; esp if they don't want it to fall down again :\

oh geez so I just found out my classmate's boyfriend is IN Haiti right now. was supposed to fly out on Tues I think. he's alive but obv stranded. she has remained remarkably composed. man what a thing

also apparently the afternoon lectures pulled another 260??!?!

ok so total is 850 before matching dang

Awesome!

v plzd tbh

good going from you and your classmates!

i just gave a tenner to the red cross which, although it's not much, is fairly significant from me since i never give to charity because i am a disgusting savage.

you are not a disgusting savage as
disgusting savages do not routinely cure four children of malaria, which is what you just did basically

sorry ;_;

So my wife put a link on Facebook to donate and within 5 minutes two people commented variations on "Why the hell should I bother?

man. just checked my facebook and it's kind of like.. i guess i'm posting this here because i don't want to get into it with people i know, especially in a public forum, but it seems to me that now is not the time to complain at length about how you don't like something someone said on television, or how you don't like that bush 43 was asked by clinton to team up in support of disaster relief. really? i mean, let it go.

haters gonna hate

do yr part and fuk em if they disagree

(ie I am trying to ignore the fact that these ppl exist and focus my energy on more productive shit)

good call. great job on all you've raised so far!

ok so I may have a general announcement to make soon (when I get home and am not on iPhone) that involves ilxors, PIH, and gift matching.

UKer's might like to know about http://www.dec.org.uk/ - a kind of umbrella donation site for various agencies.

Front page coverage of Haiti from today's Daily Mail:

http://www.twitpic.com/y5zng

Their readers just aren't that interested.

I am terribly sorry for these poor people, but you say Brown has pledged £10 million ? Where is this money coming from? I thought this country was broke? Didnt Brown only pledge £1 million for Cockermouth? I know the devastation wasnt quite so horrific there but our own people need the money to rebuild their lives. Give human support by all means but stop giving money away that we dont have!!!!!

- Helen, Plymouth, England

For non-UK readers you should now that Cockermouth was an horrific tragedy in which several people had their holiday homes flooded and one or two people even lost their land rovers. Also the corner shop was right out of bread for a whole weekend.

holy shit

:O i had not heard that about cockermouth, is there a site set up or anything where i can give?

Yes. And they'll throw in a wonder sticker for your car.

Window sticker...

Wonder sticker was more appropriate. What's the difference between Gift Aid and not Gift Aid?

aw i kinda wanted a wonder sticker.

oh wait it's TAX. BASTARDS. I HATE TAX lol

holy crap

have collected close to 1500 to be matched

0_O

Wonderful! You certainly deserve a wonder sticker my friend!

xp that is awesome dude.

“This sounds to me like open borders advocates exercising the Rahm Emanuel axiom: ‘Never let a crisis go to waste.’ Illegal immigrants from Haiti have no reason to fear deportation but if they are deported, Haiti is in great need of relief workers and many of them could be a big help to their fellow Haitians.”

— Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, in an e-mail message to ABCNews.

okay now

Can we arrange to have him devoured by wolves?

Or, really, just dogs? I'm not picky.

Piranhas.

i'm not gonna deport you but let's just say hypothetically that you found yourself on a plane bound for haiti maybe that wouldn't be so bad

Rush still has a contract with Armed Forces radio, I believe? Maybe it's worth cancelling that for inappropriate conduct/content. He don't need no Gubmint money, right?

would never happen

wait what did he do now

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/01/15/2010-01-15_rush_limbaugh_haiti_earthquake_comments_are_really_stupid_says_white_house_press.html

ie pretty much exactly what you'd expect

<3 u Roger Ebert:

A Letter to Rush Limbaugh
/ / / January 14, 2010

To: Rush Limbaugh
From: Roger Ebert

You should be horse-whipped for the insult you have paid to the highest office of our nation.

Having followed President Obama's suggestion and donated money to the Red Cross for relief in Haiti, I was offended to hear you suggest the President might be a thief capable of stealing money intended for the earthquake victims.

Here is a transcript from your program on Thursday:

Justin of Raleigh, North Carolina: "Why does Obama say if you want to donate some money, you could go to whitehouse.gov to direct you how to do so? If I wanted to donate to the Red Cross, why do I have to go to the White House page to donate?"

Limbaugh: "Exactly. Would you trust the money's gonna go to Haiti?"

Justin: "No."

Rush: "But would you trust that your name's gonna end up on a mailing list for the Obama people to start asking you for campaign donations for him and other causes?"

Justin: "Absolutely!"

Limbaugh: "Absolutely!"

That's what was said.

Unlike you and Justin of Raleigh, I went to Obama's web site, and discovered the link there leads directly to the Red Cross. I can think of a reason why anyone might want to go via the White House. That way they can be absolutely sure they're clicking on the Red Cross and not a fake site set up to exploit the tragedy.

But let me be sure I have this right. You and Justin agree that Obama might steal money intended for the Red Cross to help the wretched of Haiti.

This conversation came 48 hours after many of us had seen pitiful sights from Port au Prince. Tens of thousands are believed still alive beneath the rubble. You twisted their suffering into an opportunity to demean the character of the President of the United States.

You have a sizable listening audience. You apparently know how to please them. Anybody given a $400 million contract must know what he is doing.

That's what offends me. You know exactly what you're doing.

OK, when I was suggesting the termination of any gov't contract Rush might currently enjoy, I hadn't yet found out he also said THAT.

Back in May, he said this about Bill Clinton's appointment as special envoy to Haiti: “I’m just gonna tell you, if I was named envoy to Haiti, I’d quit government. Envoy to Haiti? You can’t even pick up a prostitute down there without genuine fear of AIDS. This is not Clinton’s place.”

At what point does this man suffer some sort of status penalty?