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Tilting the Void

...still wrecked among heathen dreams...

On a more serious note.

Tuesday, 13. May 2008, 16:30:49

What is there to be said on the tragedy of two terrible natural disasters striking in very nearly the same week? I am desolated to hear of the magnitude of suffering in Myanmar and Chengdu. 100,000 dead in Myanmar and that soon to be compounded by the willful obstinacy of the junta there. There is nothing I can do to help and offering the vapid assurance that 'my thoughts and prayers are with you' seems hardly more than nothing.

Why Mr. Neil supports the CBLDF.Pshaw. What do they know?

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Myanmar is a tragedy compounded by the idiots "leading" the country. Sad doesn't begin to describe it.

Chengdu is still unfolding, but seems incomprehensible, already. You kow, we had an earthquake a couple weeks ago, and it freaked people here out. They've had 30 aftershocks of roughly the same magnitude as our earthquake. Even without the horrific death toll, that's just mind-boggling.

By noah counte, # 13. May 2008, 16:54:47

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At least the Chinese government is apparently encouraging foreign aid. The events unfolding in Myanmar are unbelievably evil.

By mlynnjohnson, # 13. May 2008, 17:38:34

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Institutional evil is more heinous than individual evil, I think. :frown:

By noah counte, # 13. May 2008, 17:54:15

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Well, it has the potential to harm more people, that's for sure.

By mlynnjohnson, # 13. May 2008, 18:00:44

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Yeah. Maybe ranking evils is the wrong way to think about it. Certainly the outcomes are horrific.

By noah counte, # 13. May 2008, 18:09:01

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@ Malissa,
Thinking of the poor children it brakes my heart. How many are injured, how many are dead...how many are hungry. Sad:(


@ Matt,
" by the idiots "leading" the country "

so far away and still it still feels so much "close to home".

By ellinidata, # 13. May 2008, 19:25:24

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Well, you don't have to go abroad to find idiot leaders, that's for sure. I'm not sure that even the biggst idiots here would turn away needed assistance, though. I sure hope not.

By noah counte, # 13. May 2008, 20:06:02

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They didn't. I think even Hugo Chavez sent aid to Katrina victims. And one would hope the relief wouldn't go misappropriated or allowed to spoil the way it's happening in Burma. There are reports of the military hoarding food, etc.

By mlynnjohnson, # 13. May 2008, 20:47:57

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@ Matt,


of course US accepted help, that was the only way for the failure to appear lesser , we accepted even from sources that we never expected to:

http://hnn.us/blogs/archives/3/2005/9/


IRAQI SOLDIERS CONTRIBUTE 1,000,000 DINARS TO KATRINA VICTIMS

"We are all brothers. When one suffers tragedy, we all suffer their pain." Said Iraqi Col. Abbas Fadhil.

Gratitude and initiative are wondrous things to behold.

Posted on Saturday, September 10, 2005 at 12:47 AM |
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@ Melissa,
you are right about Hugo Chavez, he did offer oil and a USD 5 millon.
In addition some advice that our "idiots" should have looked twice and maybe did read his interview when they were lost of ideas:

http://communication-evolution.org/blog/hugo-chavez-interview/


Too sad :frown: that history repeats it self over and over again.

By ellinidata, # 13. May 2008, 22:26:02

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