Tsunami aid telethon

[booster11373]

This might be a little crass considering the diaster, but its more of a telethon joke

wheres the juggling and animal acts, wheres the plate spinners and tumblers, all the guys you see once a year on the mda telethon are probaly ready to go just ask



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[mothershucker]

I would like to see how much these countries sent to New York after the Trade Center disaster.

I shucked it, and I shucked it, and I shucked it, i'm quite the mother shucker

[Bulldogcakes]

I think at this point, we've made every man woman and child a millionaire in Pukhet.

Over 2 billion Gov't aid commitments
Another Billion+ private donations
+property insurance

This place should look like Las Vegas by next year.

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Ow! Hey! Get that net offa me! Ouch! Help!! Somebody HELP!!!!

[Bulldogcakes]

I would like to see how much these countries sent to New York after the Trade Center disaster.

Shuck, please they're poor countries.

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[TheMojoPin]

I would like to see how much these countries sent to New York after the Trade Center disaster.

This is such an asshole-y thing to say on SO many levels, there's really zero point in breaking it down.

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[mothershucker]

Yeah, that was real low. God forbid we help the poor here. And how about all the families losing Fathers, Brothers, Sons, loved ones in the Iraq war. We don't need to help them. Let's put all our effort into helping people who hate us. Did you see the photo of the guy with the Bin Laden shirt on in the post two weeks ago? I am sure he would send us Billions if he was not so poor.

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[torker]

I just hope Law and Order starts at 10:00.

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[HBox]

Yeah, that was real low. God forbid we help the poor here. And how about all the families losing Fathers, Brothers, Sons, loved ones in the Iraq war. We don't need to help them. Let's put all our effort into helping people who hate us. Did you see the photo of the guy with the Bin Laden shirt on in the post two weeks ago? I am sure he would send us Billions if he was not so poor.

You're a dumbass, and nobody cares what you think.



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[Snoogans]

im with Hbox on that

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[TheMojoPin]

We don't need to help them. Let's put all our effort into helping people who hate us.

Now I get it.

You have zero idea what countries the tsunami actually hit.

So because there are some Muslim extremists in Indonesia, we should ignore the hundreds of thousands of OTHER people that were devastated by the tsunami? This isn't some horseshit issue of who's fighting who or who started what...it's about people getting destroyed by something none of us can control, and the rest of us coming together and acting like decent human beings.

THIS is where you should be rooting for us to be a leading power...it's helping above and beyond the call of duty in situations like this that'll set the tone for what many people think of us down the line...moreso than a thousand Iraq-type military actions could ever hope to generate.

Yet your only response is somehow compare a massive natural disaster to 9/11, and then to declare that everyone it effected "hates us."

You're a douchebag.

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[mothershucker]

Hey, I don't care what you guys think. Fuck them. If you read my last post I said let's take care of our own. I could care less about those third world fucks. If they are so poor, tell them to stop fucking and have eight awful offspring that will expect me to send them money for food. My charity (if you read my last post you tools) is for our homeless and familys of the Iraq war. Not some Sri Lankin skell. Oh, and a towel is not a hat.

Thank you, God bless the U.S.A.

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[mothershucker]

By the way MoJo, you voted for Kerry, did'nt you?

Let's put everyone in a 75% tax bracket, and we can feed the fucking world. Instead of 60 hours a week I can work 80 to make ends meet for my family and Apu Akbar, because he really cares about my ass and I am sure he has my back.

I say bring back Bob Saget and put the fucking videos on America's funniest home videos.

You see, this is the entertainment topic, and I am trying to keep this on topic.

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This message was edited by mothershucker on 1-16-05 @ 1:20 AM

[TheMojoPin]

You have zero clue about any of what you're talking about, and it's pretty pathetic. It's not even worth getting worked up over...it's just sad.

Being poor has little to do with needing help when a giant fucking wave wipes out everything you have. You'd have to be a millionaire to just be able to bounce back and not need any outside help whatsoever, so you'd better hope that you've got a nice pile stashed away in case a natural disaster ever takes out your home, your car and everything you own. Not all of the people who had their lives ruined by this disaster were "poor"...they were just there. It's not whether they're poor or not...they just need help in the aftermath of something that none of us could control. It was an indiscriminate natural disaster...natural disasters being something that can happen anywhere at anytime...and it's the kind of thing where politics should be showed the door and we just help each other out as people, and everyone does what they can. What's wrong with that? Why does it have to be a political issue? Voting for Kerry or Bush or whomever has zero to do with something like this. It's SO much bigger than petty political rivalries.

I thought I was being sarcastic when I said you obviously have no idea which countries the tsunami actually hit...now, I don't think I was.

And don't act like you need to bring the thread back on topic from the rest of us. If you were so worrried about that, you wouldn't have gone on your asinine little "fuck poor/foreign people" tirade in the first place and started everything.

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This message was edited by TheMojoPin on 1-16-05 @ 12:55 PM

[Johnny Fontane]

Should we help? Of course. Nonetheless, is there distrust and perhaps hate for the U.S. in some areas affected by the tsunami? Yes, and I heard that they are already talking about wanting our military out of there by a date certain (in March, I believe). Now that's just wrong. Do I want my donation back? No. If you told me there was a 99.9% chance my donation would help some scumbag jihad-head and a .1% chance that it would help an innocent child, I will take my chances.


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[TheMojoPin]

It wasn't just our military...it was all foreign military forces in Indonesia. And much of that was that so those forces wouldn't be attacked by seperatist forces that are based in the region. It was feared that a continued foreign military presence would draw the rebels out for a series of continued attacks at a time when the democratic government of Indonesia is focused on dealing with the tsunami. But that request has fallen by the wayside as the death toll rises.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia increased its tsunami death toll by 5,000 on Sunday, raising the overall number of people who died in the Dec. 26 disaster to more than 162,000. The nation's defense minister toned down his country's reluctance to host foreign troops helping in relief efforts. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6754820/)

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[booster11373]

wheres the funny??

I've got SOUL and I'M SUPERBAD

[torker]

wheres the funny??

apparently it was a victim of the tsunami :(

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[Johnny Fontane]

Do I want my donation back? No. If you told me there was a 99.9% chance my donation would help some scumbag jihad-head and a .1% chance that it would help an innocent child, I will take my chances.


Wait a minute, I take that back.


My charity (if you read my last post you tools) is for our homeless and familys of the Iraq war. Not some Sri Lankin skell. Oh, and a towel is not a hat.


I guess if you analyze this very carefully, there is a slight hint of ill will towards our Muslim friends. But if you can get past that, it would be nice to take care of our own. But I guess the children starving in West Virginia aren't a priority. You won't find any pictures of them in the paper.



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[mothershucker]

Well stated Johny.

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[curtoid]

if you can get past that, it would be nice to take care of our own. But I guess the children starving in West Virginia aren't a priority. You won't find any pictures of them in the paper.

So, who is stopping anyone from helping the working poor in America? What was Wille Nelson doing all those years with Farm Aid? Helping filthy foreigners??

And what about all of these organizations that help out AMERICANS each and every day? (http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.cause&cgid=8&Submit.x=22&Submit.y=6&Submit=Submit)

Of course, if you listen to the fine, fine right thinking Americans at the Heritage Group (http://www.heritage.org/Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/BG791.cfm), you can actually get away without helping anyone, inside or outside the U.S.A., and not losing any sleep.


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[Billy Staples]

just for the record. Indonesia has the highest population of Muslims in the world

this has been a sweaty news update

If one of our boys or girls dies over there as a result of radical muslims...what then?

[TheMojoPin]

Odds are that's not going to happen...

From today's New York Times (I'm printing the article, since you have to register to read it):

[quote]Rebels Express Thanks for Aid to Indonesians

By IAN FISHER
Published: January 17, 2005

ANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Jan. 16 - The rebel, dressed in military fatigues and carrying a cellphone and an old Kalashnikov, had a message for the scores of foreigners who have come here to help after the tsunami: You are welcome, and we will not hurt you.

"What GAM wants is for the international community to stay and help and see for themselves what is happening," the rebel, Mucksalmina, told a reporter on Sunday, using the common acronym for the Free Aceh Movement, the separatist army that has been fighting the Indonesian government for most of the past 30 years.

It is rare for foreigners to speak with the rebels - Aceh Province has been closed to outsiders for almost two years - but the political aftermath of the tsunami in Indonesia has given them something to say. In doing so, it has also shifted the political dynamic in this war zone, leading secretive rebels under siege by the Indonesian military to welcome the security that foreign scrutiny can provide, while the government in Jakarta remains wary about any prolonged foreign presence.

Agreeing to meet at a secluded clearing, just outside this city and near the jungle where the group hides, Mucksalmina, a rebel spokesman, wanted to counter what he suggested was fear-mongering by the Indonesian government: that foreign aid workers could be killed or kidnapped by the rebels.

The group has been accused of kidnapping civilians in the past, and the safety of aid workers has hung as one question mark over the huge relief operation here, along with the worry that fighting between the rebels and the government could hamper the delivery of aid supplies, especially to remote areas of Aceh. Last week, the government cited the possibility of rebel attacks as a reason for new travel restrictions for foreigners outside the two main cities, Banda Aceh and Meulaboh to the south.

"If someone is shot from a United Nations agency, the whole United Nations agency will withdraw," Alwi Shihab, Indonesia's chief welfare minister, told reporters here last week, according to Reuters. "Who will be responsible if a foreigner is kidnapped? The responsible party is us."

But Mucksalmina said that foreigners had nothing to fear from them and that the group's top leadership had issued orders not to harm any aid workers. He said the group was thankful for the help to Aceh from foreigners, including Americans, whose military helicopters full of aid supplies buzz nonstop to the areas most affected.

"I am very grateful and thank the Americans and the rest of the world that when they saw this disaster they worked directly to help," he said, guarded by more than a dozen other armed men, some with grenades pinned to their shirts, on a small clearing that separated a grove of woods and acres of rice paddies.

The real threat, he said, was the announced intention of the Indonesian government to scale back on foreign help in the coming months.

"The Indonesian government just wants people out of Aceh as soon as possible so they can reassert control," he said. Aceh is rich in minerals and natural gas, and one of the grievances at the root of the separatist struggle has been that the province does not receive a fair share of revenues from the central government. Adding to that complaint in recent years has been the treatment meted out to the rebels by the Indonesian Army.

Human rights groups and foreign officials have accused the government of human rights abuses since the war reignited in May 2003, and of carrying out such violations behind a curtain of secrecy thrown up by the barring of foreigners from Aceh. When martial law was imposed, also in May 2003, some 40,000 Indonesian soldiers and police officers were sent to fight about 5,000 rebels, according to a report by Human Rights Watch, and since then the army has badly weakened the