Tsunami devistation

you said:

cc wrote:
"J G" wrote in message
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What Y'all are seeing on CNN, etc. cannot possibly convey magnitude
of the devistation..... Its fscking wasted. And the STINK, ohh my
G*d, it's enought to make a billygoat puke. So I hear ;-(
--
"Ralph"


Yeah, something should certainly be done about the smell.

It's a shame that when hundreds of thousands die that the rest should
be inconvenienced, especially the vacationing tourists. Somebody must
be held accountable.

Did you stop to think that those that have loved ones that died in the
tsunami might take offense to you complaining about "the STINK" of
their corpses?

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure he's over there with part of the US
contribution to the hands-on humanitarian effort, and the stink is just a
true reality of the whole thing. What have you done to help?

Penny



Damn sure are some pretensious people in here these days I see.

"cc" wrote

Did you stop to think that those that have loved ones that died in
the
tsunami might take offense to you complaining about "the STINK" of
their
corpses?

No, they too are complaining of the stench and burrying the corpses as
fast as they can be found. Bodies was ashore on every tide. The
primary objective should be to treat the survivors and to prevent the
spread of disease before the death tool increases...... There is a
time for mourning and a time for basic sanitation.

"cc" wrote
I wasn't addressing what he has done, but the callous manner in
which he
described the catastrophe.

You learn to develop a "thick skin" when dealing with things like
this, it is a basic emotional suvrial skill. You cannot be surrounded
by that much death and destruction without it.... If you don't, you
are going to become a basket case ( Post Traumaitc Stress Syndrome.)
That is not to say I don;t hae compassion and sorror for what has
happened, but there is a job to be done and there are hazzards of the
job that must be dealt with and overcome.

Ride-A-Lot wrote:
Raptor wrote:
I heard on NPR tonight that annually, 150,000 children die in
Indonesia before the age of five from everyday causes like diarrhea,
tetanus, malnutrition, etc.


But not in less than one hour! It doesn't make it any better.

I guess what such factoids should do is provide perspective. Just
another little bit of reality. Life is hard "over there."

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"We should not march into Baghdad. ... Assigning young soldiers to
a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning
them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerilla war, it
could only plunge that part of the world into ever greater
instability." George Bush Sr. in his 1998 book "A World Transformed"

Ride-A-Lot wrote:
Raptor wrote:

I heard on NPR tonight that annually, 150,000 children die in
Indonesia before the age of five from everyday causes like diarrhea,
tetanus, malnutrition, etc.


Oh wait a second... NPR. That says it all.

Actually it doesn't. What does it say to you? (It was a journalist who
said it, one who worked that part of the world routinely, being
interviewed about the disaster.)

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--
Lynn Wallace http://www.xmission.com/~lawall
"We should not march into Baghdad. ... Assigning young soldiers to
a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning
them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerilla war, it
could only plunge that part of the world into ever greater
instability." George Bush Sr. in his 1998 book "A World Transformed"

"J G" wrote in message
et...


"cc" wrote

Did you stop to think that those that have loved ones that died in
the
tsunami might take offense to you complaining about "the STINK" of
their
corpses?

No, they too are complaining of the stench and burrying the corpses as
fast as they can be found. Bodies was ashore on every tide. The
primary objective should be to treat the survivors and to prevent the
spread of disease before the death tool increases...... There is a
time for mourning and a time for basic sanitation.


Again, I understand the reality of the situation. I have been following it
quite closely. I know that there are not enough people to remove the bodies,
that it smells, and that there is a serious health hazard. The point of my
post was not to refute these facts.

"Ride-A-Lot" wrote in message
...
J G wrote:
What Y'all are seeing on CNN, etc. cannot possibly convey magnitude of
the devistation..... Its fscking wasted. And the STINK, ohh my G*d,
it's enought to make a billygoat puke. So I hear ;-(
--
"Ralph"



I just had some friends come back from their honeymoon in Thailand.
Yes, they were in one of the flooded hotels. At the time they were in
their room so they got out without a scratch.

They are pretty messed up though. It took a while to get out and they
had to sleep in a school for a night. She's being crying every night
since the event and cannot get the images of bodies, especially
children, out of her head. Can you say lots of counsiling? The US
embassy was very good at rounding up the citizens. That's a nice thing
to know. I gave them a US Airways round trip coupon I got from giving
up a seat so they can at least fly somewhere and try and get another
honeymoon.

I didn't ask about the smell and they didn't volunteer any info. I can
only imagine what it must be like. I know what a single dead animal can
smell like. Think about 80,000 people.

It's very sad, but I think this is a great opportunity for the USA and
especially the citizens of this country to show how compasionate we can
be. Many of the countries that were hit are Muslim countries. A show
of support from the US will surely go a long way to showing them that we
are not against them as the terrorists would have them think.

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Glad your friends are ok...not to slight the Pac-Rim/Eastern situation in
any way, but what a terrible wedding memory. I hope she's stopped crying by
now...Nice of you to offer a partial "re-do."

As for the world's view on American compassion...unfortunalely, it seems as
though there is no deed America can do that will enstill a favorable
viewpoint, in the rest of the world's mind's eye, for any long-term
scenario. For some reason (probably the general well being of our
population), many persons around the world view Americans as the "Grand
Abusers" of everyone else.

American dollars fly around the world in HUGE proportions all year long,
every year...whether there's a disaster, or not. So does food, medical
supplies, medical care, economical support, political support,
infrastructural support and so on, and so on, and so on...even to hostile
nations like North Korea (grain). But when America acts to protect its own
interests........forget it! For some reasons (many, I'm sure), America
always comes out smelling like a goat to the rest of the world.

Nonetheless, I recently, and regularly, gave/give blood, and am currently
researching a worthy organization to donate some additional tsunami dollars
to (one where the $$ won't be absorbed by the org's payroll).


Goodoz --- Tax Time's Coming up...Y'all ready???

A small roller came thru Irvine in 02, right before I was relocated. No
damage in the house (think the epicenter was out by, but north of, Palm
Springs. But, I felt the "waterbed effect" in my static bed at about
midnight...

Goodoz


"bri719" wrote in message
...
Chris Glidden wrote:

We felt it in Laguna Beach, it's the "Real OC" ya know. Puke



LOL ... yeah, I know.

in all seriousness it's strange all this talk about tsunamis and
earthquakes (floods, what have you) because I used to feel little quakes
all the time and that's about the first one I felt in a good two or
three years.

bri

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Raptor wrote:
Ride-A-Lot wrote:

Raptor wrote:

I heard on NPR tonight that annually, 150,000 children die in
Indonesia before the age of five from everyday causes like diarrhea,
tetanus, malnutrition, etc.


Oh wait a second... NPR. That says it all.


Actually it doesn't. What does it say to you? (It was a journalist who
said it, one who worked that part of the world routinely, being
interviewed about the disaster.)


NPR = National Polit(bureau) Radio

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