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Showing posts with label Natural Disasters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Natural Disasters. Show all posts

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Beggars Can't Be Prosecutors

10 Americans in Haiti Charged With Child Kidnapping
A Haitian attorney says 10 Americans detained in Haiti for trying to take 33 children out of the country after the Jan. 12 earthquake have been charged with child kidnapping.

Edwin Coq says the Americans also are charged with criminal association. The 10 appeared in court Thursday and were whisked away to a jail in Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince.

Coq attended the session and has represented the group here.
Oh my. It seems we've misplaced some of those foreign aid checks with all the zeros on them. Perhaps some more reasonable charges would help us find them...

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Sunday, January 17, 2010

We Have To Do More For Haiti Than Just Ship In Food, Water, & Medicine...

Elderly and Abandoned, 85 Haitians Await Death

Dear God. We'll surely have to answer for ever letting our neighbors come to such a state that this earthquake could cause such horror. We aren't responsible for their nation's failure, but we are responsible for ignoring it or giving it countenance. Forgive us.

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

The Earthquake in Haiti

Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?' The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' ~ Matthew 25:37-40

Thousands Feared Dead In Haiti Quake
Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after a powerful earthquake flattened the president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods. Officials feared hundreds of thousands may have perished but there was no firm count.
We should always remember how fortunate and blessed we are to live in America. Those blessings will be squandered if we don't respond to the tragedy in Haiti with all our considerable might. God expects much from us when it comes to helping the least of our brothers and sisters. In most cases sending a donation is as easy as sending a text message. If we can waste time online with drivel we can spend a few seconds using our technology to help. Red Cross, Yéle Haiti, Doctors Without Borders.

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Friday, May 22, 2009

It's Time To Get Your Move On

Katrina Victims Face Eviction From Federal Housing
Nearly four years after hurricanes Katrina and Rita left a million Americans homeless, the government is threatening to throw thousands of storm survivors out of temporary federal housing.

A FEMA official told a House panel Friday that the government will send Katrina survivors still living in temporary housing eviction notices starting June 1 and try to connect them to agencies that can help them. But he also said it would be "some period of time," meaning months, before the evictions actually would begin.

The $5.6 billion housing assistance program that provided temporary trailers and hotel rooms to victims was supposed to end in 2007. But the deadline was extended by two years to May 1 of this year to help the more than 5,000 individuals and families still struggling to rebuild their lives. (At its peak, 143,000 households along the Gulf Coast were located in temporary housing units.)

But the Obama administration says they have to go by the end of the month or face eviction.
I'm sorry, but if you haven't gotten your act together after four years then you've just been sitting on your ass. Pack it up, move on, and accept the fact that you may not be able to live where you want too. The Nanny State's teat is dry.

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Monday, September 22, 2008

Good Advice From An Hurricane Ike Weatherer

Melissa has some good advice post Ike, and it doesn't just go for hurricanes, especially these days.

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Friday, June 13, 2008

Humbling, Isn't It?

A tornado in Iowa



It also makes one realize how foolish it is to think we have even one ounce of real control over our environment.

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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Imagine...Criminals Acting Like Criminals...

Six Illegal Immigrants Arrested At Qualcomm
Six undocumented Mexican immigrants were arrested today by U.S. Border Patrol agents at Qualcomm Stadium, after a report that they were stealing food and water meant for evacuees, according to spokesman Damon Foreman.

San Diego police responded to a call about alleged theft from the evacuation center and encountered six people in a van who didn't speak English and didn't have California driver's licenses, Foreman said. The police officers called the Border Patrol, who arrived at the stadium and made the arrests, he said. Foreman said the immigrants admitted they were Mexican citizens and that they were stealing.
While the story itself isn't surprising, there are two amazing things to be gleaned from it.

First, that the LA Times actually used the word "illegal" to describe these criminals, even though they stumbled back to P.C. land in the story and called them "undocumented Mexican immigrants". Hey, I
guess they were just stealing the supplies that Americans didn't want to steal.

Second, the outrageous statement by our so-called "Border Patrol" that they "...are not in any means at Qualcomm for enforcement capacity..." No wonder we're being overrun by the third world hordes, we're all but escorting them into the country.

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Liberal Hypocrisy Burns Like Wildfire

So apparently President Bush just can't win with the liberals. Remember how he was criticized for not visiting the Gulf Coast soon enough after Katrina? Well now he's being raked over the burning coals of the California fires for visiting too soon. Yeah, you read that right. Here's a sample of California's Lt. Governor practicing partisanship over public service while being interviewed by Chris Matthews of MSNBC, via NewsBusters:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Is the federal government doing what it has to do here?

Lt. Governor JOHN GARAMENDI (D-CA): Well, they're doing a lot and we appreciate what they have done thus far. Resources are coming in. The U.S. Forest Service, 70 units from Arizona and Nevada and all that's good. I got some doubt about the value of President Bush coming out here...

MATTHEWS: Do you think it's public relations rather than action?

GARAMENDI: Of course it's public relations. The action's taking place by the hard-working firefighters, the men and women and the police that are out there on the line and the community that's pulling together to support each other, that's where the action is taking place. I know -- okay, President Bush comes out, we'll be polite. But frankly, that's not the solution. How about sending our National Guard back from Iraq? So that we have those people available here to help us?
Never mind that there are 17,000 National Guardsmen available that aren't needed. Do the moonbats have any concept of how hypocritical they appear to the average American? Do they care? It's just amazing how blatant they are in their partisan stupidity.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Interesting. Frightening.

FBI: al-Qaeda Detainee Spoke Of Fire Plot
The FBI alerted law enforcement agencies last month that an al-Qaeda terrorist now in detention had talked of masterminding a plot to set a series of devastating forest fires around the western United States. [...]

The [Arizona] Republic reported that the detainee, who was not identified, said the plan involved three or four people setting wildfires using timed devices in Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming that would detonate in forests and grasslands after the operatives had left the country.

The memo noted that investigators couldn't determine whether the detainee was telling the truth.
I have to admit that this crossed my mind before I heard about this story. Unlikely? Yes. Possible? Definitely.

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Hey, I'm just saying...

The California wildfires are just horrible. We should all be thankful for the men and women who are willing to risk their lives to fight the wild fires that are causing so much damage and disruption.

This disaster does raise a very interesting question though. How about that George W. Bush, huh? He is doing a super job of managing this disaster. There are no photos of looting. Qualcomm Stadium is a model of organization and civility. People are evacuating quickly and orderly when told, and some of them even had planned for evacuation beforehand! So if hurricane Katrina was all W's fault, then the superb handling of the Southern California wildfire disaster must also be his doing. Or maybe, just maybe, it's because the state and local authorities were prepared and ready to act, and the people affected didn't sit on their hands and wait for Nanny Government to come and personally carry them out of their homes.

Hey, I'm just saying...

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