Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Meanwhile, places you never hear about on TV are completely destroyed...

[Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Well good, at least some unknown 3rd world newspaper is covering this.
I have seen nothing about it come up in Google news, but I will admit
I am not out searching the Internet looking for it.

Last night I did see where Venezuela had sent $1 million in aid to the
region. That is what I am looking for, I am looking for that same
outpouring of money and aid we saw in the Tsunami. I don't necessarily
want the UN to send in troops, I want to see other countries, UN
countries step up to the plate like we do when their crappy little
countries get devastated.

We are all complaining about gas prices, how about exporting us some
oil, how about cutting the country a break on oil prices while we get
back on our feet?

The thing is I don't expect anything, we never get any aid from the
UN, yet we are called on every time to bail someone else out and then
we are ridiculed for what we do. This is my issue with that corrupt
useless organization! In my opinion, this is a prime example of the
double standard this country has to deal with on the world stage. I
guess it goes along with being the most productive, successful and
most powerful country on earth and I suppose I just have to deal with
it.

Oh, I have not been watching Fox News Mike, I have told you that
countless times before. I have not had cable in almost 2 years. So
drop the condescension about Fox News it does no one any good.

On 9/1/05, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Vern Green wrote:
> 
> > and still no aid from the UN, not even an encouraging word.
> 
> You haven't heard from them?  Or do you mean that you haven't heard that
> someone in our government has heard from them?  I think you mean that you
> haven't seen any newspaper articles on the web about the UN's response to
> the flooding in New Orleans.
> 
> It took me about 30 seconds to find this one using google news:
> 
> http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20050901T000000-0500_87388_OBS_THOUSANDS_FEARED_DEAD__NEW_ORLEANS_TO_BE_ABANDONED.asp
> 
> "The United Nations went further to characterise it as one of the worst
> disasters internationally, outstripping even the damage caused by the
> December 26 Asian tsunami which killed 180,000."
> 
> ...
> 
> "This is one of the most destructive natural disasters ever measured in
> the amount of homes destroyed, people affected, people displaced," said UN
> humanitarian official Jan Egeland.
> 
> "I would salute the very effective American efforts to warn the
> populations of the imminent danger and the very successful evacuation."
> 
> 
> Maybe Fox News isn't covering it.
> 
> Mike
> 
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