i know this has been goin on for a long while,
but just for the sake of blahing:
the media thinks it is [within their undeniable] right to bombard our senses and around the blue marble about the new orleans catastrophe. not just 24/7 but devoted much space that cover 99% of our computer monitor's with heartwrenchin headlines. and piccy's of bloated bodies.
besides the suffering's and horrific death's were deemed appropriate to prick our collective conscience. so that we could get our collective arses off the couch to rally help for em victim's.
just look at em poor thing's: they had no food, no water, no proper sanitation.. blah yadda blah..
same goes for the recent bali bombin. ah yes, 'cos the native's rely heavily on tourism so just imagine.... that's why we ought to go help em poor thing's.
bollocks.
but the massive earthquake that struck much of pakistan and a wee portion of india just a couple of day's ago - with death toll estimated to rise to about 30,000 - doesn't warrant as much air time and column inches eh?
so one rule for the first world and another for the rest of the blue marble?
or is it because the victim's are mostly muslim thus not worth our efforts to rally the charities around? and that pakistan is - "er, where the hell is that?" - economically third world, so why bother reporting about their plight?
eh?
i promise the next time i won't hesitate to tell those who rush about donating dosh, clothes, blood and wotnot to first world natural disaster victim's - or wherever favoured by holidaying first world twat's - to get their priorities right.
so here it is, my prayer's to everyone in pakistan, india and afghanistan.
as enscribed by the letter b @ October 10, 2005 08:30 AM | someone's pingedexactly and i was perplexed what with all the focus on new orleans- is it because of its pitiful third world like economic status? or is it due to em rag twats re: reporters playing the race card? or that they have an agenda against Bush, which i suspect is *the* reason.
or it could be they were gleeful that a mighty "arrogant" first-world country like the U S of A were reduced to such a state. which methinks is disgusting. and don't get me started on em islamist wankers gloating about america's plight. like what monicaR at Alice had said and to paraphrase her, the silence from the arab world on pakistan's catastrophe is deafening.
dependin on how you see it, either there is a god. or there isn't. erm amen.
as blahed by the letter b @ October 12, 2005 11:58 AMI hate to sound hard-hearted, well no I don't actually. Part of the problem is with the media and their unrelenting bullshit, most of it unsubstantiated or in fact, even researched. I watched the BBfuckin'C until I was ready to puke. The reporters they sent to the Big Easy were all a twitter about how it was all Bush's fault that no help came. These bozos are in a country reporting for the BBC and yet they can't be bothered to even check out how the US is run or how the system is supposed to operate. In the aftermath, we find that Katrina, was a pussycat F3 when it hit and that all the devestation was caused by the greed and incompetence of the local government. New Orleans was a disaster waiting to happen. Personally, I don't think it should be rebuilt. It used to be called the Crescent City for a reason, it was built on high freakin' ground. If you build your house twelve feet below sea level, what exactly do you expect when it rains?
There are never going to shortages of natural disasters. There are gonna be hurricanes, tornados, volcanos, landslides, pestelence and plagues of freakin' locust. It's happened this way since the dawn of history. Get over it! Did you see any looting in Mississippi? Did you see any hand-wringing in Alabama? No, you saw a bunch of people who got wiped out by nature and instead of blaming George Bush as if he were in charge of hurricanes, they rolled up their sleeves and went to work rebuilding. Nuff said.
as blahed by Confederatexpat @ October 12, 2005 10:18 AMi ought to be ashamed of myself. forgot to mention the landslides in guatemala.
as blahed by the letter b @ October 10, 2005 02:05 PMYeah, I've noticed that too.
as blahed by "Alice" @ October 10, 2005 11:24 AM