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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Cyclone leaves 250,000 homeless |
| 2007-06-28 |
* Dozens killed |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Malaysia. As much as our politicos thought sending $$$ to these tsunami hit muzzy countries would change our image wrt the Iraq war it did neither as those of us at Rantburg obviously knew. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2007-06-28 17:17 |
| #9 Like we did after the Tsunami - and you remember how much respect that gained us w/the muslims. It's difficult to recall something that is nonexistent, but I know what you mean. I'll loosely quote Mark Twain: "As I get older it becomes increasingly difficult to remember given events whether they actually happened or not." By the way, which tsunami are you referring to, the Malaysian or the sewage one? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-06-28 17:05 |
| #8 Just wait Zenster; as I have no faith in our idiots in office, I'm skeptically waiting to see how fast some of them stampede over each other to offer an increased aid package to our great allies in wakipakiland. You know, just to show how magnanimous the U.S. really is. Like we did after the Tsunami - and you remember how much respect that gained us w/the muslims. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2007-06-28 14:43 |
| #7 inshalla... |
| Posted by: jds 2007-06-28 14:27 |
| #6 They prolly weren't Islamic enough. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-06-28 10:57 |
| #5 So now we charge right in there with the aid, right? But no broads, right? UN official blames bad weather on global warming Yeah. A cyclone in Pakistan! It's just...unthinkable!!! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-06-28 10:44 |
| #4 The plurality of tropical meteorologists think this storm achieved hurricane wind force just before landfall. The Pak Meteorology organization named it Yemyin and about 24 hours later the Indian Met organization, who have official naming rights, have begun using that name (I'm not clear on whether they have agreed to use the next name in the sequence for the next storm that reachs hurricane strength). We probably don't know the full extent of fatalities and damage at this time because much of the area is very rural and communications are a major problem. |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-06-28 10:22 |
| #3 *splutter* Bwa-ha-ha-ha |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2007-06-28 07:52 |
| #2 How many homeless were there before the cyclone? Was there a net gain or loss? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-06-28 07:31 |
| #1 My heart pumps piss. I'd love to see the human rights wankers gin up an international index of civilian defense spending per capita with a cross index of GDP per capita as well. I'll bet the farm that OPEC and Muslim majority countries would be amongst the very worst in terms of absorbing huge revenues without significant expenditure towards ensuring their populations' safety. Iran takes in some $52 BILLION per year. THAT'S ONE BILLION DOLLARS EACH AND EVERY WEEK. Some 80% of that is from oil. I'd be surprised if they spent more than $10.00 per capita annually on disaster relief. Mind you, Iran had no problem sucking up MILLIONS of dollars for relief aid after the Bam earthquake. It is obligatory for us to crack Iran between our thumbnails in retribution for their spending so much on nuclear arms and so little upon sustainable economic growth. We are the very worst sort of morons for funneling countless gazillions of dollars worth of aid to these abusive regimes so that they can harf down more caviar and Champagne while Jimmy Carter builds free housing tracts for their poor. As African economic expert James Shikwati says, "For God's Sake, Please Stop The Aid!". America's provision of relief assistance to even our worst enemies is something that must end. It is incumbent upon us to make examples out of those who would condemn the United States at every turn but gleefully scarf down our precious taxpayer money and then spit in America's eye as thanks. The time has come to rip the mask off of these conniving, corrupt and venal bastards. Oh yeah, and those guys overseas, too. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-06-28 02:46 |