Just a thought…
I was just over at Raven’s blog (And Rightly So) and in one of her posts, she talks about how “some” people are typically blaming the US for the earthquake and tsunami. She pointed out this comment at DKos:
But I also wonder: how much of the death and destruction was a result of current patterns of exploitative global development? This may seem an odd question about a tidal wave, but when, of late, landslides ravaged Himalayan slopes and typhoons washed over Bangladesh, we’ve learned that exploitation of natural resources by impoverished Asians set up living situations which put people at risk. Does anyone know whether anything like this is operative here?
Please.
But wait, it gets better throughout the whole thread. Of course there are people who actually care about what’s happened and understand it ISN’T a political event, but some of the commenters are absolutely laughable.
One thing I noticed as a complaint there was that the media isn’t covering the disaster. Their beloved NPR devoted a whopping four and a half minutes to it! Apparently, they haven’t tuned into Fox (”Faux”) News in the last few days (years), or they’d see that the disaster coverage is on almost non-stop. Those who have chalked it up to schadenfreude. I guess if NPR or CNN covered it, it’s due to concern, but if “Faux” News covers it, there’s something sinister afoot.
Leave it to moonbats to politicize an act of God.
(Whoops! I guess I just did it myself! OK, a disaster that would have once been referred to as an “act of God.” hahahahaha)
sigmund, carl and alfred says:
Stupdity, it seems, has reached new depths.
Kos’ brilliant commentators broght to you by the fine crop of high school Social Studies teachers.
Isaac says:
Wow - some people can’t resist attacking the U.S.
Square1 says:
Well you know, there are those conspiracy theories about seismic weapons disguised as sattelites orbiting our planet and all.Obviously the U.S. needs to wipe out some competition. Honestly though, I suppose we’re developing soldiers who can, oh how was it put on Braveheart… “Destroy the English with fire from his hands, and lightening from his arse.” Please correct me if I have that wrong.
My heart goes out to those who have lost. And honestly people, do not be so arrogant as to think mere humans could have caused an earthquake of that magnitude. What happened was a tragedy that no one possibly could have forseen. No one is to blame for it. It just simply was.
What I am interested in (aside from the political ramifications here and abroad for offering the much needed aide, and that said aide reaches the places it sooo needs to be) is this claim that the earthquake was powerful enough to affect the earth’s rotation on it’s axis. I am curious to see, if this is truly the case, the consequences this will have for us globally, and even in our solar system. Perhaps “Chickie Little” may be right this time when he claims that the sky is falling.
Eric says:
Ow, reading that DKos shi’ite hurt my head
Mike Buffington says:
It is crazy to think that this is some kind of conspiracy, but it is just as crazy to call this an “act of God” unless you think God, contrary to what the bible says, likes killing over 25,000 people.
The Orphan says:
Instead of the term “act of God”, how about using “Force Majeure”? [b]“An event or effect that cannot be reasonably be anticipated or controlled”.[/b] When you strat using any term relared to God on an open forum, the infidels show up in force and the whole conversation goes in the crapper forthwith.
The mention of the amount of energy generated….enough to make the Earth “wobble” on its axis is interesting. My question (and I am not doubting the people making this assertion) is “how do they know?”. That is a lot of bang for the buck there. I would like to see the math just for funs.
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Six Meat Buffet says:
Politicizing disaster
To socialists, all that matters is what government does - the rest of us don’t wait for government. Redstate America prefers to do it ourselves.
Um Yeah says:
i dont beleve for a second these tidil waves were caused by eartquake! a nucleer bomb in middle of ocean would easily cause this.
whos guilty? easy, everyone died was brown and muslim. anyone intelligint knows it was shrub!
The Orphan says:
Say there buckaroo..do you have your tinfoil helmet on?
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skh says:
Beejus. Stupidity is curable. Asshattery apparently is not.
Beth says:
Dum No is just a ridiculous useful idiot with a serious masochistic tendency. He trolls around the Rott and their commenters’ blogs looking for abuse, constantly. The guy seriously needs shrink work to cure that “negative attention is better than no attention” problem.
I’m just going to delete everything else Dum No says. It’s just monotonous and moronic.