So will the world respond?

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Grammatron said:
I am sure if US requested aid the world would respond, however I doubt we would be doing so.

I wonder if they would put on concerts to benefit the victims, though.
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Until now, the only thing the US has asked the word for is....OIL.

Unbelievable!
 
Kerberos said:
So, who wants to join my new cult?
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Oooh, I dunno. I'm not sure I can get behind a movement which doesn't assign sufficient credit to Buddha. I mean, look at the facts. Buddha is customarily depicted as fat; New Orleans is known for fatty food. Buddha teaches that throwing away material wealth will lead to happiness; in New Orleans throwing beads causes women to show their boobs. Buddha was Asian; as noted in another thread Asians were largely spared Katrina's wrath. These can't be coincidences.
 
manny said:
Oooh, I dunno. I'm not sure I can get behind a movement which doesn't assign sufficient credit to Buddha. I mean, look at the facts. Buddha is customarily depicted as fat; New Orleans is known for fatty food. Buddha teaches that throwing away material wealth will lead to happiness; in New Orleans throwing beads causes women to show their boobs. Buddha was Asian; as noted in another thread Asians were largely spared Katrina's wrath. These can't be coincidences.
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Those are powerfull arguments, but I really need for some of them to take credit for Katrina or a natural disaster of similar magnitude before I can let them in. It wouldn't do to fill my cult with touchy feelly hipies who actually think people dying pointless deaths is a bad thing, now would it?
 
Excellent point -- I hadn't thought of that. OK, I think there's some radical Buddhists in Japan. We'll give them a couple days to put out a press release, else we'll go without the fat guy.
 
The IEA is releasing 2 million barrels of oil / day to prevent shortages in the U.S. The UK 's contribution is 73,000bpd for a month.

So we (paying $6.50 a gallon for gasoline) will be subsidising gasoline at half the price in the USA.

Fair enough, no loss what a friend gets. But I'm gonna bitch about it for quite some time. :p
 
Kerberos said:
So, who wants to join my new cult?
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What's your position on cats? Cats are evil too. When the gods punish the cats the people who tolerate and pander to them catch the fallout.

It's not gays, people, it's cats.

"The Gods, United, Will Never Be Defeated". Makes for a good chant.
 
Soapy Sam said:
The IEA is releasing 2 million barrels of oil / day to prevent shortages in the U.S. The UK 's contribution is 73,000bpd for a month.

So we (paying $6.50 a gallon for gasoline) will be subsidising gasoline at half the price in the USA.

Fair enough, no loss what a friend gets. But I'm gonna bitch about it for quite some time. :p
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I think the problem's in the gasoline market, which as far as I know is a free market. US buyers have been outbidding European buyers in Rotterdam. Waddya gonna do? They're more dependent on gasoline than Europeans, who are more likely to have alternative transport.

Not wishing to appear heartless (which I'm not, honest), this is probably good news for London Transport.
 
Re: Re: So will the world respond?

Grammatron said:
I am sure if US requested aid the world would respond, however I doubt we would be doing so.

I wonder if they would put on concerts to benefit the victims, though.
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There have been free jazz concerts in several cities in Norway today, in sympathy for the victims of New Orleans.
 
Not only jazz concerts:

The department listed donors so far as: Australia, Austria, the Bahamas, Belgium, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, the European Union, France, Germany, Guatemala, Britain, Greece, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, NATO, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Organization of American States, Paraguay, South Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Sweden, Venezuela and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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Reuters today.
 
rjh01 said:
Other people's behaviour is no excuse for your own. Remember the USA is the leader of the industrialised world, so shuoud be an example to the rest of the world.

It only gets worse. When did you see this in another disaster? Sniper fire halts hospital evacuation
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And how exactly does one person with a rifle reflect on the other 300 million people living in the US? Do you consider this one person to be a statistically significant random sample of the US population? You can even extend it beyond that one sniper, if you like, and include everyone who has shot at someone in New Orleans over the past few days.
 
Thank you Freakshow for that question. I think you will agree that there are many people with guns in the USA. It shows that the gun owners are not responsible people. Either they are doing the shooting or even worse the guns were stolen from them. The gun owners failed to properly secure both the guns and the ammunition against theft. If this happens in one city I cannot see why it could not happen in another in the USA.

The headline in our local paper today (The Canberra Times) is 'Death, decay as city festers. No relief for those in water-logged war zone.'

This is the sort of heading I would expect to see from a third world country not the first world country. Come to thhink of it they could only be talking about the USA. Only they would have a war zone in a disaster area, rather than a disaster in a war zone. Proof that USA society is inferier to some third world countries.

And my apologies to Flo.
 
rjh01 said:
Thank you Freakshow for that question. I think you will agree that there are many people with guns in the USA. It shows that the gun owners are not responsible people. Either they are doing the shooting or even worse the guns were stolen from them. The gun owners failed to properly secure both the guns and the ammunition against theft. If this happens in one city I cannot see why it could not happen in another in the USA.

The headline in our local paper today (The Canberra Times) is 'Death, decay as city festers. No relief for those in water-logged war zone.'

This is the sort of heading I would expect to see from a third world country not the first world country. Come to thhink of it they could only be talking about the USA. Only they would have a war zone in a disaster area, rather than a disaster in a war zone. Proof that USA society is inferier to some third world countries.

And my apologies to Flo.
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You can thank me for the question, but you didn't answer it...
 
rjh01 said:
Thank you Freakshow for that question. I think you will agree that there are many people with guns in the USA. It shows that the gun owners are not responsible people. Either they are doing the shooting or even worse the guns were stolen from them. The gun owners failed to properly secure both the guns and the ammunition against theft. If this happens in one city I cannot see why it could not happen in another in the USA.

The headline in our local paper today (The Canberra Times) is 'Death, decay as city festers. No relief for those in water-logged war zone.'

This is the sort of heading I would expect to see from a third world country not the first world country. Come to thhink of it they could only be talking about the USA. Only they would have a war zone in a disaster area, rather than a disaster in a war zone. Proof that USA society is inferier to some third world countries.

And my apologies to Flo.
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The only proof I see is of your arrogant attitude and "inferier" spelling skills.

Please provide proof of your assertion. Name the 3rd world countries who are superior to the USA. Let's see if you can name one that doesn't enslave people, pray to a rock, have a special section of the police force which hunts down witches, or have a Dear Leader instead of a legislature. Go ahead we'll wait.



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rikzilla said:
Go ahead we'll wait.
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Dude...breathe. Wew... :D

10.5 BILLION aid package approved within one week. That's spelled with a "B".
 
Freakshow said:
You can thank me for the question, but you didn't answer it...
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Just because it wasn't logical or relevant doesn't mean he didn't answer the question. Here is my answer. Apples. So there!
 
manny said:
Dude. Stop beating yourself up. Of course Germany offered to help. It's all good.
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Germany is prepared to provide the United States with technical assistance in coping with the massive devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. "If there are requests on the part of the Americans, then we will surely participate," German Interior Minister Otto Schily said on behalf of the German Government in an interview with Reuters TV today.
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August 31, 2005 - Of course Germany offered to help
"I'm not expecting much from foreign nations because we haven't asked for it," Bush told ABC. "We love help, but we are going to take care of our own business, as well."
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Sep 1, 2005 - http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050901/pl_afp/usweatherbush
 
rjh01:
I think you will agree that there are many people with guns in the USA. It shows that the gun owners are not responsible people. Either they are doing the shooting or even worse the guns were stolen from them. The gun owners failed to properly secure both the guns and the ammunition against theft.
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Your claim that "Gun owners are not responsible people" because SOME people have used them is quite a leap. I'd wager most of these "gun owners" are gang members who possess firearms illegally. In fact, out of the 1000s of gun owners in New Orleans, it seems that only a few have decided to use them irresponsibly. One might say that this is evidence that gun owners ARE responsible, as most of them are not out looting, even though they own weapons that would make looting easy. No, I am not a gun owner.
The headline in our local paper today (The Canberra Times) is 'Death, decay as city festers. No relief for those in water-logged war zone.'

This is the sort of heading I would expect to see from a third world country not the first world country.
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This is the sort of headline I would expect to see in a smalltown newspaper that likes to write overly dramatic headlines.

Proof that USA society is inferier to some third world countries.
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Well, you proved something anyways, but not that.
 
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