President Obama's comments on Haiti's "cruel and incomprehensible" 7.0 Earthquake
President Obama spoke today about the devastation the earthquake in Haiti caused and pledged full support to help them as much as possible.
President Obama extended "the deep condolences and unwavering support" of the American people to Haiti today, and pledged "full support" for rescue and humanitarian assistance.
"For a country and a people who are no strangers to hardship and suffering, this tragedy seems especially cruel and incomprehensible," Obama said at the White House following a National Security Council meeting.
The scenes of collapsed buildings and bodies in the rubble are "heart wrenching," Obama said. "Our thoughts and prayers are also with the many Haitian Americans around our country who do not yet know the fate of their families and loved ones back home."
For Americans trying to locate family members in Haiti, Obama provided a State Department telephone assistance line: 888/407-4747.
If you want to help the people of Haiti, our Kindness blog is providing a handy guide.
Thousands of people appear to be dead and that number could grow significantly.
Thousands are feared to have been killed in a massive earthquake in Haiti, President Rene Preval told a US daily Wednesday as he issued a plea for international help. In his first interview since Tuesday's 7.0 quake, Preval told the Miami Herald that his Caribbean nation was destroyed and he believed thousands were dead, but he was unable to provide an exact number.
"We have to do an evaluation," Preval said, saying the scene was "unimaginable."
"Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed," he said."There are a lot of schools that have a lot of dead people in them," he said adding that among those trapped inside the parliament building is the president of the Haiti's Senate Kely Bastie
We have a new "widget" on the top right column of C&L underneath our "sister sites" widget which is a "Live Updates from Haiti" via Twitter feed.
I hope the president didn't act too swiftly on Haiti's behalf for the conservative movement. How long before we hear that he cares more about Haitians than the American people?
within hours, if they haven't already.
It means nothing though, given Bush's lack of response to a natural disaster on the continent itself.
They tried to make it sound like we were blaming boosh for the flood, not the lack of response.
All it takes is one idiot like pat roberts or a rick warren to suggest it's God's punishment for sin.
And when you give them a funny look, they'll accuse you of being intolerant of their intolerance, and trying to deny their religious rights.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Ysbaddaden: You said it right and you said it well.
ljmel
..my words and deeds define who I am like theirs' define who they are.
Mickey: "It was an epiphany. Do you know what an epipany is?"
Keoni: "NOT NOW MICKEY!"
Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Matthew 7:16 KJV
(So the guys in San Francisco ought to be pretty safe).
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
If Tim Tebow had only thought to put that on his eye-black
he would have run unfettered through that Alabama line and Gator Nation would still be chomping in the tall cotton.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Has the right blamed Obama for the Haitian earthquake yet?
another example of him abandoning his base.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
http://www.breitbart.tv/they-have-been-cursed...
Poorly constructed levees in a city built at and below sea level is not a "natural" disaster.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Yep. It'll be 'why did he wait 4 days to comment on the underwear bomber but he speaks up immediately on an Earthquake in Haiti?'
he's black and so are them hayshens.
Maybe cause no one died with the magically explosive underpants man. No one.
Yesterday morning, I was sure the media was getting ready to hype the story of the chemical drums that were supposedly punctured in Morehouse City, NC. I'm naturally sorry for the tragedy in Haiti but so glad the phony chemical story went away. I haven't checked it out but I think the mayor of Morehouse City could be a republican.
Regarding the earthquake. I felt a small tremor this morning at 9:05 AM Central time in south western Mexico. Keep alert. A big eclipse will occur this coming Friday, January 15.
This will be an annular eclipse (not total) and not visible from North America.
NASA linky.
You are correct. It's annular but we will still feel it's effects because it will be the longest lasting eclipse until the year 3045. And in the sign of Capricorn, it can mean powerful changes to the earth, some of which we have already seen. I think there will be more earthquakes during the next two weeks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK576PWxBj0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=840B27zYfOk
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
absolutely ruthless...
makes me sick
about when the right is going to make accusations when we have Evet?
had to put him on ignore....I just couldn't deal with the massive negativity. And I'm not the most positive person there is. It just makes threads easier to read, except for the endless blanked out posts of his.
Ditto.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I knew I liked you for some unfathomable reason.
;)
for a white guy.
Hey folks!
Ya miss me?
to study physics at Mrs. Dr. Surgeon's Academy in Blogfreeistan. Same as the other missing guy. Who had me on his ignore list.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
just took a break for awhile...and facebooking.
while eating out.
http://appleanniestearoomandbakery.com/
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
I like my men like I like my coffee, hot and black. No, that's not true....just hot.
;)
Equal opportunity I see, hehehehee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqNqcoLhWv0&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I thought that you had voluntarily placed yourself in moderation to maintain your sanity...notice how fucked up I've become.
Favor returned
Since you even reply to your own posts, I doubt even everyone ignoring you would make you go away or even clue you in.
Sad.
Bwahahahahaha!
Endless, too
you miss what he is not watching on teevee. And what his is watching on youtube. The Bush Sr. curse out at one of yoyr Houston Pizza Parlor's was well crafted citizen journalism, my friend.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
from YSB, and without all the endless negativity. It's MUCH better karma.
And you probably like Buzzy's Pizza on Antoine. Or whatever the name of the place is Evet posted the video about where the guy cursed out Bush Sr. for everything BUT
fathering W.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
I have absolutely NO idea what you're talking about.
Update...oh okay, had to Google...It's FUZZY's pizza on Antoine, in a hoity toity area, that apparently the Bush family likes.
Me no-give-damn.
Here is the link Evet provided. It is a tinfoil cap classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFcjQx_z4n4
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Positivity and Negativity co exist together. You can't have one without the other.
are the true hallmark of the coward. Thanks for proving my point.
he was claiming credit for keeping you from falling off the planet.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Isaac Newton was wrong?
I get deleted. Olivia, his great great great grandaughter was cetainly all woman, though.
Haven't seen her much lately. Did Travolta have her swallowed up in that cult thing?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
you need to lay off the wacky tobacky for awhile.
;)
I found the fix I needed.
.
squared.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
Pie are round. I like pie.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Did I say something offensive I don't remember.
on yourtubes in a jiffy.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
to let Bush Sr. "have it".
and look where that got hundred of thousands of innocent Iraqi's.
Wait, the guy you linked to is still alive? You mean Bushco is powerless against common riffraff? Kind of undermines his message dunnit?
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
"How long before we hear that he cares more about Haitians than the American people?"
But the GOPhers can't escape comparisons to Katrina - they'd have to admit Obama treats our neighbors better than Bunnypants treated American citizens.
Of course they will attack him no matter what he does so might as well help the Haitians as much as possible.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
help the Haitian's enough yet.
Having predicted this I must say in advance that he would have helped more if he did not have the Senate to contend with.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
already has a thread "Haiti Earthquake Is 84 Hours More Important to Obama Than The Panty Bomber".
That was predictable.
Teabaggers everywhere will cite this as proof that Obama is a secret Haitian.
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
Oily Taint has the papers to prove it!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
... that America always reaches out to show compassion and provide aid, but that this is where we'll be in short order if we continue to let the corporatocracy run the show.
I don't know any Muslims that would ever say this about a natural function of this planet. I know lots of Christians that would.
I know a lot of christians who celebrate disasters like this as proof that their sky wizard is smiting the hated other.
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
I don't understand all of the subtleties of plate tectonics, and the quake just happened to hit a country that was ill-prepared. Thus, incomprehensible and cruel.
(Actually, since islands are the protrusions of oceanic mountain ranges and thus formed by plate tectonics, it's inevitable that an island nation will experience earthquakes and/or volcanic activity.)
commonly has earthquakes, major ones, not as often. It also has volcanoes, too. This wasn't unexpected. Articles from several years back have been saying the caribbean was going to have another large quake. Google Caribbean Earthquake History.
What is your point Big D???
.... Obama could make it rain cookies and conservative headlines would be "Where's the milk?"
!
Doesn't using the word "cruel" imply some sort of intelligent agent? The ground caused an earthquake; the ground doesn't give a damn. Indeed, the ground can't give a damn.
Not even a gopher's?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
This one?
I think I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.....
What about the tinker?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The adjective is applied to an action, not a static feature.
It would be cruel if you suffered some tragedy, only to return home and find that your house had been burglarized/burnt to the ground. A cruel blow, but one that does not require an intelligent agent - just crappy luck.
Stopped watching MSNBC this morning after seeing dead children under rubble while other kids were crying hysterically...couldn't take it.
I've heard 100,000 dead and rising.
Horrific.
I checked the weather channel.
It's currently 88 in Port-au-Prince, but with the heat index it's alomost 100.
But everyone understands what he's talking about. What matters is the response. W set the bar very, very low.
... means I don't have to reach to get ma drink, right?
(you forgot the chimp-smirk)
President Obama extended "the deep condolences and unwavering support" of the American people to Haiti today, and pledged "full support
whaaaa? the haitians must be scratching their heads at that... 'unwavering support from the haitian people from the united states'? i guess there is a first for everything.
but, history aside, i am glad that the president is treating this as the humanitarian crisis that it is.
Condolences to all in Haiti who apparently lost everything. My heart goes out to all Haitians.
How did the Dominican Republic fare in all of this?
From what I heard...the DR and the coast of Cuba, felt it, but no damage. It was pretty much Haiti that took the biggest hit.
Jamaica felt it too -- and now we have had a tremor this morning at 9:05 Central in western Mexico.
And mindless praying is going to help about as much as it did when the chimp was president. The good news is that Obama will probably do MORE than pray about it.
Barack Obama: Change we can only imagine
WASHINGTON - U.S. officials are laying out a massive military response to the Haiti earthquake, saying that ships, helicopters, transport planes and a 2,000-member Marine unit are either on the way or likely to begin moving soon.
...to the millions of the 2004 tsunami survivors. That ignorant bastard must have believed that everyone who suffered was a dollar a month sweatshop worker.
Despite the fact that we are experiencing tough times here at home, I would encourage those Americans who want to support the urgent humanitarian efforts to go to whitehouse.gov, where you can learn how to contribute.
Um any civilian relief efforts we can give money too I'm not interested in buying two martini lunches for these guys by contributing to their "general revenue".
...I'm on disability, but I donated $20 to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org). MSNBC also has a long list of charities that are helping. Please send a little bit:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34835478/ns/world...
And I'll probably make a donation to something like the Red Cross after I'm done here at the office.
Pat Robertson: Haiti 'Cursed' Since It 'Swore A Pact To The Devil'
24 minutes ago
That's Rev. Pat Robertson's explanation for why Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake. He said they made a deal with the devil to help free them from the French. "Ever since, they have been cursed by one thing after another."
... independence and self-determination is a no-no, Pat?
Or that the French are affiliated with God, so anything else requires a bargain with the Devil? (But ... wait ... if the French are on God's Side, what did we do when we spat in their faces and broke out the Freedom Fries?)
for the pat robertson ilk, "independence and self-determination" are blasphemous.
Brudda (sistah?) pat forgot, the French are going to Hell too for being Catholic
When they get there they can have a gay ol' time.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
I never thought Rev. Pat would put God on the side of the Surrender Monkeys. From now on it's the Rev. Hagee for me.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
what holes he been hiding in?
he's only got one foot in the hole but it'll be dirt bath time soon enough.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
And keep your living and dead televangelists straight.
Or check out his website: http://www.patrobertson.com/
You will find he is alive, recovering and providing updates in which he is mostly commenting on the timely* death of others in his business.
*
Timely in that all deaths are God's will and especially good if they predate his own.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
half a century of Robertson and his ilk is enough.
How about we ship them all a bushel of miniature kittens?
Not very filling, but it's a start...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFtol2HWYY0
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
If you use bushels they will climb out. The kittens.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
According to media matters, Rush did what we all predicted he would do:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201001130020
That the media being what it is, the first thing I thought about was how long it would take that fucking pig to say something offensive about this.Must be close to a personal record huh Rush?
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
on national TV making this speech. "I am the the man you elected, I want to do the things I was elected to do, but the U.S. is owned and controlled by corporations, and they have tied my hands behind my back on any reform or regulation. Our government is corrupt, our government has been bought and paid for by large corporations, and I can not fight this on his own. Corporations do not care about anything but their bottom line and they will increase their profits at any cost."
Sums it up alright , too bad he can't tell it like it is , it would be the best thing he could do and so good for the country .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
The first thing to do in an Earthquake is to locate and uncover as many survivors as possible.
I hope they have as much help as they need.
I am afraid their poverty before the earthquake will contribute to the tragedy afterwards.
That is how these things tend to work.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
the most appalling is what I don't see in any of the videos and that is rebar. They might as well have built all these structures out of Rice Krispies. I've seen the same thing in Jamaica, Peru, Bolivia and Mexico.Building codes! We don't need no stinking building codes!
Hasa Diga Eebowai
when Disney is only paying .15 per hour to workers to sew t shirts and stuffed animals they could never afford to buy. Pretty hard to justify paying for something that doesn't show. I'm sure many people building down there didn't know.
You're right. I haven't seen rebar in videos either.
me-oww!
The third world is so called because of its poverty and lack of development.
As nation states they are often dominated by their right wing, their oligarchs, who in the twentieth century themselves came to be dominated by our oligarchs through our empire.
Attempts at the improvement of living conditions for the many are met with tremendous resistance.
They may have building codes, they are probably weak. What codes there are may be un-enforced due to corruption.
America has much blood on its hands through our support of right wing regimes, the overthrow of democratic regimes and suppression of liberation movements.
Haiti has the saddest history of all.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
For over 100 years the US has played a large role in brutally exploiting Haiti. In 2004 we helped oust Aristide, who raised the minimum wage in defiance of IMF/World Bank orders. Few Americans realize that we had such a large role in setting the stage for this disaster. Here's what Noam Chomsky has to say: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Haiti/US_Ha...
Something about healthcare and Haiti. This takes a little imagination to comprehend. http://helpawhiteguy.com/content/granny-gets-...
How does one reconcile the behavior of a military that on the one hand kills unarmed civilians at home and then sends search and rescue teams to save civilians on the other side of the world?
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blo...
Many countries, including the US, the UK, China, France, Venezuela and Israel, amongst others, reported as sending emergency aid and personnel to the disaster area of the Haitian capital of Port au Prince, devastated this week by a major earthquake. Nothing can detract from this, or any other humanitarian effort, to rescue those thousands trapped and dying in one of the world’s poorest countries. There can be no civilized person who can remain unaffected by this immense tragedy, a tragedy of biblical proportions; the appalling loss of life and the utter devastation in an already deprived region.
And yet, during a quiet moment, we have to wonder at the mentality of a country that kills, without compunction, hundreds of innocent civilians in its neighboring states, yet makes strenuous efforts to save civilians on the other side of the world - and at the mentality of those who look away and remain silent.
Comments are closed on this entry