"Tsunamis shatter celebrity holidays
Former German Chancellor Kohl evacuated to safety
Wednesday, December 29, 2004 Posted: 0548 GMT (1348 HKT)
Czech model Petra Nemcova, was injured in the tsunami.
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- A German statesman, a Czech super model and a Swedish Olympic ski champion were among the vacationers whose search for peace and sun in tropical southern Asia was shattered by the tsunamis that spared neither rich nor poor.
Petra Nemcova -- who appeared on the cover of 2003 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue -- was carried away with her boyfriend, the fashion photographer Simon Atlee, after a huge wave plowed into southern Thailand on Sunday."
Bloody hell, just when you think Americans can't disgust you very much more they come up with yet another obsecenity like this.
And then we have the jeebus freaks:
"This morning on c-span (why do I listen to their call-in show, anyway?) the repub callers were all whining about why should WE be expected to give any more aid. Let the arab countries help them. One of them said he'd like to see the list of countries who lined up to give us aid after 9-11, oh, except for that filthy arab guy who wanted to give $10million.
Do these people have any clue that A) they live in the richest country in the world and B) on a per capita basis, we are giving diddly-squat compared to other nations, and C) we are talking about human beings, for fuck's sake?
I finally had to turn off the TV when one woman actually said that sweeping all the children out to sea and killing them was God's way of protecting them from the evil of prostitution. Listening to them made me ashamed to be an American.
semper fubar Email 12.29.04 - 1:16 pm "
"This is God's way of forcing people into goodness. Out of the stories of unspeakable tragedy will come those of heroism, bravery, and charity. Wait and see what the outpouring of support, aid, and hope brings. Sometimes you gotta take a step back (or in this case, more along the lines of 10000 steps back) to move 2 forward.
Posted by Brent at December 28, 2004 05:11 "
Humans, and whatever mumbo jumbo they care to make up and believe it's God, are irrelevant to the planet. The planet does what it does and if humans are affected, then so be it. The planet will continue without us, we didn't make it, it was here before us and will be here after.
What part of that is so difficult for the jeebus people to understand? Religion is just a figment of our fallible human imagination. It's a comfort to some, but that's all it is. There is no eye in the sky making decisions for us for good or ill, we are purely at the mercy of nature.
Anthropomorphising natural forces like tectonics as some sort of act of god is utterly pointless.
UPDATE: Fucking fucking FUCKING Yanks- this post at Whizbang, trying to make rightwing partisan points over blog coverage of the disaster, and then compounding the offence by trying to make out it's ironic.
"Still I have to wonder... We are continually told how much more liberals care about their fellow man than conservatives, yet 60,000 people are presumed dead and many of the liberals hardly mention it... The numbers don't seem to tell the same story."
Call yourself a human being, Paul?
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