When Kofi's bluehelmets get there they will head straight for the banks and national treasuries.
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Posted on 12/31/2004 3:37:23 PM PST by wagglebee
"Like I said on MY thread-- I have found my new FReepname
"Phuket" is the name of this city pronounced like I think it is? If so, I may use this as my new name here.
Why are we supposed to be shocked over this? It happens right here in the good ole U.S.A when there is a disaster. People don't automatically turn moral when disaster strikes. Morality takes a change of heart not a change of situation.
Not a very politic way to state it, but I have heard it said without reference to any specific religion:
For a free society to exist, it must be composed of a strongly moral society. Democracy will surely fail otherwise. Even the Constitutional Representative Democracy variant.
On foxnews one of the people who was gushing "reportage" from the scene said that it is not in the Thai culture to loot. I guess theft is ok, though.
Phuket" is the name of this city pronounced like I think it is?
No, it's more like foo-keet.
When Kofi's bluehelmets get there they will head straight for the banks and national treasuries.
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Shoot 'em on sight.
These people deserve to be killed.
Those looters that are caught will not do well.
After you shoot 'em, the rest'll loot 'em...
"People don't automatically turn moral when disaster strikes."
No, and in fact, I'd say that oftentimes, primal survival instincts rise to the fore when disaster strikes.
Not for everyone ... but those who are generally not restrained by an internal moral code have a prime opportunity to let loose when chaos reigns.
On a side note, I join with the whole world in prayers for these people.
We're watching a videotape of the 2000 New Years celebration--it was so amazing how the world came together in celebration.
And now, the world is doing the same, in tragedy.
Actually, we know some people who live there. They pronounce it poo-ket.
"No, it's more like foo-keet."
I like the other way better.
Anyone want to take a guess at what percentage of the hundreds of millions in aid goes to a) layers of Thai, Indonesian, Sri Lankan, etc., politicos and bureaucrats, from the national down to the local level, and b) United Nations-related agencies, where it's skimmed at every level of the U.N., top to bottom, and used to fund the U.N.'s obscene salaries, bureaucracy and operating costs.
I forgot to add Hagel to my previous post---I remembered that because I read your tagline--Thankx,,But,
why did you include Coleman in your Rinos list in your tagline? I agree on all of the other ones, great tagline.
I haven't noticed any noticeable rinoness from Norm Coleman, but I am open to being convinced. What have you noticed?
Gee, who would have thought....
That is LOW.
No they will be saying that if Bush had managed the Iraq war properly, they wouldn't have minded the money spent on the tsunami victims, BUT, as was pointed out repeatedly on MSNBC, what had been offered yesterday was only a half-a-day's worth of Iraq spending.
You are right about the boots, though. I don't understand how Biden and McCain can complain all the time about not enough troops but then turn around and complain about Defense spending---and weren't they both in Senate when Clinton was destroying the military?
Afraid it is pronounced with an "oo" sound, not an "uh" sound. Sorry, besides I like your screen name!!!
Are you as cantakerous as you namesake? Ha!
There was no looting of bodies after the Hurricanes in Fl.
There was some minor looting of property.
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