Huge Aftershock Jolts Indonesia

cbs-via-cnn/netscape ^ | Jan. 6, 2005 | CBS

[colorado tanker]

Crips, most places 6.2 would be a full-blown earthquake, not an aftershock. Those poor folks.

I'm getting really, really tired of the UN. I say it's time to start withholding dues again. Hit 'em in the pocketbook.

[TheForceOfOne]

What's Danny boy Rather there for? He must have gotten a good lead on those forged documents that traces back to Indonesia. Good old Dan, always on the case! Maybe he can find out where all the water came from while he is there.

[Toidylop]

MEG33, I guess these YOO-EN should find out whom they should complain to, huh!!! All these YOO-EN needs to do is read The DIPLOMAD and they don't have to show their ignorance.

[MediaMole]

No sir, that memo you have claiming the Bush administration caused the tsunami is a clear forgery.

[MEG33]

Favorite site!

[freeandfreezing]

A question on the UN diplomat training test:

When you come across a group of desperate, starving refugees you should:

(a) immediately provide them with food and water, flying as many rescue missions per day as possible.

(b) stop and ask the refugees what their needs are, and then write up their answers in a memo. Translate the memo into a few languages and mail it back to the offices in Switzerland. Plan on scheduling a committee meeting to discuss the memo, and the needs of the refugees when you return to your office.

Where do they find these UN idiots?

[AIC]

So get your A$$ in gear, go find out what they need then report back so that they can get what is needed. In other words DO SOMETHING!!! If you have enough time to stand around and looking at what other people (nations) are/are not doing then you are not doing YOUR JOB!!!!

[freeandfreezing]

He may actually be too busy to read his email (I would hope so) but just in case anyone has some useful suggestions for Mr. Elmquist his email address is:

elmquist@un.org

[bert]

Fake caribiner Dan. Hope he doesn't use that fake caribiner to "Anchor" himself.

[massgopguy]

The chopper crews drop and go to keep people on the ground from piling into the choppers.

[Space Wrangler]

Don't get worked up. If we spent more time on the ground, this same fool would be pi$$ing and moaning about how we are taking too long to deliver the aid. It doesn't matter what we do, some euro-trash UN type will have some kind of vitriolic criticiwm to foist upon us. We just do what's right, and keep on going, and pay no attention to the UN crybabies.

[expatpat]

Bullseye!

[expatpat]

Its worse than that. You forgot:
(c) Hold meeting with senior level staff to decide how big a cut off the top will be taken by UN personnel

[theFIRMbss]

>Michael Elmquist said that while American helicopters were speeding relief supplies to villages isolated by the Dec. 26 disaster, their crews were not spending enough time on the ground to assess survivors' needs

"Okay, so, you guys
want Apples, and you guys there
want Windows machines?"

[maestro]

.....Maybe.....the 'big' one is YET to come?

[America's Resolve]

The U.N. official coordinating relief efforts on Sumatra island complained Thursday that the U.S. military's aid mission was failing to coordinate and provide critical information to other relief organizations struggling to help survivors of the tsunami.

What's to assess at this stage. For the past 10 days, we've been keeping food and water in as many warm bodies as possible!

That's OUR assessment of the situation. If it was up to the UN there STILL wouldn't be food and water and medicines in those bodies! Almost 2 weeks later and the UN is STILL dithering about what to do! How many would have died but for the US/AU/IN/JP coalition???

Food & Water: It does a body good!

[johnb838]

Michael Elmquist: STFU!

[johnb838]

Yep, at times like these you gotta make it up as you go along. Improvise, adapt, overcome. Send in the Marines. Good thing we have a Navy.

[KC Burke]

The "diplomad" blog has some excellent commentary of the johnny-come-late UN people showing up late, trying to lord it over everyone by insisting they have a "right" or a "mandate" to coordinate (read "control and "claim credit") everyone's operations that have been underway for a week before they showed up.

These guys are headline grabbing functionaries with little to offer the victims.

[KC Burke]

06-JAN-2005 04:52:39 6.96 91.94 5.3 10.0 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA
06-JAN-2005 00:56:26 5.31 94.82 6.2 22.4 NORTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA
06-JAN-2005 00:29:10 6.87 91.89 5.4 21.9 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA
06-JAN-2005 00:11:16 5.59 93.15 5.7 24.6 OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA
05-JAN-2005 14:54:04 5.52 94.38 5.6 41.1
NORTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA
05-JAN-2005 14:34:31 5.54 94.75 5.5 30.0
NORTHERN SUMATERA, INDONESIA
05-JAN-2005 12:31:35 6.73 93.00 5.2 10.2 NICOBAR ISLANDS, INDIA
05-JAN-2005 05:32:38 3.57 93.62 5.5 30.0 OFF W COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATERA