Posted on 05/15/2005 3:24:38 AM PDT by finnigan2
If they really wanted to get around all the red tape, they should have just sent it directly to Hamas.
Homerun, even on the Steyn scale.
I think it's good that all the free stuff isn't flowing in to the tsunami stricken areas. The economic devastation caused by that could be worse than the initial disaster, and longer lasting.
The article is on its way to Senator Voinovich.
Ironically, the Senator's web site would not let me submit the message with out supplying the very vital and relevant prefix, Mr., Mrs., etc. This fits in very nicely with the points Steyn makes in the article.
Sounds like the military did the only real work.
I'm amazed that people are still willing to be known as democrats. A situation only made possible by the willing accomplices in the media. If there was a large enough Steyn on being democrat, there wouldn't be very many of them.
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It is the International Red Cross and RED CRESCENT society. Thus, do you think that Indonesia, a self-proclaimed Muslim nation, is going to allow the Red Cross to take any credit in tsunami relief in their misbegotten excuse of a nation?
Watch sloth and heathen folly, bring all your works to naught." - Kipling knew a thing or two.
Regards,
Great stuff.
Bolton's sin is telling truth about system
Chicago Sun Times ^ | May 15, 2005 | Mark Steyn
Your comment nails it.
The Indonesian "inspectors" were just expecting a 100 percent kickback on the value of these donations. Its pretty common in this part of the world.
To all the people here in FR who I've argued with about the ineffectuality and spinelessness of the RNC (I didn't keep track of the names, but you know who you are):
We can't expect the RNC to make this connection (between tsunami-relief-mismanagement and anti-Bolton-obstructionism), but once the connection has been made, they should pick up on it (I don't think Steyn would mind) and go public with it, in a big way.
But does anybody here seriously believe the RNC will murmur a word about this?
I just got a fund-raising letter from the RNC and I sent them back a long letter, the upshot of which is this:
Not one more dime, until you grow a spine.
(What the heck did we win the election for, if the RATS get their way on everything???????)
Five hundred containers, representing one-quarter of all aid sent to Sri Lanka since the tsunami hit on Dec. 26, are still sitting on the dock in Colombo, unclaimed or unprocessed.
If it's true that 500 containers represent a fourth of all aid, then the rest of the aid amounts to 1,500 containers.
At the Indonesian port of Medan, 1,500 containers of aid are still sitting on the dock.
Incredible.
I work for a major corporation and there are still idiots in my office trying to 'raise money for the tsunami victims' every Wednesday. Nobody pays attention to them anymore.
I want to start a fund to raise money for the 'victims of liberalism.' Anybody have a good slogan in mind that I could use?
Glad I didn't waste my money giving 'aid' to the Tsunami victims.
That is the main reason I don't blindly give money to mega-charities. My biggest charity contribution is to Friends of MS, and that's old clothes and household items that they sell in their thrift shop. Something tells me that my small, consistent, non-monetary charity contributions go further to help folks than a healthy monthly check to a mega-charity.
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