[Kartographer]

Quark from Deep Space Nine: Let me tell you something about humans, nephew. They’re a wonderful, friendly people as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people become as nasty and as violent as the most blood thirsty Klingon.

[driftdiver]

I’m really tired of watching people standing around ‘waiting’ for someone to rescue them.

[catarac]

These folks made a pact with Devil. I read their prayer that blasphemed God when they started killing French people because they were “Blanc” . God’s wrath has fallen on them like New Orleans and today Venezuala. Not a penny more.

[oneolcop]

Hey! I gotta idea! Since we’re in such dire straits let’s have a riot. We can set fire to all the rubble, kill everybody in sight and terrify the rescue workers. That’ll show them!

[mamelukesabre]

Not only are they demanding that WE save them from their own earthquake...now they are demanding that WE save them from themselves. AND, they are getting angry at us for not meeting their expectations.

Lovely.

This is a land and people that a democrat could love.

[gaijin]

No question there is unquestionable suffering there, but all the same on TV I am seeing many instances of melodramatic orchestrations —people who are perfunctorily wrapping T-shirts around their head or whatever, then suddenly wailing when TV cameras are near. It’s like they think if they don’t play it up, the aid will not come.

The suffering is there, and we do not need a Vaudevillian characterization of it.

Just sayin’..!

[martin_fierro]

Hey, waitaminnit...

[SamiGirl]

If I were starving, looking at the expiration date wouldn’t even cross my mind. There is nothing wrong with stale bread or cookies.

I don’t believe anything the media reports. I don’t believe their bleeding heart stories. I can’t tell what is real and what is staged. Yes, there are casualties, not doubt, but the ones that can work need to get off their a$$es and start rebuilding their own country.

[sionnsar]

Quark from Deep Space Nine: Let me tell you something about humans, nephew. They’re a wonderful, friendly people as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people become as nasty and as violent as the most blood thirsty Klingon.

Very well put. Not exactly correct because it can be read different ways and smears too broadly, but close enough.

[sig226]

Do you notice the difference between this and Katrina? In this case, the problems arise because it’s nearly impossible to get supplies into the area and then distribute them. In New Orleans, the fact that most of the city was under water made for pretty pictures of Sean Penn, but the press ignored the fact that flooded streets prevented relief efforts.