Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 08/16/2010 11:57:43 AM PDT by Peter from Rutland
SUKKUR, Pakistan — Pakistani flood victims, burning straw and waving sticks, blocked a highway on Monday to demand government help as aid agencies warned relief was too slow to arrive for millions without clean water, food and homes. Public anger has grown in the two weeks of floods, highlighting potential political troubles for an unpopular government overwhelmed by the disaster that has killed at least 1,600, made two million homeless and in total has disrupted the lives of at least a tenth of its 170 million people. Hundreds of villages across Pakistan in an area roughly the size of Italy have been marooned, highways have been cut in half and thousands of homeless people have been forced to set up tarpaulin tents along the side of roads. "We left our homes with nothing and now we're here with no clothes, no food and our children are living beside the road," said protester Gul Hasan, clutching a large stick. Hasan, like fellow protesters, has been forced from his village and sought refuge in Sukkur. He and others were camped under tattered plastic in muddy wasteland beside the road. Dozens of stick-wielding men and a few women tried to block five lanes of traffic outside Sukkur, a major town in the southern province of Sindh. Villagers set fire to straw and threatened to hit approaching cars with sticks. On Sunday night, hundreds of villagers burned tires and chanted "down with the government" in Punjab province.
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I wonder why the government doesn't get right down there to help those nice people more quickly.
I can’t believe they are not burning American flags. After all aren’t we satan?
Perhaps Hillary will find it in her “heart” to send them another 10 spot...
They've lived for the last 2,000 years without clean water, food or anything resembling a "home". What's the rush now?
The Pakistani civilian government (when there has been a civilian government) has always controlled very little in Pakistan - the nation is dominated by the military, which has first claim on all resources, infrastructure and finances. And the Pakistani military has very little on it’s mind besides India - it’s certainly not going to pull too many troops and resources from it’s border with India to man relief efforts within Pakistan.
It gets worse. The US is sending FEMA to help.
Your government is run by muslims, they don’t care for the sanctity of human life.... Um wait a minute... so is ours... never mind.
It’s allah’s will. Let them go to him for help.
two million homeless! What happened to the UN’s report of 20 million homeless?
I almost hate to say it, but I’m tired of the US being looked at as a piggy bank. Why can’t these people take care of themselves? I take care of me.............
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