Comments on: A very worthy cause

By: NutellaonToast

NutellaonToast — Sat, 17 May 2008 21:37:45 +0000

I’m still winning, slackers.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Sat, 17 May 2008 18:36:36 +0000

http://www.healingartmissions.org/Donate.htm
It will be interesting to see how much this blog alone generated.

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Sat, 17 May 2008 13:41:25 +0000

Give a man a fish and he has food for one day. Teach a man to fish but he dies of starvation during your lesson, and you’re just a self-absorbed prick” -Jesus H. Christ

Calming Influence: Is this available in a bumper-sticker and/or t-shirt?

BTW, the PayPal button is now up at the Haiti Hunger Appeal site.

By: Calming Influence

Calming Influence — Sat, 17 May 2008 06:20:54 +0000

Hey, a couple two t’ree foreskins, fiveskins…whatever it takes – ya know what I’m sayin?!? Pretty soon, you got no time for fish.

By: jim

jim — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:19:03 +0000

Untersturmbannfuhrer Ruppert has a point there.
Having had my own brief stint in Malnutrition County some years back, I can tell you first-hand: a mere 6 or 8 days without one solid meal, & you begin to get VERY “lazy” indeed. A mere 5-10 km hike turns into the Boston Marathon. Also you can look forward to being very constipated & more than a little depressed, if not downright dehumanized. I can hardly imagine how incredibly “shiftless” those Haitian people are by now.

Hey, Gary, give it a try … just for one week. No cheating. One little handful of food today, same tomorrow, same the next day, & the next, & the next … you’ll be thoroughly educated as to 3rd-World reality, up-close & personal, in a way you’ll NEVER forget.

THEN you can come back & tell us how easy it was.
Go for it!
My treat.

By: stryx

stryx — Sat, 17 May 2008 03:03:05 +0000

Don't forget the cyanide, Mikey

By: J—

J— — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:38:01 +0000

Give a man a fish and he has food for one day. Flay a fish and give a man the skin and he can restore his foreskin.

By: mikey

mikey — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:23:30 +0000

Give a man a fish and he has food for a day. Give that same man some dynamite or C4 and he’ll have fish floating all over the damn place –mikey

By: Calming Influence

Calming Influence — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:18:19 +0000

Glad to help – and can we worry about Help Rebuild Haiti’s Economy until after they’ve had something to eat?

“Give a man a fish and he has food for one day. Teach a man to fish but he dies of starvation during your lesson, and you’re just a self-absorbed prick” -Jesus H. Christ

By: WereBear

WereBear — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:03:47 +0000

Thanks for the link, when check arrives (on top of being oppressed white people, spouse and I ALSO have high last 2 digits of SS… will the hurdles never come to an end?) I will earmark some for this cause.

Frankly, I’ve given up being fiscally responsible. Spouse’s chronic illness means the only way we can stay out of debt is to live in a parent’s garage. Only, our parents are either taking care of people worse off than us, or they don’t have a garage. To do so also means moving somewhere else, thus me finding a job there, and good luck with that one.

At one point we were keeping up with the credit cards. Then the Republicans made vigorish legal. Now all I can do is roll them around to keep the interest rates lower than 33%.

Love that Bush economy!

Is there a place that I can donate that’s more along the lines of “Help Rebuild Haiti’s Economy” rather than “Throw Bags of Food at Them So We Can Further Ruin Their Economy”?

Yeah, I know you.

One of the extra jobs I took to try to be a responsible citizen was as a hostess in a restaurant that had a lot of European customers. So they put the tip on the bill so the Europeans wouldn’t inadvertently stiff the wait staff. And put a notice on the bill, in big letters.

You were the person who would come up to me in a red-faced rage and tell me you always tip, tip BIG, but you are so offended by this practice that you aren’t going to tip now, and when you get your adjusted bill, you won’t leave anything.

I know you. And it’s not nice to see you again.

By: Thomas Jefferson™³²®©

Thomas Jefferson™³²®© — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:57:20 +0000

Yeah sure, stryx can link like away like a wildman, but my good friend Daniel Shays is being oppressed in 1786 on the history thread.

Which is going to fcuk up the timing of everybody’s posts, dammit!

WordPress. It’s just like George III.

By: Observer of Giant Elves

Observer of Giant Elves — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:56:24 +0000

Oh yeah? I thought Ms. Giant Elf Atlantic monthly blog lady was all rich and stuff. So why can’t she get her teeth fixed? And why does she have to dress in a nightgown? Huh?

By: stryx

stryx — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:08:03 +0000

I was listening to the Tavis Smiley show on the radio this evening and he has an interview with Raj Patel. Patel has a book/media campaign out called Stuffed and Starved where he places the blame for Hati etc. on global capitalism, trade, etc. He does a very engaging interview, and I'd recommend checking it out. I went to his stuffed and starved blog and to my shock and horror there's a video of Patel debating a GIANT ELF. I didn't watch but I'm sure it's good. My take-away from the interview is that we (American taxpayers, at least) are paying millions of dollars to make Haitians eat dirt. The Tavis Smiley show is only available as a podcast. Raj Patel's Stuffed and Starved site is here, and his blog & debate with Jane Galt is here.

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:21:59 +0000

Morejello: May I once again invoke Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. I’d put a link but WordPress sucks donkey dix. Look it up.

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:21:17 +0000

fuck WordPress.

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:21:02 +0000

Morejello:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow

By: MzNicky

MzNicky — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:18:59 +0000

Morejello: May I once again make reference to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow

By: dailey

dailey — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:55:27 +0000

By: Gary Ruppert

Gary Ruppert — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:44:03 +0000

The fact is, the Heartland jibbity jibbity boo.

By: Morejello

Morejello — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:12:01 +0000

I would love to donate some of my ‘stimulus’ check to any of these people that need that money much more than I do. However, because I come from a working poor family, I didn’t have a trust fund to pay my way through college, so when I graduated and joined the working poor I had the choice of either paying my crushing student loans or paying my rent. So my student loans are in default, and my ‘economic stimulus’ package is going to stimulate some of the gigantic financial institutions that form the backbone of the burgeoning student loan industry.
Hooray Bush!