Biggest earthquake in 40 years hits Southeast Asia - Part 2

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Guynemer
Thus, I'd like to challenge all of us to outstrip our governments, and donate 1% of our yearly salary to relief organizations. UNICEF, Red Cross/Red Crescent, whatever. I made mine to Doctors Without Borders.

You donate 1% of your annual income to them? Mine's only 0.5%.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by The Emperor Fabulous


Even worse, now fundies are blaming the earthquake that triggered the tsunami on "underground nuclear testing by the US, Israel, and India". Some people are just sick.

Funny how Allah let it strike the Muslim separatist part of Indonesia the worst, and how Hindu Bali gets off then....

Truly, the stupidity and the dignity of ordinary humanity are amazing.

[pchang]

Originally posted by molly bloom


Funny how Allah let it strike the Muslim separatist part of Indonesia the worst, and how Hindu Bali gets off then....

Truly, the stupidity and the dignity of ordinary humanity are amazing.

And hence the crazy consipracy theory. Allah wouldn't wipe out the faithful, therefore it must be Americans, Zionists, or Hindus at fault.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by pchang


And hence the crazy consipracy theory. Allah wouldn't wipe out the faithful, therefore it must be Americans, Zionists, or Hindus at fault.

Yes, but Allah could save the faithful, given that Allah is god....

[Dis]

women's long hair caused them to become trapped and die.

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3966010

[The Viceroy]

My good friend from Colombo was due to fly to the UK on the 28th, thankfully she was ok, although some of her family friends are missing.
She still managed to get the flight, so it would seem some order of normality has returned, although her descriptions of Colombo just after what had happened was quite horrific, and that wasn't even the worst effected area.

I just want to thank everybody and anybody who has donated money/time/gifts of any kind to this appeal, It really brings home how small the earth has become when you read the countless stories from all over the world.

[Boris Godunov]

My company announced it is giving 1 million euros to the relief efforts, and will match any contributions made by employees.

[pchang]

what company is that? It would be good to reward that kind of corporate behavior with more business.

[Boris Godunov]

I'd rather not say, as you can imagine, but it's not one you can really just patronize unless you have a very specific need and are in a specific position to do so.

I will say we have 120,000+ employees worldwide, so matching contributions could be a huge thing.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
I'd rather not say, as you can imagine

Err, you just said something positive about it, and I never saw you say something negative. I wonder why you'd want to hide it
unless you work for an unAmerican traitorous scum company

That's it! You're working for EADS, Boeing sworn enemy !

[Boris Godunov]

Or perhaps I'm cautious about giving out too much personal information to complete strangers over the internet?

[pchang]

yes, because with only 120,000+ employees it would be way to easy for us to track you down.

[Boris Godunov]

Yes, but that's worldwide. You also know the city where I live, which would make tracking it down very, very easy.

Hmmm, this is getting creepy...

[Pekka]

I think the positive thing on the private sector is that you really really have to contribute a LOT if you want to stand out with the PR... because so many businesses are contributing some already. So you want to actually get graet PR, you need to step up with loads of cash to top these... Anyone know how much IBM and Microsoft are going to contribute?

[Dis]

yes. Ted Turner and Bill Gates are big donators. Bill Gates is only a big donator after Ted Turner chided him about it.

But I'm not sure if they donated for this yet.