I agree with you Rob.
It is the same with the losses in Iraq. The military has accidents every
year, even when not at war. Where are the protestors when marines die from
hypothermia in a swamp, where are they when men die jumping from an airplane
and crash into the desert? Why is it a needless death when they die in Iraq
and not when it is a training exercise.
Many in America are bitching about the time it is taking to help the
stranded. If I remember correctly they were told to EVACUATE New Orleans. It
is not like the problem with the levees is newTHEY HAVE BEEN INADEQUETE
FOR OVER 100 YEARS. I do not remember seeing throngs marching in the city
prior to the storm TRYING TO ESCAPE, yet they can sure get out in horrible
conditions to loot, rob, rape and murder now. If 30,000 people were in the
streets trying to evacuate I think someone might have noticed
Why is not the ever present and all knowing Michael Farmer running the damn
show if he is so freaking smart? Farmer your mouth is always running about
the wrong shit. If you know so damn much get your ass to the region and help
our president do it right. Where is all your massive fortune Mike? Lets see
a public contribution, other than your witty bullshit here on the list. How
many families from the region are living with you? I HAVE AN OFFER ON
CRAIGSLIST TO TAKE A FAMILY OF 4.
MIKE, SHUT UP AND DO SOMETHING TANGIBLE FOR A CHANGE.
I do not care what you did in the past...THIS IS HERE AND THIS IS NOW, WHAT
HAVE YOU DONE FOR THEM LATELY?
I do not make enough money to save the world. My family has already donated
$300.00, and my brother in law who is the biggest DJ in Arizona on KMLE in
Phoenix is on the air raising money and starting a clothes drive. My sons
class is taking contributions of school supplies for the children of the
disaster including giving up some of there own badly needed supplies.
At my office we all paid for a week($2.00 a day) of casual dress(jeans) and
this week we will all wear our dress clothes and send the money to the red
cross.
YES things were done wrong, and yes they could have been done betterTHAT
DISCUSSION IS FOR A LATER TIME AND ON ANOTHER LIST.
If anybody HERE thinks you can do better get your boots on the ground...if
you can help, then do it. You know that $5.00 is not much today NOT EVEN 2
GALLONS OF GAS, but if all of us sent $5.00 to the Red Cross it will make a
difference, all your bitching is doing is wasting air and creating
greenhouse gasses.
Our people...AMERICANS, need us now. Later we can get together and discuss
what we need to do to fix what happened. Now we just need to open our homes
our wallets and our hearts and helpwho cares who screwed this up, lets
just fix it and hang those that be damned later.
No one on earth could have stopped this storm, no one on earth is
responsible for the storm, everyone can have a hand in fixing it.
Alot of people here bitch that there is too much government in America, and
then expect that same government to pick their asses up out of the thick of
things when ultimately the responsibility for your OWN LIFE RESTS WITH YOU.
Next election get out and vote, get involved, your government is YOU when
you participate.
Thats my look on the issue. My challenge to everyone is to quit looking for
the devil to hang and get your asses in gear, give money, give clothes,
start auctions to benefit the people that need it most, offer to take in a
family if you can do it. JUST DO SOMETHING OTHER THAN ARGUE ABOUT WHAT
HAPPENED, IT WILL NOT CHANGE THE FACT THAT IT HAPPENED.
To everyone that has given already...THANK YOU and find a way to give some
more.
Thanks for listening, and please find a way to help.
Mark M.
- Original Message -
From: Matson, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Sterling K. Webb' [EMAIL PROTECTED];
meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 12:21 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] OT: Death fears vs. probability
Sterling makes some excellent points about the psychological
impact of tragic deaths attributed to various flavors of
Mother Nature flexing her muscles. When it comes to fear and
risk, humans can be very irrational. They worry about tornadoes,
hurricanes, volcanoes, supervolcanoes, tsunamis, global warming,
airplane crashes, lightning, shark attacks and bear attacks, not
to mention whatever the latest fear of the week might be (e.g.
anthrax, dirty bombs, West Nile virus, Ebola).
The common factor in all of these fears is that the probability
of dying from any one of them is practically zero. In fact, if
you add up all the probabilities of dying from each of these, the
chances are still next to zero. But this is what people worry
about because it's reported each and every day on their TV sets.
They think nothing of getting in their cars each day and driving
to and from work (perhaps smoking a cigarette or wolfing down a
supersize meal from their favorite
