Breaking News: 7.0 Earthquake in Haiti

[Alexandru H.]

And  your point is...

[Ed Anger]

I received the oportunity to volunteer to go to Haiti, but I can't as I will be gone for a month on another operation already. 
I did tell them I know a few people on the internet that would gladly take my place.  You all will receive your orders soon enough.

I've noticed they are peeling off bits of the 88th SFS from Wright Patt to go over there.

[jimmy olsen]

I was also Haiti'd out after seeing the report on CNN on how the UN truck giving out the biscuits was mobbed, and the biscuits were stomped on, because a couple of idiots mistakenly thought they were expired.  The truck had to make a quick getaway without unloading most of its stuff.  That place is like the Somalia of the Americas.

My sympathy took a hit when I saw a report on CNN that the tent hospital where CNN's own Sanjay Gupta was helping out had to pack up and move out of fears of nearby rioting and gun fire.

Why? This kind of desperate situation will cause a breakdown in order anywhere. I've been impressed that it took this long to get out of control.

[Eddie Teach]

And  your point is...

I don't think that's a requirement for a Queequeg post.

[The Brain]

Sure, we can go on fixing the symptoms if that's what people want. Or we could solve the root problem: plate tectonics. I know what I vote for.

[Ed Anger]

Sure, we can go on fixing the symptoms if that's what people want. Or we could solve the root problem: plate tectonics. I know what I vote for.

measuring head sizes?

[Ed Anger]

And  your point is...

I don't think that's a requirement for a Queequeg post.

I'm surprised he hasn't linked it yet to the Antioch earthquake and Roman-Persian relations of the 7th century.

[The Brain]

Sure, we can go on fixing the symptoms if that's what people want. Or we could solve the root problem: plate tectonics. I know what I vote for.

measuring head sizes?

Thank you. Yes.

[Barrister]

Sure, we can go on fixing the symptoms if that's what people want. Or we could solve the root problem: plate tectonics. I know what I vote for.

[Neil]

I think that continental drift is far more valuable than the lives of a few million third-worlders.

[Queequeg]

And  your point is...

That was an incredibly foolish, racist post, and I treated it with the respect it deserved.   

[Admiral Yi]

It's a legitimate point.  Rioting and shooting after a natural disaster don't make things any better and they hinder the people trying to help you.

[Darth Wagtaros]

It's a legitimate point.  Rioting and shooting after a natural disaster don't make things any better and they hinder the people trying to help you.

True.  I believe it is the racial assumptions going on here though. Any society is gonna be three meals away from revolution.  I think in any American city we'd see civil breakdown begin within a few days of a major disaster and the elimination of authority. 

[garbon]

We'd certainly see it in Romania.

[Admiral Yi]

True.  I believe it is the racial assumptions going on here though. Any society is gonna be three meals away from revolution.  I think in any American city we'd see civil breakdown begin within a few days of a major disaster and the elimination of authority.

Like if there were an earthquake in San Francisco or a big fire in Chicago?