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- Goosey January 2005
- Leikela4 December 2004
- Mary Says January 2005
- melanie December 2004
- minia January 2005
- newediamiya December 2004
- QueenofthePosers January 2005
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- setsumi January 2005
- Suggrr December 2004
- The End Has No Jen January 2005
- Thomas January 2005
- unknown January 2005
- WeMadeShirts January 2005
earthquakes/ tidal waves
oh boy...aout 23000 people killed...
i hope that none of your families/ friends were in this
it hit pretty close to home for me, but everyone's ok.
i hope that none of your families/ friends were in this
it hit pretty close to home for me, but everyone's ok.
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and our country officially sucks regarding this issue... 15 million in aid is absolutely nothing, and the sri lanken gov't i think it was (im not exactly sure but i think that's what i heard on CNN) made a statement that all the countries that are helping are really nice or whatever but are being rather stingy considering it's the biggest disaster since.... well i dunno since what but after a really really long time. and i agree.
thank god we dont know anybody who died but a bunch of my family's property all got flooded...
but 44,000... that's a lot of people, and it couldve easily been my family.
that's so incredibly scary/sad/devastating everything.
another example was this model who was apparently on the swimsuit sports illustrated cover or somethign last year watched her boyfriend get swept away and hung onto a tree for 8 hours ..... who cares. i mean i care, it's sad and tragic but our focus is so messed up.
and $15 million is more than what everyone else is giving, or so i hear.
another example was this model who was apparently on the swimsuit sports illustrated cover or somethign last year watched her boyfriend get swept away and hung onto a tree for 8 hours ..... who cares. i mean i care, it's sad and tragic but our focus is so messed up.
I think focusing on one person helps people connect more with the story emotionally, expecially when it's a type of person they can identify with. And well, since white people are the majority in America, more Americans watching that news station are going to identify with a story about a white person. Maybe they shouldn't, but that's the way it is. I mean, you obviously don't identify with some white celebrity model chick so it's harder for you to sympathize with her story. So, I think it that way it actually might help garner more sympathy which could help gain more American support for helping the victims of the tragedy.
But I honestly think the whole story is sad, and it doesn't matter who is suffering and where they come from or what they look like, the pain of loosing your family and the people you love is the same.
i saw that in the newspaper today! that's so sad!
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Wild animals seem to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami, adding weight to notions they possess a "sixth sense" for disasters, experts said Thursday.
Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast seemingly missed wild beasts, with no dead animals found.
"No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit. I think animals can sense disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening," H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of Sri Lanka's Wildlife Department, said Wednesday.
The waves washed floodwaters up to 2 miles inland at Yala National Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka's biggest wildlife reserve and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards. "There has been a lot of anecdotal evidence about dogs barking or birds migrating before volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. But it has not been proven," said Matthew van Lierop, an animal behavior specialist at Johannesburg Zoo.
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That's what I've been thinking. I heard animals are into rages before a tornado happen. when did we lose the six sense?
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Wild animals seem to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami, adding weight to notions they possess a "sixth sense" for disasters, experts said Thursday.
Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast seemingly missed wild beasts, with no dead animals found.
"No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit. I think animals can sense disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening," H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of Sri Lanka's Wildlife Department, said Wednesday.
The waves washed floodwaters up to 2 miles inland at Yala National Park in the ravaged southeast, Sri Lanka's biggest wildlife reserve and home to hundreds of wild elephants and several leopards. "There has been a lot of anecdotal evidence about dogs barking or birds migrating before volcanic eruptions or earthquakes. But it has not been proven," said Matthew van Lierop, an animal behavior specialist at Johannesburg Zoo.
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That's what I've been thinking. I heard animals are into rages before a tornado happen. when did we lose the six sense?
Yeah I've heard about that kind of thing. It's really interesting.
Over 80,000 now...terrible.
$15 million is nothing to the US government. We're destroying Iraq with billions of dollars and can't afford to send any more money to all the countries around the Indian Ocean that were affected by this? Another reason I really, really dislike the current government.
and also...$15 million goes a LONG way in a third world country, trust me.
and besides. money does jack shit right now. what people need now is food and homes and ways to find who they love.
my friend danny is from sri lanka and they didnt go there for xmas this year. all of his family are ok but he's lost friends, and some are missing. and i feel bad for him, but at the same time i guess there really isn't anything anbody can do for missng people but sit and wait and see what happens *sigh*
i swear the world's gonna end. theres been so much shit like this in the last year, like so many huge disasters. and it sucks!
and also...$15 million goes a LONG way in a third world country, trust me.
I read in the newpaper that the US is now giving $350 million dollars.
my stepfather seems to have this RIDICULOUS theory that the us MADE the earthquake
he is such a lame-o. he needs to stop smoking those fatty-boom-battys.
Yeah, they upped it to $35 million. Then the AP Wire Service ran a story about how Bush's inaguration is costing more than that, and the number jumped to $350 million. Coincidence? or am I just very jaded?
I totally know what you mean! So much bad stuff is happening in the world, if it carries on, soon there will be nobody left. It's all so scary. What's the world coming to?
my dad said that hahah but i think he was joking. hopefully.
omg the thing that made me so mad about this today was dan rather interviewing bush senior and he's like do you think that this will make the Muslims over there realize how much US support really does matter? and Bush senior was like "i hope so" and then he interviewed Clinton and Clinton was like "that shouldn't be the US's goal in sending aid there at all. It's not a religious issue."
at least they aired both of those. but still. people can be so dumb. they were like "we're making the Islamic people realize that the US is vital" and I was like are you serious? why do they always have to make it that they're teachign Muslims something. ugh.
omg the thing that made me so mad about this today was dan rather interviewing bush senior and he's like do you think that this will make the Muslims over there realize how much US support really does matter? and Bush senior was like "i hope so" and then he interviewed Clinton and Clinton was like "that shouldn't be the US's goal in sending aid there at all. It's not a religious issue."
at least they aired both of those. but still. people can be so dumb. they were like "we're making the Islamic people realize that the US is vital" and I was like are you serious? why do they always have to make it that they're teachign Muslims something. ugh.
Man, that is just gross. People make me sick. I swear, this (school) year thus far has been the complete decimation of my faith in human beings. They suck ass, seriously.