Getting kicked in the head by a horse

Can I just say that I find this statement confusing without you blowing a gasket?

Yes, I am a believer in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: you need the basics of food, water, shelter and medical care before you can advance to any higher-order functioning, such as education, or infrastrucure. And those individuals experiencing this horrendous tragedy are in desperate need of those basics. However, the immediate aid in disasters of this magnitude is usually of this ilk - food, potable water, medical care and temporary shelter. After the immediate needs are met .... well, this is where governments and individuals tend to get confused. Keep helping, and you can create another welfare state; leave too soon, and the status quo will return, and things won't get better.

So yes, I suggest a solution. It's not easy or straightforward, and it will take time that no one has, or would like to commit, but there you go. For this I make no apologies.

Peace OUT.

Have you guys seen those Haitian women on the news lately? Like every one of them have been beautiful thin babes with big tits. WE HAVE TO SAVE THIS EROTIC BLOODLINE.

AH DUNNO, i've been mainly seeing butterfaces

AH DUNNO, i've been mainly seeing butterfaces

So much for Haiti Aid

Time to send some money to Chile?

EDIT: That's two in one day on the "ring of fire" - or so I seem to recall from Geology 1 - which was about 100 years ago.

I like how the ring of fire dodges out of the way of Australia. Phew.

It looks like it's just going to be a "ring", and then WHAM, straight into New Zealand.

You get tsunamied yet Zhukov?

Never ever. Reasonably safe place here, apart from all the venomous and poisonous animals.

Australia is in the middle of it's own tectonic plate or something. Does the East coast of the USA get any earthquakes?

I know New York city gets teeny tiny ones that no one ever notices, but other than that, no. California is where you can feel 'em. :O