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NPR won't leave me alone. The blogging community is no relief. Natural tragedy compounded by human ineptitude and I can't get away from the bad news.
Seems to me, the situation is this:
magnitude of problem = 5x
aid that we can provide = x
aid that we are actually providing = 0.5x
...which is frustrating, but what can you do beyond donating funds and hoping they help? When I first heard that we were pulling people off search-and-rescue to maintain order, and that we were not accepting help from other countries, I was furious. Then I did some preliminary fact-finding and found this one from the Vancouver Sun that rationalizes the former and refutes the latter, and figure we gotta get our priorities straight. Yes, we want to find and rescue and help people. First, we need to be able to.
I'd do more newspaper-canvassing, but I have to go to work. Hopefully I'll be able to bury the angst by concentrating on some nice, clean circuitry.
Poor blog community. [pet, pet] It'll be okay.
Want good news? GryphonKing.Com will warm the nerdy heart. And Neil Gaiman has made a post with a kitten in it. Come on, it's a kitten. What could be better?
Seems to me, the situation is this:
magnitude of problem = 5x
aid that we can provide = x
aid that we are actually providing = 0.5x
...which is frustrating, but what can you do beyond donating funds and hoping they help? When I first heard that we were pulling people off search-and-rescue to maintain order, and that we were not accepting help from other countries, I was furious. Then I did some preliminary fact-finding and found this one from the Vancouver Sun that rationalizes the former and refutes the latter, and figure we gotta get our priorities straight. Yes, we want to find and rescue and help people. First, we need to be able to.
I'd do more newspaper-canvassing, but I have to go to work. Hopefully I'll be able to bury the angst by concentrating on some nice, clean circuitry.
Poor blog community. [pet, pet] It'll be okay.
Want good news? GryphonKing.Com will warm the nerdy heart. And Neil Gaiman has made a post with a kitten in it. Come on, it's a kitten. What could be better?
