Yea, I noticed there was no mention of where the money would come from. However, I would think it would be reasonable to earmark some of the money other countries are sending over for this. In fact I would think a country like Japan who evidently has a great system, might agree to build this system for them rather then donate money for food or whatever. I would think it would be sort of like insurance in that if they have this system in place then countries around the world would not have to pay again or at least as much should this happen again.

A View to a Kill

I can't wait for Snopes to tackle this one.

Where can I get an osama bin laden shirt like that guy is wearing?

yup. the first one. lex bought all this worthless land inland from the fault as his plan was to hit it with a nuclear missile and his land would then become coastal property
but then superman went around the earth and turned back time

at Terrorist Supporters R Us

Ebay Indonesia?

Yeah, when I was in Bali, it was disturbing to see so many stores selling those t-shirts. On the flip side, I didn't see any at all in Bangkok. The inhabitant of both places are Buddhists.

Isn't that nice - in those locations, people can proudly wear bin laden t-shirts? Aren't you glad we're giving those countries money?

According to the U.N. the problem is we haven't given them enough money.

Yeah, I've just finishing reading one of their naggings.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/30/opinion/30thu2.html

This idiot Jan Egeland used to attend UC Berkeley. Pretty much tells the whole story.

The NY Times?

Ok, let's take all the money that hasn't been spent from what New York got after their "natural" disaster and send it over there. In fact, let's take the total of all the money that we got from every other country for that disaster and send it over to Asia for this latest disaster and call it even.

a another new tsunami warning in india's south coast tonight, thats what my local news is saying, some of the after shocks might have set new tsunami off

I usually read it with a grain of salt though.

You can wear them here too, if you want. It's called freedom of expression.

Not everyone in those countries has one, I'm sure.

Thank you. It's so ironic when people imply that such rights shouldn't exist, yet those very rights are what they claim to be defending.

I don't see Al Qaeda outpouring their love and money, so hopefully this will maybe show who really cares to Osama sympathizers.

And yes, I've been wondering about more earthquakes. You just don't have a 9.0 and everything goes away.

Puh-lease.

I think you and MoviePage simply missed my point.

Let me give you an example. Not long after 9-11, thousands of Palestinians rushed out to celebrate, burn the Ameircan flag, etc yet we give their government money. Now, I wouldn't dare stand in their way to express their hatred of us - the cost of freedom, but I do think it is clear that we should not be giving them money.

It's just one example. There are a LOT of countries we shouldn't give money (especially taxpayers' money) to.

i don't think Bali has buddhist majority.

anyone on this board signed up to go over for relief work

what does it pay... if anything? Not to be a greedy grit-grabber, but I simply can't afford to get there or take the time off work - but I'd really like to help out.

Perhaps they could use the animals as a rudimentary form of early warning system in the future.

I don't suppose anyone's read/heard anything about East Timor? It's a couple hundred miles north of Australia, so I assume it's too far east to be hit hard, but still -- I got a friend working for the Peace Corps there and I'd like to remove as much doubt as possible. I didn't see East Timor on here:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapc...ths/index.html