It's A Crying Shame

I’ve been all over the world. Well, not exactly “all” over the world, but I’ve traveled over enough of the world’s surface to realize that we here in the United States enjoy an entirely different standard from “almost everywhere else” when it comes to weather forecasting and other forms of information gathering and dissemination relating to “un-natural” natural disasters like Volcanos, solar flares, and asteroids.

I remember where I was at in 1997 when Princess Diana was killed—not because I gave a rat’s ass about the so-called British royal family mind you—because I was using a computer weather terminal in the pilot’s lounge at the hotel on Walkers Cay in the Bahamas that September evening, desperately looking for weather forecast information. While demonstrating the use of the terminal to my party, the headline describing Lady Di’s death scrolled across the menu screen. The girls were in shock while all of us guys were more interested in studying the local satellite weather picture.

I’ve traveled to Jamaica many times and suffered the anxiety and withdrawal symptoms of a “true weather junkie” afflicted with worrying about the tropical weather that potentially might affect our location in the middle of the Greater Antilles Islands. “No problem Mon, everything’s Irie” was not, in my opinion, an accurate weather forecast. The local Jamaican resorts intentionally omit “The Weather Channel” from their satellite feed to their guestrooms’ TV’s in order to control the stampeding heard mentality of their guests. I bit my fingernails off to the quick as a result.

Back in early September I posted Hurricane Ivan Is A Communist Threat, where I described the perils faced by the residents of the Caribbean Islands like Haiti and Cuba who’s population had limited informational resources and who’s own government imposed restrictions cost unnecessary lives during hurricanes and tropical storms—lives that would never be lost here in the US since the 1960’s with the advent of satellite weather observations.

And now we have this latest earthquake and tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. There is basically no excuse for the magnitude of the loss of life in this disaster. A warning could have been issued and many people could have escaped the immediate coastal areas. Just like the hurricane warnings here in the US, saying “never mind” in the event that the warning was unwarranted is a lot better than issuing a world wide “so sorry” as is the case in this instance.

What I want to know is, “where the hell is the United damn Nations when you really need them and they can really make a difference???” This disaster is right up their alley and they were asleep at the wheel.

While it is virtually impossible to pinpoint the time and location of the the next earthquake, it is possible to predict the possibility of the occurrence of Tsunamis with great accuracy once an earthquake has occurred. There could have been as much as three hours notice given in this instance had the UN spent some of the mountain of tax dollars we’ve given them over the past fifty years on something other than fancy New York real estate, limousines, and efforts to cover up the Iraq Oil for Food scandal and the ongoing sexual abuse and molestation of African teenagers by UN officials. Everyone knows that countries like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are short on funding, so this is an obvious area where the UN could in fact make a substantial contribution.

Will they even acknowledge any responsibility for allowing this disaster to occur?

Hell NO!

Just sit by and watch as we here in the US proceed to dump millions of dollars into the rescue and recovery effort while the socialists, commies, mainstream media, and the UN criticize our efforts as being too little too late.

I think that my head is going to explode...AGAIN!