“Do you want to help those in need in Haiti? If you send a donation to the 700 Club today, a portion of it will go the Haiti relief efforts”. What whores.
You can designate for all of it to go to Haiti. I think what that means is that any general donation sent with have a part of it go to Haiti.
That’s ALL you could find to pit them about? Weak!
What’s the frequency, Kenneth?
I commend the 700 club for their efforts, but they should realize that all the money in the world can’t help a country whose founders have made a PACT WITH SATAN!!!
Satan isn’t taking his usual cut on this one, given the resounding successes he’s had in Haiti before the earthquake. It would be unseemly.
Even the horned one is capable of charity.
I think that the 700 Club is loathsome but there’s no reason to point fingers at them over this. Lots of organizations have multiple programs. If you send to the Red Cross, a portion of it will go to Haiti relief efforts and a portion of it will go to other places.
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In fact, a spokesman for Satan announced earlier today that for the next ninety days, a portion of every soul that Satan collects will be sent to Haiti for relief efforts.
Granted, they’ll be used to reanimate zombies for clearing rubble.
700 CLUB: “What’s that son? You want me to dig you out from underneath the rubble? Well, do you accept Jesus Christ as your saviour?”
Victim: “I’m Muslim”
700 club: “Oh, well, fuck you then.”
I think you have it all backwards, the 700 Club said truthfully what they would do, the others mostly do not. I remember I think the Red Cross buying a new million dollar phone system with 9/11 fund money being discussed a while ago. I bet they did not say only a portion would go to 9/11.
Well, seeing how the head of the 700 Club recently said it was the fault of the people of Haiti,(do you remember that?) it is rather strange of them to now be willing to help them. Now if Mr. Robertson would retract his ignorant statement…
It doesn’t matter if all or part of the money is going to Haiti. The 700 Club does not have charity in their hearts on this one.
I’m not sure what the OP meant, but I understood it this way:
“Pat Robertson said Haiti is cursed, but if there is a chance he can channel some funds his way by using the Haiti disaster as a fund-raising tool, he is willing to do that.”
But then my attempts at telepathy on the SDMB have often proven wrong.
Also, to get technical, I don’t believe that Pat Robertson specifically said “don’t send money to Haiti”, that was Rush Limbaugh saying that private people should not donate to Haiti. So I wouldn’t go so far as to say that Pat Robertson has reversed himself from the position he was espousing only a few weeks ago. On the other hand Rush Limbaugh had also said “Everything this president [President Obama] sees is a political opportunity, including Haiti, and he will use it to burnish his credentials with minorities in this country and around the world.” I wonder if he thinks that the 700 club has the same motive?
I’d want to know what the aid was, from anyone before donating. This is the pit and a great place to say what in the hell with all this bottled water?? That is nuts, they will just want another bottle tomorrow.
Aid should be drilling a bunch of water wells right there to start with. Why does no one think to fix the water treatment plant that had to be supplying the capital the day before? Yes some city pipes are broke now but people can always come pick up and fill water bottles there you know. Then we are not giving out water bottles forever, see???
I’ll play, but only one round. You are dehydrated to the point of feeling ill. What would you rather have, a crew of people to dig a well, or a bottle of water?
If I’m not mistaken, people are drawing up long-term plans as we speak for re-building Haiti.
Oh my god, why did no one think of that??? Thank god we have Silverstreak Wonder to tell everyone how to do things. The UN, the World Bank, the IMF, USAID, the Red Cross, Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders, Zanmi Lasante, none of these organizations would have no idea what they were doing in crisis situations in impoverished countries without your pearls of wisdom!
Let’s make up a platitude summing up this pearl; maybe we could have it be about fishing and giving away fish to make it seem like really ancient wisdom.
Haitian: I said I’M REALLY THIRSTY CAN I PLEASE HAVE SOME WATER!
Silverstreak Wonder: No need to shout, I heard you the first time.
Haitian: Oh, sorry. Can I please have some water? I’m really fucking thirsty. Plus, you know, I have no house.
Silverstreak Wonder: No-can-do Haitireno. I’m a little busy right now siting a well. You’ll just have to hold out a little bit. You’ll need to give me a couple weeks, okay? Think you could do that for me? Thanks bunches!
Also, the grammar in my above post is AWESOME.
I don’t know, five questions marks? Isn’t that a tad excessive?