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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Kashmir_earthquake

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The 2005 Kashmir earthquake occurred at 8:50:38 a.m. West Asia Standard Time (Pakistan Standard Time) and 9:20:38 a.m. (India Standard Time) (03:50:38 UTC), on October 8, 2005 with the epicenter in the Pakistan-administered region of the disputed territory of Kashmir. It registered 7.6 on the Moment magnitude scale making it a major earthquake similar in intensity to the famous 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

Initially, official Pakistani estimates were that the earthquake has killed over 42,000 people and injured over 65,000. [1] However, as most of the affected areas are in mountainous regions and have been rendered inaccessible by landslides that have blocked the roads, the death toll is estimated to be much higher. At least 2.5 million people have been left homeless.


So why is it we do not get the hundreds of posts concerning this? Do we just care less if it is on the other side of the world? Are we simply just numb? Is there a point when the sheer level of disaster after disaster make the names just bleed together? I know I feel the same sence of powerless frustration watching that news as i did watching the news from New Orleans. If your one who believes in prayer say a few for those poor souls.

just my thoughts.

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Um, yes, we care less if it's on the other side of the world. At least I do. I've been housing my cousin, her husband, and their baby boy for the past three weeks because they lost their house and pretty much everything in it due to Katrina. I don't know anybody who was affected by the earthquake personally, which puts it much further down on my priority scale. I have far more of an effect here than I do there, and if I were to broaden my focus to encompass the entire world, I would be totally ineffective. Sheer practicality there.

Yes, I am sorry for the victims in Asia, but honestly, there are plenty of folks in Asia who actually know the people affected and can do a lot more than I can about helping out there. I do think it would be nice if our nation could provide financial and material aid to help in the recovery there, but I also think it would be nice if our president would pull his head out of his ass and help to implement an honest-to-god decent tax structure so that we could afford to do such things without borrowing money from China, which would be kind of silly as China's right there.

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We are, despite policies of the current regime, the most proserous nation around. I think we can afford our generosity.