Community› The Bump Month Clubs› October 2011 Moms
October 2011 Moms
New Discussion

Hey, look what I found!

SibilSibil
in October 2011 Moms

I'm missing the first page, but maybe that's a good thing since it contained the original crazy, but the rest of the post was filled with lots of useful information and links to charities.  Just trying to help.

Re: Famine in Africa UOimage KozieKim:image swimbikepuke:image Gardencrazy:Veering slightly off topic -- does any else wonder why people in these situations don't move somewhere else? If I lived in a part of a country where 4 of my 6 kids were dying from starvation because of famines, I think that's a great reason to move to someplace where food is readily available.  Same with other natural disasters -- if my home is threatened by wildfires or hurricanes every year, I would be looking for a job and home someplace where my kids would be safer.  It's not always an easy decision, but if it means a safer life for my children, I would do what it takes to make a better life for my family.I totally wonder this all the time.  Like why don't they just move?  I mean, wouldn't it be better if Red Cross sent U-Hauls than that way gross oatmeal crap they're always dumping out the back of helicopters.  Who eats that shits anyway?   PS:  I'm being sarcastic and you're a fuckings idiot. As a matter of fact, this entire post is a fantastic endorsement of international policies against the stupid reproducing.   There is no room for nasty comments like this to anyone on the board!!  Just for the record.  Nothing i said is one tenth as offensive as what you have posted.  But I'll be happy to leave.  My language offends you, your stupid offends me.  We probably don't have much in common. image ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact07-08-2011 at 3:55 AMimageeddyNot RankedJoined on 12-16-2005Somewhere USA12,301 Posts52,760 Pointseddy is online. Last active: 07-07-2011, 3:28 PMGoldI mean many days these women don't even have water to drink but they should just take their birth control pill and stop birthing those babies. I mean the gall of them, for real.It is painful to know that people live in such a narrow minded exsistance.image ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact07-08-2011 at 3:56 AMimageJanimalNot RankedJoined on 03-18-2004Atlanta5,392 Posts37,435 PointsJanimal is online. Last active: 07-07-2011, 3:20 PMSilverI think andrea922 had it right.They should all move to New Jersey.There is so much wrong in all these posts that I am having trouble even thinking of how to respond.  Holy crap. Lilypie Pregnancy tickers 
DMoney will be a kickass big sister 
Lilypie - Personal pictureLilypie Third Birthday tickers 
image ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact07-08-2011 at 3:56 AMimageTeraandJos...Not RankedJoined on 06-25-2005New York7,196 Posts20,296 PointsTeraandJosh is online. Last active: 07-07-2011, 3:22 PMGoldFirst, there is no "famine" yet in the horn of Africa. They are nearing a famine and there is a huge food shortage crisis. Results are expected in 2-3 weeks to see if it has reached famine stage. However, that is beside the point. This is caused mainly due to the drought. The worst drought in over 60 years. This has nothing to do with how many kids people have. It's the environmental factors that are leading up to this. Farmers are watching their crops die off, livestock is dying off due to not having food/water as well.In short, this aid being given to them has NOTHING to do with people "not having an incentive to work." They CAN'T work when everything is dying off around them due to no food/water. Having been to Ethiopia, I can safely say they are some of the hardest working people I've ever met. I have images in my head that will always remain with me and the saddest was watching kids drink from mud puddles on the side of the road. People have to walk 20+ miles to fill a small jug of water.No one says don't help those in the US. However, we are fortunate that there are resources and homeless shelters, food programs, etc. to help. The problem has to do with people being able to access that help - I encourage you to talk to your representatives about that. These programs do not exist in other countries until the UN, World Food Program, etc. step in to help and at that, there's only so many camps they can set up and people are still having to walk 12 days to reach a camp.In the end, this food shortage has to do with severe drought where crops and animals are dying off. Overpopulation is an entirely different subject.From Mill Dog to Therapy Dog! 
Learn about puppymills at www.prisonersofgreed.org.
image
Blog: Not a Special Needs Dog . . . Just a Special Dog
Our Journey ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact07-08-2011 at 3:56 AMimagemrsbecky07Top 150 ContributorJoined on 01-17-2008Baltimore, MD22,456 Posts87,906 Pointsmrsbecky07 is online. Last active: 07-07-2011, 3:28 PMPlatinumimage KozieKim:image swimbikepuke:image Gardencrazy:Veering slightly off topic -- does any else wonder why people in these situations don't move somewhere else? If I lived in a part of a country where 4 of my 6 kids were dying from starvation because of famines, I think that's a great reason to move to someplace where food is readily available.  Same with other natural disasters -- if my home is threatened by wildfires or hurricanes every year, I would be looking for a job and home someplace where my kids would be safer.  It's not always an easy decision, but if it means a safer life for my children, I would do what it takes to make a better life for my family.I totally wonder this all the time.  Like why don't they just move?  I mean, wouldn't it be better if Red Cross sent U-Hauls than that way gross oatmeal crap they're always dumping out the back of helicopters.  Who eats that shits anyway?   PS:  I'm being sarcastic and you're a fuckings idiot. As a matter of fact, this entire post is a fantastic endorsement of international policies against the stupid reproducing.   There is no room for nasty comments like this to anyone on the board!!  since when are these boards all puppies and rainbows??  And so it's okay for you to make sweeping generalized and incredibly insulting statements towards an entire continent but heaven forbid another poster take issue with that?!?image ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact<td class="PostTableWrapHead" style="font-size:10px;letter-spacing:normal;padding-top:6px;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:6px;padding-left:10px
image
Report Reply to Post

Re: Hey, look what I found!

  • SibilSibil

    Page 3

    Re: Famine in Africa UOimage Gardencrazy:If people are able to walk to the refugee camps or the UN food drops, they know how to navigate around in their part of the country.  And if thousands of people can make it to a refugee camp during civil wars, there is no reason that a family could not pack up and move to someplace where there are less famines and a better life for the family. If people are fleeing to refugee camps it's not out of choice. Hmm, let me weigh my options. Stay and be killed? Stay in an area where they just torched my house and everything I own? Or try to find a place where they are at least handing out water and some type of shelter?However little they have in their village, at least they have a roof over their heads and family and others they know nearby, who assist with things like birth, childcare and cooking. I don't think you understand village structure vs. nuclear family structure.image 
    Fall wedding planning bio 
    GoodReads profile ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact07-08-2011 at 4:15 AMimageKateAggieNot RankedJoined on 06-16-2005LV8,729 Posts27,921 PointsKateAggie is online. Last active: 07-07-2011, 3:22 PMGoldI can't believe some of you are SO F*CKING STUPID.  Move?  BC or family planning?  Stop being so lazy?  Really?  REALLY?  Can you even imagine what it's like to watch your children die from starvation?  From diseases that are preventable?  What the hell is wrong with you people?  I am almost speechless, truly horrified, and now praying like crazy that your kids have a better understanding of other parts of the world, and even a miniscule more compassion that you do.WARNING:  GRAPHIC PICTURE:  imageThe photographer who took this picture later took his own life.imageimage
    Birthday
    Birthday
    image ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact07-08-2011 at 4:16 AMimagesugrfrejazTop 500 ContributorJoined on 05-12-2004Albany, NY15,136 Posts69,095 Pointssugrfrejaz is not online. Last active: 07-07-2011, 1:44 PMPlatinumimage epphd:image sugrfrejaz:Them Africans is just lazy. They'd rather just let their kids die than go find water and food. Maybe if they'd stop having sex all the dang time they'd have time to get their kids food water and shelter? Cuz really I mean its pretty simple. 
    Sugr, don't forget that according to the OP those babies are PLANNED.  IIRC, FertilityFriend subscriptions are huge in Africa... what with all the charging, BDing, and TTCing to deliberately have starving children. I bet PreSeed sales are through the roof there.  If only they'd move someplace better.  Sigh.Oh totally you know they probably all have BRU registries a mile long and use all the extra water and food they have to barter presents for eachother. The desert is barren but god forbid they don't have nice little cave-nurseries for their 1 gazillion kids. Greedy bastards. 
     imageimage
    My Nest/Bump Bio image My Knot Bio


    Click here every day to give books to kids in need for FREE! ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact07-08-2011 at 4:16 AMimageJanimalNot RankedJoined on 03-18-2004Atlanta5,392 Posts37,435 PointsJanimal is online. Last active: 07-07-2011, 3:20 PMSilverHoly hell.  This thread is blowing my mind.We are talking about MILLIONS of people here in severe deathly conditions.  TEN MILLION people are at risk for starvation in Ethiopia, Somalia, and Kenya.  In April, aid agencies warned that 8 million people were facing severe food shortages.  In 3 months, that number rose by 2 million.That's 10 million human beings.  And some people are posting simplistic, ridiculous, ignorant answers to the issues facing these people just, just, just....I'm not often speechless.Drought, armed conflict, no vaccinations, education, and a lack support for improving their productivity with grains or livestock = a continued destructive cycle. Lilypie Pregnancy tickers 
    DMoney will be a kickass big sister 
    Lilypie - Personal pictureLilypie Third Birthday tickers 
    image ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact07-08-2011 at 4:17 AMimagemrsbecky07Top 150 ContributorJoined on 01-17-2008Baltimore, MD22,456 Posts87,906 Pointsmrsbecky07 is online. Last active: 07-07-2011, 3:28 PMPlatinumKateAggie thanks. I think that picture was necessary in this thread.image ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact07-08-2011 at 4:18 AMimageeddy<img
    image
    Report Reply
  • Loading the player...
  • jonnygurl76jonnygurl76 member

    seriously??  enough already....

    image

    photo IMG_3757_zps3e266e57.jpg Baby Birthday Ticker Ticker Baby Birthday Ticker Ticker "Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight." - Johnny Cash
    Report Reply
  • SibilSibil

    Page 4

    imageswimbikepu...Not RankedJoined on 05-31-200711,677 Posts84,481 Pointsswimbikepuke is not online. Last active: 07-07-2011, 3:04 PMGoldRe: Famine in Africa UOimage katerena:I bet those lazy and selfish mothers are all having showers for their 4th and 5th kids too.Seriously, to those in this thread who are too stupid to comprehend (and I think it's clear who you are....) read a book or something!!!!!  It's worse than that.  I heard their FAMILY throws them the showers AND the thank you notes are few and far between.image ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact07-08-2011 at 4:37 AMimagemxolisiNot RankedJoined on 04-23-20078,407 Posts33,478 Pointsmxolisi is online. Last active: 07-07-2011, 3:34 PMGoldimage Gardencrazy:Veering slightly off topic -- does any else wonder why people in these situations don't move somewhere else? If I lived in a part of a country where 4 of my 6 kids were dying from starvation because of famines, I think that's a great reason to move to someplace where food is readily available.  Same with other natural disasters -- if my home is threatened by wildfires or hurricanes every year, I would be looking for a job and home someplace where my kids would be safer.  It's not always an easy decision, but if it means a safer life for my children, I would do what it takes to make a better life for my family.Here's a funny story. The OP is (presumably) talking about the Horn of Africa. I presume this because that is the only place in the world that is on the verge of famine right now.Guess who is the most at risk in this situation? REFUGEES! AKA people who moved somewhere else because shiits got bad.My employer is serving hundreds of thousands of people in refugee camps in southern Ethiopia and thousands more women and children are arriving every day. They just opened a third camp and a fourth is imminent. So people are moving, dumbass.Unless you want to host a couple of families of Somali refugees in your neighborhood and advocate for increased refugee admittances to this country I'm not sure where exactly you expect them to move. Frankly they are lucky that Ethiopia is willing to take them. 
     ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact07-08-2011 at 4:37 AMimagesprky79Not RankedJoined on 01-14-2005IL9,364 Posts41,224 Pointssprky79 is online. Last active: 07-07-2011, 3:38 PMGoldimage Gardencrazy:Veering slightly off topic -- does any else wonder why people in these situations don't move somewhere else?If I lived in a part of a country where 4 of my 6 kids were dying from starvation because of famines, I think that's a great reason to move to someplace where food is readily available.  Same with other natural disasters -- if my home is threatened by wildfires or hurricanes every year, I would be looking for a job and home someplace where my kids would be safer.  It's not always an easy decision, but if it means a safer life for my children, I would do what it takes to make a better life for my family.No, but I do wonder how you get dressed in the mornings, does that help?image

    image

    I got your mentor right here, baby. ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact07-08-2011 at 4:38 AMimageKitty Holl...Not RankedJoined on 02-15-2011218 Posts3,923 PointsKitty Holland is not online. Last active: 07-07-2011, 1:43 PMNewbieimage swimbikepuke: As a matter of fact, this entire post is a fantastic endorsement of international policies against the stupid reproducing.   I agree 100%.  BabyFetus Ticker image ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact07-08-2011 at 4:40 AMimageJanimalNot RankedJoined on 03-18-2004Atlanta5,393 Posts37,468 PointsJanimal is online. Last active: 07-07-2011, 3:43 PMSilverI am so thankful there are some intelligent and compassionate posts in this ridiculous thread.I am inspired to go here and make a donation, right now:  https://www.africaaid.org/donateLilypie Pregnancy tickers 
    DMoney will be a kickass big sister 
    Lilypie - Personal pictureLilypie Third Birthday tickers 
    image ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact07-08-2011 at 4:41 AM<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="P
    image
    Report Reply
  • SibilSibil

    Last one I have, page 5

    imageChrissy Am...Not RankedJoined on 06-23-20117 Posts165 PointsChrissy Amundson is not online. Last active: 07-07-2011, 2:29 PMNewbieRe: Famine in Africa UOWow. There are an awful lot of very rude people on this thread.IAmPregnant Ticker ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact07-08-2011 at 5:17 AMimageswimbikepu...Not RankedJoined on 05-31-200711,677 Posts84,481 Pointsswimbikepuke is not online. Last active: 07-07-2011, 3:04 PMGoldimage Janimal:image laptopprancer:mxolisi I'm really glad you found this thread Me too.  I <3 you after that mxolisi.  Even if I am even more fecking depressed about this now.To those who posted the ignorant garbage in this thread -- there is really only one acceptable response from you at this point.  "I'm sorry I posted when clearly I am ignorant of the realities I spoke of so flippantly.  I will make it a point to educate myself and look inward to find compassion for others.  I will start by making a donation to help the victims in Africa whose suffering I trivialized.  Thanks for helping me learn something today."If I may, I'd suggest:www.savethechildren.orgIt has an A rating from charitywatch.org. image ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact07-08-2011 at 5:19 AMimagenic326Not RankedJoined on 10-02-2006So Cal1,663 Posts13,921 Pointsnic326 is not online. Last active: 07-07-2011, 3:03 PMBronzeimage Gardencrazy:Veering slightly off topic -- does any else wonder why people in these situations don't move somewhere else? If I lived in a part of a country where 4 of my 6 kids were dying from starvation because of famines, I think that's a great reason to move to someplace where food is readily available.  Same with other natural disasters -- if my home is threatened by wildfires or hurricanes every year, I would be looking for a job and home someplace where my kids would be safer.  It's not always an easy decision, but if it means a safer life for my children, I would do what it takes to make a better life for my family.Sure - they will pack up their grass hut and all their "worldly possesions", call Mayflower and move out of Africa. You can't possibly be this ignorant, can you?BabyFetus Ticker Baby Birthday Ticker Ticker ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact07-08-2011 at 5:21 AMimagevegemom302Not RankedJoined on 03-03-2009Georgia1,410 Posts2,344 Pointsvegemom302 is online. Last active: 07-07-2011, 3:47 PMBronzeimage scottydont:That picture is everything that's wrong with the world.  We sit here, wondering what we're going to wear, what waterpark we're going to drag our kids to, and that child has nothing to eat.It's sick.  So STFU about helping others.  It's the right thing to do.  You really need to stop, take a look in the mirror, and ask yourself if you're a good person, because you people b*tching sound like A-1 assssholes. I could not have said it any better. This whole post is appalling and I CAN NOT believe there are people out there who think like the OP and whoever said "they should just move". The ignorance leaves me completely speechless and heartbroken.  
    imageimage image image ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact07-08-2011 at 5:21 AMimagemrsbecky07Top 150 ContributorJoined on 01-17-2008Baltimore, MD22,457 Posts87,927 Pointsmrsbecky07 is online. Last active: 07-07-2011, 3:49 PMPlatinumimage Chrissy Amundson:Wow. There are an awful lot of very rude people on this thread.I know, right?? the rudeness and ignorance is mind-blowing!!  People actually think that starvation in Africa would go away if these women just stopped having kids. image ReportBlockimageReplyQuoteContact<td class="PostTableWrapHead" style="font
    image
    Report Reply
  • ashleighlynn0812ashleighlynn0812
    Thanks for this... but I'm PRETTY sure everyone on our board has already seen some of this and does not care to see it again. If you wanted to allow us to see the charity links, you should have just made a post with links to charities. 

    This wasn't needed. The argument is done and over with. Maybe you can go back to your board and repost this?


    Image and video hosting by TinyPic Baby Birthday Ticker Ticker
    Report Reply
  • epphdepphd member
    imageashleighlynn0812:
    Thanks for this... but I'm PRETTY sure everyone on our board has already seen some of this and does not care to see it again. If you wanted to allow us to see the charity links, you should have just made a post with links to charities. 

    This wasn't needed. The argument is done and over with. Maybe you can go back to your board and repost this?


    Well, with 640 views and climbing, I'm PRETTY sure you're wrong.

    image
    image

    I am a runner, knitter, scientist, DE-IVF veteran, and stage III colon cancer survivor.
    Report Reply
  • mrsbecky07mrsbecky07 member
    imageepphd:
    imageashleighlynn0812:
    Thanks for this... but I'm PRETTY sure everyone on our board has already seen some of this and does not care to see it again. If you wanted to allow us to see the charity links, you should have just made a post with links to charities. 

    This wasn't needed. The argument is done and over with. Maybe you can go back to your board and repost this?


    Well, with 640 views and climbing, I'm PRETTY sure you're wrong.

    LOL epphd.

     

    Lilypie First Birthday tickers
    Report Reply
  • lilmgirllilmgirl member
    I missed it so I'm glad it was re-posted.
    Warning No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml
    Report Reply
This discussion has been closed.
Choose Another Board
Search Boards
"
"