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Post details: Worldless Wednesday: 22,000 is too many to ignore...

05/07/08

10:18:01 am, by

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Categories: Wordless Wednesdays

Worldless Wednesday: 22,000 is too many to ignore...

I am aware...

...of this too...

...but 22,000 plus people... and those left behind cannot be ignored... and help CAN get through.

We can address the other issues after doing what we can for those who need our help. See the link at the bottom of all these images... it's not been a good year so far... as seemingly always... even close to home... but the devastation in Myanmar (Burma) cannot be ignored... and politics MUST be put aside...

Photo credits to The BBC, The CBC, and The Canadian Red Cross...

Here's that link I mentioned above... please click...

Please also consider clicking here...

...and if you can help those "closer to home", click here.

Thank you...

Addendum: 'Cuz I had to bring a little of teh funny...

Photo credit to Gizmodo...

For a list of other Wordless Wednesday participants, please click here.

Time Is Running Short on our Dream!

Click here for details... 'cuz we need some sorta help... and maybe you or someone you know can assist us with our dream...

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Comments:

Comment from: DrillerAA [Visitor]

· http://www.jr-brainfreeze.blogspot.com

I've never completely understood the reluctance of the government of many underdeveloped nations to accept aid, or to so closely monitor those who come to help so as to make them uncomfortable and feel unwelcome. So many lives have been devistated, yet the politics of opression must take precedence over the welfare of the citizens. I will never be able to relate to that mind set.
On another note, I finished my post. I mistakenly posted only the title without the body the other day. I had to delete both comments that had been left. Sorry about the confusion.

Permalink 05/07/08 @ 07:32

Comment from: CatSynth [Visitor]

· http://www.ptank.com/catsynth

Really devastating, Definitely time to help the people there and put politics aside.

Permalink 05/07/08 @ 11:18

Comment from: Gabriel - Live from Waterloo [Visitor]

· http://lfwaterloo.blogspot.com

Very touching post, with a welcomed comic release at the end.

But what a tragedy...

Have a great WW!

Permalink 05/07/08 @ 11:25

Comment from: Sue [Visitor]

· http://doubledeckerbuses.org/urbanzoo/

They are now say 100,000 dead....

Permalink 05/07/08 @ 14:56

Comment from: Penelope Anne [Visitor]

· http://cafeendofuniverse.blogspot.com/

Thanks for the humor to help aleviate the tragedy. I am just so furious that help is not being allowed to come in. Politics has no place in tragedy, but when doesn't it?

Permalink 05/07/08 @ 15:01

Comment from: admin [Member]

· http://www.doubledeckerbuses.org/

Hey DrillerAA... This is why I'm hoping the Red Cross might be able to work some magic that the governments can't.

Hello CatSynth... Agreed!

Hi Gabriel - Live from Waterloo... Yeah, I needed to lighten it a touch...

Heya Sweety... I heard... and that's from the US Diplomatic Envoy... not good.

Howdy Penelope Anne... Untrusting folks... not much we can do about it sadly, but perhaps organizations like The Red Cross can make a difference...

Permalink 05/07/08 @ 22:39

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This blog was started in April of 2006... during a very bad time for me and my family when money was very tight and life was very hard.

We maintained by fantasizing... talking about what we would do when times were better... and as Sue and myself are Anglophiles, England factored greatly into our "plans".

During these bad times, while looking at news items and whatnot as London was removing their venerable old Routemasters, I came across one photo of an old green bus... and somehow, my whole family adopted it. It became very much "our bus". (Details about "our bus" are available by clicking here.)

Like most of you, I'd heard about the fellow who'd made a million dollars selling tiny ads online... and the fellow who did trades and turned a paper clip into a house... so I thought, since we couldn't make our bus actually into "our bus" (well beyond our means,) I'd try and appeal... to make the focused item of our hopes into a tangible thing in our lives...

More specifically, in a burst of adult/juvenile optimism, I had hoped to show the youngest member of the family, who at the time was still very young and impressionable, that dreams really could become reality if you hope and, more importantly, try.

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