Subj : Re: Larry King
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Steve Brooks
Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 21:25:28

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Jim Larson wrote:
> Steve Brooks wrote:
>
>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>
>>> A couple of hundred dead = Thousand upon thousand dead. Hardly
>>> compares. More people probably die of cancer a day in the US. You
>>> live in the richest nation in the world with the greatist ability to
>>> look after the people displaced. The tsunami not only wiped out
>>> thousands of people but completely wrecked the infrastructure of
>>> some of the poorest countries in the area. These were people with
>>> fuck all to begin with and they lost everything with little chance
>>> of getting it back.
>>
>> Suffering is suffering. I don't see much point in drawing up some
>> kind of disaster league table.
>>
>
> (Our hurricanes can kick your hurricanes' asses.)

I'll gladly let you have that one. OTOH our dental problems..

-- 

SB

.