Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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I decided to stop complaining today.
Not to sound preachy, but between Nargis and Sichuan, the world's been going through far worse lately, than my crappy morning commute. (Images taken from Wikipedia and Google)
I've been looking for sites to make a donation, but I'm not sure which ones are legit, so if anyone can fill me in on that, I'd appreciate it. I'm going to check redcross for now.
EDIT: Found where you can donate for the American and/or Canadian Red Cross, towards the disaster of your choice... (wow, that sounds macabre... but it seems that's that world we live in) I gave what I could. I tend to be a whiny, sarcastic you-know-what on most days, but this series of events has touched me, and I'm sincerely advocating that all of you who can spare a bit of money should donate. Even if it's not to these disasters in particular... redcross is a good place to start. The world is going through a lot of shit, let's propagate some good here, since we have a good medium through Xanga. If any of you "famous" Xangans want to propagate this, it'd be great too. For now I'm just going to email all my friends and play the panhandler today.
http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=000043&tid=016
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Comments (15)
That almost 8 earthquake has to suck for China. Manyamar(sp) aka Burma area is fubar. :(
Red Cross is usually a good place to start.
Good call on not complaining...there's always someone with it worse off.
@theblackspiderman - I think it would be cool if famous Xangans *cough*YOU*cough would advocate donations, lol. I could only give 25 bucks, but hey, I guess it's better than nothing. I'm gonna try on my end.
I still don't have a job, which mildly annoys me, though I'm following up (yet another) part time lead today.
OH GOOD OFFICE JOBS WHY ARE YOU SO HARD TO FIND
@nimbusthedragon - You're right.
I will add it to my next post.
@Drakonskyr - .... you want mine?
shit happens.
@aznsam999 - yeah, for sure... but I dunno. Today I decided to do something about it.
aiyahh
Yah man, totally. I'm going to donate to the red cross for both places this week. And that's a PROMISE!
the real tragedy is that the government in burma is not allowing aids to flow into it.
the real tragedy is that al gore will use these tragedies to make millions more.
@CaKaLusa - Indeed.
@Scrooge0 - Sweet. I think you're like... the ONLY person who gave a damn, out of all the people I mentionned this to, heh. I was kinda discouraged.
good for you.
you can donate via google, too.
if only I had a credit card. I don't trust people with my cash.
You do know that only a small portion of your donation actually goes to the relief effort. Most of it goes to the overheads of maintaining such an organization--employees, gear, travel expenses, training, etc. Many of these organizations don't actually spend as much of the donated money towards their causes as they probably should.
@Roninism - Well, whatever. At least I did something. Heh.