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those zany Africans are having wacky woes AGAIN!

I just wish this damn liberal media would shut up with this stuff and get back to what matters: finger pointing.


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/05/i...&en=ef3e7c6218a51c9e&ei=5094&partner=homepage

"Niger's latest hunger problem, like Baby Boy Saminou's tragedy, is more complex than it first appears. As aid begins to trickle into some of the nearly 4,000 villages across southern Niger that need help - the vanguard of a flood of food brought forth by television images of shrunken babies - the rich world's response to Niger's worst nutrition crisis since the 1985 famine is, in fact, proving too late for many. Unseen on television, however, are the shrunken infants who die all but unnoticed even in so-called normal years. Of each 1,000 children born alive in this, the world's second-poorest nation, a staggering 262 fail to reach their fifth birthdays."



but seriously, let's get back to freein' people with our liberty bombs.
 
[quote name='Quackzilla']Last night I saw a Nigerian restaraunt. What's their special, a hot bowl of nothing?[/QUOTE]


Tasteless comment, but I do see a decent amount of ethiopian restaurants.

The sad thing is nigeria used to be a relatively wealthy country with a relatively well off population (relative to africa that is) not so long ago.
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']Tasteless comment, but I do see a decent amount of ethiopian restaurants.

The sad thing is nigeria used to be a relatively wealthy country with a relatively well off population (relative to africa that is) not so long ago.[/QUOTE]


i think ethiopian restaurants aren't serving "ethiopian" food per se, but instead serve african style food. ethiopian can be used as a generic term to mean "african."
 
Oh, I've never been in one. I probably would have, but most I've seen look rundown and I've never encountered a nice looking one when I was looking for a place to eat.
 
Why would I want to go out to pay for a high priced bowl of UN provided gruel?

Isn't that haute African cuisine?

You know, we were thinking as we drove your food out here for the 20th year that maybe.... you should move to where the food is! We has deserts in America we just don't live in them asshole! You see this? You see this? This is SAND! You know what it's going to be in 100 years? It's going to be fucking sand! We're going to make ONE trip, you pack your stuff up in your tent, grab the water jar you carry on the top of your head and we'll move you to where the food is. We're tired of coming out here every damn day....
 
If it were just sand, PAD, as you claim in your "I'm ripping off a twenty-year old Kinison bit that wasn't funny *then* speech," then Robert Mugabe wouldn't be going to all the trouble to seize farmland from people in the name of reverse imperialism (that is, taking farmland from whites to give them back to the blacks), only to start taking a more, ahem, "color-blind" approach to land seizure, then provide this land to his wealthy compatriots, only to find out that the wealthy don't know how to run a farm, which leads to famine in the country.

He'd have said, "Hey! It's fucking sand! You can't grow anything! I don't want that!" At which point, he'd probably still kill the farmers, but just not take their land.
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']Tasteless comment, but I do see a decent amount of ethiopian restaurants.

The sad thing is nigeria used to be a relatively wealthy country with a relatively well off population (relative to africa that is) not so long ago.[/QUOTE]

Niger and Nigeria are different countries.
 
[quote name='elprincipe']Niger and Nigeria are different countries.[/QUOTE]

I know that, I just thought the article was about nigeria (just reread and realized it was niger).
 
[quote name='PittsburghAfterDark']
You know, we were thinking as we drove your food out here for the 20th year that maybe.... you should move to where the food is! We has deserts in America we just don't live in them asshole! You see this? You see this? This is SAND! You know what it's going to be in 100 years? It's going to be fucking sand! We're going to make ONE trip, you pack your stuff up in your tent, grab the water jar you carry on the top of your head and we'll move you to where the food is. We're tired of coming out here every damn day....[/QUOTE]

yes, the sandy land of africa! how could i forget!?

I totally forgot that, according to the average joe in america (who, mind you, is an expert on geography, not to mention international culture and affairs) told me the other day that northern africa is all a total wasteland desert according to movies, television and songs on country radio.

and i totally forgot that children that don't live past the age of 5 can easily pack up their bloated bellies and march to a new area and help build a new town...

what was i thinking? forget that whole article.
 
I just wish this damn liberal media would shut up with this stuff and get back to what matters: finger pointing.
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I suppose you mean finger pointing at republicans who have stolen the food from niger and personally created a starving nation by using stolen food to create liberty bombs?

Funny thing is, foreign food aid will allow them to survive for a while, reproduce beyond their means, and starve all over again when the aid runs out again.

Giving people free food is not humane. It's more like extended torture.
 
reproduce beyond their means?

they're not mice, for fuck's sake.

I'm sure if your family was starving and your kids were dying, you'd be spewing this all the same.
 
[quote name='Sleepkyng']
I'm sure if your family was starving and your kids were dying, you'd be spewing this all the same.[/QUOTE]

No I'm pretty sure if he was starving and his kids were dying he'd have a lot more important things to worry about.

Sometimes you've simply got to leet a few million worthless people die out, they certainly aren't worth much in thier current state.
 
[quote name='zionoverfire']No I'm pretty sure if he was starving and his kids were dying he'd have a lot more important things to worry about.

Sometimes you've simply got to leet a few million worthless people die out, they certainly aren't worth much in thier current state.[/QUOTE]

:applause: :applause: :applause:

Oh wait ... now that I read it again I get the impression that you weren't completely serious. :oops: :whistle2:# ;) :lol:
 
People in Africa don't "reproduce beyond their means." it isn't a country full of trailer trash who eat at Wal Mart every day with 6 little dumbasses running around just to save money to pay for pappys new ride-on mower. They reproduce that much because of the shitty survival rate. they have 4 kids because there's a good chance that 2 or 3 of them are going to die. just saying.

but that country is so fucked...if only they could get some relatively decent people in charge who could organize a little bit. Somebody needs to assassinate Mr. Mugabe badly. At least, from my limited vantage point, thats what appears to be the problem. I'll have to ask my buddy whose been there for the past year, when he gets back in town.
 
[quote name='Apossum']People in Africa don't "reproduce beyond their means." it isn't a country full of trailer trash who eat at Wal Mart every day with 6 little dumbasses running around just to save money to pay for pappys new ride-on mower. They reproduce that much because of the shitty survival rate. they have 4 kids because there's a good chance that 2 or 3 of them are going to die. just saying.

but that country is so fucked...if only they could get some relatively decent people in charge who could organize a little bit. Somebody needs to assassinate Mr. Mugabe badly. At least, from my limited vantage point, thats what appears to be the problem. I'll have to ask my buddy whose been there for the past year, when he gets back in town.[/QUOTE]

Mugabe is a particularly sad case, considering he actually ran zimbabwe pretty well until he became power mad.
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']:applause: :applause: :applause:

Oh wait ... now that I read it again I get the impression that you weren't completely serious. :oops: :whistle2:# ;) :lol:[/QUOTE]

I'm not?:D

Personally I really don't care much about Africa and I'm not going to lose any sleep over a couple thousand more dead due to ethnic cleansing and starvation. It's Europes mess let them clean it up.
 
[quote name='zionoverfire']I'm not?:D

Personally I really don't care much about Africa and I'm not going to lose any sleep over a couple thousand more dead due to ethnic cleansing and starvation. It's Europes mess let them clean it up.[/QUOTE]


can't say I don't care or that I lose sleep over it, but I agree, the weight is definitely on europe for this one.
 
[quote name='Apossum']can't say I don't care or that I lose sleep over it, but I agree, the weight is definitely on europe for this one.[/QUOTE]

Can't say I agree, we did get the bulk of the slaves.
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']Can't say I agree, we did get the bulk of the slaves.[/QUOTE]


and who picked up the slaves? ;-)

even if modern day americans were to blame for slavery, the fact that Europe completely colonized the continent makes it mostly their problem.


I'm pretty sure Brad Pitt and that singer in U2 can take care of it.
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I dunno man, if a Pink Floyd reunion can't help it, I don't anything can :lol:
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']Can't say I agree, we did get the bulk of the slaves.[/QUOTE]

And I suppose we colonized Africa while we were at it? We took people away, it was the Europeans who set up colonies and misionaires.
 
[quote name='zionoverfire']And I suppose we colonized Africa while we were at it? We took people away, it was the Europeans who set up colonies and misionaires.[/QUOTE]

But slavery had massive effects on the continent, and there was such a huge demand for it in the u.s. Both sides share blame.
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']But slavery had massive effects on the continent, and there was such a huge demand for it in the u.s. Both sides share blame.[/QUOTE]

Not really, the long term inpact of slavery on Africa is minute in comparison to the long term impact of colonization and missionaries. When you look at a lot of these conflicts that are still occuring you either see a war between a group of christians (converted by missionaries) or you see two factions who have a bloodfued that was stirred up by the Europeans.
 
and while we took a lot of slaves, it's accepted that the mid-east took a decent share for themselves too.

Plus, the slavers were Europeans bringing them to America and South America. That has very little to do with the country today.

Their current situation is more reflective of the colonization than the slave trade..
 
Not to mention, certain west african towns should also be held accountable, as they had to be the ones to procure the slaves on the rest of the continent. It's near impossible to hold a single group accountable for that travesty. The best all of us can do now is try and make ammends. Or, if from a country with nothing to do with it, help out with no reason behind your actions besides compassion.
 
[quote name='Mouse']Or, if from a country with nothing to do with it, help out with no reason behind your actions besides compassion.[/QUOTE]

How about we learn from our previous meddling and leave them alone, I'm sure they'll work something out eventually.
 
[quote name='zionoverfire']How about we learn from our previous meddling and leave them alone, I'm sure they'll work something out eventually.[/QUOTE]

...and we go back to the first post!
 
[quote name='zionoverfire']I'm not?:D

Personally I really don't care much about Africa and I'm not going to lose any sleep over a couple thousand more dead due to ethnic cleansing and starvation. It's Europes mess let them clean it up.[/QUOTE]

In that case: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

Though I don't think Europe should waste it's time trying to clean it up. :lol:
 
[quote name='sblymnlcrymnl']I
Though I don't think Europe should waste it's time trying to clean it up. :lol:[/QUOTE]


Neither do I, but if you want to point fingers and blame someone for this mess like a great many of the world's problems blame Europe.
 
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