Haiti
And you thought Roland was pissed at Rush Limbaugh before?! He’s got a whole new reason to rant after Limbaugh and 700 Club’s Pat Robertson made some crazy statements regarding the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti.
From Gawker: Hugh Locke, Yele Haiti’s president, says donors can be assured that their money will be well-spent.
From EOnline.com: Russell Simmons tends to know what he’s tweeting about. A day after the record mogul tweeted that Tiger Woods was earmarking $3 million for earthquake-ravaged Haiti, the Tiger Woods Foundation confirmed that the scandal-plagued athlete will be contributing to relief efforts in the Caribbean nation.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – With food, water and other aid flowing intoHaiti in earnest, relief groups and officials are focused on moving the supplies out of the clogged airport and to hungry, haggard earthquake survivors in the capital.
Jill Lear has decorated bedrooms waiting for the 9-year-old boy and girl she calls her son and daughter even though she hasn’t brought them home from Haiti.
JOHANNESBURG – A weeping former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, living in exile in Africa since he was ousted in a rebellion five years ago, said Friday he wants to return to his quake-devastated country and is prepared to leave immediately, but did not indicate any concrete plans to do so.
Pat Robertson, evangelical Christian and host of the 700 Club blamed Tuesday’s tragic 7.0 earthquake on something that “happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it.” He says that a ‘pact with the devil’ brought on the devastation.
From the Washington Post: For years, Elsie Delson has worried about the 10-year-old son she left behind in Haiti — the son she couldn’t afford to bring along as her family fled to the United States. Now, that decision weighs heavily on her soul.
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