hidog1 said:
I think it is all due to that evil avatar of yours
Yeah, when I'm looking for answers, Jerry Falwell is the go to guy.
That was my original avatar. It's pretty lame, but I've run out of them for the moment. Plus Halloween is approaching, so what the heck.
LOL. I shouldn't have said anything about Falwell, but he was the guy who brought up the topic on Wolf's program. I think in the late 1800's, people in larger cities getting newspapers would have heard about big news such as deadly hurricanes and earthquakes. But Strong Bad F1 makes a valid point. People probaby didn't worry about it as much as this type of news makes headlines 24/7, and people are glued to their sets several hours a day.
You just feel terrible for all the people who perish in these events, not to mention the surviving family members. I can't image 20,000-30,000 losing their lives to a quake, or over 200,000 in the tsunami.
Not to take anything away from 9/11, or the Iraq war, but it just dwarfs these insane numbers. And these aren't politically charged deaths. This is mother nature playing Darwin with the human race.