Africa the intractable problem or a rathole to throw money down.  Until the nations of Africa throw off their enslavers, these men who run the crime syndicates they call governments, there is little anyone can do to alleviate the suffering of the children of mother Africa.  Too much of what the none too generous West has offered in help in the past has done nothing more than assisted keeping these self same criminals in power.  Throwing more money at the problem even through NGO’s isn’t going to alleviate the suffering as long as the powers that be find some value i.e. politcal usefulness, in these men parading as democraticly elected presidents.

By samosamo, July 10 at 10:17 am #

Conservative Yankee,

As a matter of fact, I forgot where that menu was posted would you give the the link to it again?

Glad to comply:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2262237/G8-summit-The- eight-course-menu.html

Scroll down to “first course!”

Fortunately for the poor and starving, the descending U.S. economy and likely the World economy too are just figments of our imagination. The American worker is out of touch with reality. That explains why two of my fed up neighbors just expatriated - they’re whiners according to the enlightened Senator Phil Gramm. And Senator John McCain agrees:

“You’ve heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession.”

“We have sort of become a nation of whiners. You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline...We’ve never been more dominant; we’ve never had more natural advantages than we have today...Misery sells newspapers. Thank God the economy is not as bad as you read in the newspaper every day.”
-Senator Phil Gramm

Drs. McCain and Gramm Put the U.S. Economy on the Couch; Gramm Diagnosis a “Mental Recession” Among U.S. “Whiners”

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/07/drs-mc cain-and.html

I just love politicians… and not only ours… Did you see the menu for the folks discussing world hunger?  An absolute riot!

I imagine it went something like this:

Hey what are we going to do about all these starving children (Please pass the kegani crab)

I don’t know you think we should throw some more money in their general direction (Hey can I get some more of that kelp-flavoured cold Kyoto beef shabu-shabu, with asparagus dressed with sesame cream over here?)

It’s a shame that these children have to live on plumpy-nut isn’t it? (Oh roasted lamb with black truffle and pine seed oil sauce...my favorite.)

Well you get the picture… funny though not much about this discrepancy in liberal-blogland.