Haiti

Who could have imagined last night that deaths from the Haiti earthquake might exceed 100,000. I have been watching video footage on MSNBC and it beyond heartbreaking. Bodies visible everywhere, and unknown numbers are buried under the rubble of collapsed buildings

President Obama moved quickly; this is nothing like Katrina. Rescue teams are already there and aid is on its way via air and sea. The US now has air control set up at the Port Au Prince airport, but the country has only two paved airports. The other one is way to the north, hours from the capital.

Aid from other countries is arriving as well, and in Washington Democrats and Republicans are working together. But in the midst of universal compassion and solidarity, two ugly marks stain the picture.

"Christian" preacher Pat Robertson said that God has "cursed" Haiti for selling its soul to the devil in exchange for driving out the French.

Limbaugh said that President Obama was happy about the earthquake and that his administration will "use this to burnish their, shall we say, credibility with the black community, in the...the both light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country. It's made to order for them."

Today, the two most disgusting people in America.

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A friend in Chicago has just sent me this list of some of the reliable groups accepting money donations to provide relief to the earthquake victims:

Help Haiti Now

Red Cross

UNICEF

Oxfam America

Catholic Relief Services

Mercy Corps

Doctors Without Borders