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The death toll's still rising from the fires in Australia and many of them are still not under control.

blamebrampton has a good essay about survival and blame here: So if your news service starts with the question 'what went wrong' and answers it with anything other than 'nature is a fucking bitch in Australia', please tell them to piss off...

(If you visit, remember: you're a Cafe patron, you can always disagree but play nice or I'll end you.)

And

invisible_lift is doing porn-for-charity here.

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Thanks for the signal boost, yo. I appreciate it.

Now here (http://www.smh.com.au/national/pastors-abortion-dream-inflames-bushfire-tragedy-20090210-832f.html?page=-1) is a fucking douche who needs to piss off.

Pardon my French ;)

Yeah, I think most people understand that there is no answer to what happened. We all live here, we all understand that bushfires happen regularly, and we all realise that what happened this year was above and beyond normal, nature conspired to provide conditions that we could not have foreseen. It's a tragedy, and perhaps some things can be changed for next time - because there will be a next time - but no one did anything wrong this time, no one knew how different this fire would be.

I've seen some news reporters looking for wank to stir up, but for the most part they've been pretty sensible about it all, for which i'm grateful.

Thanks for linking to that post - I knew it was bad, but I honestly didn't know what that bad was LIKE. :-(

I wrote about fires and Australia on my journal a day or so ago, too. I left it unlocked, in case anyone's curious. It's sort of an expansion on what I wrote in comments, but also a lot of explanation of things.

The weather, the fires, and Australia in general (http://iamshadow.livejournal.com/284401.html)

I've created a comm to try to bring together people who are offering fic or other crafty things in return for donations. Would you mind helping me get the word out about

australia_aid?

I just donated AUD40 (US$25) to the Australian Red Cross.

aoifene will gift you a pair of earrings if you donate US$25, or a bracelet for US$50.

Thanks very much for posting regarding the fires. There has been a noticeable level of overseas donations to most of the charities dealing with the recovery efforts, and I suspect that a not-insignificant portion of that has come from lj. It's lovely when the power of an flist can be harnessed for good!

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