When a world-class horror like this happens the nuts come out. It is like low tide on Coney Island exposing the inner thoughts of those who are disturbed.

At first you look at the pictures and it doesn’t register. These are people who have just had their entire lives change in a split second. Houses crumbling around them, loved ones crushed instantly. This is a place that can hardly afford to have any natural disasters. Haiti is one of the poorest places on earth.

On a good day people are trying to leave there. On a bad day, well we cannot imagine life as a Haitian.

There government — if you call it that — was in one building. It looked like a grand white oasis gleaming on a hill. It was crushed like a pancake. The Prime Minister of this hapless country is seen wandering aimlessly speaking about how most of his government was destroyed.

A woman is lying on the street crying into the darkness about losing her five children. The horror — her entire family light extinguished.

Grown men who reported at the scene, jaded by disasters past, couldn’t hold back their tears, their frustration.

It takes an unusual person who decides that they want to be a reporter that goes to scenes of such trauma. It is human nature to stop and stare at a car accident. The mystery of what happens to us when we die is always the elephant in the back of the room.

As is the case in most disasters around the world, Israel has taken the lead in providing expertise, medical and otherwise to the people of Haiti. A baby that was born in an Israel “field” hospital was named Israel. This kind of news always makes me proud. This is what Israel is about. If they just left us alone we would truly increase being a light unto nations.

There are always the obligatory calls by celebrities to have telethons to raise money for those in need. Artists and actors make their living by feeling and expressing themselves about the human condition. Unfortunately, the scammers, bureaucrats and professional exploiters of disasters pick the bones of the downtrodden. Inevitably, not all, or in some cases, any of these monies raised, actually get to the people in need. The cash trough feeds the middle men, scammers, government bureaucrats and finally gangs and professionals and leaves very little left to show for it.

Then there is the inevitable commentary by the public nut balls like Pat Robertson and others that just make you want to go up to them and punch them in the face. Sorry, but I feel that way.

Pat Robertson: This earthquake was the result of the Haitians making a pact with the devil years ago. This is retribution for past sins. I don’t think that a god, an all-seeing all-knowing one, would be so cruel as to make a small 24-month old child suffer from a real, or imagined, slight — do you?

Danny Glover: This was the result of Global warming and is related to the summit in Copenhagen that failed. Global warming apparently wasn’t addressed enough for him so God decided to find some brown people to torture and kill. Yeah right, Danny. This eloquent speaker for “Leftist Nut Balls Anonymous” then went on to say that the U.S. was not doing enough and that Venezuela, Cuba and others were all there first. This was, of course, not true.  

Media matters blame Rush Limbaugh for telling his listeners not to give money to the Obama administration because he is afraid that they will be put on a White House email list.

I am sure that someone in the Obama administration is thinking of a way to say that this was the Bush administration’s fault.

Roseanne Barr posts disaster capitalism: Haiti needed help. Obama sent a military invasion instead. The work of depopulization continues. Everywhere is Auschwitz.

I like Roseanne a lot. She is bright and witty, but I don’t get it here.  

They are all fighting while people are suffering and dying inside and out.

For the people of Haiti’s sake, “can’t we all just get along”?