Hey, at the very least you know the Inaugural Balls will rock.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Singer Wyclef Jean is considering a run for president of Haiti but has not decided whether to seek a five-year term as leader of the quake-ravaged nation, the musician’s family said Monday.

There have been rumors for some time the Haitian-born entertainer might enter the 2010 presidential contest, ever since his 2007 appointment as ambassador-at-large for the Caribbean nation by President Rene Preval, who cannot seek re-election.

In a statement e-mailed to reporters, the family said, “Wyclef’s commitment to his homeland and its youth is boundless, and he will remain its greatest supporter regardless of whether he is part of the government moving forward … If and when a decision is made, media will be alerted immediately.”

The letter was signed “The Jean Family.” A spokeswoman for the musician confirmed the message’s authenticity.

Wow, just freaking wow. Via Think Progress.

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By GottaLaff

This is not exactly what true Christianity is about:

Haitian police detained 10 members of a US Christian group after they allegedly tried to leave the country with more than 30 children who survived the country’s devastating earthquake. [...]

Police had arrested five men and five women with US passports, as well as two Haitians, as they tried to cross into the neighboring Dominican Republic with 33 children late Friday, Haitian authorities said. [...]

The Americans were members of an Idaho-based charity called New Life Children’s Refuge, said Social Affairs Minister Yves Christallin, adding: “This is an abduction, not an adoption.” [...]

Patricia Vargas, head of an international center caring for the youngsters, said that officials at the Haitian Institute of Social Welfare, which deals with adoptions, told her “most of the kids have family.”

Some of the older children had spoken to aid workers and “say their parents are alive, and some of them gave us an address and phone numbers,” she said.

The US embassy confirmed that ten US citizens were being held for “alleged violations of Haitian laws related to immigration.”

At least they were caught. This time.

UPDATE, via an e-mail alert from the Associated Press:

Haiti prime minister says US Baptist group knew it was wrong to take children out of country.

They knew.

By GottaLaff

The Hippocratic Oath is alive and well in Haiti:

Doctors skirted a bureaucratic logjam to save the lives of three critically-ill child victims of Haiti’s earthquake on Sunday, flying them to U.S. hospitals on a private jet to avoid a military suspension of medical evacuation flights.

A 5-year-old tetanus victim, a 14-month-old boy critically ill with pneumonia and a baby with third-degree burns were sent to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia by the aid group Partners in Health, based in Boston.

The airlift had been in doubt after the U.S. military stopped medical evacuation flights on Wednesday night because of because of an apparent dispute over where seriously injured patients should be taken for treatment.

“This is a good day. These are three children who would have died if they had stayed here,” said Luis Ivers, Partners in Health’s clinical director in Haiti. “It’s the little successes like that that keep us going here.”

We need a whole lot more little successes, and we definitely need to keep things going there.

By GottaLaff

UPDATE, GOOD NEWS: Looks like since I started writing this post and reported them, it’s been taken down by Facebook.

Screen Grab, reluctantly. I am only posting this because it will disappear, and I must preserve a record of it. I’ll drop the image down to the bottom of the post. Do not scroll down if you are offended by disgusting, hate-filled, racist, altered images of our president.

And yes, I reported them.

Previous posts about this group here.

The small print:

Added by Adolf Haitier
to the group “Fuck The Haiti Earthquake“

Comments: (Check out the last one… some things are NOT funny)

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Josh TheKoolkid

ur my hero

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Nicolas Chevallier

joshh ur gayy men !!

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Adolf Haitier

lol you guys think its offensive i voted for obama its just a parody learn to laugh

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H/t: EileenLeft

Unfortunately there isn’t that much confidence in Haiti itself.

The Miami Herald this morning reports on a new poll of Haitian-Americans by the Miami based Bendixen & Amandi, which finds both deep loss — 59% of Haitian-Americans say they lost a loved one in the earthquake — and overwhelming appreciation for U.S. government action.

Pollster Fernand Amandi sent over the fuller results of the survey, which interviewed 400 Haitian-Americans, most of them in Florida and New York. It shows more approval of American action than you’ll find almost anywhere, on any issue: 96% of Haitian-Americans approve of the job Obama is doing.