"So you blokes are the second poorest country on earth......Shazam.....not any more, you're not".
Poor bastards.
Poor bastards.
That God's a Funny Bugger
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All they need now is a tsunami....
I'm not seeing the God connection, but yeah...sucks for them pretty bad.
Yeah especially since Gott ist tot
I think it's safe to blame this on the fags. All of them. God's angry at them, and he smote Haiti. Probably has something to do with the Prop 8 trial right now...
God Haiti's fags!
Thankfully it did not affect the premier of American Idol.
phew!!!
Me neither, but it's an awesome opporunity for "God's people" to step up to the plate and do that whole take care of those in needs thing Jesus talked about.
I'm not holding my breath though..............
Is it just me, or does anyone find it odd/irritating that they (Haiti as a country) was warned in advance that something like this could happen?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/01/12/caribbean.earthquakes/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/01/12/caribbean.earthquakes/index.html
What were they going to do about it?
It's not like rebuilding Port au Prince from the ground up with Tokyo level building codes was an option, right?
Did we learn nothing from Katrina?
I'm beginning to think Catholics might not be the chosen people.
So it was all or nothing? Unless they could achieve excellent seismic retrofitting it wasn't worth trying to improve anything at all?
The US couldn't do it in New Orleans. You expect a country with this situation:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aL_WwvTkaHjo&pos=15
to be able to do much?
Just because you're not improving buildings doesn't mean you can't be prepared for a natural disaster. Food, flashlight&batteries (or candles), clean water, blankets...
Actually, there is a lot you can do for earthquake readiness in poor countries. When I was in Nepal, one of the other westerners I got to know was over there educating homebuilders on how to build more earthquake resistant homes at no additional cost and using the same materials they were already using, just a slightly different method for joining walls and floors.
Cool, that I did not know. Was that part of an organization? Like MSF for civil engineers?
Photo Essay, Haiti post quake [quite graphic]
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/01/earthquake_in_haiti.html
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/01/earthquake_in_haiti.html
She was German and working through some EU equivalent of the Peace Corps... it was more than a decade ago and I don't recall exactly. I should also be fair and say what she was doing only applied to concrete structures, so commercial buildings, middle-class or above homes, and urban homes. If you're in a mud hut or tin shanty, you're pretty-well ****ed (although they hurt less than concrete when they collapse on you).
Horrifying. People, if you can donate, please do. I recommend both Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders as organizations with the scale to provide significant, fast, efficient relief.
Text "HAITI" to 90999 to donate $10 to the American Red Cross.
yo check it! so we ain't got no houses, or electricity, or much food, or running water, hell even clean water. So we may as well just start burnin' tires!
:facepalm:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/13/haiti.jacmel/index.html?hpt=T2
:facepalm:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/13/haiti.jacmel/index.html?hpt=T2
come on its Haiti. Everyone knows they have nothing worth looting.
"oh look here's some good filth"
"oh look here's some good filth"
An invasion of evangelical Christian missionaries.......
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