Reuters
Posted on 01/13/2010 9:35:01 AM PST by NormsRevenge
A Haitian soldier looks at the badly damaged presidential palace after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010. A major earthquake rocked Haiti, killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike and left the Caribbean nation appealing for international help. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (HAITI tags: - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)
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Houses built on a hillside in the Haitian shantytown of "Canape Vert" in Port-au-Prince, seen in 2004. A huge quake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti Tuesday toppling buildings and causing widespread damage and panic, officials and AFP witnesses said. (AFP/File/Thony Belizaire)
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A view of the Canape-Vert area after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010. A major earthquake rocked Haiti and its president said he feared thousands were dead after the presidential palace, schools, hospitals and hillside shanties collapsed, leaving the Caribbean nation appealing for international help. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz (HAITI - Tags: DISASTER)
Wow, the second floor entirely collapsed onto the first.
The first place they’ll come for aid is America. And by Friday, they’ll be damning us on the world stage as Yanqui imperialists. And even though we’ll give ten times what anyone else does, we’ll be condemned as heartless swine, capitalist overlords, and smug fatcats who profit from the misery of others.
It wouldn’t be any worse if we didn’t give them a red cent.
Rosie O’Donnell told us buildings don’t collapse like that. Inside job.
Who knew mud and stucco are that heavy?
The Japanese have a saying:
In case of earthquake, run up stairs.
Because upstairs is a good place to be when upstairs becomes donstairs...
Their building codes are suspect , to say the least.. but who expects a 7.0 EQ in the Caribbean?
over 200 years since the last major rumbler .. likely to be many thousands dead
Folks on the Hayward Fault, be prepared.
The biggest 'quake' of all is the continuing push towards socialism,
regardless the cost, and beyond in such a short period of time..
U.S. President Barack Obama leaves after giving a statement about the devastation
caused by an earthquake in Haiti, at the White House in Washington January 13, 2010.
REUTERS/Jim Young
People pass the remains of a six-story communication building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The World Bank said Wednesday it planned to extend an additional 100 million dollars in emergency aid to Haiti to help recovery and reconstruction from a devastating earthquake. (AFP/Thony Belizaire)
What's that white thing sticking out between obama's legs?
Is he wearing some sort of apron/skirt? There's an angled dark cloth sticking out below his jacket, by his left hand.
#3 - 1915 - destroyed by cannon fire from an invading rebel army. The little dictator inside was hurt and retaliated by executing 187 opposition party officials, only to be seized later that day and murdered himself by a lynch mob.
#2 - 1912 - exploded when a gunpowder store in the basement ignited. The explosion killed the generalissimo-president and 300 soldiers inside.
#1 - 1869 - Burned down during a rebellion. The president was executed on the palace lawn while the embers were still smoldering in the background.
LOL
The muzzie should have saved all those millions he’s been doling out the the muzzie countries. Some of it would have come in handy to help these people out.
Just waiting for the Saudi oil rich to donate a few mil
/S
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