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Haiti earthquake
Mail Online ^ | Jan.14,2010 | M.Seamark/L, Hazelton

Posted on 01/14/2010 6:25:52 AM PST by shadeaud

Sixteen Britons are among the tens of thousands missing after a catastrophic earthquake ripped Haiti apart. They had all been living in the capital Port-au-Prince when the disaster - which measured 7.0 on the Richter scale - struck on Tuesday.

International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander said there were 32 British nationals living in the city - half of whom had yet to make contact with the UK's ambassador.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: britishinhaiti; britsinhaiti; death; deathtoll; earthquake; englishinhaiti; haiti; haitianearthquake; haitiearthquake; haitiquake; haitiquake2010; hati; missingbritish; missingbrits; missingenglish; missinginhaiti; portauprince; ukambassador; ukembassey
The full-scale of the horror which has overtaken Haiti is only just becoming apparent.

Stunned residents began stacking bodies on the streets of their devastated capital Port-au-Prince. yesterday as distraught, dust-caked survivors clawed feverishly in the debris of shattered buildings. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the damage as 'Biblical', and likened the disaster to the 2004 Asian tsunami. My question is Where is Obamma???

1 posted on 01/14/2010 6:25:53 AM PST by shadeaud
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To: shadeaud

“My question is Where is 0bama?”

Tin Foil Hat ON: It’s obvious. 0bama hates black people. Tin Foil Hat OFF.


2 posted on 01/14/2010 6:32:30 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save the Earth. It's the only planet with chocolate.)
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To: shadeaud

He has been on TV twice now saying he will send millions of our tax dollars...as usual. What happened to the billion sent there last year?


3 posted on 01/14/2010 7:48:48 AM PST by ohiogrammy (12)
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To: ohiogrammy

WARLORDS?


4 posted on 01/14/2010 7:50:28 AM PST by sweetiepiezer (I have a Pal in Sarah)
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To: sweetiepiezer

Reminds me of the SNL skit with Bill Clinton at a McDonald’s explaining that the Warlords are stealing all the food in Somalia, while taking a Big Mac off of another person’s tray.


5 posted on 01/14/2010 7:52:39 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: shadeaud

Obama said, “this tragedy seems especially cruel and incomprehensible.”

How is that, wouldn’t this be an act of God?

So Obama is saying God is especially cruel and incomprehensible?


6 posted on 01/14/2010 7:54:05 AM PST by sweetiepiezer (I have a Pal in Sarah)
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Obama said, “this tragedy seems especially cruel and incomprehensible.”

What is incomprehensible about it? The planet has tectonic plates, when they move, they create stress, when that stress becomes too much, you have earthquakes.

7 posted on 01/14/2010 7:56:26 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I am so tired of that light skinned African American in whatever voice he selects.


8 posted on 01/14/2010 8:04:16 AM PST by sweetiepiezer (I have a Pal in Sarah)
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To: sweetiepiezer
I am so tired of that light skinned African American in whatever voice he selects.

LOL!

9 posted on 01/14/2010 8:12:21 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Because without America, there is no free world" - Canada Free Press - MSM where are you?)
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To: shadeaud

I’m not even disturbed by this stuff anymore. The world is so full of horror that I have grown completely and indefinitely numb. I feel nothing at all.


10 posted on 01/14/2010 8:44:37 AM PST by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: dfwgator

No, he’s blaming the earthquake on those cruel and incomprehensible honkeys.


11 posted on 01/14/2010 8:46:03 AM PST by Soothesayer (The United States of America Rest in Peace November 4 2008)
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To: Soothesayer

It’s a cruel world.


12 posted on 01/14/2010 8:50:39 AM PST by the_devils_advocate_666
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To: sweetiepiezer

I did not understand his use of the word cruel. Who’s being cruel? God?


13 posted on 01/14/2010 8:58:56 AM PST by jaydubya2
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To: jaydubya2

There is a meaning of the word “cruel” that does not imply human agency: “causing or conducive to injury, grief, or pain” (Merriam-Webster, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/CRUEL)

This earthquake fits that definition.


14 posted on 01/14/2010 9:14:15 AM PST by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: worst-case scenario

Thanks.


15 posted on 01/14/2010 9:17:05 AM PST by jaydubya2
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