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At least 135 dead after Beirut explosions; 300,000 homeless
UPI ^ | Aug. 5, 2020 / 7:44 AM / Updated at 2:27 PM | By Clyde Hughes

Posted on 08/05/2020 11:45:13 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 08/05/2020 11:45:13 AM PDT by Red Badger
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300,000????? Wow!


2 posted on 08/05/2020 11:46:16 AM PDT by rdl6989
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Some things never change. Those people are incapable of self-government.

I USED to be able to say that without cringing.


3 posted on 08/05/2020 11:46:42 AM PDT by SMARTY (Freedom from effort in the present means effort has been stored up, in the past. T Roosevelt)
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To: Red Badger

Work accident. Where’s OSHA.


4 posted on 08/05/2020 11:47:31 AM PDT by the_daug
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I would bet real money you can add at least one zero to that death count.

Honestly, I doubt they’ll ever know how many were killed.


5 posted on 08/05/2020 11:48:16 AM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
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To: Red Badger

I love a happy ending


6 posted on 08/05/2020 11:49:33 AM PDT by RockyTx
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Just like 9-11, some bodies will never be found because there’s just nothing left to find...............


7 posted on 08/05/2020 11:49:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (To a liberal, 9-11 was 'illegal fireworks activity'...........................)
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Beirut Lives Matter!


8 posted on 08/05/2020 11:52:18 AM PDT by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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To: Red Badger
2,750 metric tons of ANFO (NH4NO3) will do that.
9 posted on 08/05/2020 11:52:18 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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85% of their grain stores were lost?

Proves out the adage about not storing all your eggs in one basket.

The other Arab countries can now show their compassion as they run to aid Lebanon.

I’m not really buying the fertilizer excuse


10 posted on 08/05/2020 11:53:22 AM PDT by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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Floating around now on the social media channels is a youtube capture of a bride, proud in her gown, grinning ear-to-ear.

Then the explosion occurs, cameraman runs away and pans away to escape.

No indication of the condition of the bride, but i’d imagine she is no longer.


11 posted on 08/05/2020 11:54:02 AM PDT by C210N
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The number is pulled out of the air. The bigger the number, the more dollars that can be begged for.


12 posted on 08/05/2020 11:54:32 AM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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Some things never change. Those people are incapable of self-government.


But some things did change. Lebanon enjoyed decades of prosperous self-government, until radical factions of one particular religious group gained dominance.


13 posted on 08/05/2020 11:54:50 AM PDT by hanamizu
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thats a lot of fertilizer they cant make into bombs anymore.

new guy lit up a little too close to the pile.


14 posted on 08/05/2020 11:55:25 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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I guess storing 2700 tons of ammonium nitrate in the middle of a major metro area isn’t such a great idea, eh?


15 posted on 08/05/2020 11:56:33 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: rdl6989

Probably more than 200,000 of them were homeless BEFORE the explosion


16 posted on 08/05/2020 11:57:54 AM PDT by orlop9
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More info on the bride... she survived.

Bride, videoed during explosion

17 posted on 08/05/2020 11:58:04 AM PDT by C210N
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How many of the 300,000 homeless will go to the US as “refugees?”


18 posted on 08/05/2020 11:59:08 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Mocking Liberals is not only a right, but the duty of all Americans.)
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Christians welcome.


20 posted on 08/05/2020 12:03:00 PM PDT by C210N
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