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2010-01-14 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

100,000 estimated dead in Haiti quake: PM

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Posted by Fred 2010-01-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 My niece just got deployed there on the USS Bataan.

Godspeed, Mel.

Posted by xbalanke 2010-01-14 08:56|| 2010-01-14 08:56|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd guess about now that real thirst is starting to kick in, and food issues especially for those who have been digging. Clothing not so much depending on how picky a person is but shelter will be an issue especially for the wounded, young, elderly. Then the bugs arrive...

God bless your niece xbalanke, and all others responding at a moment's notice - keep ya dust masks on. Hope y'all are spiritually prepared and if not, get so..it'll be a mess.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-01-14 10:48|| 2010-01-14 10:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Thank God it is not raining.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-01-14 10:50|| 2010-01-14 10:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Then the bugs arrive...

The bugs arrived not long after the shaking stopped. I imagine the various fly larvae are just
about to hit maggot stage. There will be feasting soon.

The best thing to do is evacuate every non Haitian and then put a strict Sea, Air & Land blockade on the place and let nature run its course. The Haitians have demonstrated time and again that they are incapable of governing themselves.

Posted by Solomon Spogum5839 2010-01-14 13:51|| 2010-01-14 13:51|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh really.
Now that's a reason to let them all die?

Posted by European Conservative 2010-01-14 16:07|| 2010-01-14 16:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Now that's a reason to let them all die?

Yes. The place is a cesspit, it will always be a cesspit. The only time it wasn't a cesspit was when it was governed by non Haitians. Once it was turned over to them, it went right back to being a cesspit.

The place is a giant resource devouring bottomless pit. Seal the place off and let nature run its course. Every habitat has its carrying capacity, let this place find that natural carrying capacity without outside intervention, aide, money...etc.

I know it sounds cold, it is cold. That coldness is something that is sorely missing in the world. We, the U.S., need to STOP intervening all over the damn world, it isn't appreciated. Let. Nature. Run. Its. Course!

Posted by Solomon Spogum5839 2010-01-14 16:27|| 2010-01-14 16:27|| Front Page Top

#7 can't say I disagree w/Solomon. Haiti sucks ass. We sent a bunch of Marines there about 4 yrs ago to un-screw some other form of disaster, it never ends. A lot of Africa is the same.

BTW - I was a rider on the Bataan some yrs back, a good ship.

Posted by Broadhead6 2010-01-14 17:10|| 2010-01-14 17:10|| Front Page Top

#8 Based on the very little I've read on the subject, methinks Haiti didn't function very well when the French ran the slave plantations, either. I don't know about the Spanish period, but I have my suspicions. Bottom line, Haiti never has had a functioning society, and they don't seem able to allow anyone to impose functionality upon them.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-01-14 23:55|| 2010-01-14 23:55|| Front Page Top

#9 DRUDGEREPORT > ANARCHY: WHOSE RUNNING HAITI?; + CHIN MIL FORUM > HAITI CEASES TO EXISTS: NO GOVT. + UTTERLY POOR STATE.

* DER SPIEGEL > DS Interview of German Expert-Humanitar Activist UTE BRAUN of GERMAN RELIEF GROUP "WELTHUNGERHILFE" > [HAITI]NO ONE KNOWS HOW MANY MAY BE LYING UNDER THE RUBBLE!

ARTIC > UTE BRAUN remarks that HAITI is
* highly unstable for years, BOTH POLITICALLY + IN TERMS OF PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE.
* 3.0MILYUHN Persons live in a Capital city of PORT-AU-PRINCE orginally designed for far fewer.
* Haiti must import approxi 50% of its food depite being an agricultural = agricult produc country.
* NO TREES, as most local vegetation = Tree flora has been cut down by Haitians oer the past years, decades, and generations, for FUEL + HOMES, ETC.

BUILDING CODES > Maybe its just me but on CNN + FOX NEWS this AM I don't believe I saw even one Quake-damaged/destroyed REINFORCING TYING IRON/ROD(S) AMONGST THE RUBBLE. VEERILY REMINDED ME OF THOSE SIMPLE MASS-PRODUC "MUD BRICKS" USED IN ANCIENT MIDEAST OR NEAR EAST HOME, TEMPLE-CITY CONSTRUX???

** VARIOUS NET POSTERS > most likely it will be the USA = OBAMA ADMIN whom will be the de facto power broker in Quake-ravaged Haiti.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-01-14 23:59|| 2010-01-14 23:59|| Front Page Top

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