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Default 100K+ dead in Haiti?

John H wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:57:30 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:40:09 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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How horrible... perhaps those of you on the east coast/south can organize
some sort of flotilla and help these poor people?

MSNBC is saying it might even be 5 times that (~500k).

Disasters in 3d world countries are always bad because they don't have
building codes or the resources to respond to disasters like this.
The building code issue should be a wake up call for the US too. We
have lots of fault lines in the US that are NOT in California. Most of
the US lives with a building code that assumes all loads are going to
be straight down. From a Florida perspective, it is why I am not
shocked when a little dust devil (they call a tornado) goes through
the Mid Atlantic states and rips their houses up. An earthquake that
would not even make a Californian look out the window, would destroy a
large number of buildings in Memphis and St Louis (The New Madrid
zone)


Oh gosh... I haven't been watching the reports. I hope we (as a people) can
help those poor people.


How stupid can one get?

http://tinyurl.com/ycf38xf


Geez, herring, can you stuff that bad manners sock in your mouth on any
subject, and not show your true insulting self here on humanitarian
subjects?

You and jackoff...a pair of jackoffs.