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Earthquake in Haiti megathread

Postby Sel Appa » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:12 pm

(I dont think this has been posted yet)

A 7.0 quake just hit Haiti 10 miles from the capital. Thousands are likely dead and nearly the entire area destroyed. Topping it off, two aftershocks at 5.9 and 5.5 have also hit.

And to think I almost went to Haiti for vacation...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100113/ap_ ... earthquake
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/ ... index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8455629.stm
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 10rja6.php
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Postby Greed and Death » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:16 pm

Christ they already had a bunch of bad stuff going on.
with the starvation.
I hope we get aid to them fast.
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Postby Neesika » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:17 pm

That's what they get for being the second most homophobic country on earth.

*nods*
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Postby Greed and Death » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:19 pm

Neesika wrote:That's what they get for being the second most homophobic country on earth.

*nods*

that attitude even in jest will not change anything.
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Postby Sel Appa » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:19 pm

Neesika wrote:That's what they get for being the second most homophobic country on earth.

*nods*

And here I thought homosexuals and their supporters were preachers of tolerance...

Offtopic btw
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Postby Communist Winnipeg » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:20 pm

Poorest country in the hemisphere. A hospital was destroyed and aftershocks continue.
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Postby Neesika » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:21 pm

Sel Appa wrote:
Neesika wrote:That's what they get for being the second most homophobic country on earth.

*nods*

And here I thought homosexuals and their supporters were preachers of tolerance...

Offtopic btw

You thought wrong.

God hates fag haters.
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Postby Neu Leonstein » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:31 pm

Okay, you know what: I propose free permanent residency visas for the US (and/or maybe the EU), available to all Haitians upon request at the respective embassy.
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Postby Ashmoria » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:33 pm

im starting to think that its not regional discrimination and social inequity that is keeping haiti a hell hole. DAMN! those people are on the losing end of nature too.
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Postby Sel Appa » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:45 pm

Ashmoria wrote:im starting to think that its not regional discrimination and social inequity that is keeping haiti a hell hole. DAMN! those people are on the losing end of nature too.

If not for the US and its Navy being nearby, it would turn into Somalia.

It's caught in a big deep hole and no way out.
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Postby Ashmoria » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:49 pm

Sel Appa wrote:
Ashmoria wrote:im starting to think that its not regional discrimination and social inequity that is keeping haiti a hell hole. DAMN! those people are on the losing end of nature too.

If not for the US and its Navy being nearby, it would turn into Somalia.

It's caught in a big deep hole and no way out.


its hard to see any way for them to improve things.

sigh.
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Postby Neesika » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:50 pm

Oh wait, I take it all back, it's Jamaica, not Haiti. Sorry about that, guys! *sheepishly takes thumb off Zionist earthquake machine*
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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:51 pm

Neesika wrote:
Sel Appa wrote:
Neesika wrote:That's what they get for being the second most homophobic country on earth.

*nods*

And here I thought homosexuals and their supporters were preachers of tolerance...

Offtopic btw

You thought wrong.

God hates fag haters.

I'm sure all the "fags" there who died deserved it too?
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Postby Verzia » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:52 pm

I don;t think we should help the Haitians this time, every time they are about to hit rock bottom, and have to really confront and change their problems, we step and continue Haiti as we know it today.

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Postby Fredrikshamn » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:53 pm

these poor people... I dont know how much devastation one country can endure but may God be with them...

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Postby Neu Leonstein » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:54 pm

Ashmoria wrote:its hard to see any way for them to improve things.

sigh.

Hence my idea. Moldova is a shitty country, but because the majority of Moldovans are actually eligible for Romanian citizenship, it is emptying as we speak.

If the US and other rich countries allowed immigration from Haiti, you'd fix the problem.
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Postby North Wiedna » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:55 pm

Ashmoria wrote:im starting to think that its not regional discrimination and social inequity that is keeping haiti a hell hole. DAMN! those people are on the losing end of nature too.

No. Not nature... The Ghost of Napoleon Bonaparte has come back to punish them for leaving the Empire. It was all forseen by Nostradamus!

Srsly, my regards to the people.
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Postby Ashmoria » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:56 pm

Neu Leonstein wrote:
Ashmoria wrote:its hard to see any way for them to improve things.

sigh.

Hence my idea. Moldova is a shitty country, but because the majority of Moldovans are actually eligible for Romanian citizenship, it is emptying as we speak.

If the US and other rich countries allowed immigration from Haiti, you'd fix the problem.

haitians do do well in the us.....
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Postby LINTYLAND » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:58 pm

this sucks real bad, and yes haitians can immigrate to the US cuz i know some hatians that live in my nieghborhood
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Postby Sibirsky » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:58 pm

Sel Appa wrote:(I dont think this has been posted yet)

A 7.0 quake just hit Haiti 10 miles from the capital. Thousands are likely dead and nearly the entire area destroyed. Topping it off, two aftershocks at 5.9 and 5.5 have also hit.

And to think I almost went to Haiti for vacation...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100113/ap_ ... earthquake
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/ ... index.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8455629.stm
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... 10rja6.php


I don't know how to exactly phrase this. You wanted to go to Haiti?
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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Tue Jan 12, 2010 6:59 pm

Ashmoria wrote:
Neu Leonstein wrote:
Ashmoria wrote:its hard to see any way for them to improve things.

sigh.

Hence my idea. Moldova is a shitty country, but because the majority of Moldovans are actually eligible for Romanian citizenship, it is emptying as we speak.

If the US and other rich countries allowed immigration from Haiti, you'd fix the problem.

haitians do do well in the us.....

Really? :eyebrow:
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Postby Sibirsky » Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:01 pm

Neu Leonstein wrote:
Ashmoria wrote:its hard to see any way for them to improve things.

sigh.

Hence my idea. Moldova is a shitty country, but because the majority of Moldovans are actually eligible for Romanian citizenship, it is emptying as we speak.

If the US and other rich countries allowed immigration from Haiti, you'd fix the problem.


Damn right. I am originally from Moldova. Although it may not be as shitty as Haiti. I don't know, haven't checked.
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Postby Greed and Death » Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:03 pm

Ashmoria wrote:im starting to think that its not regional discrimination and social inequity that is keeping haiti a hell hole. DAMN! those people are on the losing end of nature too.

It didn't help they we restored democracy there, one month before the scheduled elections.
And by Democracy we mean the drug using president that was kicked out of the country because he had a bunch of people murdered.
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Postby Lackadaisical2 » Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:04 pm

Sibirsky wrote:
Neu Leonstein wrote:
Ashmoria wrote:its hard to see any way for them to improve things.

sigh.

Hence my idea. Moldova is a shitty country, but because the majority of Moldovans are actually eligible for Romanian citizenship, it is emptying as we speak.

If the US and other rich countries allowed immigration from Haiti, you'd fix the problem.


Damn right. I am originally from Moldova. Although it may not be as shitty as Haiti. I don't know, haven't checked.

Wow, really? we had an exchange student form Moldova in high school, but she wasn't that well liked, kinda hairy for a girl, lol.

I don't think its quite as shitty as Haiti, although I remember some student riots there a couple years ago.
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Postby Ashmoria » Tue Jan 12, 2010 7:04 pm

Lackadaisical2 wrote:
Ashmoria wrote:
Neu Leonstein wrote:
Ashmoria wrote:its hard to see any way for them to improve things.

sigh.

Hence my idea. Moldova is a shitty country, but because the majority of Moldovans are actually eligible for Romanian citizenship, it is emptying as we speak.

If the US and other rich countries allowed immigration from Haiti, you'd fix the problem.

haitians do do well in the us.....

Really? :eyebrow:

im pretty sure they do.
whatever

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