Author Topic: Haiti in ruins after earthquake? (Read 4830 times)

billy_56081 · « **Reply #30 on:** January 13, 2010, 04:41:08 PM »

Nope not to many Baptists in souther MN.

BrianB · « **Reply #31 on:** January 13, 2010, 04:44:41 PM »

Quote from: billy_56081 on January 13, 2010, 04:41:08 PM

Nope not to many Baptists in souther MN.

After that post, not another word needs to be spoken. (At least from me.)

Oldshooter · « **Reply #32 on:** January 13, 2010, 04:45:28 PM »

Quote from: BrianB on January 13, 2010, 04:28:30 PM

This could be a disaster larger than ever. I'm trying to get down there, but I'm not sure my company will approve it.
I am sorry that some folks here are so willing to condemn them. I am very happy that so many folks here are concerned about the situation, kinda makes me feel better about humanity.

I was gonna post about that being the Christian thing to do!

Then the crack about Baptist came up! You lost me Pard! One should not alienate the folk he wants to be sympathetic to his cause.

I still think it is a Good thing that you do, if you do anything, and thats still a good thing about this country. One can decide where his charity lies and decide if he wants to help!

BrianB · « **Reply #33 on:** January 13, 2010, 04:53:26 PM »

Quote from: Oldshooter on January 13, 2010, 04:45:28 PM

Quote from: BrianB on January 13, 2010, 04:28:30 PM
This could be a disaster larger than ever. I'm trying to get down there, but I'm not sure my company will approve it.
I am sorry that some folks here are so willing to condemn them. I am very happy that so many folks here are concerned about the situation, kinda makes me feel better about humanity.

I was gonna post about that being the Christian thing to do!

Then the crack about Baptist came up! You lost me Pard! One should not alienate the folk he wants to be sympathetic to his cause.

I still think it is a Good thing that you do, if you do anything, and thats still a good thing about this country. One can decide where his charity lies and decide if he wants to help!

Sorry about that. I grew up in that religion and knew a lot of good, faithful folks. I also ran into many that were just hateful of anyone who was even slightly different. I still have not gotten the bad taste out of my mouth.
I should not have been so selective, I'm sure it happens in all religions.

Again, I apologize. Also, I do not want to hi-jack this thread, so do a little better job than I have done at sticking to the topic!

billy_56081 · « **Reply #34 on:** January 13, 2010, 04:56:45 PM »

Hey it's fine with me if you feed the rats, just keep em out of my yard.

There are over 900 people per square mile in Haiti, 83 per square mile here.

BrianB · « **Reply #35 on:** January 13, 2010, 05:06:16 PM »

Quote from: billy_56081 on January 13, 2010, 04:56:45 PM

Hey it's fine with me if you feed the rats, just keep em out of my yard.

There are over 900 people per square mile in Haiti, 83 per square mile here.

Again, I think this type of post speaks volumes.

myronman3 · « **Reply #36 on:** January 13, 2010, 05:25:35 PM »

cabin, i will be the first to say i have absolutely no experience with earthquakes, and i dont think i want to have any.
regarding the building practices, i had heard the same exact thing as far as methods and quality of the structures. i dont like seeing people suffer one bit, but i do think that we will see more of this as time goes by as i think the world is living on borrowed time. and i think we here are closer to the edge than most people realize.

countryroads · « **Reply #37 on:** January 13, 2010, 06:44:13 PM »

Quote from: billy_56081 on January 13, 2010, 04:12:37 PM

I see Haiti as a barn with so many rats in it that they eat themselves out of food. The farmer feels bad that the rats are starving so he feeds them. They keep breeding and he just keeps feeding more and more of them. Haiti has over 900 people per square mile, its herd needs thinning.

Yep.....it is almost as bad as New Jersey (1,171.1 per sq. mi.). Or how about DC (9,581.3 per sq. mi.). Another similarity between Haiti and New Jersey or Wash. DC is the form of government.........corrupt.

gypsyman · « **Reply #38 on:** January 14, 2010, 01:52:47 AM »

Not sure now, as to how to look at this situation. After reading about all the help this country has recieved, from both sides of the aisle,(U.S., Cuba,Venezula,Arab countries,)what makes it so different from our own welfare recipients. Seems the more we help them, the more they want and expect. I feel sorry for what has happened, but like an alcoholic, maybe the best thing is to hit bottom. Maybe this is bottom. Do you keep giving drugs to an addict, when after so many try's, they just keep taking them, or do you say no more, cold turkey time. Sink or swim time. gypsyman

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #39 on:** January 14, 2010, 02:12:12 AM »

You give food only long enough for them to plant seed and it to grow .

billy_56081 · « **Reply #40 on:** January 14, 2010, 02:27:58 AM »

Shootall that may be a good idea, but they first have to get the population down. There is less than 1 acre per person in Haiti. The population of Haiti is 9 million. Haiti could not support a population of even half of that. We need to let mother nature take her course.

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #41 on:** January 14, 2010, 02:30:01 AM »

That seems underway as we speak .

myronman3 · « **Reply #42 on:** January 14, 2010, 03:16:59 AM »

what is ALMOST funny, is some people seem to think there is another option. i mean good on the people trying to help, but in the end mother nature is in control and there isnt much at all anyone can do to change that; no matter what you think of it all.

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #43 on:** January 14, 2010, 03:23:03 AM »

praying has proven benifical in the past !

magooch · « **Reply #44 on:** January 14, 2010, 03:27:27 AM »

The most likely fallout of all of this is that the USA will be receiving a flood of imports. The chosen one will need the votes in the next election.

gypsyman · « **Reply #45 on:** January 14, 2010, 03:32:05 AM »

Anybody that has spent time in the outdoors hunting or fishing, knows there are cycle's in population. To many of one or another, and you have a die off. Diasease,predators,starvation. We've seen snipets of this in Africa,plagues in Europe,Spanish flu 80 odd years ago. Things just leveling off. gypsyman

myronman3 · « **Reply #46 on:** January 14, 2010, 04:08:23 AM »

dont worry, our time will come around.

alsaqr · « **Reply #47 on:** January 14, 2010, 04:24:42 AM »

I really do feel sorry for those poor people in that corrupt country. The place has been ruled by criminal despots for many decades. The US government gives away money to Israel and Egypt to keep them from going at each other. We support "nation building" in areas where it is impossible to build nations. But for some reason we cannot help poor folks in our own hemisphere.

Have watched a lot of TV yesterday and this morning. Collapsed buildings everywhere and there is no re-bar to be seen.

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #48 on:** January 14, 2010, 04:26:12 AM »

If we are not careful we will have a nes CUBA

beerbelly · « **Reply #49 on:** January 14, 2010, 05:28:18 AM »

Well at least the one's the quake got won't be landing on Florida's beaches. But I am sure Obama will bring hundreds of thousands of them here .
Beerbelly

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #50 on:** January 14, 2010, 05:30:23 AM »

just what we need - a bunch running around saying " not my job man"

gypsyman · « **Reply #51 on:** January 14, 2010, 08:17:23 AM »

Hey, if Carter can do it back in the 70's,('78 or '79), and then Reagan gets the blame for the Aids outbreak in the '80's, this should put Obama right on track. History repeating, and we've learned nothing. gypsyman

Questor · « **Reply #52 on:** January 14, 2010, 08:19:03 AM »

I was surprised to learn that life expectancy is 60 years in Haiti now. I thought it was still in the 40s.

SHOOTALL · « **Reply #53 on:** January 14, 2010, 08:24:55 AM »

Is that the drug related or non drug related group ?

Black Eagle · « **Reply #54 on:** January 14, 2010, 09:38:34 AM »

Quote from: Questor on January 14, 2010, 08:19:03 AM

I was surprised to learn that life expectancy is 60 years in Haiti now. I thought it was still in the 40s.

It's still 47, the same as it was in 1890, up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

BrianB · « **Reply #55 on:** January 14, 2010, 03:00:15 PM »

Quote from: Black Eagle on January 14, 2010, 09:38:34 AM

Quote from: Questor on January 14, 2010, 08:19:03 AM
I was surprised to learn that life expectancy is 60 years in Haiti now. I thought it was still in the 40s.

It's still 47, the same as it was in 1890, up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

What a great post! Thank you Black Eagle. You nor I chose to be born where we are. Some folks just don't get it, or appreciate it. They just take it for granted and look down on others.

billy_56081 · « **Reply #56 on:** January 14, 2010, 04:03:03 PM »

So even though there are over 900 people per square mile in Haiti and at this level they can't feed themselves we should feed them? You folks who feel you are doing "so much good" are causing all these starving children. If nature were letto take its course Haiti would not be so grossly overpopulated. You do gooder are nothing but killers, causing starvation and plague on the people of Haiti. Go ahead kill a couple million more. The starving children are your fault.

Cabin4 · « **Reply #57 on:** January 14, 2010, 04:23:35 PM »

BTW: New Jersy, Rode Island and DC have higher denisty levels than Haiti.

billy_56081 · « **Reply #58 on:** January 14, 2010, 04:26:44 PM »

Quote from: Cabin4 on January 14, 2010, 04:23:35 PM

BTW: New Jersy, Rode Island and DC have higher denisty levels than Haiti.

And what does that have to do with the price of rice in China? It appears all you have listed with the exection of DC are capable of living within their carrying capacity, by means of production or trade.

yellowtail3 · « **Reply #59 on:** January 14, 2010, 04:29:57 PM »

Quote from: billy_56081 on January 14, 2010, 04:26:44 PM

And what does that have to do with the price of rice in China?

Not a thing to do with the price of tea in China. I've seen your posts on this subject/thread - thin the herd, rats, ect, ?

You're a sicko with no sense of the suffering people are enduring. You vote Republican? Go to church?