Coffee Break #28 - The cold, dark days

ballet?

Yes.

Ah! Ha ha ha.... funny Victor.

...unless you were serious?

Ha ha. I'll leave you guessing.

My brother took ballet & tap........he turned out to be the guy the ladies looked for at dances, weddings, ect..pretty funny considering he was gay! The other five brothers said it was a waste......they were just green w/envy .

i would recommend a field in electrical engineering or the bio-sciences to anyone heading into college with good grades.

debbie your son made a good choice

All engineering is good these days. Bio is good. Education. Certain areas of health care.

How horrible for the poor people of Haiti. Utter devastation for a poor country.

Things like that make your own problems seem so trivial...counting my blessing twice today.

There were reports of damage to the control tower at the airport. That will make relief efforts difficult until it can be fixed. Type of damage was not specified.

Maybe they'll send them an AWACS from Florida to help em out...
Monserrat & now Hati, small amount of time between those disturbances, 'Earthwise'.

My sympathies go out to them.

Earthwise??

Yes, 'geologically' speaking...

And the one in northern CA the other day too. They have found that earthquakes are related even entirely across the globe.

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Very interesting!

If you can help:

http://www.redcross.org/

Mercifully, my aunt has passed on. Thanks to all for your kind words.

I have a friend who adopted a boy from Hati. They are very saddend as his brother is still there. I have no idea where the orphanage is.

I hope your uncle will do better. You have my sympathies, Victor.

Thank you, Lucy. I think he will go soon too. Better that way.

I hope it is swift, then.

Me too. Thanks.

Victor--I've seen couples go together many times--it is often merciful for them, as much as we'd like to keep them around forever......
My thoughts are with you.

So sorry, sending my condolences, Victor

Thanks to both of you.

My sympathies Victor. Death is sad no matter the age or circumstances.

Yes it is. Even when you're expecting it. The finality is always a bit tough. I have lost so many aunts and uncles over the past ten years. With mom being the youngest of 15, I had many.

Thank you.

So sorry to hear your sad news Victor.

my condolences victor

Thanks.

Pat Robertson said the Haitians swore a pact to the devil and are being punished by God. What a sick b**tard.

Sorry for your loss, Victor.


Our atlas shows a small faultline through the carribean & Haiti sits right on top of it. It could be adjusting after the Pacific plate moved.

wow - can't believe someone could say that - they are talking 500K people lost thier life

That's not what he said

His statement is at about 6mins 03 seconds

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2010/January/Powerful-Quake-Hits-Impoverished-Haiti/

Robertson obviously didn't study geology besides being an insensetive rat.

I say again, that's NOT what he said.

Sorry if it's not accurate. I was relating what I saw reported. My speakers are not working. What did he actually say? Given his past, I had no problem believing it.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2010/01/13/crimesider/entry6092717.shtml

He talks about the pact they made with the devil when they were under control of the French, "it seems they have been cursed by one thing after another, desperately poor". Note the differences between the 2 countries on the same island (haiti being the poorest country in the western hemisphere, dominican republic is prosperous, healthy full of resorts)

"I'm optimistic that out of this tragedy something good may come
We'll be there to help them. "
Operation blessing is already on the scene with medicine and all supplies waiting at the port to receive the call to help.


I don't want to get into this anymore since this crosses over the DG policy of current events and religion. D mail if you want.

My wife just got home. She works with some Haitian ladies who have lost entire families.