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Haiti: a view from out in left field

 
 


Posted by Drew458    United States   on 01/31/2010 at 09:31 PM   
 
  1. Speaking of left field,( This is one bad segway but indulge me OK Drew ) I give you all:
    http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2010-01/air-cannon-sends-pumpkins-3700-feet.
    I say we send Peiper on a field assignment to track this guy down for a birds eye report.

    Posted by Rich K    United States   01/31/2010  at  10:59 PM  

  2. Written like a true bleeding heart (and no functioning brain cells) lie-bral. At least there is entertainment value in watching The Won get bashed (although not as obscenely) as Bush.

    Posted by wardmama4    United States   02/01/2010  at  08:22 AM  

  3. Right. It’s America’s fault. It’s always us. Why the hell can’t we say screw it and pull ALL foreign aid of any kind for any reason and spend it at home where of course there is no poverty and sick old ppl or sick young ppl. Bah.  Let the Europeans take our place and we should really mind our own damn business and and not tell other govts. how to treat their ppl. AND ... we need to stop that damn stupid never worked embargo on Cuba but can’t because ... Cuban immigrants won’t let us.
    I’ve just read a very good piece by Lady Thatcher’s daughter in a weekend paper, on her visit to Cuba.  Damn interesting.Then there’s this far out headline from Haiti in the Telegraph.

    “Supreme master” of voodoo alleges opponents prevented much-needed help from reaching followers of the religion.

    Posted by peiper    United Kingdom   02/01/2010  at  10:24 AM  

  4. Whoops ... re. voodoo thing. I didn’t mean to hit submit so fast.
    The other part said that Christians were getting all the help first. I wish that place would join Atlantis or maybe Pompeii.

    Rich ...  the link for popsci wasn’t working.  ??

    Posted by peiper    United Kingdom   02/01/2010  at  10:29 AM  

  5. Peiper - just go to popsci.com and the link is on the front page near the top. That pumpkin cannon runs on surprisingly low air pressure, and it doesn’t look like they are using sabots or any kind of banding, not even duct tape, to get a good seal. So it’s pretty amazing that they can shoot a pumpkin or a bowling ball a mile. PV=NRT in the extreme!

    Another interesting article and comment thread there on “super pot"- people are using atomizers/vaporizers to smoke dope these days? I don’t even know what those things are or how they work. And now some grass is so potent that it gives people psychotic episodes? Horry Clap. That’s a long, strange trip from how things were when I was a stupid youngster.

    Posted by Drew458    United States   02/01/2010  at  10:54 AM  

  6. What a clot, there is quite a lot of sense about the Obama lack of action but as for the tsunami Bush had a huge carrier stationed offshore within 24 hours and the crew, god bless them fixed up a huge water main on the flight deck working off the shops R/O plant (that is why stationed offshore) as what was needed NOW was drinking water. So the Bush slur was bull but what about the first?

    Posted by Chris Edwards    Canada   02/01/2010  at  08:32 PM  

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