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Indonesia - Sumatra Earthquake - Evacuations Under way (Update - 8.5 quake )
Dow Jones News | 3/28/05

Posted on 03/28/2005 8:46:46 AM PST by Helmholtz

Dow Jones News Reports at 11:39 "DJ Singapore Official: 7.5 Quake Hits Sumatra - Kyodo"

No other reports yet.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: earthquake; india; indonesia; notaboutterri; quake; sumatraearthquake; tsunami
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To: propertius
Why is it that every time there is a FR thread on a natural disaster it is always taken over by the religious fruit cakes?

see the lyrics for Fruitcakes, by Jimmy Buffett

Mea culpa mea culpa mea maxima culpa
701 posted on 03/28/2005 2:55:41 PM PST by SpinnerWebb (Money can't buy everything... but what the hell can you buy without it?)
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To: IonImplantGuru; BurbankKarl

I'm not clear how they even measure a 25cm wave. Isn't that just any old ocean wave? Anyway... the quake happened about seven hours ago as of this writing. I'm not versed enough to even ask these questions, but I'm impatient for information. :-)


702 posted on 03/28/2005 2:56:11 PM PST by lainie
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To: lainie
Nothing yet

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703 posted on 03/28/2005 2:58:33 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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To: BenLurkin

http://www.sonomanews.com/articles/2005/03/25/news/top_stories/news01.txt

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1362559/posts

Well, the prediction I heard was on Coast to Coast, Jim Berkland stated that because of the recent rains and added weight of the soil, and the full moon and high tides of that July period, that we was predicting a 6-7 earthquake for Southern California-Southern Nevada area. July 21st was the date...Guess my brainfault slipped a bit!


704 posted on 03/28/2005 3:00:26 PM PST by BurbankKarl (ua)
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To: lainie

it is a rise in the buoy measured by time and distance from the epicenter.

Santa Monica had a tsunami wave too on Dec 26


705 posted on 03/28/2005 3:02:03 PM PST by BurbankKarl (ua)
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To: propertius
Why is it that every time there is a FR thread on a natural disaster it is always taken over by the religious fruit cakes?

Because they live for them. They want natural disasters to happen so that they can claim that it proves them right.

This earthquake occurred not because the force of techtonics, but because God is angry with Christians for not saving Terri Schiavo. Never mind that nobody in Sumatra ever heard of Terri, we're supposed to automatically see the connection.

If we don't, the fruitcakes will happily make it for the rest of us, not once, but dozens of times on the same thread.

706 posted on 03/28/2005 3:04:29 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Central Scrutiniser

Come to think of it....

Hmmmmm....


707 posted on 03/28/2005 3:04:42 PM PST by It's me
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To: Dog Gone

you mean Tsumatra


708 posted on 03/28/2005 3:06:27 PM PST by BurbankKarl (ua)
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To: BurbankKarl

LOL, I suppose I do.


709 posted on 03/28/2005 3:07:51 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone

It's getting old!


710 posted on 03/28/2005 3:17:38 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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To: Dog Gone

It is amazing to me that this thread has so few comments while the hundreds on Terri have now many thousands of comments. This is THE big story now and it affects MANY in a tragic way. I hope we have not lost all perspective here.


711 posted on 03/28/2005 3:20:08 PM PST by BonnieJ
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

It's old the first time it happens on the thread because we all know it's coming. And hurricane season isn't very far away!


712 posted on 03/28/2005 3:20:59 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone; All
Because they live for them. They want natural disasters to happen so that they can claim that it proves them right.

Or, perhaps, people want to make some sense of the disaster. So they attribute it to a higher power. I haven't read the Good Book all the way through myself, but I understand it's filled with this sort Godly wrath-type business.

Does that mean everyone who believes in what the Bible says is a fruitcake or a cook?

You know Christians are in a bad way today. One of their own was murdered by the state for no good reason. I'm not sure what you all think you're accomplishing with this little pile-on, except for rubbing even more salt in their open wounds (a FR pasttime, of late). It certainly seems like you're enjoying the hell out of doing it.

713 posted on 03/28/2005 3:21:50 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Ghoul Power!)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
It's getting old!

So are the "ridicule the Christians" posts, which are seriously outnumbering the "God is Pissed" posts.

714 posted on 03/28/2005 3:24:01 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Ghoul Power!)
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To: BonnieJ
I'm of the belief that it's temporary insanity, and after a few more "Impeach Bush" threads are pulled and Terri is gone we will eventually return to normalcy.

In this story we have a natural disaster, the scope of which we don't even fully know. By any measure, it should be the top story of the day. Ho hum.

715 posted on 03/28/2005 3:25:12 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: BurbankKarl

ah yes -- probably several buoys at once.

What a news day.


716 posted on 03/28/2005 3:35:45 PM PST by lainie
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Well, if everyone who believes the Bible shared the belief that earthquakes are God's way of sending messages, then you'd have a point, but they don't. And it's not a defense to being a nut to claim to have read the Bible.

If those that claim to know what God is thinking when God causes natural disasters that can be easily explained with our understanding of ordinary science want to opine on it, fine. Start a separate thread, preferably in the religion forum to discuss the theological aspects of the event. I'm sure it would be an interesting discussion.

The question of who gets to post on Post number 666 on these threads is more than a little wacked.

717 posted on 03/28/2005 3:37:18 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone
it should be the top story of the day.

I agree, I am surprised more news is not out yet, BTW do you know what time it is there?
718 posted on 03/28/2005 3:41:40 PM PST by cmsgop ( Don't Forget to check out Bea Arthur in the "Menopause Monologues"  coming on NBC this fall)
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To: cmsgop

I think it's around 9 a.m. local time.


719 posted on 03/28/2005 3:49:02 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: Dog Gone

I've had enought for today!


720 posted on 03/28/2005 3:49:43 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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