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I went to sleep. I cannot respond to your posts while I am asleep can I?

I have been awake for less that 1 hour and I was checking the headlines first. Then I check my pings after I wake up some.

Reasons I started a new thread...

~ The old thread was getting long and was locking up.
~ When I started this new thread there were many new reports coming out in the media that were worthy of a new thread. (see all the new articles I posted after I started the new thread) - Death toll jump up to 20,000 for 12,000.
~ I don't do ping lists... I pinged you and only you on my first post in this new thread as a courtesy to you.
~ I added the link on the old thread to the new thread (and vise-versa) as a courtesy (and due to past experience) “to all” because I just knew someone would want both threads to be linked to each other. (see posts on this new thread)
~ The old thread is not locked and is still alive. There is no reason to get upset because a new thread with updated info was started.

End of reasons... If these are not good enough for you then you will just have to deal with it.

‘The mountains are sliding down’

Tania Branigan reports from Hanwang, a temporary haven for thousands of survivors of China’s devastating earthquake.

They came down from the mountains in their scores, seeking food and shelter for themselves and help for those they had to leave behind.

Hours of scrambling over rocky terrain had brought them to the precarious safety of Hanwang.

~SNIP~ (more at link - must be excerpted and linked only)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/14/china.chinaearthquake

There is no “old” and “new” thread. There’s the thread I started, this thread, and many others.

I have been nothing but courteous to you. By your rude response and your sarcastic e-mail I can tell you’re a jerk. And a disengenuous one.

Being the “courteous” person that you are you’d better get busy and get on all of the other quake threads and tell every one on there in huge font that you have the “new” thread and that they’re on the “old” one, so everyone can “find” your thread.

You haven’t done anyone any courtesies, but you have managed to confuse the new posters on here. Nice going.