Posted on 01/03/2010 4:39:50 AM PST by nuconvert
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan – About 20,000 people in Tajikistan were left homeless by an earthquake that hit a mountainous region of the impoverished Central Asian nation, officials said Sunday.
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5.3 at the Afghan border.
That’s terrible.
On the lighter side though, someone needs to evangelize the benefits of vowels to those poor vowelless people.
Imagine the agony they suffer every day as they try to express themselves with so few vowels. “Kyrgyz!”, one will say to another, damaging his larynx as he does so, short of breath...
Prayers for them
The population of Tajikistan is 98% Muslim.
I’m watching for the relief planes from the wealthy muslim oil kingdoms.
Watching..... watching.... watching...
I am sure the USAF will be flying there with aid shortly. They will be shelled while landing and the goverment will gladly take the aid, keep it for themselves and tell us to get the hell out.
count down begins now.
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