No hospitals (all destroyed or abandoned) no power, no water, no air traffic control … and, from all I’ve gathered, there’s nothing left of Port au Prince – the quake could not have occurred in a worse place.

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Probably the best, safest way to donate is text ‘HAITI’ to 90999 – sends ten dollars to the Red Cross for Haiti (appears on your phone bill).

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7.3 on the Richter scale – this is big:

Haiti’s presidential palace and numerous other government buildings in the country’s capital Port-au-Prince collapsed after the tremor. A hospital was also flattened, with reports that patients were buried under the rubble.

Haiti’s ambassador to Washington, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN: “My country is facing a major catastrophe.”

Thousands Feared Dead in ‘Total Disaster’ [Telegraph.co.uk]

Sarah plain and stupid debuted on Fox tonight:

John McCain loves his country so much:

• Palin was chosen—over a dinner of “deep fried burritos”—out of “desperation” when the campaign realized Joe Lieberman was no longer an option.
• McCain’s campaign manager found Palin while scouring the Internet for potential female candidates—and the book alleges that her background check consisted of one lawyer searching the Internet.

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Yeah, body scanners will solve all our problems:

(AP) A passenger inadvertently carried shotgun shells onto a Dallas-bound Midwest Airlines plane at Milwaukee’s airport on Monday before he realized his mistake and alerted flight attendants, authorities said.

The man, who was not identified, did not mean any harm, saying he had forgotten that the ammunition was in his carryon bags when he boarded the flight, Transportation Security Administration spokesman Jim Fotenos said.

An MSNBC report said that the passengers were upset that the TSA didn’t search the plane before it took off in case the man had secreted something.

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Usually I read Jalopnik because of the car reviews, the photographs of old cars, and due to the fact that I’m an incurable gearhead. But now they offer Teabaggers too? Best site EVAR (save this one):

Detroit Auto Show Attracts World’s Worst Protesters [Jalopnik]

It’s not what you think it is:

I remember maybe one of these surviving to inhabit my high school parking lot – FoMoCo’s attempt at a Dodge Charger beater along with the Torino GT (same car as in Gran Torino).  In the end, not so much.

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