Haiti-Total disaster!!

@Subotai:

@tkroll:

Heard a news story today- apparently a group of Haitians spoke to some of the US military helping out down there asking us to take over the country, stating if that happened they wouldn’t starve and would be working. I can’t say I blame them for feeling that way. Just a bit I heard on the radio.

The Haitians would be better of if Haiti become the 52 state in the US.
But not to forget, there have been several US interests and influentials in the current Haitian government, and that has worked out very bad for the majority of Haitian citizens.

What is the 51st state?

@Guerrilla:

What is the 51st state?

LOL, I was kinda wondering, too.  I suppose he means Puerto Rico, which is definitely not a State, but a commonwealth or whatever.
There are definitely still only 50 States.  :lol:

@Amon:

he means Puerto Rico yes ehhe

Oh well, I thought Hawaii was the 51 state, but it is the 50th state, I shoulda check wikipedia first…

I’m sorry but you have to be joking right? You can’t tell me that you didn’t know there were 50 states. Has the education system degraded that much?

I’ll bet they want to be taken over by the U.S. so they can further break our system.

I’m Norwegian so the US geography was not the most important thing to learn at school, most of us learn (some of)  it later in life anyway, b/c US is the most important country in the western world, and the most interesting one to follow news and such, so for many outside the US (especially in Europe), it is generally the country we know most of, except for our own country. And all the films and TV series from the US contributes a lot.

But I think the reason why I was wrong on the actual number of states, is that, at least here in Norway, and probably in other European countries too, we tend to say that this or that country is the 51 state, b/c we (or other countries and politicians) follow and/or support the US foreign policy automatically instead of deciding our own foreign policy. And this issue is not necessarily related to the fact that we have many different opinions of the US foreign policy.

Very interesting, Sub, thanks for that last post.

I wouldn’t expect everyone to know how many States the US has.

Back to your topic, Amon?

OK -

Does anyone know if the 6.1 aftershock was actually that significant, other than scaring a lot of people down there?

@Brain:

I’m sorry but you have to be joking right? You can’t tell me that you didn’t know there were 50 states. Has the education system degraded that much?

To be fair, how many counties are in England?  How many provinces in France?

The US states are probably more well known, but still…

Sorry Subotai I sometimes forget this is an international forum.

Keep the Haitians in Haiti.

@Brain:

Sorry Subotai I sometimes forget this is an international forum.

Keep the Haitians in Haiti.

Right neah da beach.  Boyee!

Oh wait, that’s Jamaica.

@Jermofoot:

@Brain:

I’m sorry but you have to be joking right? You can’t tell me that you didn’t know there were 50 states. Has the education system degraded that much?

To be fair, how many counties are in England?  How many provinces in France?

The US states are probably more well known, but still…

Well naturally we should know all the US states.
They refer to them all the time…

On TV somebody’s always from Detroit, Michigan or Miami, Florida.
Never Chicago, America.
Only foreigners need to say their country!

Even Canadians usually skip naming their province since that’ll just confuse people or make them think it’s a new state.
“Saskatche_what_? Ain’t that South of North Dakota?”

In fact, in my idle hours I have found it entertaining to throw the challenge at people to name all of the states. After 35 or so it gets a little tricky… too many start with M I think.

Anyway back to the newest state: Haiti.

I keep hearing that the US is going to take in Haitians. I hope this is not the case.

Julio Chavez says that type of thing. Typical for him.

Julio Chavez says that type of thing. Typical for him.

aye. Sometimes when you’re a bleepity bleep bleep you gotta make lots of straw men to keep in power. BTW how much help did he send? Or did just mail them a get well card?

He cant ever help himself not look stupid. He has not done anything.

From what I have heard the only Haitians being allowed into the US were ones already in the process of immigrating or being adopted. They are bringing these in and fast tracking the process to get them out of a bad situation.