Important Stuff -- Or Not: "Lutto"...Italian for "Mourning"

Monday, April 06, 2009

"Lutto"...Italian for "Mourning"

My neonatologist in Rome, who cared for my preemie son when he was born there, sent me an update on Facebook about the Earthquake in Italy. Just note that English is not his first language.

Dear georgina....
i was on call in the NICU . Ancona is far 150 km from Aquila and Roma is about 200 km.

We heard the heartquake and I woke up....
It was the worst i can remember...(obviously we do not have so much experience in heartquake, like u!).
The situation is TERRIBLe...more than 200 deaths... Aquila was big city, capital of the state "Marche", more than 500,000 inhabitants. The "downtown of the city is pretty much...simply...DESTROYED! Fancy that...the Governor's Palace (in which the emergency services should have come from)..is destroyed itself! (I saw a pix in which only the main door is saved!).
The problem is that the city was very old and precious, and obviously not built using modern technique (it was built in 1600-1800!)....there are hundreds thousands people without any home....Even my parents in Rome went to the street for the fear (even thought the buildings there are much more modern and safe...)It's a big tragedy... thats what I can say..we are all safe...but it's a big tragedy...Hope to hear you soon!

3 comments:

Lone Ranger said...: I think heartquake is a very appropriate word.; 4:50 AM
Tonto said...: I know. When an earthquake happened here in SoCal about 6 months ago he emailed me about it and spelled it the same way then too.

So I think it is on purpose.; 12:23 PM
Vigilis said...: The recent earthquake was not in Le Marche, but Abruzzo, which is an adjacent state.

No doubt the Facebook author is fatigued and traumatized making such a slip all too easy.

We certainly sympathize with what the good people of Italy must now confront.; 12:37 PM

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I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.