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Thursday, May 22, 2003
posted by gbarto at 12:57 PM:
More Than 1,000 Killed in AlgeriaNearly 7,000 injured after quake hits near capital; many feared buried
Much more of this and Mother Nature will have done more in a month than Al-Qaeda's managed in three years.
We offer our condolences in this, as in all, tragedies, while noting that this is less a tragedy, per se, than one of those awful things life visits upon us at times - it wasn't preventable. But I wonder: it was the earthquake at Lisbon that caused Voltaire to lose faith in a loving god. How would he have dealt with 9/11? Probably laughed, then cried, at the gross foul ignorance.
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