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ops, sorry

didnt know this is your sandbox

By just passing through

good morning its 5:30 and

do you know where your mind is?

sunami aid running into obstacle

The main airport at Indonesia's tsunami-battered Sumatra island was closed for much of the day Tuesday after a relief plane hit a herd of cows, hampering the world's still-fragile efforts to get aid to victims of the disaster.

In a startling tale of survival, an Indonesian man swept off the shore by last week's tsunami was found afloat on tree branches and debris, the second person to be found alive on the high seas days after the disaster, officials said Tuesday.

World leaders, meanwhile, headed to southern Asia to get a firsthand glimpse of the damage from the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami that killed at least 139,488 people. Secretary of State Colin Powell - who was in Thailand on Tuesday - pledged America's full support, and a donor conference was scheduled Thursday in Indonesia's capital.

Relief workers said they expect the death toll to soar by tens of thousands because surveys of the western coast of Sumatra, which was closest to the quake, show it was hit much harder than previously thought. Scores of villages were flattened, and in some areas few survivors have been seen.

THO

i appreciate opinions generated and discussed, even yours. what i do not appreciate is having opinions from one link transposed to other links because you want to make a point to your alter ego. you needn't disagree with any opinion anywhere but at the link where it is posted. it is as though you have a cut/paste fettish; now we know you have mastered the art, you have proven your point, now give us a rest, please. while you are exercising your rights to disagree with anon, who i swear is merely you incognito at times, you are trespassing on my rights. your counter attacks on anon are a harrassment to the rest of us who are trying to follow a thread. so please, display a little decorum, call upon your superior degree of acceptence of all opinions, and cease and desist in this inane battle of oneupmanship. i implore you to exercise restraint in replying to his every jab--remember, he is entitled to his opinions and if the rest of us appreciate your post, who gives a hummingbird what he thinks. didn't your mom ever recite the sticks and stones addage to you? let it go THO, for the sake of my sanity, please let it go.

By another anon