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2 THOUGHT FOR TODAY Someday, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long continued process.

3 Phillips Brooks ( ) American Bishop COURTESY TO CARL S CORNER

4 E ROUGE Acrylic on Board By HAITIAN ARTIST HERSZA BARZON Miami, Florida

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10 TOUGH TIMES

11 GOD BLESS AMERICA!

12 Yes we can!

13 All of us must learn how to live within our means. President Barack Hussein Obama 18 February 2009 Mesa, Arizona (Carl In his 26 year old Toyota pick-up truck) Thank you, Mr. President. Carl

14 Obama: We must learn to 'live within our means again'. In Phoenix and its surrounding suburbs, the American Dream is being tested by a home mortgage crisis that not only threatens the stability of our economy but also the stability of families and neighborhoods, Obama told the crowd, gathered in a gymnasium at Mesa s Dobson High School. It is a crisis that strikes at the heart of the middle class: the homes in which we invest our savings, build our lives, raise our families, and plant roots in our communities.

15 As we seek to ensure that these institutions continue to perform what is a vital function on behalf of middle class families, we also need to maintain transparency and strong oversight so that they do so in responsible and effective ways, Obama said during the 20 minute speech. Obama also stressed that the plan would not reward people who knowingly purchased more than they could afford, buyers who made risky bets or dishonest lenders who acted irresponsibly. Solving this crisis will require more than resources, Obama said. It will require all of us to take responsibility... all of us must learn to live within our means again. Haitian-American Dr. Mireille Lalanne

16 indicted in Nashville, Tennessee. 02/04/2009 By DEBBIE CALDWELL News Editor Harland Daily Enterprise (sent to Carl s Corner from Nashville, Tennessee) Dr. Visuvalingam Vilvarajah Dr. Mireille Lalanne Harlan County Sheriff Marvin Lipfird said several months of hard work by his officers paid off Wednesday after two Nashville doctors were arrested

17 by a U.S. Marshals task force on a governor s warrant issued for Harlan County charges. Dr. Visuvalingam Vilvarajah and Dr. Mireille Lalanne are being held in a detention facility in Nashville without bond and awaiting extradition to Harlan County. The couple, who were arrested at their RX Medical Clinic in Nashville, are facing three counts of engaging in organized crime, second-degree assault and firstdegree wanton endangerment charges in Harlan Circuit Court. The U.S. Marshal s Office Task Force and the Nashville Metropolitan Police Department made the arrest at 9 a.m. Harlan County sheriff s detectives John Teagle and Jason Snelling and deputies Danny Ball and Eddie Jones were also on hand to assist. Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Sherif Guindi was also present.

18 Harlan County s Commonwealth Attorney Henry Johnson said he and the sheriff felt it was time to go up the distribution chain. The way this came about is, the sheriff had told me he had kept running into certain doctor s names in connection with people who were charged with drug trafficking, and as this became more and more of a concern, we started talking about if there was a way that we could reach outside of Harlan County s border and even Kentucky s border to bring down illegal drug suppliers, Johnson said. We were not only looking at doctors it could be also people up the distribution chain... people acting together where the result was illegal drug trafficking in Harlan County. Now, we ve come up with a way to do that, and his officers really put a lot of time in on this. I haven t heard of other jurisdictions going across state lines to bring in people to circuit court to face charges. Lipfird said right after he took office, his department began making drug trafficking arrests and became

19 alarmed by the number of people who were allegedly receiving pain medication from the Nashville doctors. After many, many investigations, the commonwealth attorney and I made the determination that there was a large supplier of Oxy Contin and other drugs to our area, Lipfird said. After interviewing numerous people about the situation, patients and former patients the manner in which (Vilvarajah and Lalanne) were operating on a cash-only basis and credit card, that they were actually facilitating a criminal syndicate. Lipfird said Teagle was the lead investigator in the case and was assisted by the other detectives. Lipfird said the charges of second-degree assault and first-degree wanton endangerment on the indictment fell under his investigation when Carolyn Middleton gave birth to a child who was addicted to narcotics. Middleton was arrested recently on the same charges and entered a plea in Harlan Circuit Court on Wednesday.

20 (Middleton) was going to Dr. Vilvarajah and Dr. Lalanne she d been going to them for a while, Lipfird said. She stated that they knew she was pregnant, and they still continued to prescribe large quantities of narcotics to her without any concern to the child. The child was born severely addicted to narcotics. Johnson said after the indictment was returned against the doctors, documents were sent on to the governor s office to request a warrant. A governor s warrant is part of an interstate statutory agreement. It goes back to the U.S. Constitution, but first we had to make sure we had extraterritorial jurisdiction on things that caused criminal activity in Harlan County, Johnson said. Investigations like this and operations like this are something you usually see handled by Kentucky State Police special investigations or maybe federal agencies, and it s very unusual for a county sheriff s office to do an investigation on this scale. When the sheriff and I

21 were talking about the drug problem in Harlan County, we both had a desire to go upstream and not stop at the street-level dealers, but try to cut off some of the suppliers. Lipfird said one issue to consider in this case is that five or six hours is a long way to drive to go see a doctor. These people would pass a lot of good doctors who could aid them in their ailments between here and there, Lipfird said. I ve kept my promise in saying that we would go after the street-level dealers to the kingpins. When you re dealing with medical professionals, it doesn t get much larger than that. I will say this us going after these doctors, it s not a slap in the face to any medical professionals in this county. I m sure there s great medical professionals in Nashville, Knoxville, Louisville and all over the country. We felt as though (Vilvarajah and Lalanne) needed to be charged with this. An unknown number of people in Harlan County have been affected by this.

22 Lipfird said right now he s waiting to see whether the doctors are going to waive their right to an extradition hearing or if they re going to follow through with a hearing, which is normal procedure. When the doctors are extradited to Harlan, they will be lodged on $5 million bonds. SENT TO CARL S CORNER Relating to the above. Carl, We are all saddened by these news. We are praying for a miracle for Mireille, wife of Carlo Bourjoli, It is really a tragedy but we are keeping our prayers high... (name withheld) CARL S ANSWER

23 In this country one is not supposed to be guilty until proven guilty in a court of law. Hope springs eternal. Carl REFLECTIONS By Charlie Reese a syndicated columnist known for his plainspoken manner and conservative views. EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS JOURNALIST HAS SCRIPTED IN THIS MESSAGE. READ IT AND THEN REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLITICAL DEBACLE.

24 Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years. 545 PEOPLE By Charlie Reese Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits? Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

25 You and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does. You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does. One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices 545 human beings out of the 300 million are dire currently, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

26 I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank. I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes. Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party. What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal

27 human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to. It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

28 If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red. If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ, it's because they want them in IRAQ. If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way. There are no insoluble government problems. Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the

29 economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do. Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power. They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees. We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess! Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.

30 HAYO HAITIAN AMERICAN YOUTH ORGANIZATION KENDALL, FLORIDA requests the Honor of Your Presence to its 11 th ANNUAL FÊTE CULTURELLE CRÉOLE in celebration of Black History, TWO WORLDS, ONE DREAM. Saturday February 28, :00PM (doors open at 7: pm) Florida International University (FIU) SW 8 th St -Theatre GL Across from the Library Miami, FL 33199

31 or Sponsored by Miami Dade Cultural Affairs and FIU Haitian Students Organization. Donation: $5.00 children and students with ID/$10.00 adults

32 Mireille Sylvain-David CEO Photo courtesy Gilbert Saurel Carl Fombrun and HAYO S youth, 4 th of July 2006 CACEC

33 Caribbean Artistic and Cultural Expression in our Community KENDALL, FLORIDA Celebrating Black History Month CACEC, the Black Heritage Ministry of Christ the King, and the University of Miami Present: an educational Conference/Debates. Theme: We Are One

34 Venue: Christ the King Church SW. 112 Ave Feb. 22, 2009 from 4:30 PM- 7 PM Presenters: Dr. Abaka of the University of Miami, Dr. J.B. Luc Charlot, and Corky Dosier. You are all welcome. United: We Stand and We Stand Strong For more Info- (305) Fax (305) CACECONE@AOL.COM

35 Marcel Alexis CEO INVITATION In the spirit of Black History Month The Haitian American Historical Society cordially invites you to a lecture on Black History by Professors: Jean- Claude Exulien and Claude Charles. Subject: Civil Rights Movement and Obama Date: Saturday February 28, 2009 Time: 6:00 PM

36 Place: Ledarp Center Address: 1733 NE 162 Street Room B, North Miami Beach, FL Along with the Society s memorabilia, the international painter, Wilfrid Darleus, will showcase some of his paintings relative to the moment. Hors D oeuvres will be served. Seating is limited; please call to reserve your seat, or reply to this . Daniel Fils-Aime, Chairman; Jean-Claude Exulien, 1 st VP; Claude Charles, 2 nd VP; Anthony Box, Board Member; Harry St-Louis, Board Member; Jean-Claude Cantave, Board Member; Pradel Vilme, Board Member.

37 Anbyans Lakay Presents This Saturday February 21st, 09 Kanaval

38 Owner Maxime Diaz and don Carlo Casa Campestre Restaurant Pines Blvd Pembroke Pines, FL (Corner Hiatus Rd & Pines Blvd Behind Bank Atlantic) Soyez vêtus de façon appropriée! Le meilleur décor sera récompensé!!!

39 Doors open at 10PM Info: FRENCH SECTION LE COIN DE CARL LES GENS HEUREUX Le COIN DE CARL est comme un message dans une bouteille lancée

40 en pleine mer ; l on ne sait quelle rive aura la chance de l avoir. Bonjour Miami, ses alentours et les «internôtres» qui écoutent et nous lisent à travers le monde. CHAQUE JOUR EST À LUI SEUL UNE VIE. Dieu, le travail et la liberté. Et bonjour, bonjour la vie, bonjour l amour, moi j vais bien et j m habitue. Les gens heureux n ont pas d histoires Les gens heureux ils font l histoire. La ballade des gens heureux sur LE COIN DE CARL parlant de tout et de rien continue, dans un verbe d arc-en-ciel. Le temps poursuit sa marche et avec lui avance le monde, espérons aussi Haiti. LA PENSÉE PERMANENTE

41 «Tu n as qu une Patrie au monde. C est toi-même. Chante pour elle Et sois ton but, et sois ta vie. Les déserts chanteront pour te répondre en chœur.» LES MOTS DU JOUR Par Teddy Basquin

42 Ne me secouez pas, je suis plein de larmes. La pire façon de sentir le manque d une personne est de s'asseoir à ses cotés et de savoir qu'elle ne sera jamais à vous. Celui qui n'ose pas regarder le soleil en face ne sera jamais une étoile. Ce n'est pas en tirant sur une fleur qu'on la fait pousser plus vite. JOYEUX ANNIVERSAIRE DE

43 NAISSANCE À

44 RACHEL MOSCOSO DENIS Le vendredi 20 février 2009 ramènera l anniversaire de naissance de Rachel Moscoso Denis. S il y a une haitienne, une compatriote de renommée, qui se dévoue entièrement à la culture haitienne depuis plusieurs décades, en Haiti et à l étranger, Rachel Moscoso Denis est

45 de droit l une de celles qui est en première loge. Rachel est actuellement en Haiti pour célébrer le carnaval avec les siens et nous lui envoyons notre affectueux traditionnel AD MULTOS AÑOS. Qu elle nous revienne vite en Floride pour continuer son excellent travail. Nous ne lui souhaitons que du succès et du Bonheur dans les relations publiques où la reconnaissance brille souvent par son absence. Le COIN DE CARL, dans cet esprit d unité, est avec toi par la pensée, chère Rachel, pour cette date spéciale du Vendredi 20 février 2009.

46 Toujours plus haut! Carl P.S.- J ai choisi au hazard juste quelques unes parmi les centaines de photos de mes multiples archives photographiques, pour rappeller Rachel à notre bon souvenir.

47 Rachel, Angelina Jolie, et Kendrick Meek, Représentant au Congrès américain, candidat au Sénat en L artiste national et international Wyclef Jean et Rachel.

48 Rachel et la célèbre actrice Meryl Streep Maire Jim Naugle de Ft. Lauderdale et Rachel OWEN LEROY DE CHICAGO

49 Le COIN DE CARL avait le grand plaisir cette semaine de recevoir en visite en son temple, notre cher ami OWEN LEROY de Chicago. Nous remercions OWEN pour ses prévenances envers nous et nous lui souhaitons bonne continuation pendant son séjour à Naples, Floride où ils se sont trouvés pendant les deux dernières semaines, sa chère épouse et lui. A NE PAS RATER! EMG Health Communications

50 10 ème Commémoration Dans le cadre de la Commémoration de la Journée de la Femme : LA EMG Health Communications PRÉSENTE

51 Dimanche 8 Mars 2009 CHEZ MIREILLE RESTAURANT 170 Post Avenue Westbury, New York Admission: 50 dollars avant le 26 février $70.00 dollars à la porte. Pour toutes autres informations prière d appeller:

52 Ginette Elsy et Youri INVITÉS DE LA EMG:

53 Raoul Guillaume et Carl Fombrun. La EMG vous invite à rencontrer: Madame Ginette Chérubin, précédemment Ministre à la Condition Féminine. Hommage sera rendu à Soeur Olga Brouard des Filles de la Sagesse dans un dialogue avec les membres de la communauté.

54 Le Maestro G. Loubert Chancy. EN SOUVENIR DE LA RÉUNION EMG EN 2008 Dr. Albert Chassagne

55 Feu Dr. Albert Chassagne et Carl Fombrun LA EMG EN 2007 ET 2008 L ambiance au restaurant CHEZ MIREILLE, l auteur Jean H. Charles et Carl Fombrun EN EL RINCON DE

56 don Carlo MIAMI Amistad Magica AMOR DE LA CALLE

57 Los Panchos kwk KREYOL PALE

58 KREYOL KONPRANN FOMBRUN TOUT BON

59 TOUT BON FOMBRUN EKO VWA PA LA ANKO Lè mwen fèmen je mwen Mwen tande eko vwa Ak pwezi ki voye monte pou kont yo Lè mwen li de poèm san mwen pa santi poèt yo

60 Tout andan kò m vid ak tout bagay ki tris Kote yo fè La jwa la vi a mouri La jwa sa a ki te konn pwomnen wololoy ak gangans Ak yon lanmou ki te klere e ki te anvayi m Lè mape jete yon kout je Solèy la ale domi e la linn Dèyè yon nwayj nan syèl la ape kriye Nanpwen poèt ki ale seshe figu li Nanpwen fanm ki anvi pale avè li

61 Nanpwen fèt anko nan bouk la tout bagay ape domi Moun ki poko ale pou peyi san chapo ape shashe zanmi Konsi te fèk genyen yon gwo malè E tout bagay ta si fasil pou jwenn yon solisyon Kote lanmou pase Kote zanmitay ale Kote bèl pawol lontan yo Sa m pral fè ak tout lanmou sa a ki toujou djanm lakay mwen Eske m ka viv san yon kè Eske m ka viv san renmen Eske mwen ka domi bliye?

62 Tou sa mwen ka di Mwen komanse voye monte ak la tristèss E solitid vwa ak eko ki pa la anko yo se yo ki se zanmi mwen Zanmi kreyol mwen yo se la ma p rete pou jodi a. Na pale denmen si Granmèt la vle. KAL