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BATMAN DECAPITATED SOME MAN!!!
An eco-friendly from Chief Sealth
How can you buy the land or sell the sky, or the warmth of the land? It's strange to us. we don't own the freshness of the air, or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us? Thw white man doesn't understand our ways. He's a stranger who comes in the night, and takes from the land just what he needs. The whites must treat the beasts of his land, as his brothers, not his enemies. He leaves his father's grave and his birthright. His birthright is forgotten.
The air is precious to the red man, cause all things share the same breath. The White man won't notice the air he breathes, like man dying for many days. One thing we know that the white man will, we know our God is the same God. You may think you wish to own him, own him as you wish you own our land, but he is the body of man and the Earth is precious to him. Continue to contaminate your bed, and you will suffocate in your own waste.
Chief Sealth - 1852
Sad to see we are still on that road.
The air is precious to the red man, cause all things share the same breath. The White man won't notice the air he breathes, like man dying for many days. One thing we know that the white man will, we know our God is the same God. You may think you wish to own him, own him as you wish you own our land, but he is the body of man and the Earth is precious to him. Continue to contaminate your bed, and you will suffocate in your own waste.
Chief Sealth - 1852
Sad to see we are still on that road.
its been awhile
ok guys. It's been awhile. i wish i had a more political post for this update but alas i dont at the moment. But i just wanted to give everyone a heads up that Audioslave's new album Revelations is out today. It's great and i highly reccomend getting a copy for yourself.
-De La O
No I won't stop because I know the power of a question
-De La O
No I won't stop because I know the power of a question
Mexican Oaxaca for an alternative, non-commercial folk arts festival
(gonzo journalism)
this night in Oaxaca City was spent anxiously, awaiting cops on the barricades, with Molotov cocktails and metal sticks.( Collapse )
you can´t really say that you´re "just an observer" anymore when you´re hanging out at barricades with a gas mask and a metal rod, with Molotovs and rocks in boxes behind you.
luckily, nobody came. it was a desperate idea - a few dozen students, teachers and peasants would do nothing against armed cops.
but the tactics were rather to create any resistance because the governor wouldn't create a mess right before the today's touristy event.
today the governor, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, gave a speach saying that "Gualaguetza is for everybody not just for a small group".
again, in Oaxaca everybody's listening to the strikers' radios and it's not only about teachers anymore.
and, this is exactly the demand - Gualaguetza for everybody and for free, not just for tourists who can afford to pay a few hundred dollars for a ticket.
I do not know whether Ulises still hoped to hold the festival today. that's absurd. too late for him.
strikers hope that alternative Gualaguetza instead of the commercial one can also cause the governor to resign which is their main demand after the police brutality in Oaxaca on the 14th of June.
***
and maybe you heard of more than 1 mln rally in Mexoci City against the electoral fraud at the presidential election.
many Mexicans we meet seem to beleive in the cycle: they had revolutions in 1810 and 1910 so now they say rage against el mal gobierno is building up and they are awaiting the year 2010.
this night in Oaxaca City was spent anxiously, awaiting cops on the barricades, with Molotov cocktails and metal sticks.( Collapse )
you can´t really say that you´re "just an observer" anymore when you´re hanging out at barricades with a gas mask and a metal rod, with Molotovs and rocks in boxes behind you.
luckily, nobody came. it was a desperate idea - a few dozen students, teachers and peasants would do nothing against armed cops.
but the tactics were rather to create any resistance because the governor wouldn't create a mess right before the today's touristy event.
today the governor, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz, gave a speach saying that "Gualaguetza is for everybody not just for a small group".
again, in Oaxaca everybody's listening to the strikers' radios and it's not only about teachers anymore.
and, this is exactly the demand - Gualaguetza for everybody and for free, not just for tourists who can afford to pay a few hundred dollars for a ticket.
I do not know whether Ulises still hoped to hold the festival today. that's absurd. too late for him.
strikers hope that alternative Gualaguetza instead of the commercial one can also cause the governor to resign which is their main demand after the police brutality in Oaxaca on the 14th of June.
***
and maybe you heard of more than 1 mln rally in Mexoci City against the electoral fraud at the presidential election.
many Mexicans we meet seem to beleive in the cycle: they had revolutions in 1810 and 1910 so now they say rage against el mal gobierno is building up and they are awaiting the year 2010.
Jack Thompson: A Man with a plan
From GamingHorizon.com:
Earlier this month, gamer named Mitchell S. with the online screenname "Kuja105" who posts on a few online videogame forums (including GameFaqs.com and MetalGearSolid.org) committed suicide. On January 2 he posted a message in both forums detailing his intent to end his own life, citing overwhelming complications with school and finances.
A very brief period of initial disbelief was followed by a barrage of replies from fellow forum members pleading that he not take his life, trying to talk him out of it.
For days, no word was heard from Mitchell. Fearing the worst, members and administration from metalgearsolid.org began searching for contact information, spending hours on the phone trying to get in touch with him. Finally on January 4, Ryan K., an administrator at metalgearsolid.org, got him on the phone and spent hours desperately trying to talk him out of it.
Sadly, Mitchell soon ended his own life by consuming antifreeze and painkillers.
Later, members from the site contacted Mitchell's family to find out the grave news. They reported it to their online community, and posted a tribute to their passed friend on the front page of metalgearsolid.org. Mr. Jack Thompson then sent in the following letter regarding the situation to MetalGearSolid.org, one of the forums frequented by Mitchell, where he was known well:
"Your 'gamer friend' would have found peace through the Lord, Jesus Christ, but sadly it's too late for that.
There is a void in every heart. You can fill it up with the things of God, or the things not of God. This unfortunate soul chose to fill it up with combat games. The playing of these video games is masturbatory activity, meaning senseless self-stimulation. If you 'gamers' COULD use a dictionary you would know that that term is not necessarily a sexual one.
The real tragedy here extends beyond the life and death of this one fellow. There are literally millions of young people and young adults whose despair is deepend by turning to the things of this world and then finding them meaningless.
All of you 'gamers' need to put down the controllers and get a life. The utter inanity of the vast majority of postings here shows how vapid 'gaming' really is.
You are one of the cheerleaders for this wasting of time and the wasting of lives. Do you feel any remorse for having contributed to this 'culture of death?' Of course you don't. Why? Because none of you have the sense too. 'Hey, let's all play MORE games, and ignore all the really productive things to do with our lives!'
For the sake of argument let's pretend to be shocked that a gamer might descend into deeper depression, as his gamer 'buds,' knowing he was killing himself, couldn't figure out how to call 911 themselves for him. That would have involved the ignorant slackers leaving their precious computers and consoles I guess.
Sad. Sad for all of you."
Earlier this month, gamer named Mitchell S. with the online screenname "Kuja105" who posts on a few online videogame forums (including GameFaqs.com and MetalGearSolid.org) committed suicide. On January 2 he posted a message in both forums detailing his intent to end his own life, citing overwhelming complications with school and finances.
A very brief period of initial disbelief was followed by a barrage of replies from fellow forum members pleading that he not take his life, trying to talk him out of it.
For days, no word was heard from Mitchell. Fearing the worst, members and administration from metalgearsolid.org began searching for contact information, spending hours on the phone trying to get in touch with him. Finally on January 4, Ryan K., an administrator at metalgearsolid.org, got him on the phone and spent hours desperately trying to talk him out of it.
Sadly, Mitchell soon ended his own life by consuming antifreeze and painkillers.
Later, members from the site contacted Mitchell's family to find out the grave news. They reported it to their online community, and posted a tribute to their passed friend on the front page of metalgearsolid.org. Mr. Jack Thompson then sent in the following letter regarding the situation to MetalGearSolid.org, one of the forums frequented by Mitchell, where he was known well:
"Your 'gamer friend' would have found peace through the Lord, Jesus Christ, but sadly it's too late for that.
There is a void in every heart. You can fill it up with the things of God, or the things not of God. This unfortunate soul chose to fill it up with combat games. The playing of these video games is masturbatory activity, meaning senseless self-stimulation. If you 'gamers' COULD use a dictionary you would know that that term is not necessarily a sexual one.
The real tragedy here extends beyond the life and death of this one fellow. There are literally millions of young people and young adults whose despair is deepend by turning to the things of this world and then finding them meaningless.
All of you 'gamers' need to put down the controllers and get a life. The utter inanity of the vast majority of postings here shows how vapid 'gaming' really is.
You are one of the cheerleaders for this wasting of time and the wasting of lives. Do you feel any remorse for having contributed to this 'culture of death?' Of course you don't. Why? Because none of you have the sense too. 'Hey, let's all play MORE games, and ignore all the really productive things to do with our lives!'
For the sake of argument let's pretend to be shocked that a gamer might descend into deeper depression, as his gamer 'buds,' knowing he was killing himself, couldn't figure out how to call 911 themselves for him. That would have involved the ignorant slackers leaving their precious computers and consoles I guess.
Sad. Sad for all of you."
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White House correspondents dinner hosted by Steven Colbert. With Bush sitting only a few feet from him, Colbert gives him the best verbal assault possible. Well worth watching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twr…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRB… (part2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zln… (part3)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twr…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRB… (part2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zln… (part3)
Oaxaca, Mexico
http://chap-eye.livejournal.com/52…
How's this for current events? I would never have known about this if I hadn't read this link.
How's this for current events? I would never have known about this if I hadn't read this link.
Are you prepared for a war with Russia? Highly possible.
If you don't mind, I will tell you a little bit about our current military situation over here, in Russia. Before I get on, I would like to tell you that I love my country, but at the same time I hate the people who control it - Putin and his pseudo-democratic government, which is very likely to turn Russia into a police state.
Anyway, we have conscription around here, and men must serve up to three years in the army between 18 and 27 years of age. However, there are some things which can postpone your visit to the military forces - if you are a university student, have a baby under three years of age or if you are the only parent, you don't have to go to the army when you are 18, or may even be freed from the obligatory service. Ha-ha-ha, here's the good news: it's all been cancelled recently, meaning that no matter what your family or educational status is, you still must go and shoot your gun. As well as that, from 2008 onwards all military service periods will be reduced to one year.
Also, Putin recently announced that each family will be paid 250,000 roubles (around $8800) if they give birth to one more child in their family.
Here's why our government decided to play this game...
Only 15-20% of all the people which are elegible to conscription go to the army every year, leaving 80-85% of the potential military force untrained, meaning that our country will be weak in military respect. The one-year service and getting rid of the factors that can postpone your service period are supposed to attract more people, thus producing more soldiers. Combine this with the increase in the amount of newborns, for which the government provides a good enough incentive (8800 bucks is really good if you live God knows where - and most people in Russia live exactly there) - and you get a huge boost in the country's military force, with a massive amount of cannon fodder at its disposal.
Why does Russia need such stron military force? Oil. Oil's resources are running out, meaning that Russia needs to find more oil to maintain its market position. And the only country that has enough oil is USA. It's pretty clear now, isn't it? Combine it with the fact that Rumsfeld recently included Russia in the "axis of evil", and another conflict between two super powers becomes even more likely.
If my prediction is wrong, I will be a very happy man.
Anyway, we have conscription around here, and men must serve up to three years in the army between 18 and 27 years of age. However, there are some things which can postpone your visit to the military forces - if you are a university student, have a baby under three years of age or if you are the only parent, you don't have to go to the army when you are 18, or may even be freed from the obligatory service. Ha-ha-ha, here's the good news: it's all been cancelled recently, meaning that no matter what your family or educational status is, you still must go and shoot your gun. As well as that, from 2008 onwards all military service periods will be reduced to one year.
Also, Putin recently announced that each family will be paid 250,000 roubles (around $8800) if they give birth to one more child in their family.
Here's why our government decided to play this game...
Only 15-20% of all the people which are elegible to conscription go to the army every year, leaving 80-85% of the potential military force untrained, meaning that our country will be weak in military respect. The one-year service and getting rid of the factors that can postpone your service period are supposed to attract more people, thus producing more soldiers. Combine this with the increase in the amount of newborns, for which the government provides a good enough incentive (8800 bucks is really good if you live God knows where - and most people in Russia live exactly there) - and you get a huge boost in the country's military force, with a massive amount of cannon fodder at its disposal.
Why does Russia need such stron military force? Oil. Oil's resources are running out, meaning that Russia needs to find more oil to maintain its market position. And the only country that has enough oil is USA. It's pretty clear now, isn't it? Combine it with the fact that Rumsfeld recently included Russia in the "axis of evil", and another conflict between two super powers becomes even more likely.
If my prediction is wrong, I will be a very happy man.
San Franciscophobia
In honor of the Prarie Home Companion film (in theaters now), I'm posting Garrison Keillor's (The creator of the film and radio show, and brilliant writer) most recent editorial. You can see his editorials every Friday in the Courier Journal, and several other national periodicals. It's really great stuff.
San Franciscophobia
We're stuck with a terrible war and a worse president, and all the GOP can do is scream, "Pelosi and her Nancy boys are coming"? This is pathetic.
People who live in mud huts should not throw mud, especially if it comes from their own roofs. As Scripture says, don't point to the speck in your neighbor's eye when you have a piece of kindling in your own.
I see by the papers that the Republicans want to make an issue of Nancy Pelosi in the congressional races this fall: Would you want a San Francisco woman to be Speaker of the House? Will the podium be repainted in lavender stripes with a disco ball overhead? Will she be borne into the chamber by male dancers with glistening torsos and wearing pink tutus? After all, in the unique worldview of old elephants, San Francisco is a code word for g-a-y, and after assembling a record of government lies, incompetence and disaster, the party in power hopes that the fear of g-a-y-s will pull it through in November.
Running against Nancy Pelosi, a woman who comes from a district where there are known gay persons, is a nice trick, but it does draw attention to the large shambling galoot who is speaker now, Tom DeLay's enabler for years, a man who, judging by his public mutterances, is about as smart as most high school wrestling coaches. For the past year, Dennis Hastert has been two heartbeats from the presidency. He is a man who seems content just to have a car and driver and three square meals a day. He has no apparent vision beyond the urge to hang onto power. He has succeeded in turning Congress into a branch of the executive branch. If Mr. Hastert becomes the poster boy for the Republican Party, this does not speak well for them as the Party of Ideas.
People who want to take a swing at San Francisco should think twice. Yes, the Irish coffee at Fisherman's Wharf is overpriced, and the bus tour of Haight-Ashbury is disappointing (where are the hippies?), but the Bay Area is the cradle of the computer and software industry, which continues to create jobs for our children. The iPod was not developed by Baptists in Waco, Texas. There may be a reason for this. Creative people thrive in a climate of openness and tolerance, since some great ideas start out sounding ridiculous. Creativity is a key to economic progress. Authoritarianism is stifling. I don't believe that Mr. Hewlett and Mr. Packard were gay, but what's important is: In San Francisco, it doesn't matter so much. When the cultural Sturmbannfuhrers try to marshal everyone into straight lines, it has consequences for the economic future of this country.
Meanwhile, the Current Occupant goes on impersonating a president. Somewhere in the quiet leafy recesses of the Bush family, somebody is thinking, "Wrong son. Should've tried the smart one." This one's eyes don't quite focus. Five years in office and he doesn't have a grip on it yet. You stand him up next to Tony Blair at a press conference and the comparison is not kind to Our Guy. Historians are starting to place him at or near the bottom of the list. And one of the basic assumptions of American culture is falling apart: the competence of Republicans.
You might not have always liked Republicans, but you could count on them to manage the bank. They might be lousy tippers, act snooty, talk through their noses, wear spats and splash mud on you as they race their Pierce-Arrows through the village, but you knew they could do the math. To see them produce a ninny and then follow him loyally into the swamp for five years is disconcerting, like seeing the Rolling Stones take up lite jazz. So here we are at an uneasy point in our history, mired in a costly war and getting nowhere, a supine Congress granting absolute power to a president who seems to get smaller and dimmer, and the best the Republicans can offer is San Franciscophobia? This is beyond pitiful. This is violently stupid.
It is painful to look at your father and realize the old man should not be allowed to manage his own money anymore. This is the discovery the country has made about the party in power. They are inept. The checkbook needs to be taken away. They will rant, they will screech, they will wave their canes at you and call you all sorts of names, but you have to do what you have to do.
Hugs and Kisses
Mario
San Franciscophobia
We're stuck with a terrible war and a worse president, and all the GOP can do is scream, "Pelosi and her Nancy boys are coming"? This is pathetic.
People who live in mud huts should not throw mud, especially if it comes from their own roofs. As Scripture says, don't point to the speck in your neighbor's eye when you have a piece of kindling in your own.
I see by the papers that the Republicans want to make an issue of Nancy Pelosi in the congressional races this fall: Would you want a San Francisco woman to be Speaker of the House? Will the podium be repainted in lavender stripes with a disco ball overhead? Will she be borne into the chamber by male dancers with glistening torsos and wearing pink tutus? After all, in the unique worldview of old elephants, San Francisco is a code word for g-a-y, and after assembling a record of government lies, incompetence and disaster, the party in power hopes that the fear of g-a-y-s will pull it through in November.
Running against Nancy Pelosi, a woman who comes from a district where there are known gay persons, is a nice trick, but it does draw attention to the large shambling galoot who is speaker now, Tom DeLay's enabler for years, a man who, judging by his public mutterances, is about as smart as most high school wrestling coaches. For the past year, Dennis Hastert has been two heartbeats from the presidency. He is a man who seems content just to have a car and driver and three square meals a day. He has no apparent vision beyond the urge to hang onto power. He has succeeded in turning Congress into a branch of the executive branch. If Mr. Hastert becomes the poster boy for the Republican Party, this does not speak well for them as the Party of Ideas.
People who want to take a swing at San Francisco should think twice. Yes, the Irish coffee at Fisherman's Wharf is overpriced, and the bus tour of Haight-Ashbury is disappointing (where are the hippies?), but the Bay Area is the cradle of the computer and software industry, which continues to create jobs for our children. The iPod was not developed by Baptists in Waco, Texas. There may be a reason for this. Creative people thrive in a climate of openness and tolerance, since some great ideas start out sounding ridiculous. Creativity is a key to economic progress. Authoritarianism is stifling. I don't believe that Mr. Hewlett and Mr. Packard were gay, but what's important is: In San Francisco, it doesn't matter so much. When the cultural Sturmbannfuhrers try to marshal everyone into straight lines, it has consequences for the economic future of this country.
Meanwhile, the Current Occupant goes on impersonating a president. Somewhere in the quiet leafy recesses of the Bush family, somebody is thinking, "Wrong son. Should've tried the smart one." This one's eyes don't quite focus. Five years in office and he doesn't have a grip on it yet. You stand him up next to Tony Blair at a press conference and the comparison is not kind to Our Guy. Historians are starting to place him at or near the bottom of the list. And one of the basic assumptions of American culture is falling apart: the competence of Republicans.
You might not have always liked Republicans, but you could count on them to manage the bank. They might be lousy tippers, act snooty, talk through their noses, wear spats and splash mud on you as they race their Pierce-Arrows through the village, but you knew they could do the math. To see them produce a ninny and then follow him loyally into the swamp for five years is disconcerting, like seeing the Rolling Stones take up lite jazz. So here we are at an uneasy point in our history, mired in a costly war and getting nowhere, a supine Congress granting absolute power to a president who seems to get smaller and dimmer, and the best the Republicans can offer is San Franciscophobia? This is beyond pitiful. This is violently stupid.
It is painful to look at your father and realize the old man should not be allowed to manage his own money anymore. This is the discovery the country has made about the party in power. They are inept. The checkbook needs to be taken away. They will rant, they will screech, they will wave their canes at you and call you all sorts of names, but you have to do what you have to do.
Hugs and Kisses
Mario
Laziness
you know, its sad how lazy America is. The American people never act until it is too late and then when it is too late they bitch and moan and find a scapegoat for everything. Take obesity for example, two-thrids of the population is overweight or obese so the logical thing to do is...BLAME THE FAST-FOOD industry! yeah! thatll solve everything. make them serve salad as an option and america will be skinny! Meanwhile people half a world away die everyday from starvation.
Oil: Why worry about something back in the 1990s when oil is only 80 cents a gallon lets wait until its get out of control and gets up to about oh $3 then lets bitch and moan and blame everyone then lets make fun of and be racist towards the middle eastern people and then we will still buy our oil from them. And of course the oil companies are true humanitarians. Back when we made a carborator that could get cars up to 50mpg they bought it and buried it somewhere so they could keep their wallets fat. And of course it was all legal. So today we suffer but god forbid we get rid of the Hummer what with its 9mpg and all no i GOT to have it. And nevermind eletrical or hydrogen, a gas that is all around us it's everywhere, powered cars. Thats just too easy and far too economical!
Ok so my latest example of a disaster in the making is this news article right here. Keep in mind last year's hurricane season and Hurricane Katrina with this one. Ok here it is:
Tropical Depression Heading Toward Florida
By JENNIFER KAY, AP
MIAMI (June 10) - A tropical depression in the Caribbean headed toward Florida on Saturday and was expected to become the first named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season.
The depression formed earlier in the day, nine days after the official start of the season, but the poorly organized system was not expected to become a hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center.
"It will be relatively weak in terms of wind, but that doesn't mean it's going to be weak in terms of rainfall," senior hurricane specialist Stacy Stewart said.
The system, which had maximum sustained wind near 35 mph, would be named Alberto if it reaches the 39 mph threshold for a tropical storm.
At 5 p.m. EDT, the depression was centered in the Caribbean Sea about 50 miles west of Cabo San Antonio on the western tip of Cuba, forecasters said. It was moving north-northwest near 6 mph.
The hurricane center recommended tropical storm warnings for the Cuban provinces of Pinar Del Rio and the Isle of Youth.
Over the next three days, the system is expected to move through the Yucatan Channel into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, then toward Florida where it could make landfall Monday or Tuesday somewhere between South Florida and the western tip of the Panhandle, forecasters said.
The depression's outer rainbands stretched Saturday to the southern tip of Florida, and heavy rain was forecast over the state's Gulf Coast and the Florida Keys through Monday.
State officials pleaded with residents to update their hurricane preparedness plans but most shrugged at the news.
"The media overplays this, they get people very scared," said Tim Roberts, a Fort Lauderdale condo owner who was visiting Tallahassee. "Sure, when the time comes to be alarmed, yes, but don't make more out of it until it's time."
Scientists predict the 2006 season could produce up to 16 named storms, six of them major hurricanes.
Last year's hurricane season was the busiest and most destructive in recorded history. Hurricane Katrina alone devastated Louisiana and Mississippi and was blamed for more than 1,570 deaths in Louisiana alone.
Mike Martino lost his Navarre Beach home twice in the past two hurricane seasons - first to Hurricane Ivan in 2004, and never got to move into a new home built on the same lot because Hurricane Dennis wiped it out in 2005. Instead of rebuilding again, he moved to the mainland.
Martino, who rents kayaks, bikes and surfboards out of his store in Navarre Beach, worried that the weather would do more economic damage than property damage.
"I know that we have weather coming, so I can't have weekly rentals, it's all going to have to be done by the day," he said.
The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the busiest in 154 years of storm tracking, with records set for the number of named storms (28) and hurricanes (15). Forecasters used up their list of 21 proper names (beginning with Arlene and ending with Wilma) and had to use the Greek alphabet to name storms for the first time.
Meteorologists have said the Atlantic is not as warm as it was at this time in 2005, meaning potential storms would have less of the energy needed to develop into hurricanes.
Atlantic hurricane seasons were relatively mild from the 1970s through 1994. Since then, all but two years have been above normal. Experts say the ocean is in the midst of a 20-year-cycle that will continue to bring strong storms.
From 1995 to 2005, the Atlantic season averaged 15 named storms, just over eight named hurricanes and four major hurricanes, according to the hurricane center. From 1971 to 1994, there were an average of 8.5 named storms, five hurricanes and just over one major hurricane. The Atlantic hurricane season ends Nov. 30.
6/10/2006 18:28:33 EDT
Just in case you missed it i thought id show this quote for you guys one more time.
"Sure, when the time comes to be alarmed, yes, but don't make more out of it until it's time."
-De La O
No I won't stop because I know the power of a question
Oil: Why worry about something back in the 1990s when oil is only 80 cents a gallon lets wait until its get out of control and gets up to about oh $3 then lets bitch and moan and blame everyone then lets make fun of and be racist towards the middle eastern people and then we will still buy our oil from them. And of course the oil companies are true humanitarians. Back when we made a carborator that could get cars up to 50mpg they bought it and buried it somewhere so they could keep their wallets fat. And of course it was all legal. So today we suffer but god forbid we get rid of the Hummer what with its 9mpg and all no i GOT to have it. And nevermind eletrical or hydrogen, a gas that is all around us it's everywhere, powered cars. Thats just too easy and far too economical!
Ok so my latest example of a disaster in the making is this news article right here. Keep in mind last year's hurricane season and Hurricane Katrina with this one. Ok here it is:
Tropical Depression Heading Toward Florida
By JENNIFER KAY, AP
MIAMI (June 10) - A tropical depression in the Caribbean headed toward Florida on Saturday and was expected to become the first named storm of the 2006 Atlantic hurricane season.
The depression formed earlier in the day, nine days after the official start of the season, but the poorly organized system was not expected to become a hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center.
"It will be relatively weak in terms of wind, but that doesn't mean it's going to be weak in terms of rainfall," senior hurricane specialist Stacy Stewart said.
The system, which had maximum sustained wind near 35 mph, would be named Alberto if it reaches the 39 mph threshold for a tropical storm.
At 5 p.m. EDT, the depression was centered in the Caribbean Sea about 50 miles west of Cabo San Antonio on the western tip of Cuba, forecasters said. It was moving north-northwest near 6 mph.
The hurricane center recommended tropical storm warnings for the Cuban provinces of Pinar Del Rio and the Isle of Youth.
Over the next three days, the system is expected to move through the Yucatan Channel into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, then toward Florida where it could make landfall Monday or Tuesday somewhere between South Florida and the western tip of the Panhandle, forecasters said.
The depression's outer rainbands stretched Saturday to the southern tip of Florida, and heavy rain was forecast over the state's Gulf Coast and the Florida Keys through Monday.
State officials pleaded with residents to update their hurricane preparedness plans but most shrugged at the news.
"The media overplays this, they get people very scared," said Tim Roberts, a Fort Lauderdale condo owner who was visiting Tallahassee. "Sure, when the time comes to be alarmed, yes, but don't make more out of it until it's time."
Scientists predict the 2006 season could produce up to 16 named storms, six of them major hurricanes.
Last year's hurricane season was the busiest and most destructive in recorded history. Hurricane Katrina alone devastated Louisiana and Mississippi and was blamed for more than 1,570 deaths in Louisiana alone.
Mike Martino lost his Navarre Beach home twice in the past two hurricane seasons - first to Hurricane Ivan in 2004, and never got to move into a new home built on the same lot because Hurricane Dennis wiped it out in 2005. Instead of rebuilding again, he moved to the mainland.
Martino, who rents kayaks, bikes and surfboards out of his store in Navarre Beach, worried that the weather would do more economic damage than property damage.
"I know that we have weather coming, so I can't have weekly rentals, it's all going to have to be done by the day," he said.
The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was the busiest in 154 years of storm tracking, with records set for the number of named storms (28) and hurricanes (15). Forecasters used up their list of 21 proper names (beginning with Arlene and ending with Wilma) and had to use the Greek alphabet to name storms for the first time.
Meteorologists have said the Atlantic is not as warm as it was at this time in 2005, meaning potential storms would have less of the energy needed to develop into hurricanes.
Atlantic hurricane seasons were relatively mild from the 1970s through 1994. Since then, all but two years have been above normal. Experts say the ocean is in the midst of a 20-year-cycle that will continue to bring strong storms.
From 1995 to 2005, the Atlantic season averaged 15 named storms, just over eight named hurricanes and four major hurricanes, according to the hurricane center. From 1971 to 1994, there were an average of 8.5 named storms, five hurricanes and just over one major hurricane. The Atlantic hurricane season ends Nov. 30.
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"Sure, when the time comes to be alarmed, yes, but don't make more out of it until it's time."
-De La O
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