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ON BEING A BRAINY BLONDE BUT KNOWING WHEN TO DUCK:

by vertigoblonde from ny ny

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For what humans have created...let God put the asses under...WATER!
I don't know about anyone else....but people better take their heads out of their over extended, over fed, and overly pompous asses and take themand try to fit them into reality."Lessons learned are like bridges burned, you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain? Are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?"....The late Dan Fogelberg sang these all too prophetic words years ago--but they sadly, are apropos for "times like these..." Political posturing, blame games and misappropriations of funds that were to be used for the development and maintenance of levees and dams has created a catastrophe of epic proportions.I only suspect that the blame game has already started and that President Bush will be named as host and producer of this show.Perhaps viewing Kevin Costner's "Waterworld" should become a mandatory part of education and training for our military, firefighters and police for the future......Because if we don't keep up the pace with these monumental natural disasters, that seem to be increasing in number and strength year after year, we will not need to ask what happened to the dinosaurs..........
Gail Simon
NY NY


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Sanctus read my blog view my photos
Jun 16, 2008 | 11:54 AM

What are you talking about? There is no concrete evidence that indicates that natural disasters are increasing in number or strength. Quite the contrary, the real physical evidence shows that they come and go in cycles. Television news focuses on these disasters because they make a good story and often lead people to wrongly assume that there are more disasters occurring now. The floods in Iowa are terrible and the worst in over 500 years. Using that situation in an attempt to be clever is less than wise. What point are you really trying to make? Think about it.

Daniel

vertigoblonde read my blog view my photos
Jun 17, 2008 | 4:26 PM

Sanc-timonious...

Before YOU post such an ignorant and ill researched comment and opinion---I suggest that you educate yourself before making such ridiculous comments.

"NO EVIDENCE?"

Genius--I suggest you read the FULL article that I have embedded a portion of....

I, unlike you--DO my research--and DO know what I am speaking of..

And I believe that it is YOU my dear that is making a very unstable attempt to be "clever" and "less than wise"......

Maybe you, in your uneducated delusions of grandeur, would use the suffering of others to try to be "clever"......

Spend less time writing ignorant, uneducated comments and more time researching subjects before you do.

Here's an example to help you out----



The Coming Storm Global Warming & Risk Management

By Evan Mills

Reprinted with permission from Risk Management magazine, May 1998 issue, pages 20-27.

There is little question that global climate conditions have been getting worse. Statistics from Munich Re show that, in comparison with the 1960s, five times as many natural catastrophes such as major hurricanes and tornadoes occur in a "typical" year nowadays, costing the world's economies eight times and the insurance industry 15 times as much as 40 years ago (all corrected for inflation). A record 600 catastrophes occurred in 1996, causing 12,000 deaths and $9 billion in insurance losses. And if climatic trends continue, these numbers could pale in comparison to what we can expect in the not-so-distant future.

Many experts ascribe these trends to global warming, and global warming in tu

Sanctus read my blog view my photos
Jun 19, 2008 | 3:49 PM

Thank you for a funny response. I appreciate your sardonic wit more than you know. Let me clarify my position. We are in a cycle of climate change which is widely believed to be directly related to human activity from the industrial revolution to the present day. ( I agree with this assessment) In my previous brief response, I was not specific enough and I thank you for calling me on it. I am equally thankful for the fascination that you have provided me regarding your angry personal attacks which are eerily familiar, if perhaps misdirected. I merely challenged your statements and asked you to clarify your point. You bring up a good example that represents a small time scale within the history of our planet. I was thinking in terms of billions of years. There is a vast amount of geologic and historical evidence that reflects disasters of a kind that we can only dream of. That was the context of my statement which I did not adequately outline. I lost a childhood friend in the floods in Iowa City, so my response was also tinted with that emotion. The tragic events that we see happening now have happened before and then some. I am sure that we will see many more such events, including horrific earthquakes and volcanic eruptions right here in the US. One day, our sun will expand and reduce our world to ashes and dust. Until that day, I wish you the best. Be well.

Daniel

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vertigoblonde

I have been fortunate enough to have grown up with a broad spectrum of cultures and theologies-(my birth father a Cathlolic, my first step-father an Israeli Jew and my second step-father an Egyptian Muslim), which I believe gave me the opportunity at a very young age to have a deep understanding of what fuels the deep rooted passions of conflicting ideologies, and at once,realizing that ALL religions and theologies are based on one central theme in variation. Blood IS one color---no matter the color of the skin, the religious belief, nor the country of origin. We ALL bleed. But people are more concerned with the color of money, who has the better car, clothes, jewelry, home and hold no value on what is TRULY valuable. PEACE, LOVE and the FREEDOMS that many of us take for granted. On 9/11, all of the victims, no matter what their religion, financial status or culture--ALL died in a horrific manner. From the busboys at Windows on the World, to the millionaire Kantor Fitzgerald brokers, to the poor delivery guy from the deli delivering breakfast, the Bravest, the Finest, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Agnostic, Atheist, Black, White, Yellow, mixed----ALL perished. Does anyone think it mattered about their status in any manner? Have people become soooo afraid and are they in sooo much denial about the effect that 9/11 truly had on their psyches that they forget that we were ALL attacked on that day and that ALL of our lives and way of life would forever be changed. Those who choose to use their democratic right to protest against our involvement in Iraq and who are making a mockery of our Military and their daily sacrifice for ALL of us---so that we may go to Starbucks, to the Mall, to a baseball game, to a movie, to be with your lover, your wife, your husband, your children, your family, to sleep a little more soundly at night-are an insult to their sacrifice---ALL because THEY can not do all of those things that we take for granted every day because they are sacrificing their lives for us and those daily pleasures to contain the cancer of terror that threatens to take those pleasures and freedoms from us. I pray that it will not be too late before all of us wake up and realize that this is NOT the sixties and that we are NOT dealing with the Vietnamese who designs on the world at large were less grandiose than those of the Fundamentalist Terrorists--who-unlike Hilter, who wanted to irradicate just the Jewish people--want to see the end of Western Civilization as we know it. The war in Iraq is about OIL some say? Well I would like to hear this ignorance being spewed when Fundamentalist Terrorists take control of these OIL reserves and these FEAR FACTOR cowards won't be able to function because of it. When you now look up LIBERAL in the dictionary it should say "see; TRAITOR

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