September 1, 2008
Hurricane Dolly, earlier this year, raised fears of just how far the Department of Homeland Security would go in terms of it's mistreatment of immigrants. Hurricane Gustav is raising those same fears as it heads into the Gulf Region and a mandatory evacuation order is in place. According to the...
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GUSTAV IS A CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE. NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN STRENGTH IS LIKELY BEFORE LANDFALL...AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS STORM SURGE OF 10 TO 14 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDAL LEVELS IS EXPECTED NEAR AND TO THE EAST OF WHERE THE CENTER OF GUSTAV CROSSES THE COAST.Storm surge. ...
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Hurricane Gustav is presently a Category 3 hurricane. By contrast, Hurricane Katrina "weakened before making its second landfall as a Category 3 storm on the morning of Monday, August 29 [2005] in southeast Louisiana."However, perhaps we focus too much on storm strength, and not enough on the the s...
go to article »August 30, 2008
Bene mentioned last night a desire for some commentary on the cynically timed announcement of McCain’s running partner as Sarah Palin, so here goes: here’s a short bit from the LA Times, who sums her up as a risky choice due to her inexperience, the very charge that the McCain campaign has bee...
go to article »August 29, 2008
August 26, 2008
KUSA TV is a local TV station in Colorado , it reported that some people mainly from the white supremacists according to their tattoos and Jewels. Here is the story from Denver ,Colorado With photos. The FBI is called to investigate the matter. Here is the story from MSNBC. I will not say that I...
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All eyes are fixed on the Democratic National Convention - and some of our international bloggers are actually in Denver, Colorado, blogging it live. Others are wishing they were there and turning to their television screens and the Internet, to cover it as the news comes in.
August 24, 2008
Tim Dunlop Monday, August 25 On the surface, Barack Obama’s choice of Joe Biden as his Vice Presidential running mate strikes me as pretty uninspired. It’s hard to imagine that it wins him an extra vote come November, though I think that sometimes the ability of a...
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In the last few hours Joseph Robinette Biden Jnr. has given his first vice-presidential candidate speech. The speech played heavily on his supposed hard work in the U.S. Senate since 1972 and his modest financial circumstances. Well it seems that Biden (along with Obama and McCain) does not ha...
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