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Alaska's Mt. Redoubt Has Erupted
alaskana98 writes "Alaska's Mt. Redoubt volcano has erupted 3 times, with the first event starting at 10:38 PM Alaska standard time.
The ash cloud is estimated to be higher than 50,000 feet. So far, only light ash fall is predicted for areas north
of Anchorage."
In this time of war, you're either with the President or you're against him. We can endure temporary restrictions on liberty when the terrorist threat is so strong.
Incidentally, I like how, suddenly, Republicans are worried about the government being fascist. Even ignoring the financial crisis, which is just as much an emergency as 9/11, and probably much more of one...I seem to recall that Republicans were still insisting that terrorism existed as of...well, mid-January, and that it and our wars still justified everything Bush was doing.
Well, we're still fighting those wars, and I can't imagine why terrorists would have suddenly vanished with the election of Obama. (In fact, Republicans seem to think they'd be more of a threat under him.)
We only have to get behind 'war presidents' when they're Republican, is that it? Or did you guys just forget about this 'all-important and all-encompasing war that justifies everything' the second you got out of power?
If corporations are people, aren't stockholders guilty of slavery?
The Greenhouse pipeline of effects from causes is long enough (years) that any event depopulating the Earth enough to stop significant new human contributions would be just the beginning of many years of the climate returning to its recently mild and stable state. Sealevel rise alone, not to mention droughts, floods and storms, will probably displace hundreds of millions of refugees. Most of whom live in or near places already close to subsistence and close to the edge of war or other mass violence - or collapse of their civilization.
Our civilization is fragile, compared to the destruction that is likely if we don't reverse our Greenhouse pollution quite soon. If we wait 30 years, two human generations (especially in most coastal areas), we're probably going to be depopulated by several billion people, after at least that many are forced to flee to other areas and conflict with the people already there. Such changes are vastly more than what would destroy our civilization.
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make install -not war
upsetting her god...
Why? how did she upset the neo-cons?
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.