Category: Disasters
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Extra, Read All About It
Flash news notice. Big story in the Billings Gazette today that is really informative.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/07/25/news/state/32-dryness.txt">Dryness bad sign for fires</a><br />n<br />n[sarcasm]I would have never known dryness was a bad sign for fires if they hadn't told me.[/sarcasm] I'm sure glad they keep me up on such things.<br />n<br />nDon't get me wrong, I…
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Remote Sensing
<a href="http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/activefiremaps.php">Here</a> is an interesting site that uses satellite surveillance (Remote Sensing) to detect and map wildfires. Pretty nifty stuff. Shows you the extent of the fires in our area. I wish they would all calm down and we would get some rain but that's not in the forecast so we have to deal.<br />n<br…
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Large Loss of Life
The scale of stories like the <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EGYPT_SHIP_SINKS?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Egyptian ferry</a> disaster always awe me. It might seem odd that I say "awe me" but that's just what it does. They are saying probably more than 1000 lives were lost in this accident. Do you know, the large majority of Montana towns have less than that number…
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Wrong Priorities
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/13/AR2005121301764_pf.html">A Religious Protest Largely From the Left. Conservative Christians Say Fighting Cuts in Poverty Programs Is Not a Priority</a><br />n<br />nI think somebodies priorities are dead wrong here. Wake up and feed the children people. Get your heads screwed on straight. Trading the poor for Judges who support your position. [sarcasm]How Christian[/sarcasm].<br />n<br />n<b>The…
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Water Water Everywhere and Not a Drop to Drink
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/11/25/build/world/40-china-water_v.inc">Toxic river water flows through major Chinese city</a><br />n<br />nI always here about how bad a polluter the US is and look at this story. Four million people without clean drinking water due to pollution of the river. What is going to happen to cities downstream when this plume of pollution reaches them? Same…
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Excuse Me
What happened to the school funding issue being a state problem.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>This base, or "Q line," as some are calling it, is a minimum budget that all school districts must meet to provide a quality education.<br />n<br />nSome districts – most likely smaller districts – may be shocked to see their Q line set…
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Alpha
Wow, for the first time in recorded history they are moving into <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?tl=1&display=rednews/2005/10/22/build/nation/40-alpha.inc">the greek alphabet for storm names</a>. Very interesting.<br />n<br />n<b>To me, that's a very special milestone. Mark McGwire</b>
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Taxpayers Bail Out Failed Government Lending
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8DA0EP8B.htm?campaign_id=apn_home_down&chan=db">$1 out of $5 in 9/11 loans in default</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Roughly $1 of every $5 in loans the Small Business Administration directly made to companies hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks has fallen into default, leaving the government with an uphill effort to recover millions of dollars in taxpayer money.</blockquote><br />n<br />nPrivate lenders require…
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Unbelievable
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/10/20/build/world/55-quake-deaths.inc">Quake death toll climbs to 79,000</a><br />n<br />nAmazing that people live in such conditions that this can happen. Somewhere I read that this is a minor temblor in the area and worse are expected. Life is such a fragile thing, enjoy while you can.<br />n<br />n<b>Where there is love there is life. Mohandas Gandhi</b>
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Disaster
You might think I want to say something about the latest disaster in the world, the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/10/10/build/world/35-toll-rises_v.inc">earthquake in Pakistan</a>, and in a way I do. This event prompted our own American Wacko to claim <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20051009/ts_alt_afp/quakesasiausreligion">"that recent natural disasters around the world point to the end of the world and the imminent return of…