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Just FYI on a couple of fronts
Fri, Mar. 11th, 2011 09:32 amMy thoughts and prayers are with the people of Japan and my friends in Hawaii. The Earth is an angry, powerful mother. Bad enough the flooding and quake damage in Japan; I hope that nuclear power plant is gotten under control.
The West Coast of the U.S. is under a tsunami advisory and parts of the Washington state coast have been evacuated as a precautionary measure. Seattle is too far inland for a tsunami to be a threat to the city. The Olympic Peninsula and the Straights of Juan de Fuca act as buffers and will diffuse residual energy before any tsunami effects might reach us. I consider us fortunate. On the other hand, more activity like this on the Ring of Fire makes me nervous. But we can't really do anything about that.
Representative King, just so you know: Your hearings are an embarrassment to this nation. They are divisive, expensive, and they won't make this country any safer. All they are doing is putting your bigotry on public record. We've been here before, but I guess you haven't learned anything about some guy named Joe McCarthy. We'll say your name and his in one breath someday, probably this afternoon.
On a completely different subject, I won't be doing the census meme currently making the rounds. It would require more research than I feel like doing right now and I just don't feel like doing that kind of looking back. Right now, I'm trying to do a lot of looking forward.
I've made an appointment to get my computer looked at tomorrow. I'll be doing a major clean-up and back-up tonight.
The West Coast of the U.S. is under a tsunami advisory and parts of the Washington state coast have been evacuated as a precautionary measure. Seattle is too far inland for a tsunami to be a threat to the city. The Olympic Peninsula and the Straights of Juan de Fuca act as buffers and will diffuse residual energy before any tsunami effects might reach us. I consider us fortunate. On the other hand, more activity like this on the Ring of Fire makes me nervous. But we can't really do anything about that.
Representative King, just so you know: Your hearings are an embarrassment to this nation. They are divisive, expensive, and they won't make this country any safer. All they are doing is putting your bigotry on public record. We've been here before, but I guess you haven't learned anything about some guy named Joe McCarthy. We'll say your name and his in one breath someday, probably this afternoon.
On a completely different subject, I won't be doing the census meme currently making the rounds. It would require more research than I feel like doing right now and I just don't feel like doing that kind of looking back. Right now, I'm trying to do a lot of looking forward.
I've made an appointment to get my computer looked at tomorrow. I'll be doing a major clean-up and back-up tonight.