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What We Have Wrought on the World | 15 comments (15 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: What We Have Wrought on the World (4.00 / 5)

We saw an insane example of that today at the Houston airport ... with terrible hold-ups because of security bullshit.

And because lots of security workers didn't show up for work at the airport.

Just put the people on the airplanes, and help them get out of town. They're not going to blow up the planes! Let's get real here.

Shut up, George Bush. It's all bullshit, and you're dividing us against each other, and killing more people than you're saving from terrorism.

Hickok: "You know the sound of thunder. Can you imagine that sound if I ask you to? Ma'am, listen to the thunder."

by susanhu (susanhuatearthlinkdotnet) on Thu Sep 22nd, 2005 at 10:45:29 PM EST

Re: What We Have Wrought on the World (4.00 / 2)

Besides the airport snafu, how many hours did it take to figure out they ought to use both north and south lanes for those evacuating Galveston/Houston?

Our leaders seem to be tad short of common sense.

Nonviolent Action information available here

by NorthDakotaDemocrat (NorthDakotaDemocrat at g mail dot com) on Thu Sep 22nd, 2005 at 11:23:38 PM EST
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Re: What We Have Wrought on the World (4.00 / 3)

Only about 16 hours. You in a hurry or somethin'?

Hey Nick is on CNN with Anderson Cooper. Nick is the viewer on the freeway who called in earlier today, and he has his family and his two Old English sheepdogs in the car with him.... nice man.

He said he hasn't seen any tanker trucks refilling people's cars. (Has that been substantiated?)

Hickok: "You know the sound of thunder. Can you imagine that sound if I ask you to? Ma'am, listen to the thunder."

by susanhu (susanhuatearthlinkdotnet) on Thu Sep 22nd, 2005 at 11:25:59 PM EST
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Re: What We Have Wrought on the World (4.00 / 3)

I really don't know what the hell they're talking about with these tanker trucks anyway.

The semi-sized bulk fuel tankers that deliver to the gas stations normally have only a (guessing from memory) 3" dia hose. How the hell would they pump into an auto?

Then the bulk fuel trunks 1500-2000 gal capacity that deliver fuel to ag, road crew equip etc, that nozzle is probably 1.5" dia, so again, how the hell would they pump into an auto.

You would have to have had special adaptions to those tankers to pump from the same size nozzles you have at the gas stations.

If this was happening in my state what you'd have is hundreds of farmers with 100-200 gal service tanks in their pickups delivering fuel to these autos.

Texas has got to have some of these pickup service tank vehicles.

(I used to deliver bulk fuel to farmers as part of our family business. So unless Texas has some system I've never heard of before...???)

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by NorthDakotaDemocrat (NorthDakotaDemocrat at g mail dot com) on Fri Sep 23rd, 2005 at 12:27:08 AM EST
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Cut the bottom from a gas canister (none / 0)

and use it as a funnel?

by macdust on Fri Sep 23rd, 2005 at 08:47:50 AM EST
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Re: Cut the bottom from a gas canister (none / 1)

Maybe??? But not too likely as I doubt you could cut the rate of flow from either the semi-tanker or bulk truck to rate that would prevent blowing it all back in your face.

I have yet to see a "tanker" filling an auto on CNN.

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by NorthDakotaDemocrat (NorthDakotaDemocrat at g mail dot com) on Fri Sep 23rd, 2005 at 09:03:26 AM EST
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Re: What We Have Wrought on the World (none / 1)

there are gas stations at rest stops. maybe they are just refilling those?

by snappy on Fri Sep 23rd, 2005 at 10:33:39 AM EST
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Re: What We Have Wrought on the World (none / 1)

They're 20 miles from Austin, and they think it'll take two hours to get there. Their son lives there.

CNN just showed a picture of Nick and his wife. Wonder how they got that ... maybe their son sent it.

Hickok: "You know the sound of thunder. Can you imagine that sound if I ask you to? Ma'am, listen to the thunder."

by susanhu (susanhuatearthlinkdotnet) on Thu Sep 22nd, 2005 at 11:27:17 PM EST
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Make That 45 Years and 16 Hours (none / 1)

I'm sure I remember that evacuation of major cities was part of the plan for the period just ahead of nuclear war. If they were going to evacuate NYC in 25 minutes, I'm pretty sure they knew they were going to need to turn all lanes outbound.

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy.... --ML King, "Beyond Vietnam"

by Gooserock on Fri Sep 23rd, 2005 at 12:57:27 AM EST
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Re: Make That 45 Years and 16 Hours (none / 0)

Duh.

Hickok: "You know the sound of thunder. Can you imagine that sound if I ask you to? Ma'am, listen to the thunder."

by susanhu (susanhuatearthlinkdotnet) on Fri Sep 23rd, 2005 at 12:28:17 PM EST
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One unreported aspect of the War on Terra ... (4.00 / 2)

...is what has happened to refugee admissions to the United States.

Prior to 9/11, the U.S. admitted about 130,000 refugees annually. But the quota is now 70,000 annually, and we're not coming close to meeting that figure.

For fiscal year 2004 (ending September, 2003), the total admissions were 28,405. For FY 2003, the total admissions were 23,249. For FY 2005, which ends next Thursday, the total will be less than 40,000, an improvement, but still less than 60% of the quota, and 30% of the ante-9/11 average.

Meanwhile, refugees die waiting to come here.

"We're trying to give the illusion of due diligence." --Bennett Holiday to Jimmy Pope in Syriana

by Meteor Blades (tleelange@hotmail.com) on Fri Sep 23rd, 2005 at 12:04:24 PM EST
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Re: One unreported aspect of the War on Terra ... (none / 1)

Great reminder.

You made me instantly think of the diary I wrote months ago about Angelina Jolie speaking before the D.C. press club and meeting with the likes of Tom Delay to press for more humane treatment of young child refugees coming to this country. (They're currently treated horribly.)

Must check and see if Angelina's legislation got through. She personally donated a large sum to help with the building of a nice place for the kids to be.

Hickok: "You know the sound of thunder. Can you imagine that sound if I ask you to? Ma'am, listen to the thunder."

by susanhu (susanhuatearthlinkdotnet) on Fri Sep 23rd, 2005 at 12:30:20 PM EST
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