August 25, 2008 www.youtube.com The Fringe Pattern Parkersburg Tornado Video #1 - Bank, from the Fringe ARG at ImagineTheImpossibilities.com. For more info, visit FringeTelevision.com

I’ve recently gotten a Nikon D3000 and now I want to venture into more professional photography. I would like to convert my garage into a collapsible photo studio of sorts, since…you know, two cars have to get in there. It’s a two car garage but there’s some stuff lining the walls like bookshelves and crates and hurricane shutters. How should I go about this in a relatively cost conscious way?

I have to use my own collection of photos to show prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells, creation of cell walls, protein synthesis, pili, flagella, history of organisms, future of organisms, Life spans of organisms, parasites, viruses, grooves, base pairings, phenotypes, genotypes, roensics, genetic engineering, chromosomes, RNA genes, mutation, inheritance, number of genes, chromosomal organization. types of storms, layers of the atmosphere, hurricane, tornado, weather forecasting paraphanalia, barometic pressure. Any help would rock. and i’ll owe you eternal servitude if you help me Please. Im so close too straight As. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Tnx.

Okay. I live in Seminole county and we are currently getting hammered by tropical storm Fay. So I went out side in inspect the floods and some are up to my knees. When I went down my street there were catfish swimming around in my road. I made a video. I am the one in the red jacket.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NG7G0pe0_w

Isnt that crazy!?

They r out all night & freeze! My neighbors used to bring them in but now they don’t! The water they have is frozen & they only get fed every other day! I feel so sorry 4 them but what can I do? We really don’t get along w/ them!! I’m afraid 2 call the shelter 2 have them investageted. I want 2 do it annynoisly but my hubby says no!! I don’t want them 2 freeze out there!! They r mother & daughter 6 yrs and 2 yrs!! Should I call the shelter & have them look into this or turn my back & hope they die peacefully which will break my heart? What should I do?
They look in good shape 4 pitt bulls. They r on oppsite sides of the yard. The dog houses r made of wood on 3 sides w/ the front open. They both have a rug on the ground next 2 the houses. My neighbors say that they r not pets only guard dogs 4 keep them safe. I have only seen them fed once (left overs) but my hubby says that the father feeds them everyday I just don’t c it! 4 the last week it has been between
9′ f & 29′ f ! Plus we have been having windchill factors of -10. When I walk my pup @ 3 am the black & white (mother dog) 1 is lying on the side of her house, the brown laying next 2 the house on a rug that is just a little bigger than her! I noticed this last week & asked hubby who said 2 mind my own business! I can’t any more. Their feed & water bowls r metal mixing bowls or metal pots! They r also on very short leashes & @ 1st I thought they couldn’t get into their houses but I sw them walking around 2 day so that can’t b the case!
I have only seen my neighbors bring in the dogs when they broke their chains that r tied around a tree. I don’t even think they have collars (I’ve never seen them) I think they r tied up w/ the chains that r tied 2 the trees!!
I e-mailed my local animal shelter & told them. I only gave my e-mail address & asked them NOT to tell who reported them!! I gave the address as well as directions & told them what I saw!! I hope 2 hear something soon!!

ENOUGH of Hurricane Katrina. YES it was horrible & sad . SO was 9/11. Life goes on! Ever since Katrina every1 scared it’s "going to happen again". Does any1 hate how the media scares us. I live in Houston so I have an idea of what Hurricanes are too! I am so sick of hearing about a storm off the coast of AFRICA & people in Houston making evac. plans & stokcing up on supplies. I know you can’t be too careful but some ppl take it too far don’t you think?
Sorry Nicole :(.
Sorry Nicole :(.
I’m referring to people in Houston worrying about Gustav & I don’t need to hear about N.O for the 3001th time. Why does everyone mention New Orleans when it comes to Katrina? What in the HELL about Mississippi?

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther King’s most influential address delivered in 1963 promoted peace and equality. It was the dream that was thought to have united black and whites communities. The dream that made America aware of a serious problem that is still very well alive today and practiced in illiberal discriminations.
Race, racism, discrimination – are exemplary words that connect the division of the world: blacks and whites. This essay will delineate these racial issues and argue that the “belief”, of one race, particularly whites, are naturally superior amongst other races, particularly blacks, is not a false belief. This of course does not mean that racism does not exist. Racism is not just a doctrine; it’s a part of our nature. On that account, racism is a structure of power that is widely recognized. The white American race over the black African-American race I argue, have the same civil rights but are distributed unequally. This essay will provide examples of racism from geographic isolation, education, employment, hurricane Katrina, and literature.
Historically, blacks have faced discrimination through limitless physical cruelty and abuse. Blacks have faced discrimination in varied forms to a much greater extent then other ethnic groups. Much of the discrimination African Americans have experienced is a direct result of slavery. Today blacks are considered a minority due to a long running racial tension dominated by the white race in the United States. As a concept, the white race has become significant in relation to other groups. Thus, white supremacy evolved and is often associated with anti-black racism contains varying degrees of racism which differentiates blacks in a significant isolationism. These factors include geographic isolation, employment and education in which deprives a black American and other minorities of opportunities opposed to a white American. Blacks and other minorities populate many of the nations economically poor urban centers predominantly.
The education African Americans lags behind those of U.S. ethic groups are reflected by test scores, grades, urban high school graduation rates, rates of disciplinary action, and rates of conferral of undergraduate degrees. Blacks lag behind whites in 2000 by nearly a factor of two. Black and Hispanic high school students enrolled in Advanced Placement (AP) courses at approximately half the rate of white students. U.S. Cenus surveys showed that by 1999, eighty-nine percent of African Americans had completed high school, lagging only slightly behind ninety-four percent of whites. The ratio of white Americans to completed four years of college in 1998 was twenty-nine percent, while African Americans at about half the rate of whites at just fourteen percent. Inner city public schools and other centers of poverty have failed to produce literate learners. This achievement gap proves the issue of low-income/minority education in the United States. Thus, Blacks and Hispanic students from poor families perform worse in school then their well of white and Asian peers.
Blacks in the United States face a far dire situation that is portrayed by common employment. According to 1999 U.S. Department of Labor statistics blacks are almost twice as likely as whites to be unemployed. In 1999, the median income of African Americans families was ,255 compared to ,356 of whites. Blacks suffer disproportionately from job loss and underemployment. Why? Academic failure is the outcome of unemployment. Nationwide, the September 2004 unemployment rate for blacks was 10.3 percent while whites were unemployed at the rate of 4.7 percent.
There are various factors lying behind the low-test scores and low income in African American communities. One of the factors is that the whole region is poor. Also employee discrimination from racist thinkers affects a minority. A poll commissioned by the national conference, a workplace diversity organization, found that sixty-three percent of whites thought blacks have equal opportunity to work anywhere, whereas eighty percent of African Americans felt they do not. African Americans endure many struggles and although inequalities still exist, many blacks have risen up to the middle classes fighting for equality. Not so long ago, racism was the explicit ideology. Today, on the other hand, it is eschewed by almost every prominent figure of note. Today virtually no one wants to be known as a white supremacist.
Yet, when a category five hurricane hit New Orleans in August 2005, Katrina, unleashed a devastation and criticism that split racial lines. The government response to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts to the storms aftermath were delayed and focused as race as a factor in problems with the federal response. Those remained behind were trapped in the rising waters in New Orleans were overwhelmingly black and visibly poor. A poll found that six in ten blacks interviewed said the federal government was slow in rescuing victims after Katrina because many of the people were black. But only about one in eight white respondents shared that view.
“What Katrina Teaches About the Meaning of Racism” an essay by Nils Gilman argues that white and blacks disagree about the role of race in Hurricane Katrina’s impact due to “a public disagreement in the United States about the meaning of racism itself. The Fundamental divide in the debate over racism in the United States today is between those who regard racism as essentially a question of individual psychology versus those were consider it a social structural phenomenon” Gilman believes that most whites, and the political right, define racism as an equivalent to racial prejudice. For example, prejudice against others because of their “supposed racial characteristics.” Blacks disagree with whites about whether race influenced the failure to adequately plan for and those left behind in New Orleans because blacks view the issue from the perspective of structural racism. This form of racial discrimination is perpetuated through unconscious social habits that originate from intentional conscious discrimination. Social patterns persist in this country that stem from old conscious racial discrimination and determine factors including where people live, as evidenced by the racial segregation present in New Orleans’s neighborhoods pre-Katrina. Gilman uses the example of all-white country club to illustrate the operation of this more subversive type of racism. Moreover, the scandal-plagued down to former senator of Illinois, Carol Mosley Braun, mentions in the International Herald Tribune, “Those who survive [Katrina] will have stories no less chilling then the stories passed down the generations from survivors who fled the night riders in the late 1800s”- Braun compared the government response to Katrina to anti-black lynching riots during Reconstruction. The human sufferings from Hurricane Katrina symbolized that race is an issue.
Redressing the injustices caused by our nation’s historic discrimination against people of color and for leveling what has been an unequal playing field, the blacks, have always been subjugated to slavery. Centuries long legacy of racism has not been eradicated despite the gains made during the civil rights era and federal laws there is still much hatred between whites and blacks.
Mark Twain attacked these issues of racism and slavery in the novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain wrote the novel after slavery was abolished and set the novel when slavery was still considered a fact of life, to illustrate that by Twain’s time things had not necessarily gotten much better for blacks. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn sent a message to many Americans and the rest of the world that slavery should not be continued in the United States. Twain used historical facts and data to make this story realistic. There are many points in the novel where Twain through his character Huck, voices his extreme opposition to slavery and racism.
The racist and hateful contempt which existed at the time and presented in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is in many ways present. But, it is vital for the reader and a person to recognize these ideas as society’s and to recognize that Twain throughout the novel disputes these ideas. Twain writes and brings out in the open the ugliness of society and causes the reader to challenge the original description of a black, enslaved being. In this subtle manner, he creates not an apology for slavery but a challenge to it. “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn”, American author Ernest Hemingway is said that the book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn offers insights into American society and into people in general. An expert from the New York Times in 1982, "The people whom Huck and Jim encounter on the Mississippi" Russell Baker said, "are drunkards, murderers, bullies, swindlers, lynchers, thieves, liars, frauds, child abusers, numskulls, hypocrites, windbags and traders in human flesh. All are white. The one man of honor in this phantasmagoria is ‘****** Jim,’ as Twain called him to emphasize the irony of a society in which the only true gentleman was held beneath contempt."

I’m going to a Bahamas cruise on the Carnival Sensation on Thursday August 21st. Our departure is from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Do you think that this vacation is going to be dangerous and should I cancel it? We come back the 24th. I’m not really sure If this will be a safe trip and I’m not sure about what exactly is happening in Florida right now. Please help and Thank You so much!!

A window broke and the carpet got all wet. We had to remove the carpet because there was mold under it and it stunk really bad. We just moved out, and our landlord says he is keeping all of our deposit becase it doesn’t say anywhere in our lease that we are allowed to remove carpet.

Tornado touches down in the small town of Elie, Manitoba Canada. Elie is located 25 miles west of Winnipeg. There was extensive property damage but miraculously there were no fatalities and only minor injuries. This was the strongest reported tornado in Canadian history. Environment Canada weather office rated it at an F5. There were 7 confirmed tornadoes in southern Manitoba that weekend. Recorded June 22, 2007

Panama City Florida. Hurricane Surf Footage. 7/19/05

I am taking my family to Disney World and unfortunately can only go in September, October, or November… when is it hurricane season down there? Which of the three months would it be the "safest" to go, weather-wise? Thank you.

This is NOT my homework.. just a review questions i should be studying for my exam.. answer any that you knowwww

11) The energy of a mid-latitude cyclone comes mainly from
A) greenhouse effect
B) Earth’s interior
C) ocean water
D) sinking cold air and rising warm air
E) clouds

15) The typical amount of time it takes for an air mass to pass over a given area is on the order of a few
A) minutes B) hours C) weeks D) months E) days

20) Why are cT air masses of minor importance for the U.S.?
A) prevailing winds steer them away
B) upper level subsidence limits their formation
C) no large source region is near the U.S.
D) mountains block their approach

30) Which of these is not a process by which air masses are modified?
A) cooling from below
B) heating from below
C) evaporation of water
D) calm winds
E) lifting over mountains

38) Why are thunderstorms most likely to occur in the afternoon and early evening?
A) upper-level winds are too fast at night and in morning
B) water-vapor contents are too low at night
C) it takes all day for them to mature
D) atmosphere is most unstable at that time
E) lower atmosphere is too unstable in the morning

5) The primary effect on climate of a volcanic eruption is based on
A) how much ash is emitted
B) whether the ash or gas reaches the stratosphere
C) the explosive force of the eruption
D) how much gas is emitted
E) the amount of water evaporated

24) The development of large, fast computers has allowed this method of weather prediction to become useful.
A) synoptic
B) analog
C) numerical
D) nowcasting
E) persistence

10) Accuracy of weather forecasts begins to decrease rapidly for periods greater than
A) 1 day B) 2 days C) 5 days D) 1 month E) 1 week

13) The positions of fronts are identified on a surface weather map through their association with
A) places where clouds and precipitation are found
B) large changes in humidity
C) abrupt changes in temperature
D) large changes in wind direction
E) all of the above

17) Why is most weather data displayed in the form of a map or chart?
A) maps display the data in their proper place, relative to other data, and allow the identification of patterns
B) maps are easier to remember
C) more data can be recorded on a map
D) maps are easier to construct than tables

20) Successful short term forecasts (a few hours) can often be made using this method of prediction:
A) probability forecasting
B) persistence forecasting
C) upper-wave forecasting
D) climatological forecasting
E) analog forecasting

4) The path that cyclonic storms follow (storm track) is usually farther to the south during
A) autumn B) nighttime C) summer D) winter

5) The capacity of the atmosphere to disperse and dilute pollutant materials is
A) limited and highly variable
B) unlimited except in the tropics
C) unlimited
D) limited and very small
E) large and unchanging

Dangerous indoor air pollutants include
A) radon
B) formaldehyde
C) cigarette smoke
D) b and c
E) a, b, and c

Does anyone officially know what the storm in Illinois (southern Illinois mostly) was classified?

In my area, just finding drinking water or gasoline was a serious issue. Most of us finally have power today. Many of us lost our stock and emergency supplies too in the clocked 108 mph winds. A huge oak tree from across the street uprooted and landed on top of our home, so we are staying at a motel in another county. The first night we camped out in our back yard with what we could find. I don’t know how many deters we made to find a road or highway that was clear after that first day.

I would like to know if anyone has an official name for this storm. On the radio, NOAA is saying it was a very rare occurance, but he seemed ambiguous on whether it was a straight line of tornadoes or an inland hurricane. He stated that it was as severe as a hurricane, but it also behaved as if it were tornadoes.

Does vortex have to be liquid or air etc….likethe tornado/hurricane etc./…?. Or can a vortex be made up of material for example you grab a paper and make it in a form of a cone you know, creating circles kind of…Is that a vortex?
and is this a vortex? http://www.flickr.com/photos/nespyxel/29…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mabelinsantos/2671680147/in/set-72157601330682771/

I am looking for a dog for my family. I am hoping to find some kind of bear dog, border collie, or husky. I live in montana and on a Reservation. Where the weather stays cool and warm in the summer but in the winter its colder than othere states. So if any one out there is from montana and know of a pet shelter that has any of the dogs im looking for please Give Me A Answer.

May 9, 1999, damage six days after the massive F5 tornado that struck south Oklahoma City and Moore. This footage was shot primarily in the neighborhood near SW 134th Street and Western Avenue in Oklahoma City.

if you currently doing your years in active or inactive years after active please fill out,if your retired and not doing your inactive years please dont fill out
First of all, on behave of all students of Buena Vista University in Fort Dodge, Iowa we would like to thank you for your service for us and this great country. Your duty and sacrifice means to a lot to us, so keep the good work.

At Buena Vista University as students, we are conducting a survey on the cohesion of military units and we would be honored if take this survey for us. Providing information on this survey is voluntary. There is no penalty if you choose not to respond. However, maximum participation is encouraged so that the data will be complete and representative. Your survey instrument will be treated as confidential. Identifying information will be used only by persons engaged in, and for the purposes of, the survey

Cohesion in Military Units

1.Which area of the armed services are you a member of?
a.Army
b.Navy
c.Air Forces
d.Marines

2.What is your grade?
a.E-1 to E-3 f. Warrant Officer
b.E-4 g. O-1 to O-2
c.E-5 h. O-3
d.E-6 i. O-4
e.E-7 to E-9 j.O-5 and above

3.What category does your occupation fall?
a.Infantry, Gun Crews and Allied Science, including armor and amphibious, combat engineering, combat air crew and military police.
b.Electronic Equipment Repair
c.Communications and Intelligence Specialists
d.Medical and Dental Specialists
e.Other Technical and Allied Specialists, including photography, drafting, surveying, mapping, weather, ordinance disposal and diving, scientific and engineering aides, musicians
f.Administrative Specialists and Clerks
g.Electrical/Mechanical Equipment Repair
h.Craft workers, including metal working, construction, utilities, lithography, gas and fuel production, fabric, leather and rubber repair, marine operating crafts, fire fighting, and damage control

4.Are you (mark only one)
a.Hispanic
b.Black
c.White
d.Other

5.What is the highest grade of school that you have completed?
a.High school, not graduate
b.High school diploma or GED
c.Associate’s or other two year degree
d.Bachelor’s degree
e.Graduate Study or graduate Degree

6.What is your gender?
a.Male
b.Female

To be continued…

The rest of the survey…

7.If currently married or in relationship, is your spouse…
a.On active military duty?
b.A civilian, but formally in the military?
c.A civilian, never in military?
d.N/A, I am single

8.How long have you been serving in the military?
Years_____Months_____
9.Have you served in the following operations (check all that apply)?
__ Operation Just Cause in Panama
__ Operations Desert Storm/Shield
__ Operation Joint Task Force hurricane Andrew or Katrina in Florida and Georgia
__ Operation Restore Hope in Somalia
__ Operation Able Sentry in Macedonia
__ Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti
__ Operation Joint Endeavor in Bosnia
__ Other

10.Would you like to stay in military until retirement?
a.Yes
b.No
c.Not sure

11.Are their members of the opposite sex serving in your unit?
a.Yes
b.No

12.Which of the following describes how you feel about your co-workers?
a.I believe that I can trust and depend on my coworkers.
b.I believe that my coworkers and I communicate well
c.I believe that my coworkers and I work well together.
d.I believe that my coworkers and I would respond well to a crisis.

13.How would you describe the cohesiveness of your unit?
a.We are a very cohesive unit.
b.We are a loosely cohesive unit.
c.We are divided into conflicting groups.
d.Gender differences weaken cohesiveness.

14.Do you think men and women should be segregated during basic training, or integrated?
a.Segregated for both enlisted and officers
b.Segregated for enlisted, but integrated officers
c.Integrated for enlisted, but segregated for officers
d.Integrated for both enlisted and officers

15.When women are integrated into previously all-male units, how should they be assigned?
a.We should try to assign women evenly across units.
b.We should try to assign women only to some units so there will be more of them on each sight.
c.We shouldn’t pay attention to gender when assigning women to previously all-male units.

To be continued…

The rest of the survey:

16.Do you believe women are treated differently by your commanding officer?
a.Yes
b.No

17.Do you believe you have been treated differently by your coworkers because of gender?
a. Yes
b. No

18. If you believe you have been treated differently, how (select all that apply)?
a. I have received more mentoring/instruction/support than opposite gender.
b. I have received less mentoring/instruction/ support than opposite gender.
c. I have been given more dirty work.
d. I have been given less dirty work.
e. Others pay more attention to me and single me out.
f. Others pay less attention to me and ignore me.
g. I am harassed or teased because of my gender.
h. More is expected of me than the opposite gender.
i. Less is expected of me that the opposite gender.
j. I tend to get better assignments than the opposite gender.
k. I tend to get worse assignments than the opposite gender.
l. I tend to receive overly positive work evaluations.
m. I tend to receive overly negative work evaluations.
n. I have a better chance of being promoted than the opposite gender.
o. I have a less chance of being promoted than the opposite gender.

19.Which of the following options comes closet to your opinion?
a.I am satisfied with the present military regulations that exclude women from certain direct combat roles.
b.I think that women who want to volunteer for the combat arms should be allowed to do so.
c.I think that women should be treated exactly like men and serve in the combat arms just like men.

20.How do you feel about the possibility of women serving in the following units?
a.These units should remain closed to women. b.Qualified women should be allowed to volunteer for these units. c.Qualified women should be assigned to these units the same way men are.
Infantry a b c
Armor a b c
Submarines a b c
Special Forces a b c

21.Is there anything on the topic of women serving in your unit that you would feel uncomfortable saying in front of service members?
a.Yes
b.No
c.If yes, please explain:

Thanks for taking the survey…

What is the projected path of Hurricane Ike. How strong is the storm??

Since hurricane season is right around the corner, I was thinking of doing some exterior updates to my house…storm shutters and whatnot. I was just curious if any of you have applied for the discounts they give with the “MY Safe Florida Home” program. A friend of mine told me today, that they denied her because her home was worth too much, and that the process was arduous.

Was it an easy process?

Would you say the process is worth the discount?

TornadoVideos.net storm chasers captured this incredible footage of a massive wedge tornado near Pipestone, Manitoba on June 23, 2007. This highlight video features the entire life-cycle of this textbook tornadic supercell from its development in the Moose Mountains of Saskatchewan. Check out TornadoVideos.net for more insane tornado footage, breaking news, and our live GPS tracker!

On August 30, 2005, Mexican President Vicente Fox sent his condolences to President George W. Bush: "In the name of the people and of the government of Mexico, I assure you of my deepest and most sincere condolences for the devastating effects caused by Hurricane Katrina". He also mentioned his instructions to the Secretariat of Foreign Affairs; that the United States would be provided with any kind of help that was needed.

On September 1, Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas received almost 196 Mexican troops, 14 truckloads of water, a mobile surgical unit, 45 military vehicles, 3 tons of purified water, and more than 250 tons of food, bottled water, canned food, disposable diapers and medical supplies. The Mexican Government sent million through the Mexican Red Cross which collected an additional million, as well as 200 tons of food delivered in five airplanes from the Mexican Air Force by another Mexican Government body. The Mexican Navy sent two ships, eight all-terrain vehicles, seven amphibious vehicles, two tankers, two helicopters, radio communication equipment, medical personnel Mexican aid workers set up temporary headquarters in the Houston Astrodome to assist relief workers and hurricane victims were very grateful for the aid that the Mexicans provided. The Mexicans provided hot meals to evacuees and relief workers, and Mexican medical teams also deployed into local area hospitals to tend to the influx of evacuees who flooded San Antonio area hospitals.

The medical team was three doctors, three dentists, three nurses and three paramedics, conducted 134 medical evaluations, performed 526 medical consultations, provided 363 ambulatory nursing procedures, and medically evacuated 83 personnel during their hurricane relief mission. affected by Katrina, and also offered to cover the costs of returning mexican nationals back to Mexico. Also offered was teams of epidemiologists, to reduce the risks of infections caused by mosquitoes.

The Mexican Red Cross sent four rescue experts from the state of Jalisco to assist in rescue efforts in New Orleans. The government of the Mexican Federal District also pledged to help with relief efforts.

On September 4 the Mexican Navy offered ships, buses and helicopters to assist in rescue missions. The offer was accepted and the Mexican ship Papaloapan departed from Tampico, with two Mi-17 helicopters, eight all-terrain vehicles, seven amphibious vehicles, two tankers, radio communication equipment, medical personnel and 250 tons of food.

Thank you Mexico !

Weather Has Always Happened,
But Now It’s Political and It’s on the News
May 10, 2007

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RUSH: Yesterday I actually opened the program by asking if anybody had seen Algore or Laurie David conducting a press conference on the first subtropical storm out there, subtropical storm Andrea Mitchell — which, by the way, have you seen the latest forecast track? They’ve got it doing circles. It’s going to come close to making landfall a little south of Jacksonville. Now it’s not going to make landfall and it’s going to turn back out to sea. You watch. The thing is going to head our way before it’s all said and done. You just watch. Regardless, I was prescient once again. Laurie David shows up on PMSNBC this morning. Joe Scarborough is taking his shot at the morning show and Scarborough asking her about the Malibu fires, California fires, and she launched.

DAVID: I mean, do you believe what’s going on in this country weatherwise? I mean, are you guys talking about this? I mean, honestly, let me just ask you this here, okay? When you were growing up, do you remember that "severe weather" was a regular category every night on the evening news? Do you remember that?

RUSH: No. The reason was there was no political agenda behind the weather when we were growing up, Laurie. Now there’s a political agenda driving the weather. It’s called global warming. There are no such things as "weather phenomenon." It’s a sorry thing that happened in Greensburg, Kansas, but tornadoes happen. They’ve been happening long before we were born, Laurie, before we were kids, and so do hurricanes and they’ve been happening. There’s nothing that happens in weather that’s unique. Nothing that happens in weather that is unprecedented. It’s not possible. This planet has been around too long! How many billions and billions and billions of years have the planet been around? All of a sudden for us, during our lifetimes, all of a sudden things are happening that have never happened before? Oh, my God, and we’re the ones responsible! Oh, my God. We’re ruining the planet. Oh, no. Really? Oh, my God, we gotta do something! We need higher taxes. One square of toilet paper per bathroom visit. Why, we’ve got to change our light bulbs.

It’s absurd. It’s patently absurd.

I’m going to read something to you from our local paper here, the Palm Beach Post. This is about Tropical Storm Andrea Mitchell out there. I want to read the first couple of lines, and see if anything reaches out and grabs you. "Three weeks before hurricane guides appear in local grocery stores, subtropical storm Andrea [Mitchell] swirled off the north Florida coast Wednesday, a reminder that Mother Nature is in charge here. The first named May storm in more than a quarter century, Andrea [Mitchell], isn’t expected to strengthen much beyond its current 45-mile-per-hour winds and may not even strike land." What stands out at you in that sentence? Dawn, what stands out? No. See, this is how they do it. Dawn’s reaction: "It’s not going to strike land." No, what stands out is this: "The first named May storm in more than a quarter century." That means that 25 years ago there was one in May. There was a named storm prior to the June 1st hurricane season, 25 years ago. Twenty-five years ago they were warning us of global cooling, a new ice age. So, yeah, we got this thing out there, and the Laurie Davids of the world hype all over this and claim it’s a result of global warming — and, of course, man’s decadent lifestyle. But there’s nothing happening today in weather that has not happened before countless, countless other times.

More audio sound bites. Katie Couric, by the way, let me tell you what happened on this. Yesterday I also opened the show and I offered — because when I saw that the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric’s ratings are the lowest they’ve been since 1987, 20 years, I offered — myself as exclusive interview subject to Katie and the CBS Evening News. I’d do a live interview, in order to jack the ratings, because I’m Rush Limbaugh: I am ratings. I offered to help. CBS did call. 60 Minutes called. My old buddy from 60 Minutes who produced the first segment, the only one, the first one they did of me way back in the early ’90s, Bob Andersen, called and he said, "We’ll be happy to have Katie interview you for 60 Minutes and then run excerpts of that interview on the evening news."

We smiled. "Nice try, Bob. You’re a smart guy, but, no, the deal was I offer myself to Katie for the evening news: one shot, live interview," knowing full-well it will never happen, ladies and gentlemen, for a host of reasons, but among the reasons at the top is: Can you imagine if a live interview with me actually did jack the ratings? What would that say? We know that it would. We would make sure that it did, because I am Rush Limbaugh. I am ratings. Anyway, we have a sound bite from Katie on her CBS Evening News last night about all this "extreme weather."
COURIC: Already this month federal disasters have been declared in six states. By the way, don’t think nature has spared the rest of the world. Australia is dealing with its worst drought ever. Italy is also suffering through a drought. Meanwhile, usually dry parts of northern Africa have been hit with deadly rainstorms. And it seems almost biblical that 2007 is the Year of the Locust.

RUSH: Wait, it’s a newscast. How does that get thrown in? And it seems almost biblical? By the way, Katie, your audience doesn’t want to hear references to the Bible. Big no, no, don’t know who put that on the prompter. But somebody should have gotten it off of there. Now we have a montage from MSNBC’s Amy Robach, ABC’s Sam Champion, NBC’s Dawn Fratangelo and Matt Lauer on subtropical storm Andrea Mitchell.

ROBACH: We have a named storm three weeks before the season is even supposed to start.

CHAMPION: Tropical Storm Andrea is three weeks ahead of the hurricane season.

FRATANGELO: She’s called Andrea, arriving a full three weeks before the official start of hurricane season.

LAUER: The first named store is hovering offshore weeks before it should be there. Andrea only the 17th named storm in history to arrive before June 1st.

RUSH: Only the 17th? Only the 17th? Only the 17th? Why, that means there have been 16 named storms before the start of hurricane season before Andrea Mitchell. Well, that indicates some sign of tumult and chaos in the natural order of things out there. Only the 17th time in history. Now, not in history, in recorded history, because until we came along, the earth didn’t know that June 1st was the start of hurricane season. You think Mother Nature knew that June 1st was — do you think that Mother Nature even knows when it’s June? We call it June and we say hurricane season starts on June 1st. Look at Palm Beach. We’ve got turtle season starting on March 1st. They don’t show up until May 1st. You think the turtles know they’re supposed to be here in March because we’ve got a town council making an ordinance saying we gotta turn out the lights? I have an Abyssinian cat. Do you think my cat knows it’s an Abyssinian cat? In fact, do you think my cat even knows it’s a cat? I guarantee you my cat thinks it’s a person. Cats have staff. Dogs have masters. We invent all these terms, so the idea that there have been 17 named storms before hurricane season — did we get hurricane season in the 10 Commandments? Is there some proclamation from some higher power that says June 1st, anything that happens before that, something is wrong. Grow up, folks.
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RUSH: This is Rick in Malibu. Nice to have you, sir, and welcome to the EIB Network.

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Thanks for having me on. I had to call because I started giggling a little bit about all this global warming hysteria. When you played that clip earlier of Laurie David connecting the Los Angeles wildfires, the one in Griffith Park to global warming, when the conventional wisdom and the current theory out here is that the fire was started when a man with a lit cigarette fell asleep in the park. That’s what the news is out here. So unless global warming caused that man to fall asleep, I don’t really see the connection, do you?

RUSH: No, no, no, no. That’s not what they’ll say. It might have been a cigarette. It might have been a bum or anybody else throwing a cigarette, but if it weren’t for global warming causing less rainfall than normal, the Griffith Park wouldn’t have gone up in flames the way it did! That’s what they’ll say. They’ve got this down pat. But all they’re doing is playing on the fact that, okay, we’ve got fires in Georgia. In fact, I have to tell you. We had fires in Florida here. It’s bad. Alligator Alley, which connects Fort Lauderdale to Naples, has been shut down, parts of it have been. I told you yesterday that I walked outside and the sky is totally gray, looks overcast, but there’s not a cloud nearby. It’s the smoke from all the fires. You can smell it a little bit out there. The kids are out playing in the schoolyard, being highly irresponsible. (I’m joking about this.) It’s as though all these kind of fires — you heard Katie Couric — biblical proportions, 2007, the Year of the Locust! It’s preposterous. All of this is preposterous. Global warming is responsible for all the fires!

When did we start naming hurricanes? I happen to know. Do any of you know when we started naming hurricanes? It was 1951, which happens to be the year that I was born. 1951. What were hurricanes before that? What did we call them? By the way, how do we know this is only the 17th storm to precede hurricane season because we’re only able to see these things around the world with satellites, and how long have we had satellites? Not much before 1951. How do we even know? All of this is just… I don’t know how to describe it, but it really frightens me for the overall intelligence of the people of this country. I’m starting to agree with those of you that have called me and said we’ve got way too many idiots in this country. You can see them easily by how many of them just suck up all the BS from the left.
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RUSH: Welcome back. Rush Limbaugh, talent on loan from God. Johnny in El Paso. Thanks for calling and welcome to the EIB Network, sir.

CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Thanks for taking my call. That guy in Griffith Park that burned down the park? If the smoking Nazis had allowed that guy to smoke indoors instead of outdoors, he probably would have just burned his cigarette out in an ashtray. You know, in New Mexico when they had the peak of the forest fire season, it was against the law to smoke outside. You would get a ticket for smoking outdoors.

RUSH: You can’t smoke inside anymore. I don’t know who started this fire out in Griffith Park. The caller said it was a bum. If it was a bum that means the bum didn’t have an indoors to go to. But it is an interesting thought. If the bum had been indoors somewhere and threw the cigarette down, it would just be one house that went up instead of a whole park. Outdoors… I don’t want to call the guy a bum because it would be an unfair characterization. He was an outdoorsman, out there trying to enjoy life, had a little cigarette, flipped it off and bam! We’ve got a fire. It is an interesting thing: the unintended consequences of all this liberal do-gooderism.
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The way I understand it, the tether law prohibits any dog from being tethered for more than 4 or 5 hours at any time. This seems unreasonable to me for two reasons. First, if someone is at work, then they are unable to leave their dog outside during the day, where it can go if it needs to. Second, there are people who have tethers on their dogs that are 15 feet long or so, adequate shelter, food and water. This seems better to me than having a dog locked up in a 4′x8′ kennel. Not allowing tethers at all doesn’t seem like it would solve the problem of irresponsible people who are still going to tether their dogs and not provide for them.
About the cars, I understand that people are not allowed to leave dogs in a car if it is either too hot or too cold. Too hot, I completely understand. But who determines what is too cold? My dogs are used to cold weather, and are better off in a sheltered car than out in the cold that they are completely used to. (I have high energy dogs).
As I pointed out, I am refering to people who tether their dogs outside, for example, while they are at work and then bring them inside when they get home. While I do understand what you are saying about the restraint without visual signs of it, the fact is it still allows a dog much more room to move around than being in a kennel. Some people are at work too long to leave their dogs inside. Obviously, a big yard in the country is ideal, but how many people in California have THAT luxury?

I have not spent much time in California, but I have never seen any weather that is cold enough to freeze a dog. I am from Nebraska, and it is rarely cold enough even here to freeze a dog that is used to cold weather.

I guess it all boils down to the fact that more and more restrictions seem to be placed on pet owners. The respnsible owners that are following the laws are not the problem. It is the ones that didn’t follow the laws before and aren’t going to now.

I was just listening to Pat Robertson on You Tube. Terrorists do take advantage of political changes, 1993 (Clinton), 2001 (Bush), 2007 (New Congress?). Not a big leap to think of a terrorist attack in 2007. Kind of an anti-climax announcement.

But it did get me thinking, how many people actually prepare for a possible disaster by having a few days of food around, flash lights, medical supplies, that kind of thing. The normal Red Cross Be Prepared kind of thing.

All the "Oh my God the world is going to be destroyed by…" Nuclear war, global warming, terrorists, hurricanes, tornadoes, infestations of caterpillars, etc can leave this one alone.

I just want to know how many reasonably normal people have checked out ready.gov and have some emergency supplies around in case of a disaster.
Thanks. The ratio of real answers to silly answers tells me a lot too. Looks like if there was a major disaster any major urban center in the country things would end up a lot like they were in Louisiana. On the other hand, it kind of looks like people in rural or suburban areas might be better prepared. Kind of a common sense thing I would guess. some kind of ratio of storage space versus costs versus convince and availability, I would assume.

Thanks.