And how best to do that?

Hurricane Irene really made it clear that the "media" is centered in New York City. They didn’t even care about the SouthEast seaboard, until NYC was threatened….

"Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous."
(Credit: I stole this paragraph from Ritholtz’ blog http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/08/are-most-americans-debt-slaves/)

We wanted to switch from the local company we had been insuring our house with because their correspondance has always been very rude and they are very difficult to deal with to USAA who we do all of our banking, brokerage, car & boat insurance through and are very courteous and extremely easy to deal with. We were denied coverage because our home does not have central air or heating. We live in South Central Florida so a heating system would be an absolute waste of money (the wall unit in the Great Room and a space heater in the bedroom are more than sufficient to make the house hospitable in the few welcome days of winter cold enough to warrant their use). My wife and I both cannot stand Air Conditioning and would never use Central A/C other than the one or two times a year we would normally turn on our wall unit when it is too hot to bear and the windows and doors cannot be left open. Houses have existed for Milleniums prior to the invention of Central Climate Control and I am sure home insurance existed atleast a few decades before the invention of air conditioning. Why would not having central climate control be a disqualifying factor in getting home insurance coverage? I highly doubt that not having A/C or heat is going to make our house any more likely to be damaged or destroyed in a hurricane, robbed or flooded. Opening the windows and doors instead of having a HVAC system consistantly running in our house makes us less suseptable to fire.
Jeanbug: Yes I did ask them why and the reason that they gave me was that "it is unusual for a house as new as yours to not have central climate control". They wouldn’t have had a problem insuring my home if it was older and did not have Central Climate Control. Yeah, doesn’t make sense.

mbrcatz: Your answer is one of the absolute worst uneducated, wanting to sound smart anwers on Yahoo answers I have ever heard. You exemplify all of the other "Top Contributers" who attain the rank by just answering as many questions as possible without actually knowing what you are talking about. There is absolutely nothing contained in state or county codes preventing occupancy if you have no Central Heat so your answer is absolutely false. My house was built in 2006 and has always been insured, so it has not been since the 80’s that you can’t insure a house without central heat and the house was not grandfathered in. The answer to your "obvious question" is no other maintenance or building c
mbrcatz: Your answer is one of the absolute worst uneducated, wanting to sound smart anwers on Yahoo answers I have ever heard. You exemplify all of the other "Top Contributers" who attain the rank by just answering as many questions as possible without actually knowing what you are talking about. There is absolutely nothing contained in state or county codes preventing occupancy if you have no Central Heat so your answer is absolutely false. My house was built in 2006 and has always been insured, so it has not been since the 80’s that you can’t insure a house without central heat and the house was not grandfathered in. The answer to your "obvious question" is no other maintenance or building code standards are lacking in the house. The house was inspected after final construction by the county building inspector who is a PE and was rated a 04 (Above Average) on construction quality and met or exceeded all state and county building code standards. Portions of the house were rein

Aloha,
I am working on removing a million residents from a region that FEMA has designated as being "Hurricane-Prone" and "Hurricane Susceptible" regions.

I have found the FEMA definitions already and what I am looking for is WHEN did they come out with these definitions.

The entire State of Hawaii is in both designations. The entire State of Florida is only in the second designation.

I have created a blog with the definitions listed and some reasons why the entire State of Hawaii shouldn’t be classified with Florida.

http://www.city-data.com/blogs/blog22872-do-you-really-need-hurricane-insurance.html

If I can locate dates when FEMA adopted the definitions it would be great. If there is any description of how they made their determination that would be fantastic.

Note: I already have tracked down things about wind speed etc… The issue I am working with is Maui, Oahu, Molokai and Hawaii Island all got lumped in with Florida and Kauai even though they are not prone and not susceptible to hurricanes.

Philip Maise
Pahoa Hawaii

I read on CNN new "evidence" that these recent horrible are caused by AGW and that we should be more worried about reducing our carbon foot print than building tornado shelters…

…and if so, was your wife abducted by aliens when you returned home?

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Police had little to go on Sunday in the search for a Utah woman who hasn’t been seen for a full week.

Twenty-eight-year-old Susan Powell was reported missing from a Salt Lake City suburb in a case that police call suspicious.

She left behind two children and a husband, who says he doesn’t know what happened to her.

West Valley City Police Capt. Tom McLachlan says at least eight detectives worked the case Sunday, fielding any tips or leads they can get from the family or friends.

Detectives are appealing for the public’s help.

They plan to conduct another interview early this week with husband Josh Powell, who told police he left his wife and took his boys, ages 2 and 4, on a camping trip around midnight Dec. 6 in subfreezing temperatures.

Powell told police he slept in a van with the boys in Utah’s west desert. Police say he returned home Tuesday evening. They haven’t been able to verify the camping trip because snow had covered the spot where he said he went.

The missing woman’s father, Chuck Cox, sat down to tell the detectives everything he knew about his daughter Sunday, then took a few hours off "after going nonstop for six days," said a spokeswoman for Susan Powell’s family in Payallup, Wash.

"We don’t have any reason or direction or anything that would give us an idea that she’s at one place or another," said the spokeswoman, Shelby Gifford.

In Utah, many of the family members and friends were fasting, praying and resting Sunday, said Damon Talbot, president of the nonprofit Destiny Search Project. Talbot helps maintain a Facebook page for Susan Powell that was created by her best friend, Kiirsi Hellewell in West Valley City. Hellewell had nothing new to report Sunday afternoon.

Police say they can’t confirm the husband’s account of taking a camping trip while his wife disappeared.

Detectives visited the spot, Simpson Springs on the historic Pony Express Trail in Utah’s west desert. Josh Powell told authorities he kept shelter with his children in a van while camping.

McLachlan said police questioning of the 4-year-old child wasn’t definitive. He declined to elaborate.

"It’s still a missing-person case. We don’t have any information or fact to move it from that classification," McLachlan said. "But it is very suspicious to us, given the circumstances."

Susan Powell disappeared without taking her purse or cell phone or other items "that you would normally associate with somebody leaving the house," he said.

We spend most of our lives inside artificial shelters that are climatized to our liking, lit to our liking, and free of wind and precipitation. Inside our buildings, it’s always summer, and the "suns" are on whenever we wish.
Yet, when the outside we only see sporadically through window panes, and experience even more sporadically when sprinting from one building to another, is blustery and cold, it seems to depress people severely. "What do you say about that weather" we exclaim. Why do we? Who are we foolong, we know perfectly well we’ll only need to put up with it when we make the 30-second leap from the office to the car door.
Is there something else at work here, a weird, psychological hangup of some kind?

during hurricane season, you will get arrested for charging more than market value for supplies(i.e. plywood,batteries…etc) but during the week or so surrounding Valentine’s day…flower shops raise prices on roses by 5x? Wal-mart can’t guage you when you want to buy the latest"got to have it" toy at christmas…

Is skittishness even a word? On February 28, 2009, my husband and I adopted a chocolate lab mix from the humane society. She was 6 months old then (8 months now). They found her on the side of the road when she was 6 weeks old. She was very sickly when we got her. She had been up for adoption for several months and no one wanted her. She was living in a "foster home" with about 20 other dogs, 10 cats, and one eccentric hoarder (female). That woman was the only person my dog (Maddie) had ever been around prior to us.

The first time we met her, she walked right up to my husband and started wagging her tail and playing with him. She loved him right off the bat. But she’s very shy around other people.

We walk her several times a day and take her to the park at least 2x a week (if the weather is decent). We let her meet as many dogs as she possibly can & she’s very friendly with them. She’s VERY sweet with us and warms up pretty quickly to people who own dogs. But she’s very shy around everyone else. She rears away with her tail between her legs or sits and won’t budge.

Should we take her on errands with us whether she likes it or not? Last night, we took her to an ice cream/show cone stand that was really busy and all these little kids wanted to pet her, but she was absolutely frightened.
I noticed that sometimes because she’s shy, people back away from her thinking she’s going to lash out at them. I honestly don’t blame them. But I know she’s a sweet dog who just happens to be shy. She’s great around our friends and family. She just has a phobia of strangers.
The humane society here is run by volunteers. They do not have enough room on the premises for all the dogs that are brought in, so they let some of their volunteers raise them in their homes. This woman was single and she was a nurse, so she told us herself that she’d be gone for 3 days, home for 4. Her house was DISGUSTING. All those animals, their deification all over the floor and furniture, rotten sandwiches and other food, dishes, and garbage completely covering her counter-tops and kitchen table. It was disgusting. I’m not lying or exaggerating when I say she was a hoarder. We told the humane society and they let it go on.

I didn’t ask you guys to judge me for getting my dog there. My lord. Get over yourselves.
Like I said, she’s completely fine with my husband and I….. that wasn’t my question.

If I had wood siding this wouldn’t be an issue but my house is brick and aluminium. The store was out of those "hurricane clips" and I’d really rather not ruin the siding if at all possible.

Arlington Cemetery’s "Tomb of the Unknowns" has a guard in place that remains at their post for 30-60 minutes. Does the guard remain at their post during harsh thunderstorms and similar weather? Do they stay put or seek shelter?

This is not to suggest that they are not capable of remaining at their post at these times. I understand there are very high standards for this position.

(And if you’re a US citizen and you don’t know what the Tomb of the Unknowns is, shame on you. Stop playing World of Warcraft for 10 minutes and read a book, for crying out loud.)

Hurricane Katrina’s youngest survivors ask Santa for necessities
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Daily Kos: Mall Santas: "Kids are asking for socks this year."
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Now that hurricane season is at hand, it is never too late to prepare!!

Got your FEMA ticket yet?
Fema Gold’n Ticket
Bearer of this ticket is entitled to on free house, a hot tub, a 60"
plasma tv, a Hummer H3(maybe preowned), A lifetime supply of
food, all the hair products you can use,Lots o’ bling bling, Two voter ID
cards, and grants holder permission to bi**h about not get’n
what they should be get’n.
Offer void to repulicans, taxpayers on any productive members
of society.
Mnc if i knew i would of already signed up. Yep dont it make you sick.

Some people criticize Bush for "not doing enough" during Hurricane Katrina, but doesn’t the president have a very busy agenda all the time? Plus, some people say Bush was supposed to land the plane in the flooded areas — how?
Also, wouldn’t that have prevented National Guard troops from getting the aid and perishables through that (limited) supply lines in the affected areas?

It’s kind of a big security deal if the President of the United States lands a plane somewhere dangerous… it would have been a clear distraction…

More importantly, didn’t the government already GIVE advance warning to the New Orleans residents to move out? 80% of the residents did, but of the few that refused to, why should the government be blamed for someone’s irresponsibility to follow directions?

To be fair, I feel the same way with Obama.
It’s BP who caused the spill, not the Federal government.
So how can he be blamed? Why are people saying it’s "Obama’s Katrina"?

Now, I’m not a fan of government so much, but how much can a single person do to fix everything??
Shouldn’t people be grateful at least that our shores aren’t covered with oil for a month already?

Over the past few years, I have heard 50,000 excuses for why gas prices have gone up, including:
1. An oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico that was destroyed during a hurricane,
2. Christmas season…people travelling,
3. Summer….people travelling,
4. Summer…the additive that environmentalists want us to put into gas in hotter months to make it burn cleaner,
5. Chavez is controlling the supply from his end,
6. The war….we use up all the gas in Iraq,
7. OPEC is raising prices,
blah blah blah, etc etc etc…..

The newest excuse as of last night, news stations reported that the DEVALUATION OF THE DOLLAR is to blame for these terrible prices.

Is there anyone else that feels like we have to accept these prices, just like we accept the WEATHER, and the fact that we can’t control it?

Anybody think we CAN control the price of gas?

Do NOT answer with "just don’t buy gas".
The nauseating thing is that if we switch to Ethanol, we will drive up the cost of all grains, and that will make cereal and meat prices skyrocket…that’s what’s happening right now. (livestock eat grain, and so do people, but if it is all tied up in making ethanol, there isn’t enough supply).

And, in the end, no matter what cheap energy source we use, some company will find a way to charge us an arm and a leg for it, because of their own greed,

OR, the government will find a way to impose dozens of taxes on it. If the price and availability of wind turbines ever reaches acceptable levels, I’m sure that the gov’t will find a way to tax the WIND.

I don’t know if I am just being hyper but for the past three days he has been especially fussy, he does have a slight cough and has spit up some mucous (not much, and the weather is changing right now) and is really fighting going to sleep when he didn’t before. Some of the times he is spitting up the formula looks curdled–he has reflux and takes prevacid and is on enfamil ar specifically for the reflux (I cannot breastfeed–my milk supply disappeared since I had my baby during one hurricane and two weeks later had to evacuate again for another one–so that pretty much did me in!) Any ideas? I have a call in to the doc right now but I am looking for a little advice?
We live in Texas……hurricane alley! Yes, the reflux is not fun, and he is taking (and holding) down about 40 oz a day which seems like SO much. We do a little apple juice in the am to help with constipation but a lot of times he is insatiable. It seems too early for cereal but even if we tried that I think it would be overkill on his poor tummy, I guess you would have to give applesauce too, but not going to go there until I talk to the doc. I am just not sure if we are having a "reflux episode" or if there is something else going on. He burps well, he just can’t get comfortable and squirms a lot when he is trying to sleep. We have dealt with colic and I just don’t feel like that is all that is going on. I dunno, could just be sleep deprived!!!!

My horse has never coliced in the five years I have had him, but for some wierd reason he coliced this morning. My mom caught it quick and gave him a dose of banamine, and he is outside grazing. We think it was from eating to much sand, because his this week would ahve been the next dose of SandClear. So, yeah he is doing fine right know, just a little "drugged" looking, but he has pooped two or three times, he is eating, and bossing the other horses around (just not with as much enthusiasim lol)

Anyways, I was wondering when do you think it will be safe to ride him again? I know DEFINETLY not today or tomorrow…just keep watching him to make sure he doesn’t start colicing again.

A tropical storm is about to hit, so I doubt I can ride him for three days anyways…do you think I could start riding him then? She I work him like normal or just keep it light riding for the rest of this week, and start riding him normal next weekend????

THANKS…

Many of our country’s "enemies" have offered help to us in wake of tragic events; most of their offers refused.

In Hurricane Katrina, Cuba was one of the first nations to respond and offered to send doctors, tons of medicinal supplies, and money. The US Government declined and told Cuba "no". Now say what you want about political differences but if help is offered immiediately it really doesn’t matter who it is coming from and you are declining the supplies offered to the people who need it.

Also in Hurricane Katrina assistance from France was at first rejected but we later on accepted their aid.

On 9/11 Mayor Guiliani would not accept a 1 million dollar donation from Saudi Arabia.

How do you feel about our government declining the aid of our "enemies". I use "enemies" in quotes because I don’t regard Cuba and France as threats to us. It is a way to mend relations with our nations; to work together in wake of tragedies. A step towards making progress during these wars.

Anyone saying that there is no way to cause an earthquake is either massively ignorant, naive ("No one would ever do such a thing!"), or deliberately disinforming the public. I am especially concerned about what I perceive to be a consistent campaign against my race in general and my country in particular.

Off the top of my head, I can think of as many as four ways to have caused the recent deadly earthquake. Anyone who says they don’t exist must be an Agent of Disinformation.

1. Undersea or underground nuclear explosion.
Who has the most data on the Earth’s crust, and would know where exactly to play atomic "Whack a Mole" on a continental scale?

2. A meteor could be guided by space probes to crash into the necessary location with the same effect as above. This is technologically feasible. The culprits could suppress telemetry that would warn the public of what was happening.

3. Nicola Tesla reportedly had a portable device that could cause earthquakes at will. This device used something he is said to have called "infra-waves." Evidently, he was one of the first scientists to have made an extensive study of sub-sonics. A lot of his research involved voltages and amperages not available to the general public, nor discussed extensively in schools.

4. X-RAY lasers (XASERS) can shatter matter. If these were deployed by satellite array, with sufficient amplitude (extremely short pulses are more effective than continuous beams,) what might not be achieved?

5. HIGH-ALTITUDE AURORAL manipulation. Someone wrote a book (ANGELS DON’T PLAY THIS HAARP) about how a widely-known fundamental physics principle (Fleming’s Left-Hand Rule) is being used- without the public’s knowledge and consent- to manipulate the jetstream by ionizing it with masers located near the USA/Canadian border, originally intended to communicate with submerged submarines at the antipodes.

The ionized jetstream changes direction due to interaction with the Earth’s magnetic field.
This effect can be used to cause weather changes- possible creating monsoon, hurricane or drought at will.

If the atmosphere can be given enough electrostatic charge, it has been theorized that the crust, and even magma could be affected. This process can be assisted by jet aircraft-seeded chemicals. (The notorious "chemtrails." Please search.) You know the effect when you rub a plastic ruler with your dry hand, and use it to attract bits of paper and even wood particles. Millions of our supposedly educated folk- up to and including university graduates, have not only never seen this effect demonstrated, they have never even heard of it- like it was erased from the curriculum. Therefore, what should be routinely-considered scientific possibilities seems like irresponsible sci-fi speculation to them.
Dear SLF: In the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster and fiasco, it comes as no surprise that the US Military was able to respond with commendable speed. There is really nothing wrong with that.

What I am suspicious of is that this Haiti earthquake comes as America needs a positive Public Relations profile after the Iraq and Afghanistan unnecessary warfare, because they are planning to wage yet another war in my own country on the flimsy pretext that an obvious Manchurian Candidate Instant Terrorist decided to solve his non-existent personal problems with a Dirty Bomb in his underpants.

Coincidence is not proof. My accusations are mere speculation. But we are talking about a country which has performed Bacterial experimentation on its own citizens (The Tuskegee Experiment), Atomic Experiments on its own citizens (sprayed radioactives into bus and railway stations), and Viral Experiments on its own citizens (AIDS virus in pretend Hepatitis C vaccine). All of which were proven.
If America can do that to its own citizens, what might they not do to those of countries they don’t care what happens to? Is America bailing out Haiti because they care what happens to them?
Many, even most, citizens certainly care, but the government does not.

Dear "GARY B:" If the Atom Bomb were not used twice in the Second World War, and its damage effects not widely publicized and emphasized over and over, would you know, or even believe that such a weapon existed?
Do you understand that the American government did not suddenly become aware that nuclear bomb was possible in 1945? When it looked like the Axis Powers would get one first, then the Bottomless Pit of American Federal Government expenditure was mined in order to assemble this hellish weapon. I understand this cost 3 thousand million dollars? Were this money poured into conventional war effort, or (God Forbid) PEACEFUL RESOLUTION, would not the war have been ended without opening the Nuclear Pandora’s Box?
During the 1960s, it was speculated that bombs up to 5,000 megatons were planned or built, and that a single weapon of this nature could exterminate all life on Earth in one swell strike (DUNLOP Book of Facts 1969).

Why do you think that a SINGLE bomb would have to be used, and that it would be situated on the SURFACE? This is sloppy thinking. Why would a suitcase tactical weapon be used for an atrocity of such importance?

By distorting the facts, agents of disinformation cover up atrocities by making their execution seem impossible through the resources supplied.

If the epicentre of the quake was six miles beneath the surface, why would the explosion not have taken place there? How do you know that the epicentre was six miles wherever they said? You trust them to tell the truth?

The English Channel Tunnel was a sci-fi pipe-dream when I was a kid. But somehow they dug 20miles under the sea to connect England and France. What’s six miles?
If the blast(s) were underwater or underground, how would you detect their radioactivity?

If there were lots of small bombs used, it would not necessarily read as a bomb explosion. It might look totally natural- or to be scientific- "Within natural parameters."
Even if it didn’t, the data gathered would be interpreted by Human beings, who can be bought, blackmailed, or just plain deceived.

As Josef Stalin said, "They that vote determine nothing; they that count the votes determine everything." Data is only as good as those who interpret it.

Dear "JOEMOSER1948:" When agents of disinformation cannot logically disprove suspicions, they invariably resort to deception and ridicule.

1. What would happen if one of your "little vibrations" were triggered within the infamous SAN ANDREAS FAULT in California? To say that man-made bombs only produce "little vibrations" is a terrible lie that separates the ignorant and stupid from the intelligent and educated.
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs had a yield of less than 50 kilotons of TNT.
Atom bombs of today are measured in the MEGATONS. The biggest is reputed to be Russia’s TSAR BOMBA- 500 Megatons.

If atom bombs were used on Haiti, we should really not complain stupidly, but thank America or whoever, profusely, that there’s still a "Haiti" left.

2. My idea for how a space probe could cause an ELE Meteor strike is that one would only have to be sent upside a likely asteroid, and push it out of orbit with conventional rockets, ionic drive, solar sail, or whatever it is they’re using today. Small rocks could be used to hit on larger rocks, like snooker in Space, until they get the strike they want.

Since they have their finger (which is a tasteless pun on the computer command) in every spacewatch facility on the Planet, it would be a simple hacking problem to make sure no one sees anything. After all, these people successfully pretended a jet airliner hit the Pentagon in 9/11, didn’t they?
3. Nicola Tesla is too big for you to dismiss as "just a crackpot," I notice. I heard that the FBI followed Tesla around and picked up every tissue he blew his nose on, in case some important formula were scribbled on it. When he died, the FBI stole all his papers.
OF COURSE they have followed up on his "Earthquake Machine" design, and perfected it many times over, as a "Weapon of Last Resort." I heard of a French scientist (pre-1980s) who made a giant (4 feet long) gendarme’s whistle, to study its harmonics effects. The hapless lab assistant who started its air pump blower up fell dead over it instantly. Autopsy showed his internal organs had turned to jelly. A more cautious repeat of the experiment was done in an open space, from inside a blockhouse. Starting it up slowly, the device shattered windows in a half-mile radius LONG before it reached its maximum output. It was shelved, never to be used again.

I know about all these accounts, and they have to have an influence on me.
4. If your knowledge of laser technology is limited to comic books and movies, which are written by people or whom science is not their primary realm of expertise, then it is no wonder that your knowledge is dated, and you might not be able to conceive what can be done based on the fundamental laser technology. (I mean, you don’t have to be covering things up. Cutting you slack!) In THE DEATH FREAK, by Herbert Burkholz and Clifford Irving ("John Luckless"), a number of exotic deadly weapons are mentioned. The most hi-tech was a laser actuated by a neodymium trigger. This enables an extremely brief pulse of energy to be transmitted. This pulse, when it contacts solid matter causes a shockwave explosive effect, which was estimated, in a portable device, to be powerful enough to take out an entire wing of a building and everyone in it (which I remember after all these years because it was important to the plot). Such ultra-fast switching did not become possible until recently.
But this is not what I was talking about. I mentioned XASERS, not LASERS as being useful for this job. The right frequency of laser would reach the ground, but absorption at the surface would be an issue. But X-RAY AMPLIFICATION by STIMULATED EMISSION of RADIATION could go much deeper than they have to tell us about, and have all sorts of effects that never make it into READER’S DIGEST or SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN.

5. When you can’t disprove the science, attack the reputation and credibility of the whistleblower? "Attack is the best means of defense?" Well, lets go to the WIKIPEDIA reference: "Dr. Bernard…. Eastlund is one of the patent holders (US Patent #4,686,605) that led to the development of the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program HAARP which has been sensationalized in many books as a weapon with the potential to destroy the world by creating a death ray and altering weather patterns." By the way- this man is now dead. Nothing suspicious about that, of course.

or are they mostly like this to begin with?

McKinney Accuses Government of Slaughtering Prisoners, Dumping Bodies During Katrina
WASHINGTON: Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney claims the Department of Defense executed 5,000 prisoners with one bullet to the head and then dumped their bodies in a Louisiana swamp during Hurricane Katrina.

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Green Party presidential candidate [and former Democratic Representative] Cynthia McKinney, known for her provocative statements when she was a congresswoman from Georgia, accused the Department of Defense this week of using Hurricane Katrina to cover up the slaughter of 5,000 prisoners.

At a news conference in Oakland, Calif., on Sunday, McKinney claimed the Pentagon authorized the execution of the prisoners with one bullet to the head three years ago and then dumped their bodies in a Louisiana swamp.

McKinney said she heard the story from the mother of a National Guard soldier who said her son was assigned to help dispose of the bodies.

"And these were mostly males and her son was afraid to talk because he had signed a silence agreement," McKinney told the crowd. "So he only complained to his mother. But the data was entered into a Pentagon computer."

McKinney said she verified the story from "insiders" who wanted to remain anonymous.

"I suspect that these are prisoners. … So this investigation of the whole prison industrial complex is extremely important and it should not end with just a question of the nature of prisons in our country," she said to a captivated audience. "These 5,000 souls also need some justice too."

A Defense Department spokesman dismissed McKinney’s accusation.

"The claim is outrageous on the very face of it and doesn’t merit any further consideration," said Lt. Col. Les’ Melnyk. "It would be inconceivable that 5,000 people would go missing in America without anyone noticing it prior to this."

Psychologists and psychology professors contacted by FOXNews.com wouldn’t comment on McKinney’s mental condition, but they expressed shock at her assertion.

"Wow! What a conspiracy theory," one professor exclaimed before declining comment and hanging up the phone.

Dr. Celia Ward, a clinical psychologist in Washington, D.C., said she wouldn’t speculate on McKinney’s state of mind because McKinney heard the story from someone else.

"This sounds like a game of telephone," Ward said, explaining how a rumor can change as it passes from one person to another. "But to take something that has so many questions attached to it and to treat a rumor as fact is the basis for mass distortion. It’s really a good example of Swift-boating."

Ward said McKinney could have easily verified the story by checking prison records.

"This is the kind of rumor that warrants fact-checking," she said.

McKinney’s presidential campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

A member of the House for 12 years until 2007, McKinney is no stranger to controversy. Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, she suggested that President Bush knew about the plot in advance but failed to warn Americans because of his father’s business interests. Some political analysts say that statement contributed to her defeat in 2002.

After McKinney was re-elected in 2004, she tried to impeach Bush, Vice President Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on charges that they lied and manipulated intelligence to justify the war in Iraq.

McKinney hit a career low point in 2006 when she was accused of striking a Capitol Police officer who grabbed her after she passed a security checkpoint without wearing a congressional lapel pin. She later apologized for the incident. She was defeated in a Democratic primary later that year and left the Democratic Party in 2007. She was nominated in July to run for president on the Green Party ticket. There are 245 other Green Party candidates running for office this fall.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/02/mckinney-accuses-government-slaughtering-prisoners-dumping-bodies-katrina/
Noah:

Are you vacationing in Egypt? You seem to be deep in denial.

Now that he’s promised not to smoke in the White House. Will there have to be a permanent shelter, built using taxpayers money, added to the White House lawn for him to smoke in, in-climate weather?

Have you seen the "Lincoln Bedroom"? It pales in comparison to the "Obama Smoking Shed!"

This would be a permanent structure for housing 5 mature, full-size (think Boer, LaMancha, etc.) goats within fenced grazing areas, not necessarily near an actual barn.

Mini-barns, pre-fab, and lean-to styles don’t count.

Must be cost-effective, durable, and protect during seasonal weather extremes (Fahrenheit temps from teens to high 90’s).

Ability for minimum-hassle seasonal conversions is a huge plus. Show us your ag design-fu. Got pics? If they’re your own original designs, please feel free to share links to your publicly hosted images (please make sure you’ve secured your copyrights to any such images first, thanks!).
This is a legitimate question I was requested to ask on behalf of a neighbor who does not have internet access. The first B.S. response was merely down-voted. The second was reported by me as it was completely out of line. Other people who are seriously interested in Y!A’s "Agriculture" category are encouraged to help maintain some sort of minimum acceptable standards within this community. Thank you.
Shellybell - That sounds soooo cool!

P.S. To the Omnipotents of Y!A: Please accept my humble thanks for deleting response #2. ;oD
Thanks, circarocker06, but I can crank out designs in my sleep. What my neighbor’s looking for is adequately outlined in the original query. Now the focus is more on what’s innovative and practical vs. standard and predictable.

Okay.
A young boy named Sam is taking a hike in the woods to get away from his life, and he finds the dead body of a man who committed suicide. In one of his hands is a camera. Sam takes the camera and looks at it when he is home. There are over 6 billion pictures on it- all of people- including Sam. Sam starts receiving letters that say strange things like "On Friday, 280 will die in a Tornado. You will choose."
Sam starts seeing strange apparitions of a dead boy who tells him to destroy the camera. Sam soon realizes that on the camera is a picture of everybody in the world, and when he deletes the photos, the people will die, and that everyone’s fate is in his hands.

As I was pulling out of work, a shopping cart "drove" itself into an intersection. A mailbox was off in the middle of another road, a child’s plastic table just went past our window, and there are big tree branches down everywhere. The power keeps flickering. I just wonder if the winds are that high where you’re at…?

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.

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.

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