Saturday, June 5, 2010

The Pacific Northwest's coming quake

According to this week's issue of The Week, a major earthquake will hit the Pacific Northwest in the next 50 years. I hope it waits until after Obama's presidential term, or the media will blame him for that too. When it comes it looks like it will make the oil spill sound minor, just to show that man made disasters still cannot compete with "natural" ones. Still, we have this summer's hurricane season to help us understand the agony wrought by "natural" disasters. Coming soon to a TV screen near you. Does anyone besides me find it painful to watch the news these days? Of course you do!
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  1. Mark Bray, M.Ed.June 5, 2010 at 2:08 PM

    I agree that "manmade" disasters that are 5,000 feet below the surface cannot compete with natural ones where our post disaster response proved another disaster. Additionally, BP Executives had just testified in Canada that the safety precautions that would have helped stop the gusher were not needed in our new technology world--and of course, they are wrong. It's also ironic that far right conservatives who believe government should not be involved in private enterprise now blame Mr. Obama and seem to leave the BP Executives off the hook. I think that it's all hyperbole by them and that they know the truth but speak falsehoods to gain power--and the last that I checked, this is the definition of demagogue.

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  2. EllenJune 5, 2010 at 2:18 PM

    I couldn't agree more.

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  3. Sue KruegerJune 5, 2010 at 5:39 PM

    Oh shoot! What about California? Are they off the hook now? Joking, of course. I agree - watching the news these days is very frightening.

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