Elaine Meinel Supkis
It was almost 100 degrees on my mountain today which is way too hot for this northern, temperate, high elevation climate. Hurricanes are now beginning to organize themselves and hurl themselves upon our shores while many fires rage across a hyper-hot nation. But don't worry! The Mexican army is coming to save us!
The third named storm of the season takes aim at our Gulf.
By COLIN JAMES, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 31 minutes ago
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua - Tropical Storm Chris strengthened Tuesday as it approached the eastern edge of the Caribbean, prompting a run on groceries and gas as people prepared for the third named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season.The storm had top winds of nearly 45 mph as it passed over the Leeward Islands, and was expected to gather strength as it approached the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. Forecasters doubted it would become a hurricane.
Um, I happen to remember Hurricane Katrina. It was a tropical storm as it flitted over Southern Florida. Not anything to worry about. Everyone sighed with relief.
Then it entered the great bathtub of hot water in the Gulf of Mexico. Within a mere 24 hours it shot up in strength. In just two days, it was a ferocious catagory 5 monster. It was actually much weaker when it hit and destroyed New Orleans. So any storm entering the Gulf has to be watched like a hawk. Even as we try to subdue humans all over earth, Mother Nature casually slaps us aside as if our civilization is but an ant's nest.
As we pay the Israelis to burn down Lebanon, our own country is burning down.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- For the first time since 2003, federal land management agencies are being asked to make more employees available to fight wildfires because crews and equipment have been stretched to the limit by nearly 60 major blazes around the West.The National Interagency Fire Center over the weekend raised its response status to the highest threat level, a move triggered when nearly all available crews and firefighting resources are committed.
The move allows federal firefighting coordinators to summon additional federal employees, military reinforcements and foreign fire crews if necessary.
Too bad there are virtually no military forces to fight fires and fight hurricanes or protect us from terrorists, they are all overseas, dying while trying to civilize people living in some of the most ancient civilizations on earth.
Like during last year's hurricane season, we are going to bring in the Mexican military to occupy American bases and these foreign soldiers who obey someone else and aren't citizens will fight our fires since we sent all of ours far away to die in futile wars, teaching people who hate us to learn how to vote or if they vote already, to kill their candidates and punish them for voting for people we don't want.
So we better learn Spanish so we can talk to our new military occupiers. I find this vastly funny since we were very proud of driving out Santa Ana some time ago. I suppose reinviting the Mexican army back into Texas and California is an inside joke for the fake Texans like Bush, sort of a 'Hahaha, those dumb Texans, taught all about the Alamo and here we are, handing them over to the Mexicans again!'
I think we should just let the Mexicans take Texas back. It would be just. Then we can tell the Muslims, 'See how easy it is to return lands to people who owned them hundreds of years ago? Just hand it over! Ta-da!' Hey, this might bring world peace!
Well, our country is burning down and Mother Nature wants to douse it with a hurricane or two. She is pretty determined, isn't She?
Did you ever see that funny Peter Ustinov movie, where he played a mexican officer, and re-took The Alamo?
Posted by: big Al | August 02, 2006 at 06:22 PM