August 03, 2007

"Structural Deficiency" and the Minneapolis bridge

UPDATE: at the end, with a question . . .

Ben in NYC says:

Just as a public service, I thought I had better let folks know that "structural defiency", used by civil engineers in a professional context, is not as drastic a term as the media is making it out to be.

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Judith | 08/03/07 at 03:19 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

February 10, 2007

A global warming conversation: I even wear shoes that match my pontifications

A discussion on my email list about global warming (I missed a few of the exchanges but captured most of it):

Mara:

I figured this out over the weekend as I was reading articles about global warming.

It turns out that the early sojourn of the Jews in England overlaps almost perfectly with the period of the medieval warming period:

Medieval warming period: approximately 1100-1300 Jews in England: invited by William the Conquerer sometime after 1066 - 1290, the year of the Edict of expulsion by Edward I (the King in Braveheart for those of you whose history is movie referenced g).

One would have to do much more research to support the following hypothesis, but it is certainly possible that, with the warmer weather and agricutural abundance, English society became more open to outsiders; and the reciprocal closing of society occurred as resources became scarcer and conditions generally harder. Also, note, that in the US, 1100-1300 marked the height of Anasazi culture in the Southwest. I wonder if, to the extent that cannabalism existed in Anasazi culture (research suggests that it was introduced to Anasazi culture through trade with the Aztecs), it, too, occurred as a result of worsening weather conditions, with agricultural crops harder to produce in the severe drought years. Drought, no doubt, would have adversely effected hunting conditions as well.

Ben:

Here’s what I’m actually afraid of regarding Global Warming.

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Judith | 02/10/07 at 08:51 PM | 26 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

February 04, 2007

Donald Sensing Poses A Question About Global Warming

What if global warming is a good thing?

He asks this with reference to this data list compiled by J.R. Dunn that appeared in the American Thinker, Resisting Global Warming Panic.

Despite the insistence of Al Gore and friends, this is far from the first time the Earth has ever passed through a climatic warming period. In fact, one occurred relatively recently, the medieval warm period, more commonly known as the Little Climatic Optimum (LCO), a period stretching roughly from the 10th to the 13th centuries, in which the average temperature was anything from 1 to 3 degrees centigrade higher than it is today. Several years ago, I covered the LCO in an article detailing the climatic history of the last millennium. But it's worthwhile to cover the highlights once more, to help put the contemporary panic into perspective.

* How warm was it during the LCO? Areas in the Midlands and Scotland that cannot grow crops today were regularly farmed. England was known for its wine exports.

* The average height of Britons around A.D. 1000 was close to six feet, thanks to good nutrition. The small stature of the British lower classes (and the Irish) later in the millennium is an artifact of lower temperatures. People of the 20th century were the first Europeans in centuries to grow to their "true" stature - and most had to grow up in the USA to do it.

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Alcibiades | 02/04/07 at 09:09 AM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

December 31, 2006

Most Dated 60s Album Ever?

I like to sample albums by 1960s groups when I scoop up entertainment at the Greenwich Library. Yesterday's haul included "Vincebus Eruptum" by the power trio Blue Cheer, from 1968. I gave it a spin this morning and found these Amazon reviews highly accurate.

The album kicks off with "Summertime Blues" and unswervingly stays in that sledgehammer mode. I liked the band, but the music has not aged too well, just for lack of variety. Still, it comes for a certain time and place, and is perfect for 60s nostalgists and movie soundtracks. Maybe I'll crank it up at midnight to create my own blue cheer.

For the ultimate meta-analysis of the album's cosmic meaning, go directly to this UK site, which says,

A crazy singularity, Blue Cheer’s debut album flows with a relentless feeling and attitude from the guts thrown as hard as possible against the studio wall and was captured as the double vulgar non sequitur tripped-out, biker Pig Latin-entitled vinyl slab, “Vincebus Eruptum.”

My thoughts exactly.

Van | 12/31/06 at 09:41 AM | 6 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

November 09, 2006

Whither Iraq: More Background on Bob Gates

I really don't like realist conservatism. It often produces detestable, morally-cringeworthy Republican policy: for example, the retreat from Lebanon after Hezbollah bombed our Marine barracks, abandoning the Shi'ites and the Kurds in 1991, the decision to abandon Afghanistan to rack and ruin after the Soviets left, etc. And all of these realist positions have created enormous problems for us as well in the course of time, problems not visible immediately, but which have created the seeds of most of our current problems.

And so this new appointment of Bob Gates, which I note Dick Cheney opposed - good for him (see below for more) - is making me nervous. If, after our support of the last few years, Bush sells out the hawks on Iraq, there is going to be a cataclysm on the right. I hope Bush understands this in a way he did not understand how the Miers nomination would focus the ire of his own party.

To the Iraqi Shi'ites, the symbolism of President Bush nominating Bob Gates is going to be difficult and may be interpreted - rightly or wrongly we have yet to see - as the first American retreat on Iraq.

Most troubling regarding Iraq, Mr. Gates was deputy national security adviser under Brent Scowcroft in 1991, when President Bush's father abandoned the Shiite uprising that followed the first Gulf War. One reason the Iraqi government of Nouri al-Maliki has had such a hard time dismantling Shiite militias is because Shiites fear that it's only a matter of time before the U.S. abandons them again and they will have to confront the Sunni Baathist insurgency on their own. If President Bush wants to reassure Shiites on this score and about Mr. Gates, he should announce that the recent efforts to appease the Sunni terrorist political fronts in Iraq have failed.

In addition, according to Christopher Hitchens on the Hugh Hewitt show, Bob Gates was in charge of the pro-Saddam Hussein policy at the CIA in the 1980s.

HH: I want to go back to the country, and its ability to wage this war after last night. Has it been compromised?

CH: Very much by the appointment of Mr. Gates, I believe. I mean, I think that's a disgrace. It was very lucky for Mr. Gates that he was able to escape prosecution during the Iran-Contra scandal. And before that, he was the man at the CIA who was in charge of the pro-Saddam Hussein policy of the mid-80's, including giving, directly, important intelligence to Saddam Hussein in the war against Iran. He's hopelessly compromised. I can't think of a worse choice, really, and I hope he gets a real hard time at confirmation from Republicans.

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Alcibiades | 11/09/06 at 12:40 PM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

October 01, 2006

Kofi Annan: Human Natural Disaster

No time to comment as things are sort of rushed in the waning hours before Yom Kippur starts, but here is a link to an article about Kofi Annan's tenure at the UN:

Is there blood on his hands?

THE CASE AGAINST KOFI ANNAN

My own impression is that Kofi Annan has been worse for the UN than Jacques Chirac has been for France, which is saying something. I think of Jacques Chirac as the Louis the XVth of French Presidents. You know, in the old spirit of aprés moi le deluge.

Alcibiades | 10/01/06 at 02:23 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

August 30, 2006

Katrina Sweeps Week

Kesher Talk posted profligately during the Hurricane Katrina disaster. So, on the anniversary of that catastrophe, let us remember . . . .

All the reasons why Katrina was a disaster waiting to happen, which could only be partially mitigated by any governmental action.
The beginnings of federal, state and local finger-pointing.
The campaign to point all the fingers at the Bush administration, and numerous debunkings of same.
More finger-pointing and debunkings of same.
Political fallout and more political fallout and malfeasance.
Lies and spin exposed and yet more lies and spin exposed.

Only a small cross-section of the outpouring of relief efforts.

Am I a Pundit Now produced the most memorable graphic, which summed up most of the discussion:

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Judith | 08/30/06 at 08:55 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

June 20, 2006

No Blood for Gumbo! U.S. Troops Out of New Orleans Now!

I'm feeling the rage today about KKKBusssshhhhKKKKK's latest invasion that puts the precious lives of American troops on the line. His blatant assault on the peace-loving, environmentally-friendly, artistically inclined residents of a place called "New Orleans," evidently a swampy town near the Caribbean. Here's evidence of this latest "rush to war." Are you shocked?

Supposedly the "mayor" and " governor" of New Orleans requested the U.S. help, but they're obviously toadies of the evil American regime and KKKKBusssshhhhhKKKKKK's mad desire to corner the world's markets in gumbo, crawfish etouffee, and shrimp po' boys. First he assassinates Huey Long (you know he did, didn't you?), and now he sends in the troops.

Hillary, Murtha, Kerry, Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, to the barricades! Defend the rights of New Orleanians to lead their peaceful lives unmolested by Western values.

Van | 06/20/06 at 04:23 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

June 09, 2006

Rough weather

Well. This is. Just. Peachy.

Actually, I do have enough food and water for several weeks (thanks to Fresh Direct). And flashlights. And batteries. I know not to expect FEMA for the first week or so. Whether my apartment building gets blown over is another question. . . . .

Judith | 06/09/06 at 12:19 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

May 19, 2006

Gor Lives!

Turns out there's a sex-slave cult devoted to the science fiction world of Gor whose proponents are merrily going about their existence in Britain.

A sex slavery cult based on a series of 1960s science fiction novels has been uncovered by police in Darlington. Durham Police discovered the bizarre sect after raiding a home in the area, after receiving complaints that a woman was being held against her will.

But a spokesman said the Canadian was a willing participant and the other people involved were consenting adults.

The group, called Kaotians, follow the Chronicles of Gor novels which depict a society where women are dominated...

Kaotians are a splinter group of the Goreans, which base their beliefs on novels written by American university professor John Norman.

The books are set on the quasi-medieval planet of Gor, which has a caste system and uses women as slaves.

There are an estimated 25,000 Goreans worldwide.

Of course, in the books Gor was on another planet. I suppose these types consider themselves "exiles from their home planet."

So, is there a Hollywood branch yet? Competing, say, with L. Ron Hubbard's group?

Alcibiades | 05/19/06 at 09:37 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

May 08, 2006

Back to the Heart of Darkness

Johann Hari has a searing, horrific look at life in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It should be a must read. Brutal, nasty and short. Life, that is, not the article, which is quite long.

I recommend his article with these caveats however.

It suffers from multi-culturalism, white man's guilt - which translates as an attempt to blame all of this ultimately on the West with its lust for technology, and contains at least two egregious attempts to compare these events to the "tyrants" in Iraq and the occupied territories.

Also, there is an interesting discussion of it in the comments at Harry's Place, some of which are sceptical of some of his results. Although, unsurprisingly, they all seem to accept the narrative of the comparison to the Occupied Territories without a squeak.

UPDATE: Meanwhile, Gateway Pundit reports on a new report of UN Peacekeepers Trading Food for Sex with Minors...Again.

This time it is occurring in Liberia. Last time, it was yet another horror, in a world of horrors in Democratic Republic of Congo.

UPDATE II: And speaking of UN Travesties, China is now pushing to become a member of the Human Rights Council, because the old council, the U.N.'s former Human Rights Commission, pushed things like Human Rights too aggressively to suit its members, such as Cuba, Zimbabwe and Sudan. It's competing for a seat against tough competition, Iran and Saudi Arabia.

But China's unique contribution will be the formal policy of "censoring the council's discussion of abuses committed by individual countries."

With a proposal like that, how can they lose?

Alcibiades | 05/08/06 at 12:41 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

April 26, 2006

Chernobyl: April 26, 1986

From a book of photographs of Chernobyl, the control room of the nuclear power plant:

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Judith | 04/26/06 at 11:06 AM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

April 24, 2006

The Comprehensive Explanation of Male/Female Relations

This new data on the differences in the emotional wiring of men and women explains everything.

It perfectly explains the whole shtick about why women are always complaining about men being out of touch with their emotions and men always complain about women being overly emotional, and why it is harder for them to be out of touch with their emotions. Why men can compartmentalize easily, and disregard negative emotions, and why women find that much harder.

And of course, there is a good evolutionary basis for understanding that this should exist.

Men and women are actually from the same planet, but scientists now have the first strong evidence that the emotional wiring of the sexes is fundamentally different.

An almond-shaped cluster of neurons that processes experiences such as fear and aggression hooks up to contrasting brain functions in men and women at rest, the new research shows.

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Alcibiades | 04/24/06 at 12:50 AM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

February 13, 2006

If Robert Frost Lived in Manhattan . . . .

Rick Brookhiser:

STOPPING BY THE BANK ON A SNOWY EVENING

What block this is I do not know.
The storefront windows stare and glow.
The plows will have a job to clear
The street when it fills up with snow.

The Indian cabbie thinks it queer
To keep the meter running here
Between Park Avenue and Lex
The dirtiest evening of the year.

A weary dispatcher directs
By radio where he must go next.
The only other sound's the swash
Of windshield wipers badly flexed.

For once, things look demure not brash.
But I need an ATM with cash
Before I can go home and crash,
Before I can go home and crash.

Judith | 02/13/06 at 11:30 PM | 4 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

February 12, 2006

So, pretty much the Democrat party's wet dream

Not to mention the comedians:

CHENEY ACCIDENTALLY SHOOTS MAN DURING HUNTING TRIP

The man, Harry Whittington, 78, is now '"alert and doing fine' after Cheney sprayed Whittington with shotgun pellets on Saturday at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas."

Ahoy the fascist jokes. And the execution jokes. Especially because it happened in Texas. And the comments about target practice.

Update: Not to mention the dread Halliburton connection!

How could we have overlooked that! And if that doesn't show that something nefarious was behind this then...

Update II: JPOD offers advice at the Corner about what Cheney should do.

Alcibiades | 02/12/06 at 04:13 PM | 6 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

December 26, 2005

Tsunami anniversary: only one year

Today is the anniversary of the horrible tsunami disaster of southeast Asia. We had a huge link roundup last year. And a followup. Whizbang says it's the only blog which posted tsunami videos last year, which still has all of . . . more »

Judith | 12/26/05 at 08:19 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

September 28, 2005

Starting over after the Flood

A short video on "starting over" at Rosh Hashanah, using images from Katrina and the liturgy "rachamana d'anay L'aniyey anayna." (via On Chanting, a blog about learning to be a shaliach t'zibbur) (I can tell the shul is B'nai Jeshurun; . . . more »

Judith | 09/28/05 at 12:43 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

September 23, 2005

Hurricane tracking

Google Maps used to track Hurricane Rita. Looks like it's going to make landfall east of Port Arthur. Newly returned residents of New Orleans are afraid heavy rains from Rita will cause more flooding. Donate to the musicians of New . . . more »

Judith | 09/23/05 at 12:17 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

September 20, 2005

We're a Jewish Blog. So how can we resist?

After all, porkbusting is a default stance. Katrina Cuts: [A] grassroots Internet campaign and a handful of House GOP conservatives have refused to give up on the idea that spending cuts should be found to defray the estimated $200 . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/20/05 at 10:29 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

September 18, 2005

Occupied New Orleans

More Updates Below the Fold Look! It's become a Leftist Meme: Well, I mean, in the days that have passed, the week or so since you were here this past weekend, we have seen a real increase in the militarization . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/18/05 at 12:56 AM | 1 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

September 17, 2005

We're about due for another bloggish kerfluffle . . .

Jeff is still on the Katrina case, this time revealing a little-known fact that Michael Brown tried to get through to Gov. Blanco through her husband, because apparently she had her fingers in her ears going "La la la la . . . more »

Judith | 09/17/05 at 10:14 PM | 2 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

September 16, 2005

The Economist trades in insulting cliches

As a proud Texan, I kvell to read thibaud's letter to The Economist, in response to this article. . . . more »

Judith | 09/16/05 at 03:40 PM | 2 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

Mr. Galloway, meet the residents of the Astrodome

Previous Hitchens-Galloway debate entries here and here. Two additional eyewitness accounts - one from the right and one from the left - make it clear that Galloway's rhetoric has limited appeal. I noted before how Galloway invoked Katrina (the Bush . . . more »

Judith | 09/16/05 at 01:25 AM | 0 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

September 14, 2005

Even more Katrina fallout

All Katrina entries collected here. Iowahawk guest commentator Joshua Markos Mikos Atrios has some suggestions for keeping the political rage focused on the Bushitler McChimpyburton Repugnican agenda, even if less than 400 people died, thousands are housed by big-hearted Americans, . . . more »

Judith | 09/14/05 at 12:10 PM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

September 12, 2005

Yet more Katrina fallout

All Katrina entries collected here. Updates also in the extended entry. [ UPDATE: Interactive site at USA Today incorporate maps with updates. ] Not surprisingly, polling on the administration's handling of Katrina divides along party and racial lines. (I wonder . . . more »

Judith | 09/12/05 at 08:15 PM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

Katrina: the fallout continues

More Katrina entries here. Some interesting updates here. Jeff is still thoroughly fisking the news media, this time Newsweek. [ UPDATE: The Daily Howler dissects more media spin. If you already saw the Mary Landrieu meltdown, scroll past that to . . . more »

Judith | 09/12/05 at 12:14 AM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

September 11, 2005

More Katrina post-mortems

All Katrina entries here. Check in the extended entry of this post for new items. Google map of New Orleans - click on any point to get flood depth. The MSM is still flogging the meme that "Bush blew it." . . . more »

Judith | 09/11/05 at 10:27 PM | 0 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

September 09, 2005

More Katrina post-mortems

Here's a handy graphic to email all your Bush-bashing friends. (Yes, the satellite photos are time-stamped; much discussion here.) [ UPDATE: Powerline fisks Paul Krugman and debunks some myths about delayed federal action. ] Traditionally, pork and Louisiana go together . . . more »

Judith | 09/09/05 at 11:58 PM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

September 08, 2005

Check Out This Drudge Headline...

WHITE HOUSE MULLED SEIZING RELIEF MISSION // Invoke the Insurrection Act? Bush's senior advisers debated last week whether the president should seize control of the chaotic hurricane relief mission from the governor so that active-duty combat troops could be sent . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/08/05 at 09:53 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

Read This To Believe It

Unbelievable story. This story has to be read to be believed. The Louisiana Governor's Office of Homeland Security was the one that was blocking the pre-positioned supplies of the Red Cross for all those days. Here's the transcript of Major . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/08/05 at 09:12 AM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

September 07, 2005

One story for me and one for thee

The NYTimes ran a story about the huge relief efforts in Houston. The one appearing in Europe airs some biases about the workings of a market economy which did not appear in the article for domestic consumption. However, the Houston . . . more »

Judith | 09/07/05 at 12:39 PM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

Thank You, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef

Not content to let Rabbi Lazar Brody have all the fun, Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of Shas, has now joined the show. He, too, is promulgating the notion that Bush is responsible for the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/07/05 at 09:31 AM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

Just overheard in passing on Fox News Morning Show...

...That, according to one of the reporters walking through the SuperDome yesterday with the mayor, one of the things found was a large quantity of empty liquor bottles. Apparently a lot of people came to the Dome with the idea . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/07/05 at 08:59 AM | 8 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

September 06, 2005

Federal, state and local spheres

As we move into the next stage of post-Katrina finger-pointing, some pundits are asking the right questions about the inept local and state handling of a crisis that had been predicted in detail by everyone from the National Geographic to . . . more »

Judith | 09/06/05 at 12:55 PM | 3 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

A blessing

If you are in Austin TX, keep checking back here because I am still adding local hurricane relief opportunities as they are sent to me. Also, check the comments here. A bit of Jewish wisdom from a friend in Austin: . . . more »

Judith | 09/06/05 at 11:36 AM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

September 04, 2005

". . . a lot of the locations from her songs are now underwater . . ."

I had exactly the same thought last night as I drifted off to sleep. . . Everybody's had a few Now they're talking about who knows who I'm going back to the Crescent City Where everything's still the same This . . . more »

Judith | 09/04/05 at 06:54 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

Revealing Conversation

A friend emailed this to me (names are not named to protect friendships and livelihoods):I had a brief but fascinating discussion at the local diner today with the wife of my congressman, who is reliably one of the most far-left . . . more »

Judith | 09/04/05 at 02:59 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

Hurricane-based finger-pointing

After many links to relief organizations and spiritual ruminations, it's time to join Junkyard Blog in decisively refuting the campaign to blame the Bush Aministration while making excuses for the ineptitude of local and state officials. Throughout the Labor Day . . . more »

Judith | 09/04/05 at 12:43 AM | 6 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

September 03, 2005

Mikolot mayim rabim adirim mishberay yam

"More than the roars of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, are you Hashem on high." -- Psalm 93 Longtime New Orleans resident and poet Roger Kamanetz: There is an image I've seen on the television of . . . more »

Judith | 09/03/05 at 05:19 PM | 0 Comments | 3 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

These organizations also need volunteers and donations

Many links to Austin and South TX relief efforts, as many refugees are being sent there. News from Jews in the affected areas. Finger-pointing at the federal, state, and local levels. More national and local relief efforts in the extended . . . more »

Judith | 09/03/05 at 03:35 PM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

Helping hurricane refugees in Austin TX

I used to live in Austin TX and I just got emails from both my former synagogue and a large online community there. Many evacuated from New Orleans are being sent to Austin. If you live in the Austin area . . . more »

Judith | 09/03/05 at 03:23 PM | 2 Comments | 3 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

September 02, 2005

The Headline says it all...

Er, yeah. As we have already seen, a lot of the world thinks these are the only two choices... Your view: Bush or God to blame? UPDATE: On the other hand, one cannot help thinking that the failure of local . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/02/05 at 04:25 PM | 1 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

Emergency Preparations

Glenn Reynolds writes sensibly and calmly about emergency preparations.Well, it could have been worse, certainly. I do think that a firmer hand with looters early on, in line with "broken windows" theory, might have forestalled the more egregious lawlessness we're . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/02/05 at 09:38 AM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

The disaster continues . . .

(photos from excellent Houston Chronicle site) Whoever was in the White House would be blamed for not ensuring a perfect happy ending to a huge natural disaster; that's what people do. But New Orleans has been a disaster waiting . . . more »

Judith | 09/02/05 at 08:35 AM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

September 01, 2005

Predictable

Not content that the attribution of Hurricane Katrina's wrath should be blamed on American pressure on Israel to go ahead with the Gaza expulsion, a Kuwaiti Government Official has joined in on the blame game. This claim is couched in . . . more »

Alcibiades | 09/01/05 at 06:14 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

Hurricane news

The NYTimes has a section on Hurricane Katrina, including several multimedia sites with graphs, maps, satellite photos, and video (including amazing Coast Guard rescues by helicopter): The Storm's Impact The Levees The WaPo also has a section devoted to the . . . more »

Judith | 09/01/05 at 07:57 AM | 1 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

August 31, 2005

Allegations Most Foul

Which leaves a worse taste in the mouth? In the corner on the right, we have incensed and unforgiving religious Jews blaming Hurricane Katrina on Bush for forcing the Gaza Disengagement on Israel. In the corner on the left, we . . . more »

Alcibiades | 08/31/05 at 10:30 PM | 2 Comments | 2 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

UPDATE: Katrina Relief

The Truth Laid Bear has a partial listing of blogs participating in Katrina Relief with a listing of recommended charities. If you scroll down to the bottom of the page, you can find contact information for the various charities. The . . . more »

Alcibiades | 08/31/05 at 12:06 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

December 31, 2004

Tsunami continued

I've been adding links to the tsunami entry, especially items that may not have received wide coverage. When confronted with a savage destruction of human life - natural or manmade - Jews tend to reach for the imagery and rituals . . . more »

Judith | 12/31/04 at 01:04 AM | 0 Comments | 1 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

December 28, 2004

Tsunami

All the big bloggers are linking to tsunami news and aid links; you know where to go for those, and I'm sure you have been. Me too. Here is Tsunami Blog Central. At the risk of seeming ghoulish, let me . . . more »

Judith | 12/28/04 at 07:18 PM | 0 Comments | 0 TrackBacks | Categories: Natural disasters

September 04, 2004

Others' words are better than mine

Read this. Read this. A comment from Tom's blog:I have another quote in mind. Jeremiah 32:35:And they built the high places of the Ba�al, which are in the valley of Ben-hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass . . . more »

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