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Open Mic May 24

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46 minutes ago
by Logarchism.com in
moore tornado aerial

Path of destruction.

One of the strongest tor­na­does ever recorded hit Moore, a sub­urb of Okla­homa City. Almost 100 peo­ple are dead, and thou­sands are injured and home­less. The path was almost the same as a May 3, 1999 tor­nado, which had the high­est winds (302 mph, 486 kph) ever mea­sured on Earth.

Sen­a­tor Mary Lan­drieu (D-​​LA) thinks Sen­a­tor Tom Coburn (R-​​OK) is con­sis­tently wrong. The right knows Sen­a­tor White­house is wrong just this once, but upon closer inspec­tion he’s just another vic­tim of the Out­rage Machine which lum­bers on even in the absence of evi­dence or those pesky lit­tle facts.

Pres­i­dent Obama wants Amer­ica to regain a peace foot­ing and aban­don a war foot­ing. The military-​​industrial com­plex just says “no”.

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Something in the Air

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2 years ago
by dcpetterson in

Branch David­i­ans at Waco

There may be some­thing strange in the spring air. This is the week for disasters.

On April 19, 1993, seventy-​​six peo­ple died after a fifty-​​day siege at the Branch David­ian com­pound in Waco, Texas. One hun­dred sixty-​​eight peo­ple died in a ter­ror­ist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Mur­rah Fed­eral Build­ing in Okla­homa City on April 19, 1995. Four years later, on April 20, 1999, twelve stu­dents and a teacher were killed, and twenty-​​four oth­ers injured, in a shoot­ing spree at Columbine High School in Col­orado. Then, on April 20, 2010, an explo­sion on the Deep­wa­ter Hori­zon oil rig in the Gulf of Mex­ico killed eleven work­ers, injured 17 oth­ers, and released mil­lions of bar­rels of oil into the Gulf.

Alfred R. Mur­rah Building

It may be that any week in his­tory has as many ter­ri­ble events. But four such hor­ri­fy­ing cat­a­stro­phes in less than twenty years, with anniver­saries no more than a day apart, it’s enough to make any his­to­rian take notice. (more…)

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