wish you well

Happy Birthday Scott!

Thanks for gracing us with your presence. :-)

Hurricane Michelle

Sustained winds of 135 mph. Heading towdards Cuba.

Hmm. That doesn't sound quite like any of the Hurricane Michelles that I know.

Environmental Rollbacks: Special interests on the move

From Defenders of Wildlife.

With the nation focused on our national emergency, special interests are quietly trying to undermine many of our environmental protections. Just last week, the Bureau of Land Management reversed stricter environmental standards on gold, copper and lead mining operations. For the first time, these standards would have given federal officials the power to block mines likely to cause "substantial irreparable harm" to water quality and other natural resources. As the New York Times said in an editorial: "It is difficult at a moment of crisis to devote much thought to things like mining rules or snowmobile bans. But if the president's top officials have time to undermine environmental regulations, the public needs to pay attention as well."

You'd think that with the increased likelihood of a terrorist contamination, coupled with the increasing cost of water, which is directly related to its availability, that our legislators would be concerned with anything that could further restrict our water supply.

Devo

You may not be aware of this, but we are in the middle of world war three. It is not nuclear bombs that we must fear. The weapon is the human mind, or lack of it on this planet. That will determine our fate.
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We must fight back.
We must know what we want.
We must want what we need.
And what we need is duty now for the future.