Fires, Cars: More Deadly Than Nuclear Power!
April 1st, 2011
By Dan Miller We must stop using them lest intelligent life on Earth be further endangered! The extraordinarily powerful magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in Japan were truly terrible — many lives were lost and there was great destruction. President Obama’s heart went out to the people of Japan and he did his presidential best: […]
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Tags: cars, earthquake, environment, fires, Japan, nuclear power, satire, tsunami
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Embarrassed To Be American
March 15th, 2011
By Nancy Morgan For the first time in my life, I’m embarrassed to be an American. Last weekend, as tens of thousands of Japanese were fighting for their lives after an 8.9 earthquake devastated their nation, our President, after giving a generic “We’re with you” statement, remained noticeably absent. Not really absent — Obama could […]
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Tags: aid, America, earthquake, Japan, meltdown, nuclear, response, tsunami
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Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan
March 14th, 2011
By Tom Carter The earthquakes and tsunami that hit Japan in the last few days are a sobering reminder of the fragility of life on Planet Earth. The main earthquake has been estimated as having a magnitude of 8.9, 9.0, or 9.1 on the Richter scale. Nothing unusual about the variation; it sometimes takes a […]
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Tags: aid, earthquake, Fuji, Honshu, Japan, Tokyo, tsunami, U.S. Navy, volcano
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The Tragedy of Haiti
January 18th, 2010
By Tom Carter Like most everyone else, I’m following the news out of Haiti pretty closely. The photos and videos are appalling. Estimates of the number of dead range from 50,000 to 200,000 or more, but no one knows the true number. Many more thousands of people are injured. Hundreds of thousands are homeless, living in the streets […]
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Tags: aid, corruption, disaster, earthquake, Haiti, reconstruction, violence
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