Bill: You know I got nothing but respect for you man, but I think you're off here. And I'm not disagreeing with your conclusion, it's just the premise that I don't buy. [And although I'm loathe to defend Bush, Ken Lay had just as many friends on the Dems side as the Republicans as do most of the oil barons. The energy companies (and the Saudi's for that matter) are quite cozy with whoever is in power in Washington - that's not something reserved just for Bush). But to the point about elevated sea levels... (please tell me you aren't citing the same NPR that my parents used to listen.. that told me when I was a kid that we were going to die of overpopulation a la Erlich, or that we were going to freeze b/c the atmosphere was being depleted. It was Global Winter back then. NPR, at least for my lifetime has always had some fetish with Atmospheric catastrophes).
Being a native Miami boy, I had quite a bit of experience with Hurricanes and we actually learned quite a bit about them in elementary school. If you check out www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml? you'll see that from 1941-50 there were 24 big hurricanes 10 of which were category 3 and above. 92 major hurricanes have hit the states since we've been a country, and and 61 of them were before 1950... that's roughly 2/3 of them.
I'm in no way saying we don't waste too much energy as a country. I'm not making any commentary on Halliburton or the war. I'm simply saying that back in the 70's when I was a kid, I learned about the hurricane cycle which and if I remember correctly, it's typically 20-40 year patterns of accelerated activity and then relative remission for approximately the same time period. My parents have a high rise condo right on the water in Miami, and have had it for my entire life. No hurricane caused one penny's worth of damage there and I'll be dead and gone by the time one does in all likelihood.
There's enough real stuff to blame Bush for - causing this hurricane is not one of them and any future ones won't be caused by us.
Being a native Miami boy, I had quite a bit of experience with Hurricanes and we actually learned quite a bit about them in elementary school. If you check out www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml? you'll see that from 1941-50 there were 24 big hurricanes 10 of which were category 3 and above. 92 major hurricanes have hit the states since we've been a country, and and 61 of them were before 1950... that's roughly 2/3 of them.
I'm in no way saying we don't waste too much energy as a country. I'm not making any commentary on Halliburton or the war. I'm simply saying that back in the 70's when I was a kid, I learned about the hurricane cycle which and if I remember correctly, it's typically 20-40 year patterns of accelerated activity and then relative remission for approximately the same time period. My parents have a high rise condo right on the water in Miami, and have had it for my entire life. No hurricane caused one penny's worth of damage there and I'll be dead and gone by the time one does in all likelihood.
There's enough real stuff to blame Bush for - causing this hurricane is not one of them and any future ones won't be caused by us.
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