Sep 182017
Stevie Wonder Climate Denier?
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Sep 162017
Sep 112017
September 8, 1900 the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States obliterated the thriving city of Galveston, Texas.
Galveston after the 1900 hurricane – Photographer unknown – Texas State Library
Perhaps pollution and increased CO2 emissions cause amnesia!
For those who believe in Man-Made Global Warming, allow me to present to you this inconvenient truth. In 1900 a category 4 hurricane hit Galveston, Texas, leveling the city. This was before pollution from China, India, and USA. Autos had just started being built. No emissions into the air yet. No hole in the ozone. So what caused this one, Liberal environmentalists? Trump wasn’t even born yet (Although some on the Left might claim that Trump probably travelled back in time, causing the Hurricane).
The hurricane was so bad that a 2008 article in Time Magazine reported it as “The deadliest hurricane in U.S. history”.
The deadliest hurricane in U.S. history was not Hurricane Katrina. Not even close. It was the storm that hit Galveston, Texas, exactly 108 years and one week ago. That storm killed about 8,000 Americans and leveled what had been the largest city in Texas. It was a vicious storm with 130 mph winds.
In Galveston, they call it the “Great Hurricane” (Sept. 8, 1900). This was way before hurricanes were named, which didn’t start until 1953. In 1900 Galveston was only about 9 feet above sea level. When the hurricane made landfall on September 8th it had estimated winds of 145 miles per hour at landfall, making it a Category 4 storm on the Saffir–Simpson Hurricane Scale. The hurricane brought a 15 foot tall storm surge along with these winds. The surge was so powerful it washed over the entire island, knocking buildings off their foundations and then pounding them into scraps of wood. In total over 3600 houses were destroyed.
Many of us thought that Hurricane Katrina caused the most U.S. deaths (1,800, with an additional 700 still missing), but it was dwarfed by the Galveston Hurricane, which was the deadliest natural disaster to ever hit the US, claiming over 6,000 lives.
Deadliest United States Hurricanes
| Rank | Hurricane | Season | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “Galveston” | 1900 | 8,000–12,000† |
| 2 | “Okeechobee” | 1928 | 2,500+† |
| 3 | Katrina | 2005 | 1,836 |
| 4 | “Cheniere Caminada” | 1893 | 1,100–1,400* |
| 5 | “Sea Islands” | 1893 | 1,000–2,000† |
| 6 | “Florida Keys” | 1919 | 778 |
| 7 | “Georgia” | 1881 | 700† |
| 8 | Audrey | 1957 | 416 |
| 9 | “Labor Day” | 1935 | 408 |
| 10 | “Last Island” | 1856 | 400† |
| †estimated total Reference: Deadliest US hurricanes |
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Real Headline: How Do You Do Your Makeup After An Acid Attack?
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Sep 102017
Believe it or not… This is a real headline from the BBC. The UK is screwed.
What is the next headline? – How to make your wheelchair look great after getting hit by a peaceful van and being paralyzed. From BBC News:How do you do your make-up after an acid attack? Should I use primer as well as foundation? Will mascara do, or is it a false eyelash day? Many of us ask ourselves these questions every day, bleary-eyed before work or in front of a mirror for a night out. But what do you when your beauty practices are disrupted, perhaps forever? Business student Resham Khan survived an acid attack on her 21st birthday in London in July, sustaining burns to her face and body and damage to her left eye. Since then she has been blogging about what her make-up and beauty routine is like. https://twitter.com/ReshKhan_/status/903976914251120640 After pictures of Resham celebrating Eid were shared in national media, she revealed the tough reality of what it took to prepare for the photographs and posted photographs of herself without make-up. “First of all I just wanted to make clear that what you see on the internet isn’t real,” Resham wrote in a post on Wednesday. |
The USA – A Nation Founded By Geniuses But Now Run By Idiots
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Sep 102017
The United States in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is now run by idiots…
- If plastic water bottles are okay, but plastic bags are banned.
- If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for entering and remaining in the country illegally.
- If you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or to take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion.
- If you MUST show your identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor, or check out a library book and rent a video, but not to vote for who runs the government.
- If the government wants to prevent stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines that hold more than ten rounds, but gives twenty F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new leaders in Egypt.
- If, in the nation’s largest city, you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not one 24-ounce soda, because 24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat.
- If an 80-year-old woman who is confined to a wheelchair or a three-year-old girl can be strip-searched by the TSA at the airport, but a woman in a burka or a hijab is only subject to having her neck and head searched.
- If your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend trillions more.
- If a seven-year-old boy can be thrown out of school for saying his teacher is “cute” but hosting a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly acceptable.
- If hard work and success are met with higher taxes and more government regulation and intrusion while not working is rewarded with Food Stamps, WIC checks, Medicaid benefits, subsidized housing, and free cell phones.
- If you pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big-screen TV, while your neighbor buys iPhones, time shares, a wall-sized do-it-all plasma screen TV and new cars, and the government forgives his debt when he defaults on his mortgage.