Mind the Gap

Friday, September 23, 2005


"And Right Now, the Arctic Circle is a POOL!"

The above is a quote from Robin Williams -- possibly the funniest human being on earth -- in his "Live on Broadway" in July 2002 concert. He was slamming the Bush Regime and their refusal to comply with the Global Warming Conference in Japan. And this was three years ago.

Moderate publications like this one, are starting to agree, especially now that a bitch named 'Katrina' has laid the Big Easy out like a sloppy drunk on the losing end of a bar brawl. Uh, and speaking of sloppy drunks ...

Another comedian, Bill Cosby, used to say "never tempt WORSE", as in, 'how much WORSE can it get?' Well, automobile enthusiasts, you've done it. You've gone and tempted WORSE.

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Valero Energy Corp. CEO Bill Greehey said Hurricane Rita's impact on U.S. crude oil production and refining could be a "national disaster."


If there's any doubt that America's petroleum-based economy has been playing with fire for years, look at this --


(Exerpt from AP Story) Site of country's worst industrial accident

In March 2004, an explosion at the BP plant injured no one. But 58 years ago, Texas City was the site of the nation’s worst industrial accident when two ships loaded with tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded; combined losses were 576 people killed and another 5,000 injured.
Full story here.

There are people who still think commuting by car in America is an option?! Los Angeles is poised to reclaim the infamous title of Worst Air back from Dallas-Fort Worth.

All I could think about when I was on driving on I-5 over East L.A. in Jan. 2002 was, how can those kids down there breathe???

Ma Nature is not going to tolerate this.

And finally, to ease the trauma, I give you Potty Poultry!



A jungle fowl sits on a sink and watches her reflection in a restroom mirror at the Houston Zoo Friday, Sept. 23, 2005. Geese, ducks, chickens and turkeys were moved into the windowless, concrete restrooms for safekeeping from Hurricane Rita. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)



-- Mz M.

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