Michael Hopcroft Posted September 9, 2017 Report Share Posted September 9, 2017 Run away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted September 9, 2017 Report Share Posted September 9, 2017 National Weather Service is literally screaming in all caps on Twitter: "THIS IS AS REAL AS IT GETS--NOWHERE IN THE KEYS WILL BE SAFE" This could end badly. ANyone left in the Keys are Darwin Award winners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted September 9, 2017 Report Share Posted September 9, 2017 ANyone left in the Keys are Darwin Award winners. They may not have a way to leave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 9, 2017 Report Share Posted September 9, 2017 They're stuck now. They've been having a tropical storm for a few hours already. I found an article online about how Irma is really going to screw over (i.e. kill) poor people. Hard to evacuate your trailer with no car and no money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech priest support Posted September 9, 2017 Report Share Posted September 9, 2017 They're stuck now. They've been having a tropical storm for a few hours already. I found an article online about how Irma is really going to screw over (i.e. kill) poor people. Hard to evacuate your trailer with no car and no money. It gets worse. https://lawnewz.com/crazy/florida-sheriff-threatens-hurricane-irma-evacuees-seeking-shelter-with-jail-time/ And for people who don't live in America, the people getting I. D. Checked will mostly not be white. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted September 9, 2017 Report Share Posted September 9, 2017 Have you read Solnit's "A Paradise built in Hell"? One chapter was about Hurricane Katrina. Relatively few of the looters actually killed anyone. She did find evidence of People passing through white neighborhoods being shot on mere suspicion of being looters. Shot while still in the street, because CNN ran the most sensationalist stories of Mad Max violence happening among the poor left in the city. When refugees tried walking through rich suburbs to get to safety, they were presumed a threat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted September 10, 2017 Report Share Posted September 10, 2017 Have you read Solnit's "A Paradise built in Hell"? One chapter was about Hurricane Katrina. Relatively few of the looters actually killed anyone. She did find evidence of People passing through white neighborhoods being shot on mere suspicion of being looters. Shot while still in the street, because CNN ran the most sensationalist stories of Mad Max violence happening among the poor left in the city. When refugees tried walking through rich suburbs to get to safety, they were presumed a threat. When white people break into stores to get food and water and warm clothes and blankets, they're "foraging for survival". When people of color do it, they're "looting". Enforcer84 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted September 10, 2017 Report Share Posted September 10, 2017 Depends on the white person, if they look trailer-trashy that theory doesnt apply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted September 10, 2017 Report Share Posted September 10, 2017 In any case, when I judge on foraging vs looting I will base my opinion on the items on their person, rather than anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted September 10, 2017 Report Share Posted September 10, 2017 They may not have a way to leave. I would be surprised if they didn't have some sort of organized mandatory evacuation in the Keys, the rest of FL, I would agree more with that sentiment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted September 11, 2017 Report Share Posted September 11, 2017 Play-lynching 8-year-olds in New Hampshire in 2017 A.D.: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted September 11, 2017 Report Share Posted September 11, 2017 Well, one of my friends almost got his dumb self hung when we were little (8-9 years old). While climbing trees, he had tied some rope to his waist that was also tied to the trip, then he slipped. I managed to untie him. My mother says when we came inside, that my face was the one that was completely pale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 11, 2017 Report Share Posted September 11, 2017 Eight Pacific islands disappear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 11, 2017 Report Share Posted September 11, 2017 After twenty years, the epochal Cassini mission to Saturn will end Friday. EDIT: go to the "Raw images" page linked there, and you'll have the opportunity to "Download all (395,323)". L. Marcus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DasBroot Posted September 12, 2017 Report Share Posted September 12, 2017 After twenty years, the epochal Cassini mission to Saturn will end Friday. EDIT: go to the "Raw images" page linked there, and you'll have the opportunity to "Download all (395,323)". I demand that for the last minute of the decent the ground crew belts out the chorus of Jon Bon Jovi's "Blaze of Glory" as hard as they can and posts the results. gewing and L. Marcus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 Hippos, birdies, T. rexes, pigs: How Sandra Boynton built an empire and won your child’s heart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 I demand that for the last minute of the decent the ground crew belts out the chorus of Jon Bon Jovi's "Blaze of Glory" as hard as they can and posts the results. Please not Bon Jovi, please dear LOrd no. DasBroot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DasBroot Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 "I'm going dowwwwwwwwn in a blaze of glory...." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 Irma knocked out power and air conditioning to a Miami nursing home, and without it five patients died. Several others were is "respiratory distress" when the facility was evacuated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 Sports wise this happened on Sunday apart from the start of the NFL regular season. Christopher Froome won La Vuelta the Spanish version of the Tour de France making him only the third person to win the Tour de France and La Vuelta in the same year and the first since it was moved from early Spring to late August in 1995. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/41218257 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 Check him for doping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Hopcroft Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 Sports wise this happened on Sunday apart from the start of the NFL regular season. Christopher Froome won La Vuelta the Spanish version of the Tour de France making him only the third person to win the Tour de France and La Vuelta in the same year and the first since it was moved from early Spring to late August in 1995. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/41218257 Check him for doping! I wonder if it is possible to complete the Tour de France, much less win it, without doping. And in baseball (which is no stranger to doping scandals), the Cleveland Indians are currently attempting to win their 21st consecutive game, which will give them the record for longest winning streak in the history of the American League.(which was founded in 1901 -- Cleveland was one of the original eight franchises). The National League record is held by the 1916 New York Giants of the National League, at 26. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 After six years they should have caught him IF he was cheating. And Contador who was caught and served a two year ban has now retired Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 Thing is, doping tech tends to be more advanced than the authorities' tech for detecting it. If he's doing something new that accrues an improper advantage, it will be a while before (1) it is generally recognized as improper and (2) reliable means of checking for it is devised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted September 13, 2017 Report Share Posted September 13, 2017 His wins are more due to strategy than anything else. Plus the scrutiny is greater since Lance Armstrong. Contador was caught and punished. It is highly unlikely that Froome is doping especially as the team are built around being clean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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