Quake stats
According to Hubble This, a EMS listserv, NASA says the quake that caused the tsunami “moved the north pole 1 inch, shortened earth day by 3 miscoseconds, and made the earth rounder.’
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Day January 11, 2005
25 ton boulder in road
That huge boulder that rolled into Topanga Canyon Blvd..in L.A. blocked a major secondary route over the canyons between the San Fernando valley and Santa Monica. The resulting traffic jams must be monumental. The mudslides and deaths so far are…
Politics and tsunamis
Indonesia warned the thousands of aid workers providing relief to earthquake and tsunami victims in devastated Aceh province on Tuesday not to venture beyond two large cities because of militant threats The government of Indonesia, like that of Sri Lanka,…
Why oh why do they hate us?
A US warplane mistakenly dropped a 500-pound bomb yesterday on a house in a village near the northern city of Mosul, killing several Iraqis, according to witnesses and the US military. When this story originally broke, US military of course…
Imagine that
Fallujah Residents Angry Over Destruction When Ahmed Hussein Nasser returned to Fallujah weeks after a devastating U.S.-led campaign to retake the city from insurgents, he could barely recognize the city where he had spent all 66 years of his life.