••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

just in case u missed these


Such high stakes compelled a host of unlikely bedfellows—scientists, environmental groups, business leaders, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers—to forge a radical plan to protect what's left. Drafted by the Corps a year ago, the Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA) project was initially estimated to cost up to 14 billion dollars over 30 years, almost twice as much as current efforts to save the Everglades. But the Bush Administration balked at the price tag, supporting instead a plan to spend up to two billion dollars over the next ten years to fund the most promising projects. Either way, Congress must authorize the money before work can begin.
National Geographic, October 2004


It’s now clear that poor policies on the local, state, and federal levels all contributed to making Katrina a catastrophic storm in Louisiana. But of all the shocking facts emerging in the wake of this hurricane, perhaps this is the most shocking: Right now, with similar irresponsibility, we are ignoring raw data and reports that say every single coastal city in America – from New York to Savannah to Los Angeles – could soon become a New Orleans.
Mike Tidwell

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