Sigh.
No use getting worked up, 'murkns!
Country is going to hell and all the money out the door to wars, but....
"Worst of flooding is over as river crests; Midwest turns to prayer, levees for reassurance" by Betsy Taylor, Associated Press | June 23, 2008
LOUISIANA, Mo. - .... But elsewhere, the river was still rising. The latest forecasts for Winfield and Grafton, Ill., pushed back the crest to Wednesday....
Officials in Lincoln County, Mo., inspected levees near Winfield by air yesterday after one was overtopped earlier in the day, flooding about 1,000 acres and fewer than half a dozen homes, said Andy Binder, the Lincoln County emergency management spokesman.
"It just blew through our sandbags," Binder said, adding that authorities are confident the secondary levees protecting the town and nearby Elsberry will hold.
Several miles down the river in Grafton, the flood waters continued to spread deeper into the 650-resident village, heavily dependent on tourism. The town's main road - the Great River Road - was impassable in some stretches, limiting access to businesses....
Light rains forecast yesterday in eastern Missouri and southern Illinois were not expected to worsen the flooding, forecasters said. Sporadic rains are expected throughout the week but will be scattered and light.
A series of levee breaches let flood waters spread over a wide swath of land in Missouri and Illinois, and that water will take time to drain back into the river and flow downstream."
Gee, it's a good thing we made all that ethanol out of the corn stocks, 'eh, 'murka?
"Record corn prices pushing up cost of meat, dairy" by Associated Press | June 23, 2008
NEW YORK - Raging Midwest flood waters that swallowed crops and sent corn and soybean prices soaring are about to give consumers more grief at the grocery store.
In the latest bout of food inflation, beef, pork, poultry, and even eggs, cheese, and milk are expected to get more expensive as livestock owners go out of business or are forced to slaughter more cattle, hogs, turkeys, and chickens to cope with rocketing costs for corn-based animal feed.
The floods engulfed an estimated 2 million or more acres of corn and soybean fields in Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, and other key growing states, sending world grain prices skyward on fears of a substantially smaller corn crop...."
Nice move, assholes!!!!
That's the most offensive part of the whole global-warming cult:
The AGENDA-PUSHING PROPAGANDISTS have gotten the AmeriKan people to swallow this steaming stinker!!!
Look, it was FREEZING (o.k., not literally) last night -- and it is the END of JUNE HERE!
So PISS OFF, global-warming screw-balls and your MSM mouthpieces!
See: No Proof of Global Warming in Polar Regions
Just a coincidence that Ah-nold is against oil drilling on the coast, right?
Be punished, Arnie?
"Lightning sparks wildfires in Calif.; Hundreds flare in northern areas" by Marcus Wohlsen, Associated Press | June 23, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO - Hundreds of wildfires sparked by lightning flared yesterday across the heart of wine country and remote forests in Northern California, the latest batch of destructive blazes in the bone-dry state...."
And why did this get cut? Why did they minimize the fires, readers?
In New Mexico, hundreds of firefighters battled blazes that had charred more than 100 square miles, including more than 4,000 acres on a ranch owned by media mogul Ted Turner."
Oh, I see. One of their own was mentioned!
Awwww, poor Ted!
Also makes you wonder about the MSM's "Breaking News" coverage, doesn't it?
I never saw anything about the new Mexico fires.
So WHAT is behind the coverage when they DO AIR IT, readers?
What AGENDA are they PUSHING, or what DIVERSION are they SELLING?
And the problems are not just in AmeriKa:
"MANILA - A group of 28 ferry passengers and crew washed ashore after drifting at sea for more than a day from the site where a typhoon capsized their ship and left most of the hundreds aboard missing and presumed dead, officials said today....
The ship carried more than 740 passengers and crew.... Typhoon Fengshen has killed at least 163 people across the archipelago, setting off landslides and floods and knocking out electricity...."
