Okay MWB Mistress of the Blogworld Michela cannot avoid another small commentary on the hurricane. The leftists have peeled themselves off their grimy, tacky wallpapered walls (paint is bad for the environment) from every corner of their narrow-minded little worlds to blame this hurricane on the "global warming" (you mean, the current weather conditions?). They have said made back-handed comments that the USA "deserved" this for not signing Kyoto, or that it was due to that grand karmic equalizer in the sky, for not having signed Kyoto. Simpletons of the world, read on. "Global warming", the way you describe it, is faaaaaaaaarrr from a settled scientific fact. Here are the disputes: 1. One volcanic eruption spews more carbon gases into the atmosphere than 10,000,000 SUVs if they drove for 10,000 years. So the current "global warming" is far more likely to have been caused by volcanic activity than mere little humans in the US of A. 2. The most generous estimates of Kyoto say that if all meaasures were taken, the earth's temperature average will be reduced by 2 degrees. I saw the March of the Penguins. Does anyone think that those poor little penguins couldn't use a degree or two shaved off to ease their suffering? Hmmm? -80 to -70, even, would be quite nice for those little penguin guys and gals. Not thinkin', though, that -80 to -78 will much help. 3. Then, there's the fact that Kyoto lets third world cesspool nations spew as much shit into the air as they want. So, what is little ol' US of A supposed to do to counter all that damage? Hmm? 4. Lets go back a millenia or so, when they could farm on Greenland. So, what American SUV caused THAT global warming. Hmm? What about the flood of Noah's day. Hmmm? Fuck all you pinko shitbags who would use this horrible incident, or the tsunami, or any other perfectly natural disaster to assert your political gain. When the Repubs blamed gays and monkey bonkers for bringing HIV to the human race, they were less far off than left wing whackjobs saying that Tailand deserveed a tsunami to clear out the hotels which were wrecking the pristine land.