WE WILL HAVE A SACRIFICE!

[dwer.livejournal.com]

According to the US Geological Survey Circular, the US states that have active or possibly active volcanoes are New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. Wyoming is an especially troubling issue since it has Yellowstone - one of the largest volcanoes in the world. 640,000 years ago, Yellowstone erupted and it ejected 240 CUBIC MILES of rock and dust into the sky.

In late 2008 and early 2009 Yellowstone experienced quake swarms - one swarm had over 500 earthquakes in a seven day period.

If Yellowstone goes, most of the midwest would be unlivable and the effects would be felt globally. Mass famine and death would result.

From http://www.towncalleddobson.com.

Comments

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

Most of the midwest?

Try everything north of Kansas and east of Wyoming.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

I got that from the site itself. :D I don't know much about volcanoes, but if I know they're dangerous, does that make me smarter than Bobby Jindal?

[firstashore.livejournal.com]

You can add that historically Yellowstone has a cycle of about 600,000 years - for the last few million years at any rate. So it's about 40,000 years overdue.

Interestingly, Mt St Helens is misbehaving at the moment too. There has been a quake swarm underneath it for the last couple of weeks. Doesn't seem to have made much news though.

[evil-admiral.livejournal.com]

Think Mt. Saint Helens x 2500.

[malasadas.livejournal.com]

You left off a few zeros.

[edgar-suit.livejournal.com]

9/11 times a thousand

[syndicalist.livejournal.com]

I wondered if I was the only one who thought his "volcano monitoring = pork" statement was preposterous.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

I actually laughed out loud.

[jlc20thmaine.livejournal.com]

Coming from the NYT I place this below slug scum.

Things left unsaid.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Coming from you...

[desidono.livejournal.com]

How about Fox News?

Lousiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s (R) response to President Obama’s speech tonight received a universal thumbs down from the Fox News panelists, who are traditionally conservatives’ most gentle critics:

BRIT HUME: “The speech read a lot better than it sounded. This was not Bobby Jindal’s greatest oratorical moment.”

NINA EASTON: “The delivery was not exactly terrific.”

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: “Jindal didn’t have a chance. He follows Obama, who in making speeches, is in a league of his own. He’s in a Reagan-esque league. … [Jindal] tried the best he could.”

JUAN WILLIAMS: “It came off as amateurish, and even the tempo in which he spoke was sing-songy. He was telling stories that seemed very simplistic and almost childish.”

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

Krugman says it best (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/what-should-government-do-a-jindal-meditation/)... "The intellectual incoherence is stunning. Basically, the political philosophy of the GOP right now seems to consist of snickering at stuff that they think sounds funny. The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead."

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

In late 2008 and early 2009 Yellowstone experienced quake swarms...

Sleep deprivation made me read that as "experimented with quake swarms...", and I thought "at 640,000 years it sounds like Yellowstone's in the midst of a midlife crisis".

[dwer.livejournal.com]

your comment came to me in mirror text. Thought you'd like to know. :D