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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 02:10 PM
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CNN Headline: Gulf Coast to see no more Katrinas.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/04/06/hurricane.names/index.html

Is it just me, or are they phrasing this article about the retirement of the hurricane name a little weirdly?

I hate our right wing propaganda outfits.
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AndyA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 02:12 PM
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1. I thought the same thing. They must think they're being cute.
They aren't.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 02:14 PM
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2. the eye of katrina went right over my home
I don't find that headline comforting at all. The next hurricane will come; it will just have a different name. The trauma of katrina is still reverberating down here and the next hurricane season is right around the corner. The name should have been retired, but not trivialized.
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 02:21 PM
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5. Sorry to hear that, about the eye.
It is too much to expect even a shred of decency from CNN.

I saw the News Hour piece on the Bay Saint Louis MS schools yesterday. It seems that they aren't even close to recovering, and there's no telling what will be coming in a few months.
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fond DU Donating Member (53 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 02:15 PM
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3. Oh??? Is that so?
Waaal, bless thar little harts fer figgering THAT out!:rofl:
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 02:17 PM
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4. Honey, close the barn door, the horse is gone! Retiring names
seems kinda' silly. On the other hand, there are ALOT of names they have yet to use, even tho they stupidly pick re-runs, or really similar versions of the same name. What dopes come up with the lists?
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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 02:27 PM
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6. The age old question. Are they being evil or stupid? or both?
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 02:40 PM
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7. There's a big part of me that thinks evil outweighs stupid.
When you look at CNN's home page, you would never dream that the types of thing that should stir consistent outrage are even happening.
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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 02:45 PM
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8. News outlets are owned by plutocrats. And plutocrats never benefit...
from outrage. At least, the kind of outrage that inspires real change. Bread-and-circus outrage is quite useful, as a distraction from the more threatening kind.
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gristy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 02:45 PM
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9. They updated the headline already. Now it's " No more Hurricane Katrinas"
That seems better.
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willows Donating Member (30 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 02:50 PM
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10. More storms per year
With the effects of pollution (be it increase in natural gases, it's still a pollution because it results in negative effects), we'll be seeing more storms, hurricanes per year period.

The more water heat (latent heat energy of water) the hurricane gets to drive off the better for them, gets them stronger, and they'll last longer.
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Dr.Phool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 03:05 PM
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12. Well the good news is that Dr. Gray predicted less storms
Than we had last year.

The bad news is, that we had more than double what he predicted last year. And he's predicted more than he predicted last year.
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 03:15 PM
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14. He's still predicting? I thought he was mostly into denying climate
change.
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phantom power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 03:18 PM
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15. Masters said this was his last year...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x48898
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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 08:40 PM
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17. Oh, that's funny...
He retires to join the denial club just when global warming is making his hurricane prediction models uselss. :rofl:
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 03:02 PM
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11. They should name all hurricanes after George W. Bush from now on.
George W. Bush I
George W. Bush II
George W. Bush Blows
George W. Bush Blows Big Chunks

etc., etc., etc.
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NNadir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 03:06 PM
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13. Have you written the World Meteorological Organization...
...to make this excellent suggestion?
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Dead_Parrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-07-06 08:33 PM
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16. "George W. Bush Blows Big Chunks"
:rofl: Ahh, if only...
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