R.I.P. Oklahoma

[Ian Livingston]

Can we even forgive ourselves? Christ, we seem unable to even take
responsibility when we KNOW we are dumping this shit we are so eagerly
diving into. As a people, besides being fucked, we are amazingly fucked-up.


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> so well-said. When we wish it shouldn't be said.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On May 20, 2013, at 10:41 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This was a 1% tornado.  But only by the old standards.  Future generations
> won't forgive our idiocy easily.  But forgiveness will be the least of
> their concerns.
>
> On Monday, May 20, 2013, Rev'd Seventy-Six wrote:
>
>> My vote is we are In The Shit. Downtown metro Atl. took a tornado six
>> years ago, totally out of the blue. Whole streets were glutted with
>> shards for weeks after. Took two months and disaster relief to get the
>> cityscape glittering again. We were lucky. I grew up in the ass-end of
>> tornado alley and find the uptick frankly terrifying. A twister in the
>> countryside is enough of a sumbitch. Last thing you want is one all
>> methed-up with a craw fulla glass...
>>
>>
>> On 5/20/13, bandwraith at aol.com <bandwraith at aol.com> wrote:
>> > This is fucking unbelievable. During a quiet moment at the office this
>> > afternoon I turned on the tube. There was a helicopter shot of this
>> > massive funnel cloud just hovering over a suburban area- it seemed like
>> > forever. The commentator was rather dispassionately describing the
>> > scene, commentating on tornadoes of the past and what causes them to
>> > form, etc., as people were obviously being mutilated in the distance.
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57585407/at-least-51-dead-after-massive-okla-tornado/
>> >
>> > Is this up-tick in these mega-twisters and other weather phenomenon,
>> > like Sandy, the result of global warming?  If so, we're in deep shit.
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>> http://posthistoricpress.blogspot.com/
>>
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