Where have all the heros gone? October 5, 2006
Posted by denmick in Uncategorized.trackback
In the past heros have been known by their ability to rise above the frey and rescue people from burning homes, saving flood victims as with the Katrina disaster or in general helping others survive an otherwise fatal situation.
Today we have a fatal situation facing the entire country.
Our United States Constitution is near death. Dying from a neo-con assault, attempted murder on the backbone of our democracy.
All our forefathers had established to ensure our democracy flourishes is in danger of being wiped out and replaced with a fascist regime whos’ only intent is to further the profit making potential of mega-corporations and enslave the American people to them.
Who among us has the strength to overcome this assault?
Right now the fascist dictator Bush and his minions are working hard to make sure you do not know what they are doing. This Administration which is the most secretive since the Nixon era
is infiltrating the depths of government to ensure they can gain complete control of all aspects of the government, witnessed by the dismantling of the EPA, the FCC, the US Forest Service and many others, essentially nullifying any rules that would interfere with their goal of domination.
This authoritarian regime has rendered pollution laws intended to keep us safe, moot.
The Congress has proven they are completely incapable of stopping this abuse of power and have basicly rubber stamped every bill requested to accomplish the Administrations goals.
The Administration has started an unjustified war against a sovreign nation, Iraq, to further the mega-oil corporations agenda of world oil conquest. President Bush has declared the Constitution a “goddam piece of paper” Now an illeagal assault on Iran seems entirely possible, even with an obvious lack of support worldwide.
This assault on the core values of America continues unabated and without mercy.
Who will be the hero/heros? Will it be you?
Den, I’m 63, my hero days are over. I can still express my toughts, though. Here’s some info on Norway:
Location:
Northern Europe, bordering the North Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, west of Sweden
Geographic coordinates:
62 00 N, 10 00 E
Map references:
Europe
Area:
total: 323,802 sq km
land: 307,442 sq km
water: 16,360 sq km
Area – comparative:
slightly larger than New Mexico
Land boundaries:
total: 2,542 km
border countries: Finland 727 km, Sweden 1,619 km, Russia 196 km
Coastline:
25,148 km (includes mainland 2,650 km, as well as long fjords, numerous small islands, and minor indentations 22,498 km; length of island coastlines 58,133 km)
Maritime claims:
territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 10 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
continental shelf: 200 nm
Climate:
temperate along coast, modified by North Atlantic Current; colder interior with increased precipitation and colder summers; rainy year-round on west coast
Terrain:
glaciated; mostly high plateaus and rugged mountains broken by fertile valleys; small, scattered plains; coastline deeply indented by fjords; arctic tundra in north
Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Norwegian Sea 0 m
highest point: Galdhopiggen 2,469 m
Natural resources:
petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, titanium, pyrites, nickel, fish, timber, hydropower
Land use:
arable land: 2.7%
permanent crops: 0%
other: 97.3% (2005)
Irrigated land:
1,270 sq km (2003)
Natural hazards:
rockslides, avalanches
Environment – current issues:
water pollution; acid rain damaging forests and adversely affecting lakes, threatening fish stocks; air pollution from vehicle emissions
Environment – international agreements:
party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography – note:
about two-thirds mountains; some 50,000 islands off its much indented coastline; strategic location adjacent to sea lanes and air routes in North Atlantic; one of most rugged and longest coastlines in the world
Thanks for the info Erling, looks like a nice place from the pictures I’ve seen, a bit chilly for my liking but if I had the opportunity, I would vacation there in the summer.
Den, in Kristiansand (located on the southern tip of Norway), we used to have 2-3 feet of snow every winter. the last 12-14 years there has been hardly any snow at all. Last year, we had some snow for about a month, but the temperature was bearly below zero (centigrades). I predict that we will stay above zero the whole coming winter. The met people forcast +18 degrees centigrades next week, in mid October! As many others, I blame it on global warming. BTW, we had a real nice summer this year. Most of July and August the temp. was in the high twenties, a couple of days even 30-31 degrees (again Centigrades). 22 degr. in the sea and 25-26 degr. in the local lakes. The fall usually starts in September, thats why we went to Turkey on holiday. But the summer continued in Norway during our stay in Turkey, wich really pissed me off. Now I think that nature has prosponed the fall by at least a month and a half! Global warming!
Erling, thats funny that you should experience those temps that far north.
Here in No. Cal. temps have been below normal, today it will be 72Farenheight for a high temp, normals of 85F.
You have warming, we got your cooling, HA!