And Puerto Rico (yes, Puerto Rico) had tornados and hail on Saturday. St. Croix had 10 inches of rain since Wednesday and it is still raining. We normally don't have this kind of rain in May.

Note, this may end up as a double post. My first save did not appear as a reply.

On where to put said bunkers: a short list

1. Permissible in the exclusion zones of a nuclear power plant.

2. Permissible anywhere along the Mighty Mississippi lowlands in Cancer Alley

3. Permissible in any city center so long as marked as such with the name and phone number of the owner.

4. Greater industrial Detroit, Hammond Ind, etc. for those with a fondness for true desolation

5. Any place you can get one to fit where the sun don't shine...

Maybe Mother Nature will come up with bunker-buster storms to get back at those who were most responsible for maximizing their short term gains by maximizing world pollution....like Mega tornadoes that drill down and extract the Koch-roaches from their lairs. Or maybe massive storms that emulate what happened in Japan...but only thousands of times worse..(we nearly had a storm related nuke catastrophe in the South-eastern US recently).

The half-life of radioactive plutonium is hundreds of thousands of years....even the wealthy elite Koch-roaches would not be able to last long. When their "shelters" became prisons they would be sorry they thought that amassing wealth by any means was better than being beneficent to their fellow citizens. Of course, unfortunately, under such cataclysms, all life on earth would cease to exist.

We'll all end up paying dearly for what a few selfish people are doing. The wealthy elite bunker survivalists still have the "duck and cover" mentality that was drilled in to us all by Walt Disney's "Duck and Cover" propaganda films of the 50s and 60s. Fact is if anything so disastrous as a nuclear holocaust (by war or by accidents), or world-wide destruction by massive weather changes, or even a complete economic breakdown such that people are dying off from starvation and disease then life would not be worth living anyway. When that happens, even the wealthy ruling elite would no longer find that their much cherished status is worth anything. There would be no one to serve them. And the viral diseases that would develop would not be stopped for long by a bunker.

But then again..hoping that something terrible would happen to make the wealthy pay for their crimes is just about as ridiculous as believing in "rich men going to heaven when they can pass through the eye of a needle"...and that the poor will get their rewards after they get to heaven. The wealthy love that kind of thinking because it lets them get away with everything.

@Palindromedary, we do have one last friend. Yes, we do!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLAg2NDcOt4&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Obama supporter Cornell West went ballistic about having supported Obama:

(Cornell) West, who did 65 campaign events for Obama, believed in the potential for change and was encouraged by the populist rhetoric of the Obama campaign. He now nurses, like many others who placed their faith in Obama, the anguish of the deceived, manipulated and betrayed. He bitterly describes Obama as “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats. And now he has become head of the American killing machine and is proud of it.”

"....This means civil disobedience, going to jail, supporting progressive forums of social unrest if they in fact awaken the conscience, whatever conscience is left, of the nation. And that’s where I find myself now."

“I was thinking maybe he has at least some progressive populist instincts that could become more manifest after the cautious policies of being a senator and working with [Sen. Joe] Lieberman as his mentor,” he says. “But it became very clear when I looked at the neoliberal economic team. The first announcement of Summers and Geithner I went ballistic. I said, ‘Oh, my God, I have really been misled at a very deep level.’ And the same is true for Dennis Ross and the other neo-imperial elites. I said, ‘I have been thoroughly misled, all this populist language is just a facade. I was under the impression that he might bring in the voices of brother Joseph Stiglitz and brother Paul Krugman. I figured, OK, given the structure of constraints of the capitalist democratic procedure that’s probably the best he could do. But at least he would have some voices concerned about working people, dealing with issues of jobs and downsizing and banks, some semblance of democratic accountability for Wall Street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats who are just running amuck. I was completely wrong.”

West says the betrayal occurred on two levels: Go to the Truthdig web site to read more...

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_obama_deception_why_cornel_west_...

So why are some of you people still supporting the turn-coat, sell-out and traitor to his prelection convictions and to the people who voted for him? Obama is your friend ever as much as are the Koch-roaches who want to turn everyone else into lowly serfs and peon slaves.

Yes, we do have a future. Our future is in God and not The Anti-Christ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M-zwE33zHA&feature=related

Here is the answer for our many problems.

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15609

Did I hear Thom correctly on his show that our Anti-Christ nation will continue to fail. Dire consequences await our third world country.

Sex as the point of Power

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I think the great unspoken truth about what drives men (mostly) to acquire excessive wealth and power is access to unlimited sex and unlimited sexual submissives. For this purpose, a private island in Dubai serves very well. The "Family Man" image is misinterpreted even by us, the close observers. It was never meant to imply male loyalty. It is meant to indicate complete male control of the "breeder female", demonstrate her obedience, her guarantee of fidelity, thereby assuring the "purity" of "The Family Man's" stock.

Among barbarians, the powerful man is expected to exhibit an enhanced libido and extravagant sexual tastes as proof of his prowess as a leader of Men. This is the code of the rip-off that is "C Street". This is the unspoken code of the barbarians in excellent suits. It is also one of the driving forces of colonialism. Colonialism provides access to young "exotic" (from a Euro-centric perspective) girls (and boys).

What we call greed is very often, in actuality, a realted sin: lust. The failure of contemporary marriage, of contemporary economics, of contemporary society as a whole can, in part, be traced to the insufferably destructive urge to immerse oneself in the blind, ego-driven selfishness of lust.... which leads to the dead opposite of a healthy, respectful, creative sexual culture.

The Slave Owners used to rape their slaves. This is no different.

Yes Thom and the sad thing is, we are financing the takeover. You see, it is one thing to give oil subsidies in the Bush Cheney energy plan. But the kicker in the Bush Cheney energy plan was that the CEOs of the gas industry are now subservient to Wall Street, no matter what they do as a Corp., or an industry they cannot stabilize their market they cannot control their market, volatility is mandatory and Wall Street is going get there. 30% cut, and the taxpayer is on the hook they have had to borrow every dime paid to the oil lobby and pay interest on it for over seven years. We do not want these guys privatizing social security and Medicare. These guys break things and want credit for fixing them. They are self-serving destructive insurgent forces and our economy.

Just a reminder, Thom, as I've heard you say this MANY times. When I attended the University of California at Irvine 1971-1975, my tuition was $636 per year. When my brother graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 1965, the tuition was around $220 per year. When my mother graduated from UCLA in 1940, the fees (this was pre-tuition) were around $35 annually. I do believe that when my grandmother graduated from UC Berkeley in 1901, tuition was free. It's now over $11,000 per year. So when you say the UC was free - it was for my grandmother and her 10 siblings, all Cal Bears, but not for subsequent generations. The difference, however, between $636 35 years ago and more than $11,000 now with respect to the ability of a student to put him or herself through college is enormous, and those figures do not include living expenses! We graduated debt-free. That is a much steeper hill to climb for UC students today.

The point of state univerities and colleges was always that anyone who qualified would be admitted. Now the provisos must be added that the student may not get into the campus of choice, and may face onerous debt upon completion of hir or her undergraduate education.