Jimmah couldn't handle a bunny rabbit let alone a volcano. If there's one thing Jimmah doesn't owe an apology for it's volcano deaths.
There is no safe zone in nature.
GET OVER IT... I don't like Jimmy either but GET OVER IT.
"24" must be using Carter as the model for their VP, who has assumed the Presidency while the real President is in a coma.
Rescue workers eventually found Jolene Edwards, 19, and Arlene Edwards, 37, lying a football field apart in the branches of separate hemlock trees, about four miles outside the red and blue zones."
I got to this part and busted out laughing.
I hope that doesn't mean that the "victims" families would like to sue me too.
(Oh sure, just wait until *I* get killed by an exploding volcano and let me see how funny I think it is then.)
Volcanoes happen.
Families of some victims sued Weyerhaeuser, settling for a reported $225,000 – an amount that many said was a pittance.
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Are you kidding me!?! How could they possibly be responsible...
You wonder how all the people complaining about this would feel if the FedGov shut down Yellowstone Park permanently because it is impossible to predict when the next major eruption will occur. Is that really what they want?
No one predicted that the volcano would blow out sideways.
She didn't have to. She let the Volcano do the killing for her!
Bump.
Are my eyes going bad or am I seeing an AP story criticizing Jimmah?
I think we should use the 'nook-yuh-ler' option on Jimmah.
And they say W is stupid because he pronounces it funny, but they never noticed Jimmah, supposedly a 'nook-yuh-ler' engineer of some sort, has been saying it wrong for the last 100 years.
I think it's obnoxious that the victims were blamed for being in the wrong place. That said, geology happens. Down in the Bishop area in CA, I understand that volcano experts believed the mountain would blow and lots of actions were taken because of it. It hasn't, at least, not yet.
Scientists have few clues as to when a volcano or an earthquake will strike, or how extensive it will be.
It's amazing that more folks weren't killed given the power of the eruption.
And, "the government owes me an apology", frequently in vogue for Japanese internment, slavery, Indians' loss of "their land", etc. is just asinine IMHO. Poop happens - get over it.
As someone else mentioned, Yellowstone is a ticking bomb - problem is the date of a new eruption is completely unpredictable - tomorrow, 2 hundred years, 2 thousand years. If the government closed Yellowstone because of the danger, and there is danger far outside the boundaries of the park, they'd never hear the end of it.
My husbands parents took him and his brother to Mt. St. Helens a few times when it was under warning (in supposedly safe places.) If it had blown, they would have been killed. I do think his particular parents are idiots, though...