[blam]

We're all doomed. That mean 'ol George Bush has destroyed the weather records.

Note who wrote this article, Ben Russell, Political Correspondent.

Anyone want to bet that all these tablets and all the information contained are on microfilm in the London Museum?

[dts32041]

This is a watermelon joke, right?

[denydenydeny]

LOL! This one is a classic.

Can someone post that "Oh, no, not this **** again" picture?

[visualops]

This is absurb. I can't believe something this empty has been published. The entire article is speculating about a speculation of a maybe.

[Arkinsaw]

and all the information contained are on microfilm in the London Museum?

Not any more. Unfortunately Tony Blair broke in with an axe and smashed them all into little pieces out of sheer meanness.

(all on orderes from GW of course).

[CFC__VRWC]

We're all doomed. That mean 'ol George Bush has destroyed the weather records.

Of course this despicable act was intentional on Bush's part, and now we can clearly see the reason he lied about WMDs so he could launch an illegal war against the kind and benevolent Saddam Hussein. By destroying these weather records, he thought he could destroy all the proof for global warming, and thus benefit Cheney and the rest of his oil-business buddies, as well as his 9/11 co-conspirators in Saudi Arabia!

I think that just about covers the leftist take on it.

[TomGuy]

Yesterday or this morning, the FoxNews crew were talking about the latest on the museum/archives/treasures. All but about 3000 have been returned. Many thousands were taken by the civilian population--for safekeeping--and have since been returned.

[Welsh Rabbit]

See, you fools! You all said this war was a good thing, but now because the tablets are lost, humanity is doomed. Doomed, I say! Without those tablets, global warming will surely kill us all by 2010.... < /sarcasm off>

[Our man in washington]

Gee, what could have caused such drastic change in the weather? Must have been those SUVs those Akkadian and Sumerians were driving.

[aBootes]

Anyone want to bet that all these tablets and all the information contained are on microfilm in the London Museum?

If it is true that tablets are being taken from sites, then it is unlikely that we have facsimiles. But perhaps many of these "looted" tablets will eventually make it to new owners who will make them available for reproduction. And if these are actually several hundred thousand tablets of day-to-day life, it is hard to argue that the ultimate loss of any handful will destroy a record of the "big picture." It is more likely that the sheer number of tablets to be read will prevent us from getting to relevant data, if it exists, in a reasonable time.

[TheCrusader]

How many more clues to life must be lost to human warfare? How many more cures for the planet's ills must be lost by the mindless Conservatives? HOW MANY MORE? woe is me, woe is me.

[Cate]

DON'T WORRY... DON'T PANIC.... I MADE SEVERAL COPIES OF THE TABLETS ON THE PHOTOCOPIER AND HAVE THEM LOCKED IN A SAFE PLACE. Oh, and on there, it also tells us all the people who are ever going to appear on Wheaties boxes.

[The Brush]

The secrets of El Niño

There is no secret, El Nino means: Let's twist again like we did last summer"... I thought EVERYONE knew that!

[boris]

"Dr Grove said: 'What happened was like a nuclear explosion. The cuneiform tablets of Iraq record in detail the almost complete collapse of pre-industrial agrarian societies due to extreme climate events lasting up to 10 to 20 years and possibly longer.'"

Caused by all the CO2 those Sumerians were generating with their inefficient internal-combustion engines, right?

--Boris

[Shooter 2.5]

Also on the shattered jar pieces, who shot JFK, The location of the lost cities of Atlantis and El Dorado, The location of Genghis Khan's tomb, the contents of Area 51 and where to find Big Foot.

[goody2shooz]

This is ridiculous.

In the American southwest studies done using pack rat nests and bristleconce pine trees have brought to light a weather time line more accurate than Mesopotamian scribes ever kept, a time line that goes back for about 10,000 years.

The bad news is that there have been severe droughts during the past 7,000 years. Some lasted 200 years and resulted in the desertification sweeping into some areas only to sweep out again.

Darn those cave men and their SUV's!

[Thinkin' Gal]

The tablets record the ancient Akkadian and Sumerian empires, which once dominated the land now divided between Iraq, Iran and Syria. They outline the catastrophic collapse of the city of Ur more than 4,000 years ago. Hundreds of thousands of people are thought to have died in a disastrous series of flash floods and severe droughts that may have lasted up to 30 years.

Dr Richard Grove, research director at the Centre for World Environmental History at the University of Sussex, believes a series of dramatic changes in ocean currents and global winds was responsible for the collapse of the civilisation. His controversial theory suggests that the El Niño* he believes contributed to the fall of the Sumerian and Akkadian empires was one of the most severe of the past 5,000 years, and may have vital lessons for climatologists today.

*[South American fisherman have given this phenomenon the name El Nino, which is Spanish for "The Christ Child," because it comes about the time of the celebration of the birth of the Christ Child-Christmas.] http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/nino/intro.html

Genesis 12:1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
Genesis 12:2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
Genesis 12:3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

Who needs to make up a clay tablet crisis. Abram seemed to have a clue.

[liberalnot]

is this a bush-bash?

or wha'?

[jim_trent]

Wait till they tell us that the clay tablets had warnings about global warming and gas-guzzling SUV's.

[SunkenCiv]

Most antiquities found, unharmed
Philadelphia Inquirer | 5/5/2003 | Christine Spolar (CHICAGO TRIBUNE)
Posted on 05/05/2003 10:41:04 AM EDT by sjersey
Edited on 05/05/2003 7:46:01 PM EDT by Admin Moderator
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/905906/posts

[Ann Archy]

NIMRUD???? LOL!!!