But Bill was, after all, our first Black President...
Posted on 08/01/2003 8:50:07 PM PDT by Pikamax
Hurricane Latonya? Hurricane names raise a warning The 2003 hurricane season is here, and that means a whole new list of names such as Larry, Sam and Wanda ready to make tropical-storm history.
Although Spanish and French names are included in this year’s lineup, among them Juan and Claudette, which struck Texas last week, popular African American names, like Keisha, Jamal and Deshawn, are nowhere to be found.
Some black lawmakers don’t seem to mind, but Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) does. “All racial groups should be represented,” said Lee.
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The World Meteorological Organization began naming tropical storms after women in 1953. That made sense to scientists at the time who thought women and storms were both unpredictable. After feminist groups protested, men’s names were added in 1979.
The National Weather Service says hurricane names are derived from languages spoken in areas that border the Atlantic Ocean, where such storms occur. Yet that doesn’t explain why Gaston, Ernesto and Cindy were chosen and Antwon, Destiny and Latonya were passed over.
Lee said she hoped in the future the weather establishment “would try to be inclusive of African American names.”
That could take a while. The current roster of hurricane names isn’t due to be updated until 2007.
But Bill was, after all, our first Black President...
Bad is such a judgemental word, why not objectionable?
Thats it! Hurricane Lamar!!
Hurricane-Black
Hurri-NOW
Hurri-Homo
Hurri-Hispanic
Hurri-Peta
Hurri-Muslim
Hurri-Demo
................ Too many people, so just name them by group.
I wonder what the the new Hurricane Hyphenator Division of the National Weather Service is going to cost the taxpayers?
That would be insensitive to Indians [smirk].
Then that would have to be "Hurricaine Bubba" or "Hurricane Big Creep" ... "Hurricaine Slick Willy" ...
Oh god, no, please. Anything but that. I hate roman numerals. That is cruel and unusual punishment. A crossword puzzle with roman numerals hits the trash quickly..
The devil made me do it!
While television even today is criticized for having too few minorities in front of and behind the camera, Wilson did not complain.
``It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV,'' he said in 1971. ``After all, I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.''
V So the Romans moved on to the symbol for 5 - V. Placing I in front of the V — or placing any smaller number in front of any larger number — indicates subtraction. So IV means 4. After V comes a series of additions - VI means 6, VII means 7, VIII means 8.
X X means 10. But wait — what about 9? Same deal. IX means to subtract I from X, leaving 9. Numbers in the teens, twenties and thirties follow the same form as the first set, only with X's indicating the number of tens. So XXXI is 31, and XXIV is 24.
L L means 50. Based on what you've learned, I bet you can figure out what 40 is. If you guessed XL, you're right = 10 subtracted from 50. And thus 60, 70, and 80 are LX, LXX and LXXX.
C C stands for centum, the Latin word for 100. A centurion led 100 men. We still use this in words like "century" and "cent." The subtraction rule means 90 is written as XC. Like the X's and L's, the C's are tacked on to the beginning of numbers to indicate how many hundreds there are: CCCLXIX is 369.
D D stands for 500. As you can probably guess by this time, CD means 400. So CDXLVIII is 448. (See why we switched systems?)
M M is 1,000. You see a lot of Ms because Roman numerals are used a lot to indicate dates. For instance, this page was written in the year of Nova Roma's founding, 1998 CE (Common Era; Christians use AD for Anno Domini, "year of our Lord"). That year is written as MCMXCVIII. But wait! Nova Roma counts years from the founding of Rome, ab urbe condita. By that reckoning this is 2751, or MMDCCLI.
What angers me is that these POS racisits profit from a false sense of guilt that infects the sheeple of this world. And they make such a profession to be studied in our goobermint funded schools. RICO act should apply IMO.
Stay safe H !!
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