Posted on 07/07/2008 5:48:41 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
I’m adopted and a few months after that, my mom, my sister and I were in a K Mart headed to cloth World and I was at the magazine section and there was a pic of Raquel in a similiar pic.........mom was embarrased and I kept trying to tell her the pic was not the news, the story was......it said that Raquel had two ribs removed so she could have the round hips.......just ouch
Where’s a good breeze when you need it?
I think this man should spend the summer in Phoenix, Arizona, or better — Yuma. Then, I want to hear his opinion on this matter.
Lol, OK, I think I’m going to be leaving for the 59th one soon!
Who knows where I’ll be? The Shadow knows.
Air conditioning and refrigeration are probably the biggest advance in human medicine and quality of life after indoor plumbing/sanitation. Air conditioning making the siesta a luxury, and refrigeration making food poisoning a rare occurrence.
Of course, that's in our gorgeous summer but our suicide rate skyrockets in the winter. Among those who didn't move away.
Welcome to Seattle.
All these home conveniences? Just blame Michael Moore’s liberal friend Linda Ronstadt’s grandfather-Lloyd G. Copeman. He had 400 patents-many related to heating and refriegeration devices. Lloyd Copeman was no liberal, I suspect.
I hardly think so and the real shame is that the MSM won't point this out or ask him that simple question.
Oh great Messiah, what if the evil oil companies waived their horribly obscene profits of 6 cents per gallon. Will you then be happy with gas prices?
I doubt they ever ask him.
Simply put, I don’t think BHO’s ideas are much different than Jimmy Carter’s and he would dump our economy into the tank if he were President. Only an idiot thinks that corporations pay taxes. He is either a total idiot or thinks that most of Americans are too stupid to figure it out. If McDonalds had a 6 cent per burger “obscene profit tax” slapped on them. They would simply raise their price by 6 cents and pass the cost on to the rest of us. Is that what he proposes to lower gas prices???? What a mental-midget.
Cavemen had shorter life spans. And since I am menopausal and in a state of constant persperation (despite hormones, soy etc) I would make someone’s life span shorter if they told me I had to get any hotter in the name of Global Warming. I AM GLOBAL WARMING!!! LEAVE MY AIR CONDITIONER ALONE!!!
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Bill Clinton’s 1995 Killer Heat Wave hits Chicago:
(but nobody cared - Where was “community organizer” Barack “redacted” Obama? Having a little “Cool COKE”?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1445020/posts
The death toll was 209.
Yes, I recalled a large death toll but couldn’t recall the exact place. I did remember that a lot of elderly died in Europe.
It seems that a lot of the younger Europeans go off ‘for holiday’ in the heat of the summer, leaving the elderly in the cities. Then the power went out.
Join the club. We shouldn’t have lived this long in the old cave days. ;o)
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293 - by the 15th
“In Homewood Cemetery, some of the 739 heat wave victims who died alone were buried together in the Cook County pauper’s grave.”
The MSM did not play this up like they did Katrina.......
Yikes, I did not read further down the article. Astounding death toll!
They have not played up Iowa and the terrible flooding there either.
But then, the people there weren’t yelling and screaming for the government to do everything.
Joe Klein: Come live in the Central Valley of California for awhile. The average temp is triple digits, and it drops to a little below 80 during the night. City wuss. You won't last a week without AC....
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I thought it was closer to 1000 than the 293 early death toll
This was played up a bit by the libs as no ACs for the elderly (which would be Republican’s fault of course - and an excuse for more welfare and freevies) but I believe most was ignorance and possibly some neglect
Running water - wet towels - cold water in the tub
Paris had a huge death toll from the heat that year to I believe
Odd the country bumpkins and suburban people did not die in those huge numbers
Golly - Bill Clinton did not put them up in air-conditioned hotels or bring in truckloads of ice!
[Paris had a huge death toll ]
That’s part of what I remember. The elderly don’t always think to do things like the cold water in the tub.
Also, I think some may have been homeless people.
I told you the story about visiting my grandparents in an apartment in St. Louis when I was young.
It was stifling, even late at night. There is not the air circulation when large buildings are all around. The country people at least have the open air and a bit of breeze.
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