Hell that's me but I like the idea personally, particularly the Silent Majority even if it was a Nixon ideal.
LNM
In a message dated 12/19/2010 5:57:07 P.M. Central Standard Time, kimnoyes@gmail.com writes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chattering_class
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Louis N. Molino, Sr. <lnmolino@aol.com> wrote:--
Kim define chattering class please.
Louis N. Molino, Sr. CETFF/NREMT/FSI/EMSIThe news media and chattering class often fail in their societal duty to inform the populace in order for that populace to make informed decisions.
One of their most egregious sins is to sensationalize news events or non-events in order to improve their ratings and/or to further their own personal and/or institutional ideological agenda.
I have been following disasters closely since the Summer of 1976 both in the context of keeping up with current events as well as studying the past. Truth be told, times they be a-changin'.... things are not like they used to be.
There are many reasons for this which include the following root causes:
1) There is more awareness of events. This is due to the advent of the Information Age in which technology has made the world a smaller place. Also, given the population boom there are more of us around to witness and report events. Lastly, there is better access to regions where events happen due to transportation improvements.
2) There are increasingly more of us to get effected by incidents. The ongoing population explosion places more people at risk due to their sheer numbers and mere presence in areas previous less populated or unpopulated.
3) There is indisputably climate change occurring on the Earth. There remains valid scientific debate as to its cause although the scientific consensus is clear and the argument against this being 100% natural is looking more feeble by the year. However, there is no longer any valid scientific debate that there is no climate change occurring all. This climate change was computer modeled to cause more frequent extreme weather events. There is now statistical ground truth verification of that modeling prog. Regardless of what is causing the change (and if you ask me it's a mix of human and natural causation) it matters not on the outcome. There is a long trail of dead civilizations killed by climate change, most recently here in North America, the Anasazi of the Southwest.
The Right trends towards believing there is climate change due to Father God being angry at Sin and the Left trends towards believing there is climate change due to Mother Earth being angry at Carbon while there are a few brave souls whom live in a Fool's Paradise and simply believe everything is hunky dory and that mere typical things are being blown way out of proportion.
2010 was in no way a typical year by any measure, FEMA disaster declaration totals or not.
Atypical years are increasingly typical. Get used to the new normal folks!
Kimmer
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