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May 3rd, 2011

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08:04 am - What a week
I read a comment on Crooked Timber 'What a week: birth certificate, marriage certificate, death certificate'. Plus tornadoes 'the biggest ever' in the US. Canada just elected the Tories. New Zealand had a hurricane tornado of its own. Northern Ireland is on fire, as is Texas. At least that Nuclear plant in Japan hasn't actually exploded yet.

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From:houseboatonstyx
Date:May 3rd, 2011 07:11 am (UTC)
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And Texas needs rain.
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From:communicator
Date:May 3rd, 2011 07:39 am (UTC)
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Yes, there have been some fires there too haven't there.
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From:executrix
Date:May 3rd, 2011 11:39 am (UTC)
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And I don't like anybody very much!
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From:houseboatonstyx
Date:May 3rd, 2011 03:04 pm (UTC)
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Have subway fares increased too?
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From:steepholm
Date:May 3rd, 2011 07:15 am (UTC)
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Your birth link and your marriage link are the same - are you implying that this was a shotgun wedding? ;)
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From:communicator
Date:May 3rd, 2011 07:39 am (UTC)
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oops, it will be the Tower for me. Fixed now, thanks.
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From:matildabj
Date:May 3rd, 2011 08:17 am (UTC)
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So depressing about Canada's election. Some very depressed Facebook posts from one of my friends as the night went on.

I'm pinning my hopes on the referendum, now.
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From:communicator
Date:May 3rd, 2011 10:41 am (UTC)
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I am going to abstain from that now, which is the first election ever that I haven't voted in.
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From:vilakins
Date:May 3rd, 2011 08:27 am (UTC)
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It was a tornado not a hurricane. We get them fairly often, but this was a bad one.
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From:communicator
Date:May 3rd, 2011 10:40 am (UTC)
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Oh, right, sorry. BTW I think you must have a Vila for everything.
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From:vilakins
Date:May 3rd, 2011 10:58 am (UTC)
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Not quite, but I did try to once.
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From:tehomet
Date:May 3rd, 2011 09:07 am (UTC)
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IKR?! Hopefully next week will be calmer.

Not to be critical, but apparently the New York Daily News headline on the Osama killing was "Rot in Hell." Don't hold back, New York Daily News writers. Tell us how you really feel. :)
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From:communicator
Date:May 3rd, 2011 10:41 am (UTC)
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I wish the whole Hell thing had never been invented
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From:espresso_addict
Date:May 3rd, 2011 04:20 pm (UTC)
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Bits of Scottish highlands are also on fire.
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From:communicator
Date:May 3rd, 2011 04:44 pm (UTC)
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Oh, bad, I didn't know. I wonder what the summer will be like.
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From:espresso_addict
Date:May 3rd, 2011 04:57 pm (UTC)
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I think this might be summer.
From:policy-police.blogspot.com
Date:May 5th, 2011 03:24 pm (UTC)
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Got back from Tokyo about a week ago. As it happened a couple of US nuclear engineers were in the apartment next door - seconded to help out at Fukushima. Didn't see a lot of them as they were working all the time, but they were confident they were on a long, slow haul in the right direction.

On a more positive note, Japan Rail has found that it has made vast energy savings simply by switching off the down escalators and not lighting the place up in the daytime.
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From:communicator
Date:May 5th, 2011 04:17 pm (UTC)
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Great to hear it - I hope you had a good time in Japan Steve
From:policy-police.blogspot.com
Date:May 5th, 2011 04:56 pm (UTC)
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Thoroughly enjoyed myself. And I think that if we hadn't gone now, the moment would have passed and we may never have gone. Hideously long flights there and back but worth it.

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