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To: bentway who wrote (669093)	8/25/2012 12:15:32 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583389

No you don't.

To: bentway who wrote (669093)	8/25/2012 12:16:06 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1583389

bentway rolls in leftwing filth. What a sorry 'existence.'

To: bentway who wrote (669093)	8/25/2012 12:27:15 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1583389

Writing for The Maddow Blog, a near-apoplectic Steve Benen wrote: Writing for The Maddow Blog, a near-apoplectic Steve Benen wrote: If, however, Newsweek's goal is to strengthen its reputation, and gain new respect as a major news outlet, Ferguson's new cover story marks an ignominious low for the once-great magazine, tarnishing the publication's reputation in ways likely to do lasting, irreparable harm. Benen entitled his piece "Where political journalism must not go" and wrote that "... Ferguson's piece represents political journalism at its most atrocious." He adds, "What Ferguson and Newsweek published isn't journalism; it's a joke." His criticism represents a rendition of an old saying which, in the Maddow Blog case, should read, "Throw a handful of stones into a pack of liberal columnists, and the ones that yelp loudest are the ones that got hit."

To: bentway who wrote (669093)	8/25/2012 12:32:08 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583389

The Mississippi Drought, as Seen From Space Rebecca J. Rosen Aug 22, 2012 Last year, the Mississippi River flooded. Major storms combined with melting snow brought the waterway more than 56 feet above river stage in May. The Army Corps of Engineers lifted the floodgates of the Morganza Spillway, deliberately inundating some 3,000 square miles of rural Louisiana to spare worse damage in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. In August of last year, NASA's Landsat 5 satellite took a picture of the swollen river. Here's what it saw: This year it's an entirely different story. At the end of last month, more than 60 percent of the lower 48 states were in drought, and the might Mississippi was running low. An 11-mile stretch of river has been closed on and off since August 11, and earlier this week nearly 100 boats lined up near Greenville, Mississippi, waiting to pass. Water levels near Memphis are ranging from 2.4 to 8.3 below river stage, compared with 11.7 feet above at this time last year. To make matters worse, the floods of last year deposited huge amounts of sediment on the river bed, reconfiguring the existing channels. Again NASA was there to capture the view from space, this time with Landsat 7. Here's that image: Officials from the Army Corps of Engineers say that the low water levels - and attending barge traffic jams, closed ports, and closed river sections -- will continue until October. The direct costs are staggering: NASA explains that a loss of just one inch of draft can require a ship to run with 17 tons less cargo. A major drought in 1988, one that set the record for water level at minus 10.7 feet, brought an estimated $1 billion in losses to the barge industry that year. Of course the indirect costs - the lost revenue to the ports along the way, to the businesses whose shipments are delayed, not to mention the toll on the ecosystems that depend on water from the river - those costs are much, much greater. This post originally appeared on The Atlantic. theatlanticcities.com