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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> An almost-as-bad event is the upswelling Yellowstone---as I recall, it has 
> risen about thirty feet---at some point it will blow and extinguish all 
> plant and animal life in a quarter or more of the United States.
> Thinking people will get out of the way of that, too.

My current read is John McPhee's Annals of the Former World. All about 
geology, how what we view came to be. Uplifts pushed mountains up thirty, 
forty thousand feet, rain and wind flattened them, then more uplifts, 
repeat, repeat, repeat. Seas covered Wyoming, then retreated. Very little 
happened quickly. A spot on earth moved five inches in ten thousand years. 
For hundreds of millions of years. A million years is a blink in the 
history of the shaping of the world. Relax. But don't live on or near a 
hotspot or on the beach.
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> The struggle against Islamist terrorism is neither the rosy success story 
> painted by Allawi and President Bush nor the disastrous free-fall 
> described by John Kerry. Instead, it is one unresolved battle in the 
> long-term struggle summarized by the title of Kepel's new book, "The War 
> for Muslim Minds."

I see something similar long-term struggle here in the USA. The abortion 
dilemma and stem cell research debate are evidence of deep divisions. Make 
no mistake, there are those in power who do not speak their minds fully in 
public but have powerful agendas. The primary problem is the religious 
belief: I am right and you are therefore wrong. Quite possibly irresolvable.