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Killer storm threatening oil in the Gulf (4.00 / 3)

Gonu is jeade for the Straits of Hormuz. Could be interesting

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 at 05:37:43 PM EST

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In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 at 05:55:27 PM EST
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so it's tracking up towards the straights?

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.

by ceebs (bunchofwankers (at) gmail (dot) com) on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 at 05:58:17 PM EST
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Expected to make landfall in Oman before heading up to Iran.

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 at 06:02:29 PM EST
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that link's behind password protection.

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.

by ceebs (bunchofwankers (at) gmail (dot) com) on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 at 06:04:44 PM EST
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agh an apostrophe crime.

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.

by ceebs (bunchofwankers (at) gmail (dot) com) on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 at 06:06:34 PM EST
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No crime there.

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 at 06:08:15 PM EST
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you're right, attack of gramatical stress struck.

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.

by ceebs (bunchofwankers (at) gmail (dot) com) on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 at 06:18:36 PM EST
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Your punctuation vigilance is duly noted, however, and shall be rewarded in the next life.

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 at 06:20:37 PM EST
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This is what s'tress does

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Jun 5th, 2007 at 12:30:10 AM EST
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Really? Hmmm. Oh, I see, it logged me in as "Google Guest" because I linked to it from Google.

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 at 06:07:01 PM EST
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Tropical Storm Risk

Super Cyclonic Storm GONU: Current Data

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 at 06:23:21 PM EST
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This is great. Now we have a real risk of having the straits of Hormuz blocked by a sunken ship not because of war but because of a hurricane.

Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 at 06:28:10 PM EST
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Or a US carrier blown upon Iran's coast....

The struggle of man against tyranny is the struggle of memory against forgetting.(Kundera)

by Elco B (elcob at scarlet dot be) on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 at 06:39:23 PM EST
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I see other places are predicting an earlier turn

try here

Life should consist in at least fifty percent pure waste of time, and the rest doing what you please.

by ceebs (bunchofwankers (at) gmail (dot) com) on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 at 06:24:49 PM EST
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Well. That's alarming. And I'm not even talking about the energy infrastructure. Folks in the Gulf don't really know much about dealing with big storms. Or... rain, for that matter.

Huh.

by the stormy present (stormypresent aaaaaaat gmail etc) on Mon Jun 4th, 2007 at 06:01:39 PM EST
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Open Thread - Monday | 47 comments (47 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)