This Pig and the Philippines Were Victims of Climate Change, Not a Typhoon, According to the Philippines President
Tropical Storm 22 Forecast Track Creates Typhoon Lupit and Sends it to the Philippines
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Even though US news media outlets have largely been silent on the subject, the Philippines suffered from the effects of two tropical cyclones over two weeks time. One of those storms, Typhoon Parma, came back for a second landfall on the island. This was in the wake of Tropical Storm Ketsana. Together, the two storms took at least 710 lives in the Philippines and greatly damaged rice production, infrastructure and the Filipino economy in general. As Parma made a final assault on Vietnam, heading near Hanoi, Philippines President Gloria Arroyo made a speech in which she asked for international aid. Now, the UN tried to raise $74 million in funds but only got pledges for $19 million. So, perhaps seeing that the international community wasn’t responding to the run-of-the-mill plea for help, the president is trying a new tactic to get some attention. She says that the Philippines is a victim of climate change and that, as victims, the Philippines is due compensation from the real culprits to their calamity,which is the rest of the world. It will be interesting to see where this goes because if Arroyo is successful in this argument because, if she is, then other underdeveloped countries will be standing in line for compensation every time there is a weather related disaster.
Watch Typhoon Lupit Develop in Most Recent Loop
Perhaps she should hold off and wait for more evidence. You see…there is another tropical cyclone developing. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center forecasts that tropical storm 22 will become Typhoon Lupit and strike the Philippines. At this point, the Typhoon Lupit forecast track (if it were to become named) is currently oriented to hit almost the exact same spot that Typhoon Parma hit the Philippines. Each storm name is provided by a different country and it’s ironic that Lupit was submitted by the Philippines.
The Tichenors
In another impoverished country, Snow White and I have friends who are doing missionary work. I told you about how Bowen and Lindsey Tichenor sold everything that they owned, including raffling off their home, took their 3 small children and went to the Dominican Republic to build water purification facilities for the extremely impoverished people in that island nation. They managed to avoid any strong tropical cyclones but, crime is a real problem. They have an ingenious way to protect their home and family. Outside the home they have spread broken glass to deter any night-time prowlers. You can follow their updates on the Tichenor website or read an update in this PDF File:
| TichenorN…pdf (2.0 MB) You can also get on their facebook page or follow their exploits on Twitter. |
A woman shot a man on this date in history the ballad about the shooting became an American classic, though it wasn’t too accurate.
Blind Fold too tight for Frankie?
On This Date in 1899, Frankie of Frankie and Johnny were lovers fame shot her boyfriend. But, her lover was named Allen, also called Albert, not Johnny. The woman in question was Frances Baker and the then 22-year-old was acquitted in the murder of her 17-year-old boyfriend in a self defense stance. She said that she shot him only when he came to her house and drew a knife to kill her. She had a silver plated pistol at her bedside and shot him. But, the song claims that she shot him when she found him with another woman. Baker said that she knew that he was seeing Alice Pryor but “never fussed with her about it.” She also said that the song had it wrong when it said that she shot him “root a toot-toot-toot three times.” She said it only took one shot.
What really got Baker upset about her infamy in song was that the song questioned her virtue, calling her a “queen sport.” She had to move from St. Louis to Omaha and then Portland but couldn’t get away from the negative publicity. The song was turned into a play and then a movie in 1936 and Baker sued Republic Pictures for the use of the song. In her 1942 trial, she said she didn’t wear diamonds like the movie portrayed and only had cotton dresses, not the fancy clothes portrayed in the movie. In the end, the more she told her story, the more convinced the jurors of the court became that the song wasn’t even about her. Even though her St. Louis neighbors said the song was indeed about her, Frances “Frankie” Baker lost the case and returned to Portland and in 1950 was committed to a mental institution and died at age 75 two years later. But…her efforts were for naught. St. Louis for a time billed itself as the “birthplace of Frankie and Johnny” and no one deterred singers from reciting the lyrics “he was her man, but he done her wrong.”
So, the songwriters and movie script writers got the story so wrong that even the court didn’t believe that the song was about Frances Baker. Seems that Baker did too good of a job convincing the court that she was wrongly portrayed in song, and it cost her $200,000. Then again….Johnny…or Albert…or Allen…wasn’t able to tell his side of the story.
Weather Bottom Line: Told you the weather would suck on Wednesday and its not getting much better for the rest of the week and perhaps into Saturday. Chilly and wet. Wonder if the president of the Philippines would say we are victims of climate change. I want compensation!
