The Colorado State University Tropical Meteorology Project has a tool that provides hurricane landfall probabilities. The probability of a named storm affecting the Tampa area in any given hurricane season is 20 percent. Chances of a direct hit near Tampa is three percent. Jeff Masters of wunderground, who has written extensively of the chances a a storm will strike Tampa during the convention, puts the risk of something that would force evacuationsthat at "probably around 0.2%.”
The entire incident was a misjudgment on my part. It was never my intent to lend support to Rep. Akin's inexcusable remarks. My only aim was to evoke a discussion—from the neutral vantage point of a reporter—about whether there were different ways of interpreting what Akin meant with his words. The effort failed badly, because of my own imprecise wording. I would never intentionally impugn a woman who has been the victim of the horrific crime of rape. My commentary on Rep. Akin's repugnant rhetoric failed to make this clear.
My only aim was to evoke a discussion—from the neutral vantage point of a reporter—about whether there were different ways of interpreting what Akin meant with his words.
The effort failed badly, because of my own imprecise wording.
I would never intentionally impugn a woman who has been the victim of the horrific crime of rape. My commentary on Rep. Akin's repugnant rhetoric failed to make this clear.
“I emphatically denounce Paul Ryan’s use of my band Twisted Sister’s song, ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It,’ in any capacity,” Snider told TPM in a statement relayed by his manager Tuesday. “There is almost nothing he stands for that I agree with except the use of the P90X.”
Jethro Eisenstein, an attorney involved in a precedent-setting 1971 lawsuit that forced the federal government to limit spying by domestic police agencies, spoke to the heart of the NYPD project:
"This is a terribly pernicious set of policies," Eisenstein said. "No other group since the Japanese Americans in World War II has been subjected to this kind of widespread public policy."
Not only does this mean that Americans are throwing out the equivalent of $165 billion each year, but the waste also consumes 25 percent of all freshwater and huge amounts of unnecessary chemicals, energy and land. Most of that uneaten food ends up rotting in landfills. There generates almost 25 percent of U.S. methane emissions.