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Sept. 6 Tropics Report

As interpreted from several sites, such as the National Hurricane Center, Weather Underground (the weather site, not the 1970's anarchist group site. ;) ), and The Weather Channel.

Tropical Storm Hanna is racing up the US East Coast, currently going over Virginia, and packing winds of 50mph. It'll pretty much follow I-95 all the way up the coast, and over the Canadian Maritimes by tomorrow. What this is shaping up to be is the summer version of a Nor'easter.

Hurricane Ike is becoming less of a threat to the Miami area and more of a threat to the Gulf Coast as it moves west-southwestward through the Caribbean with winds of 110mph. It's forecast to strengthen back to a Category 3 before hitting Cuba...if it hits Cuba. How strong the storm will be when it emerges into the Gulf of Mexico depends on how much it interacts with land when it gets near Cuba.

Tropical Storm Josephine has dissipated and is no more.

Recommended Site Of The Week: Idletard

Are you a fan of American Idol? Better yet, are you a fan of American Idol who is frightened of other American Idol fans?

Then you're a lot like me. As disgusted as I am by the herds of unhappily married, middle-age moms who obsess to a sometimes criminal degree over singers in their teens and twenties, there is someone else ten times more disgusted...and in response, started a wonderful, wonderful site called Idletard. It got so real for some people that someone tried (without permanent success) to take the site down.

Go ahead, click. You know you want to. ;)

Sept. 5 Tropics Report

As interpreted from several sites, such as the National Hurricane Center, Weather Underground (the weather site, not the 1970's anarchist group site. ;) ), and The Weather Channel.

Tropical Storm Hanna is now off the coast of Georgia, and rapidly heading for a landfall around the NC/SC border, with 70mph winds. Hanna is forecast to slowly weaken as it races up the US East Coast, bringing heavy rains and strong winds from South Carolina to eastern Canada over the next couple of days. The main nuisance from Hanna should be flooding, and watches/warnings are currently up in 15 eastern states.

Hurricane Ike is east of the Bahamas this evening, moving westward, and sporting winds of 115mph. This storm is expected to regain some of its old strength and regain Category 4 status as it approaches the southern tip of Florida by Tuesday or so. I'll follow up with more detailed updates as we get closer.

Finally, Tropical Storm Josephine is way out in the Atlantic with 40mph winds. This is one of those storms that is destined to stay out in the open waters. No problems except for ships and fish.

The FDA Continues To Be Useless

CNN reported today that FDA is now posting a list of drugs that potentially can cause more harm than good to the user. A few of these are obvious, such as Oxycontin (Drug misuse, abuse and overdose). Some of the others, however, are kind of disturbing. For example:

Arginine Hydrochloride Injection, which helps stimulate the pituitary gland:

Pediatric overdose due to labeling / packaging confusion

WTF??? They give this injection to kids, and there's 'packaging confusion'???

Natalizumab (Tysabri), which is a treatment for Multiple Sclerosis:

Skin Melanomas

No, really. Imagine, you're diagnosed with MS, you get some treatment that's supposed to help you, and you get CANCER instead. Why was this FDA approved to begin with?

Here's the risk for Suprane, a general anesthetic:

Cardiac arrest

*jaw hangs open* It would be quite ironic if, say, one was going into the hospital for heart surgery, and then gets a heart attack from the anesthesia.

Let's hope whoever is elected President does an overhaul of the FDA. Our health depends on it.

Review: The Premiere Of The New 90210

90210 started back up again last night after an 8-year absence from the airwaves. It's move from FOX to the CW is proving to be a good one, so far. Here's a quick review of the show, Insaneinthesfv style! ;)

A family moves from Kansas to Beverly Hills. Dad (Rob Estes) is the principal and grew up in BH. Mom is Lori Laughlin. They do a reasonably good job of passing for 40.

Kids are 15-year-old Annie and 15-year-old adopted brother Dixon, who is Black, but so far, no race card is being played. Obviously, they're going to be the glue that holds 90210 together, just like the Walsh twins did back in the 90's.

They show up at grandma's house in Beverly Hills. It's fantastic. Dixon recognizes her as someone who was naked in some movie in the 70s. Hi, naked adopted grandma!

They go to school, and Annie sees some girl blowing some guy in a car.

Annie befriends the school's spoiled bitch princess, Naomi Clark, because you know every school's spoiled bitch princess is first in line to be nice to the new kids in town. It's just a given.

Anyway, the show went on for two hours, but who cares? I'm all about Naomi, she fucking rocks. In one episode, she plagiarized a paper, had a Sweet 16 blowout, and slapped a guy in one episode. She's gonna stir some shit up in Beverly Hills! (Until they soften her up and make her nice in the next season or two. Always happens.)

Other stuff:

-One of the main teen characters is a drug-addicted actress named Arianna, with problems at home and devious behavior.

-The lacrosse coach looks to be the same age as the people playing the high schoolers. He looks more like someone from an emo-lite band than a jock.

Original characters who have returned:

Kelly Taylor
Brenda Walsh (Yay!)
Nat
Erin Silver (a/k/a "Silver", Kelly Taylor's l'il sis, now 16)

Summary: Like the old 90210, but with more shameless sex and drugs.
Grade: B+
Prediction: It could do for the CW what the old 90210 did for FOX, which is a lot.

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Hey everyone! This is insaneinthesfv, and I have a new blog. Unlike my other site, Popspoof, I'm going to write about whatever I want to write about. Politics, humor, entertainment, news, you name it. Let's see how well I keep it up!