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2009-07-18 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Fred 2009-07-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 " Increasing numbers of the squid, which come from Mexico, are being found in California and scientists say they may have moved because of global warming, a shortage of food or a decline in natural predators."
There was undersea earthquake off the coast earlier this week, and within an hour, there were squid washing up on the beach in La Jolla (near San Diego). While the events are sequential and may not be cause / effect, it irks me that the author of this piece still tries obliquley to relate it to global warming.

Posted by Rob06">Rob06 2009-07-18 02:35|| 2009-07-18 02:35|| Front Page Top

#2 I blame Bush

Posted by Beavis 2009-07-18 07:25|| 2009-07-18 07:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Rob, get with the program! Don't you know that earthquakes are caused by Global Warming, no joke someone really did say that.

Posted by Don Vito Anginegum8261 2009-07-18 07:30|| 2009-07-18 07:30|| Front Page Top

#4 Now, now, now, people; let's get our PC phrases correct. This global phenomena is now called "climate change".

Posted by WolfDog 2009-07-18 10:35|| 2009-07-18 10:35|| Front Page Top

#5 He said the animals taste with their tentacles and will touch to determine if people are edible

Isn't it nice to know we don't taste good?

Posted by Frozen Al 2009-07-18 11:22|| 2009-07-18 11:22|| Front Page Top

#6 The squid hunt in schools of up to 1,200, can swim up to 15 mph and can skim over the water to escape predators.

Not at all newsworthy until the come assure at Buzzard's Point Marina and head inland to Capital Hill to feed.....

Posted by Besoeker 2009-07-18 11:37|| 2009-07-18 11:37|| Front Page Top

#7 I guess we finally know where R'lyeh is now.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-07-18 12:01|| 2009-07-18 12:01|| Front Page Top

#8 Get your tentacles off me, you damned dirty squid!

Posted by tu3031 2009-07-18 12:10|| 2009-07-18 12:10|| Front Page Top

#9 Huh? Grabbing divers? Haven't heard that, and find it hard to believe, though my blackout of "media" includes the local rag (which, BTW, today carries a huge front-page photo of Cronkite with a 36-pt headline "Distinguished Journalist"). Haven't been in the water lately, but that's because the surf is flat (typical summer conditions in the SoCal area).

Posted by Verlaine 2009-07-18 13:25|| 2009-07-18 13:25|| Front Page Top

#10 Google 'Humboldt squid', folks. They are actually fairly unpleasant creatures and have been known to attack people.

Posted by no mo uro 2009-07-18 13:38|| 2009-07-18 13:38|| Front Page Top

#11 An insipid Hollywood manuscript right now being composed by another wannabe hack to fill programming time on a television channel near you. "Based upon true events...."

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-07-18 13:59|| 2009-07-18 13:59|| Front Page Top

#12 It's San Diego, so I think they're headed to Comic Con as revenge for being cut from the Watchmen movie.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2009-07-18 17:51|| 2009-07-18 17:51|| Front Page Top

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