France and Siberia (pre-Clovis of course). And I consider anyone born north of US Hwy 90 or in Florida to be a yankee ;)
>Hey bub! We're originally from France, IIRC. I don't really mind yank >tho- Ya freaking red coat! Or are ye "Native"? > What really hurt was to go back where my gg grandfather lived and find it to be a mud flat in Barataria bay now. It was a fairly large farming village 125 years ago. >Yes, I hear you, it's pretty sad when a 15 yo looks at 3 feet of water, and >says: "we used to play baseball there-- when I was a kid". > Not when cause is proven. It is pretty much irreversible now except to divert on the order of 40 percent of the mississippi river flow into the marshes. too much of the sediment load has been lost upstream of Memphis to make anything less workable. >But still, maybe we should give it another 10-20 years or so, just to be >sure we really know what's going on. > It is the land of my ancestors (Choctaw and Chitamacha). I want to honor their memory. And I wanted to bitch about something too. I gave up Tequila for lent so I'm really edgy. >You know, for those of us who can't quite see it. It sounds like you may be >too close to the issue... biased, you know. >You obviously have a stake in the matter, being all concerned about your >land and all. > Hell no, but they are fun to bitch about. I was just reviwing an article concerning the eastern terminus of the Garlock Fault Zone. There is geophysical evidence that it is a deep crust thrust fault. Interesting read if it gets accepted. >Next you'll be telling me humans could actually cause earthquakes! Or that >every action has a reaction, or some nonsense like >that. Equal and opposite- eh, we won't go there. =-P > See above. I also was adopted by the Houmas for some work I did on their effort to get Federal recognition. >On the serious side- What do you mean by "my people's swamp"? Who's your >people? > >"Who do you love" >--Bernard Wright : http://youtube.com/watch?v=rQgkG2p2-Qo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:229628 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
