Day 4 of 1000

The talk of the town here in Raleigh right now is Hurricane Irene.  It is supposed to hit the Outer Banks of North Carolina sometime tomorrow.  WRDU and WRAL, my morning commute radio stations, are all hurricane all the time.  The first thing I heard when I turned the radio on this morning was the struggle authorities were having with surfers heading for the beach to surf the hurricane while everyone else is evacuating.  WRAL reported that Raleigh will probably experience one to two inches of rain with 30-40 mph winds.  It gets more intense the closer one gets to the beach.  It is expected that it will hit the Outer Banks as a level 3 hurricane (111-130 mph) with as much as a foot of rain.  Our plan to head over to the Hill Library at NCSU to study as usual.  We will write a post and put up some pictures if anything interesting happens, but we expect the equivalent of a hard thunderstorm with heavier winds than usual.

Oregon is demonstrating that it is as nutsoid as ever.  A man was arrested in Monmouth for the firebombing of a mosque in Corvallis in retaliation for a plan by a Muslim man to kill people at a Christmas celebration in Portland with a car bomb.  The mosque bomber was indicted for “damaging religious property for racial reasons” which is classified as a “hate” crime.  He was also indicted for “using fire to commit a felony”.  The car bomber was indicted for “attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction”, but the sympathies of columnist Steve Duin of the hard left-wing Oregonian appear to be with the car bomber.  In this article, speaking of the FBI sting that caught the guy, he said, “How far would Mohamud have traveled down that road without the help of those very operatives?”  No hate crime here.