Other Things in the News
Mar. 26th, 2009 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenIn a recent survey in the UK, it was revealed that one-sixth of therapists still try to treat homosexuality, as if it were a mental illness. No doubt there are still therapists in the U.S. who do so as well, but the survey was only done in the UK. Homosexuality is not a choice, it just is. Given the grief a lot of folks get for being homosexual (from prejudice to insults to injury and death), who on earth would choose it? It's just a fact of life, and it isn't even one limited to the human race. Get over it already!
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In a continuing effort to bring attention to the environmental plight of our world, Earth Hour returns again this year. Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30 P.M., your local time.
Personally, I plan on having the lights out for more than just one hour :)
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Along with warmer weather comes the possibility of flooding, with it being more severe in some places than others. North Dakota is one of the higher risk areas, and just recently in Bismarck they've used explosives to break up some of the ice on the river, to give the water a chance to move on instead of continuing to build up more behind the ice. Meanwhile, the call is out for more sandbaggers, and Fargo is trying to raise their dikes to 43', higher than the predicted 39-41 feet.
Evacuations have already been underway since at least Wednesday.
Going to be an interesting year...
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In a continuing effort to bring attention to the environmental plight of our world, Earth Hour returns again this year. Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30 P.M., your local time.
Personally, I plan on having the lights out for more than just one hour :)
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Along with warmer weather comes the possibility of flooding, with it being more severe in some places than others. North Dakota is one of the higher risk areas, and just recently in Bismarck they've used explosives to break up some of the ice on the river, to give the water a chance to move on instead of continuing to build up more behind the ice. Meanwhile, the call is out for more sandbaggers, and Fargo is trying to raise their dikes to 43', higher than the predicted 39-41 feet.
Evacuations have already been underway since at least Wednesday.
Going to be an interesting year...
