Listen to the animals

Sri Lanka is seeing over 20,000 deaths in the aftermath of the Tsunami. Amongst the lifeless corpses, few, if any, belong to those of our four-legged friends, even though the waves had swept into Sri Lanka's Yala National Park, "uprooting trees and toppling cars onto their roofs - one red car even ended up on top of a huge tree".

Animal angels are watching over them. Otherwise known as animal instinct.

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From Bernama.com:

KEPALA BATAS, Dec 28 (Bernama) -- Fishermen in Kuala Muda were overjoyed when they hauled in nearly 20 times their usual catch for three straight days before tsunami tidal waves slammed into the coastlines of the north-western states last Sunday.

Fisherman Ramli Yahya, 62, said their daily income of RM300 surged to RM6,000 and even RM8,000 just prior to the undersea earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra which spawned the giant waves that struck countries across the Indian Ocean, killing tens of thousands.

"Last Thursday, many fishermen here hauled in catches worth about RM7,000 each. On Friday they reaped about RM6,000 and the catch on Saturday increased to RM8,000. There was an extraordinary amount of mackerel," Ramli told Bernama Tuesday.

via No Trespassing Beyond This Point

Don't we humans learn by now, that there really is no free lunch in the world, or a fast and furious route to that pot of gold. Bubbles, that's what they call them. Like the financial balloons, or Internet / dot-com bubbles. Where players strike it rich overnight ... normal ? Or a big billboard sign of something to come before the storms hit ?

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Why I never listen to NPR news very long, by Professor Miller

Big news item today: "Massive environmental damage caused by the recent earthquake and tsunami."

It's always great to hear how the environment is destroying the environment.

(12/28/04)

via Daily Speculations