Chris Navin

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The deadliest outbreak since 1974 has ocurred (updated: since 1925). There are some 264 dead in Alabama alone (340 total as of now). Some aerial photos from MSNBC of the Tuscaloosa tornado’s path, as the damage is consistent with an EF4-EF5. Another youtube video here. CNN has a doppler radar image of the debris in the funnel, some debris traveling perhaps as high as 7,000 to 8,000 feet. The WaPo has more here, with a map indicating each reported tornado in the outbreak.

Some FAQ’s from NOAA. A link for donations. Thoughts and prayers go out to the survivors, and those who’ve lost friends, family members, and loved ones. I’m sorry for your loss.

Addition: More youtube video here. Aerials in a helicopter along the path. Video on the ground of 15th Street in Tuscaloosa just afterwards.

“Government can easily exist without laws, but law cannot exist without government.”

–Bertrand Russell

“It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.”

–Niccolo Machiavelli

“We hold these truths to be self-evident:

That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…”

From the Declaration Of Independence.

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Maybe Machiavelli was just really an artist and writer working well within the bounds of traditional moral thinking (Catholic and Aristotelian through the church), but just wanted an audience? to be little shocking?