Wow! Big blue clickie! ;-D Thanks for the interesting link, Ebbie.

Don - I just got a report on an ancient Mayan hieroglyphic carving that's been decoded at last. It apparently says: "That bloody Don Firth and his bloody damned opinions!!!"

Scholars and archeologists are at a complete loss to offer any explanation of this mysterious and seemingly incomprehensible message from the ancient Mayan civilization, though some have suggested that Don Firth may have been the name of a previously unknown Mayan god or nature spirit... (grin) I expect that a number of very interesting books will soon be written about it.

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Back to the earthquake thing. Okay, we have different opinions out there, it seems, as to whether there are more large earthquakes occuring in recent years or not. Hmmm. Now what about social instability, financial instability, political instability, and climatic instability all across planet Earth?

Would anyone say we haven't been having more of those forms of instability in recent years, specially since 2001?

Or is everything just quietly and predictably ticking along as it always has? ;-) What say, folks?