Power came back on around 6:00pm. Went out around 1:00pm. My skinny cow low carb bars melted. Where was FEMA? George Bush hates pudgy white guys.
Change your name to Karl Rove.
This exchange between Tim (first quote) and Cashmere needs to be COMMed. However, I think lately, I've been treating COMM as my own personal amusement diary, so I'm COMM shy. Go forth and COMM, somebody. Please.
Ok, Will do.
The wig comment upstream has me worried. I wanna see some sort of pledge that Liam's wig maker will not be used, but other than that, I'm all for it.
At least it wasn't about the Whig party. Imagine explaining that to the TV Audience every week. "I don't know
what
we were thinking. Twenty years in we sobered up enough to merge to form the Republicans, though. Obviously we weren't sober enough, but what can you do?"
too twisted for color tv. all of you.
Government worker cuts powerline, downs city. OK, maybe this libertarian things is looking better.
Yes, because electrical privatization worked so well last time we tried it...
I do not have a good sense of whether or not people really want to have a serious discussion about political stuff up in here. Not that that will stop me.
Tim raised a point, a ways back, about how the Coast Guard stood out from the governmental pack in the Katrina thing. All valid, as usual.
I happen to know some first-responder types (in the CG [a cousin], my son [with WHO], and some police-oids who are blind in the herbal bandwidth, who are known to come by Casa Gus on occasion). All of them complain that government is a big piece of the problem.
All three groups (CG, WHO, cop-oids) have a great deal of
esprit
about their unit (ship, response team, station house), but not so much for the enclosing political entity.
(Katie, I am trying to work out a thing.)
Ah, crap. I have turned into Adam Baldwin, John-Wayning around the thread looking for a friend.
How big is Tim's head anyway? Is it like TV star big or movie star big?
So, a lobster claw-cracker would be too small, is what you're saying?
Government is always a problem. That is government's job. Government is what makes it illegal to scoop out somebody's brains with a melon baller. Does government consider Allyson's needs when it makes this activity illegal? No!
... Government is what makes it illegal to scoop out somebody's brains with a melon baller.
Actually, government is what makes it
legal
to scoop out somebody's brains with a melon baller...
Dang! I am arguing the case of everyone that I think is terminally weird.
All three groups (CG, WHO, cop-oids) have a great deal of esprit about their unit (ship, response team, station house), but not so much for the enclosing political entity.
This is the nature of human beings. Similarly, if you ask Americans about public schools in general, they'll tell you the schools are terrible -- all except for their local schools, which are great. They'll tell you this even if the local schools are lousy to an unbiased eye.
Similarly, at a toxic employer you always assure each other that at least your department is sane.
