It's an Associated Press report, Cindy.
Kaylee: You're nice, too. Mal: No, I'm not. I'm a mean old man.
'Serenity'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Allyson - Aug 30, 2005 1:13:21 pm PDT #2721 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Trudy Booth - Aug 30, 2005 1:15:51 pm PDT #2722 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I keep thinking about looting.
I can understand the impulse I think, the stuff is RIGHT THERE. It is likely to be garbage if you don't pick it up. I'm confident I'd fight that urge, however.
But if I were broke, and my house was destroyed, and all my clothes and the like were gone, and God alone knew when and if I'd have a job again, and I had kids... it makes sense to grab what you can in order to survive hell.
As freaked as we are we at least have information, the poor souls there know even less. Last night on the news they mentioned there was no PA in the Superdome -- the rain starts coming in and there's no efficient way to tell people that the structure is still sound. There was no good way to tell them what neighborhoods are underwater. That's just one example and those are people in a SHELTER.
Trudy Booth - Aug 30, 2005 1:18:36 pm PDT #2723 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Yes, exactly! What, she tourists into a disaster area to gawk and take pictures of people who just lost everything and then has the balls to talk about class?
It reminds me of the complaints about the vendors selling swag at the WTC. The VENDORS? What about the people buying the crap? The vendors are largely poor folks who, at least initially, had just lost their already shitty jobs. The purchasers are TOURISTS buying SOUVENIERS. Ugh.
Allyson - Aug 30, 2005 1:20:27 pm PDT #2724 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
If I were in that sitch, I'd raid the grocery store for bottled water, canned everything, tampons, antibacterial everything, and maybe hit a pharmacy for amoxocillin. Then I'd hit a gun shop for a pistol and as many bullets as I could handle.
This I know about me.
Survival rawks.
dw - Aug 30, 2005 1:22:16 pm PDT #2725 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
As freaked as we are we at least have information, the poor souls there know even less. Last night on the news they mentioned there was no PA in the Superdome -- the rain starts coming in and there's no efficient way to tell people that the structure is still sound.
No PA, no Jumbotron, no communications methods. All the news they're getting is from the refugees that the Guard and police are hauling into the dome.
Word is that the TV stations are working with the city to see if there's any way they can get power to the PA and Jumbotron so that they can broadcast some of the images, but apparently the Superdome's backup generators are being threatened by the rising water, so they may not have any power at all soon.
DXMachina - Aug 30, 2005 1:23:13 pm PDT #2726 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
A top casino executive is calling on the Mississippi Legislature to enact emergency legislation to keep the state's coast gaming industry alive.
Isn't that what insurance is for?
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A friend of mine had some vision problems as a child that her doctor attributed to her not blinking properly. She had to practice blinking. There was even a pamphlet.
I gotta admit, when she told me that, I blinked a couple of times.
Anyone else hoping Denise Bollinger gets stuck on an isolated patch of concrete as the floodwaters rise?
amych - Aug 30, 2005 1:24:29 pm PDT #2727 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Go team Fay!
bon bon - Aug 30, 2005 1:24:41 pm PDT #2728 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
It's probably happening, but what a waste of effort for people to steal stuff they don't need RIGHT NOW. Where to put it? If jewelry, where sell it? What you gonna do with all those jeans?
§ ita § - Aug 30, 2005 1:25:23 pm PDT #2729 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I wonder if there was electronics looting. Might have seemed like a good idea at the time ... I mean, the cool kids always grab TVs...
dw - Aug 30, 2005 1:27:36 pm PDT #2730 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
You now how the I-10 Twin Span is gone? Check out the US 90 bridge in Biloxi.