Oh. Shrub was here. He's not mentioning anything about Katrina in the clips I am seeing.
However, it was a gorgeous day on Coronado and he doesn't seem to have worn a flight suit. Small things, small things...
The Bay City Rollers, now that's music.
Giles ,'Sleeper'
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.
Cass - Aug 30, 2005 4:07:44 pm PDT #2855 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Nora Deirdre - Aug 30, 2005 4:09:58 pm PDT #2856 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
man, the other video clip was heartbreaking too.
It's all too much. I don't know what to do with this fear and helpless feeling.
dw - Aug 30, 2005 4:10:44 pm PDT #2857 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
The NOLA mayor has said that people shouldn't come to the Superdome but try to find higher ground on a rooftop or a second story tonight. They're also advising people who can to head west to Baton Rouge.
Apparently, the reason for the failure in plugging the levee hole is that the mayor's office and the National Guard had a failure to communicate.
Sigh.
Nutty - Aug 30, 2005 4:13:09 pm PDT #2858 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
the NOLA zoo animals at the gym
For the cheerfulness factor, I should report that the New York Times once published a photo taken during a hurricane that hit Miami (not the flooding kind, just wind and rain). The Miami Zoo had to do something with all its animals to keep them safe, so there was a photo of all the flamingoes herded together into a restroom. They put down straw on the floor, and there were backup generators so the birds had lights, and all of these gawky pink birds were staring at themselves in the mirror.
My grandfather cut this photo out of the Times, highlighted the fact that it was the men's restroom, and faxed it to all his children in mock-outrage.
(I also have a photo of the Central Park Zoo lion, catching snowflakes on his tongue, also from the Times.)
Sue - Aug 30, 2005 4:14:07 pm PDT #2859 of 10002
hip deep in pie
A lot of the buildings in NO are still standing. They'll be stinky and need new drywall and carpeting, but they're THERE.
But after a few days of waterlogging they may no longer be structurally sound. Water is incredibly insidious in it's destruction. Not to mention id the water is containminated. And they are saying that it may take days or weeks to get rid of the water.
Trudy Booth - Aug 30, 2005 4:17:39 pm PDT #2860 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
Oh. Shrub was here.
Oh yes, I noticed the battle ship behind him. He does like posing in front of them, doesn't he? Too bad it's the opposite direction from the tragedy and all.
Cass - Aug 30, 2005 4:21:41 pm PDT #2861 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
He does like posing in front of them, doesn't he? Too bad it's the opposite direction from the tragedy and all.Well we are very pretty. And he is very stupid...
I feel the need to watch more news.
le nubian - Aug 30, 2005 4:26:20 pm PDT #2862 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Check this out:
6:39 P.M. - JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Senator Trent Lott is urging President Bush to visit Mississippi in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, telling the president -- quote -- "the people of Mississippi are flat on their backs. They're going to need your help."
Nutty - Aug 30, 2005 4:31:13 pm PDT #2863 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Victor and I were talking about that just today -- on a different topic. I think GWB doesn't have the "I feel your pain" gene, or not much of one, and he doesn't want to come across as not-as-good-as-Bill-Clinton, so he avoids "feel your pain" situations.
Which, with enough spin, he can get away with, for a while. Then it starts to look like hiding, which, it really kind of is.
Personally, I suck at expressing the fact that I feel others' pain, so I empathize with the dude, but, you know, I am not President.
Cass - Aug 30, 2005 4:36:47 pm PDT #2864 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I think GWB doesn't have the "I feel your pain" gene, or not much of one, and he doesn't want to come across as not-as-good-as-Bill-Clinton, so he avoids "feel your pain" situations.I suspect you are right but, to me, he comes across as just oblivious that there even is pain. Which is a bad trait in a President. And in a human with any kind of power or responsibility. It's like he thinks that if he just hides for long enough, the problems will have gone away.