A huge percentage of men will get depressed and paralysed and bitch about how they were surgeons and will not drive a truck while the women just get on with it.

This is just as sexist.

Look at any displaced population, it happens again and again. A huge percentage of men will get depressed and paralysed and bitch about how they were surgeons and will not drive a truck

Huh. I'll have to remember that excuse.

Except I like driving trucks.

But anyway, I agree.

I keel them!

OK, Nora, so when do you want to go to the movies with me?

Laura, I fondly remember pretty much everything about meeting you, so thanks.

I just spent half an hour in deep conversation with an adorable 5-years-old girl ( a daughter of a student who also sits in this building). I learned that she likes elephants, but only the Indian ones, not the African. Or, maybe the African girls ones. And it's because of the difference in the sizes of the ears. She then demonstrated how elephants say hello with their ears. So much better than grading, with much more common sense.

She then demonstrated how elephants say hello with their ears. So much better than grading, with much more common sense.

Hee! She is spared my wrath.

This is just as sexist

No, its not. I'm talking percentages. I'm not saying "men fall apart, women are fine" I'm saying a larger percentage of men than women tend to fall apart.

And I'm not following up my statement with a link to my hot trucker boyfriend's website.

I saw that LJ yesterday. Didn't much like the sense I got of the guy, but that doesn't necessarily mean he's lying.

Yeah, I'm with you. Not entirely sure what to think, but I do get a weird vibe off the guy.

OK, this is the most depressing thing I've read about NO: Mayhem hampering hospital evacuations

Acadian, based in Lafayette, Louisiana, is trying to evacuate some 2,000 patients from hospitals before nightfall Wednesday, including dozens of critically ill babies at medical facilities with no electricity or water.

The firm's priority is getting out 25 critically ill infants from Children's Hospital and 100 babies from Touro Infirmary, said spokeswoman Julie Mahfouz.

Zuschlag said part of the reason Touro requested the evacuation of its 175 patients -- including 100 babies -- "is the unrest in New Orleans."

He said his workers have been victims of the looting and mayhem across the city.

Patients at that hospital have died due to lack of electricity.

Here's a good clip from Special Report w/ Brit Hume on 8/29 for rising blood pressure (Barnes is Fred Barnes of the weekly standard):

BARNES: ...But my problem with it is that, in some of these areas, like a below- sea-level city like New Orleans, they're not -- they want the rest of us to insure their risk. As people who live on the San Andreas Fault in California, where they know there are going to be earthquakes, people who live along the Mississippi River in these low farmland areas...

HUME: Floodplains.

BARNES: ... near the river, the floodplains. They know they're going to flood. And when these things happen, they want the taxpayers all over the country to pay, and they do.

HUME: So they can rebuild, right?

(LAUGHTER)

BARNES: Yes, right, exactly.

KONDRACKE: Yes, well, the question is, where do you draw the line? And that's the problem. Do you draw it at the Barrier Islands? Do you draw it at Vero Beach, you know, where Fred has a beach house?

HUME: How did your house, by the way, do over the weekend?

BARNES: Well, it did fine, because we were on the Atlantic coast and the hurricane went to the Gulf Coast. So it missed it entirely.

HUME: It got rained on, right?

BARNES: But last year, when there were two hurricanes, and I got a new roof, I paid my part. My private insurance company paid the other part. The federal government and taxpayers paid no part.

HUME: What about the cover on your swimming pool? Did the government...

BARNES: I paid all of that.

As an aside, odds are that his private insurance is subsidised by the government.

She is spared my wrath.

Then she explained she's going to start learning to play an instrument. Either a violin or a harmonica. Based on which looks prettier.

We also analyzed thoroughly the two different shades of pink (where is msbelle?) of her shirt, and which matched which on her bracelet. She didn't manage to have such a conversation with any of the other students in the building (all failed to notice the difference in said shades of pink, sadly enough).

[Edited so that it won't seem like there's only one other student in the building.]

In ?California you can't buy private insurance for eathquakes. I have a loan on my house so I must have insurance. and the insurance I must buy - California Earthquake authority. Not federal - but it doesn't cover things like roads...