Yeah, and once you DO 'cut short' go to the disaster, not your favorite photo-op spot on San Diego harbor. He loves those battleships.
We knocked 'em deader!
Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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.
Trudy Booth - Sep 02, 2005 12:23:25 pm PDT #4242 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
sarameg - Sep 02, 2005 12:27:19 pm PDT #4243 of 10002
I actually wrote a letter to the editor today. Huh. It did help to get some of my frustration out.
Last night (after probably freaking out other people stopped at the light for yelling and banging on the steering wheel- just doing my job to further the impression all B'more drivers are insane!) I felt compelled to write to NPR to thank Siegel & Burnett for doing their jobs, and possibly (as several other sources were reporting it at the time, but they didnt' have Chertoff on the line ) a teeny portion of the job of FEMA and that is So Wrong, but thanks, I'm glad you did it.
um, goodness. I don't think that's a sentence.
I also laid on the horn, but that was more about alleviating frustration with the stupid drivers.
Laura - Sep 02, 2005 12:27:55 pm PDT #4244 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.
When Andrew struck we had truck loads of water in beer bottles being delivered by Miller Beer. They shut down their beer production and filled bottles with water.
My memory may be faulty, but I remember help arriving in massive amounts immediately after Andrew.
Really, if someone in authority (I'm looking at you W) had asked bus drivers in the south to volunteer to drive people out they would have come. If a call was made for small boat owners to volunteer they would have come. It was all I could do to keep Brendon from leaving with our boat.
Tom Scola - Sep 02, 2005 12:30:40 pm PDT #4245 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Thanks, guys.
I'm at work for a while longer, but I've bookmarked your posts, and I'll email you when I get home.
Theodosia - Sep 02, 2005 12:34:45 pm PDT #4246 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I don't understand why a boat flotilla wasn't already organized to take people out/off of the flooded houses?
During 9/11 in NYC, NJ private boat owners ferried thousands of people off of Manhattan. Granted, this was only across a river, whereas getting into NO is a quite a bit more complicated. But there are Zodiacs that can be brought in, inflated, and put to use very quickly.
Tom Scola - Sep 02, 2005 12:35:35 pm PDT #4247 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Most of the boats in the NOLA vicinity would have been destroyed, along with the docks.
Calli - Sep 02, 2005 12:35:54 pm PDT #4248 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm so tired of being ashamed of our president. It's not just that he can't or won't solve important problems, it's that he doesn't even see that the problems exist.
ChiKat - Sep 02, 2005 12:39:27 pm PDT #4249 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
When Andrew struck we had truck loads of water in beer bottles being delivered by Miller Beer. They shut down their beer production and filled bottles with water.
A-B did this a couple days ago. They sent down close to 900,000 cans of water.
Sean K - Sep 02, 2005 12:44:22 pm PDT #4250 of 10002
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Bush's new nickname after this needs to be Emperor Nero.
Words fail me when trying to describe how appalled and disgusted I am with the utter cluster-fuck this has all been.
tommyrot - Sep 02, 2005 12:44:51 pm PDT #4251 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm so tired of being ashamed of our president. It's not just that he can't or won't solve important problems, it's that he doesn't even see that the problems exist.
There was someone in his administration (I forget who) - he said that every administration has a political team, in addition to a policy team and other stuff, but he was amazed that the Bush administration only had the political team, a political POV. (I'm totally explaining this poorly.) He called the Bush adminstration the "Mayberry Machiavellians."
Obviously, he was punnished for this.