We'll never take aid from Cuba. It would be admitting the failure of our government to take care of its own.

Well, if we won't even take an urban search and rescue team from Canada, I suppose this is no surprise. It is a failure of our government to take care of its own, but at least Bush has his head buried firmly in the sand.

"Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race."

I really don't think that Bush is racist. I think it's one of the few good things about him. I think that he doesn't care very much for people he doesn't know, and that he pretty much only knows some superrich people. But honestly, I think he would have been just as much of an insensitive ass if they were white.

Trent Lott on MSNBC claiming he is "just like everybody else" because he lost his house.

Yep. Just like everyone else. Except he's rich, white, dry, and has multiple other residences. You know, other than that he's just like everyone else.

And in completely frivilous news, I have now seen six episodes of Farscape from my new Netflix sub. Damn. I still like Firefly better, but this is impressive.

I have now seen six episodes of Farscape from my new Netflix sub. Damn. I still like Firefly better, but this is impressive.

If you like it that much after only the first six eps, Lib, you're going to have fun. Because you're not even on the rollercoaster yet. You're, like, in the middle of the line.

Had a good day yesterday and Saturday. Spent an evening at the zoo and a morning at the Wild Animal Park.

Tell! Tell! Tell!

Spent a lovely afternoon at a friend's house, entertained by her 18 month old daughter and 2 cats. Oh and she and her husband were pretty entertaining. Had gourmet hamburgers. Mmmm.

Did pretty much nothing else all weekend. Got some of that sleep I needed.

I just had a totally awesome, super easy dessert, which I will now share with you all: cheesecake flavor instant pudding. frozen blueberries. jarred cherries. Stir. YUM.

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Yes! Like, explain how you could leave the Wild Animal Park after only a morning.

I forgot to mention, 'Suela, that I'm so glad that your mother's medical problems seem to be getting figured out anyway. The house situation sounds difficult, but it's good that you can go clean up and say goodbye. Hard, but good. Will family be going with you?

If you like it that much after only the first six eps, Lib, you're going to have fun. Because you're not even on the rollercoaster yet. You're, like, in the middle of the line.

Ooh! Between disovering B5 (Fortunately, I'm borrowing a season at a time from a friend, so this isn't on my Netflix queue. Unfortunately, they have huge spoilers for future seasons on the commentaries, so I have to watch through all, then go back and borrow again for commentaries) and Farscape, I feel like I'm all SciFi all the time. I got some movies (not SciFi) from the library, and it feels almost wrong to watch them.

I really don't think that Bush is racist. I think it's one of the few good things about him. I think that he doesn't care very much for people he doesn't know, and that he pretty much only knows some superrich people. But honestly, I think he would have been just as much of an insensitive ass if they were white.

This is really my take. With him, but also people like Chertoff and Brown, I don't think there is a glimmer of caring, or even awareness, of people not in their own privileged millieu. But for Bush, at least, I honestly don't think race enters into it.

I view him much like Jeremy Roenick — an egotistical self-absorbed prick whose one good quality is that he isn't a bigot.

Indifference is a weapon of mass destruction.

From Dennis Kucinich's speech on the House floor. I think that this man is on par with Jay Hammond, which will probably only mean anything to Juliana, but if anyone else remembers my comments on Hammond's recent passing, you will know that this is about the highest compliment I could give a politician.

Like, explain how you could leave the Wild Animal Park after only a morning.

Well, we left at about 2:00 PM because it was 1000 degrees and sunny and not much shade. Also, we have reservations to go on a sleepover there in late October. So we didn't feel compelled to see everything this time. We didn't even make it up to the condor ridge.

What we did do:

Took the monorail around the park. There were issues with power from PG&E so our train was stopped for about 15 minutes. We were super early so we got to see a ton of rhino farily close to the train. The prey animals (you know, those with hooves) are so much more impressive at the Wild Animal Park where they get to hang out and roam more than they are at the zoo.

We walked around for a little bit, including going to Lion Camp. Listening to the male lion roar was unsettling. The females were markedly unimpressed. I like the fact that with the Lions you casn see them relatively close to through the windows or you can see them across the ravine.

We then headed through the newish "Heart of Africa" enclosures. These are both beautiful, shaded and pretty awesome. The primates on primate island were hiding, but you could see them in a hole in the log. We got a refill of lemonade (yay lemonade!) in our animal sippy cup that we bought last visit and then we watched the giraffes. you could feed them acacia leaves. We opted not to feed them, but the keeper came. As soon as they saw her, they were grabbing branches out of her truck, she'd gently push them away. Keep in mind that a full grown giraffe's head is about half the height of keeper.

Eventually a baby came walking up. The baby giraffe apparently still had an umbilical cord attached. Baby so didn't understand what was going on, but was cute nevertheless.

On our way out, we stopped at the nursery and at the ring-tailed lemurs.

We didn't go gawk at the big cats (the tigers etc) because the night before we got to see all the big cats (jaguars, leopards etc) super active at the zoo. Early evening is the best time to go, apparently. It was mid morning afternoon by the time we would have seen the cats at the Wild Animal Park and that didn't seem worth it.

FTR, I still love the saimangs and orangutans (at the Zoo). AND the teen panda was super active.

I'd like to pay the minor fortune to see the cheetahs run.