I tend to agree with libkitty and brenda about Bush. I also think this was just sheer incompetence at the Federal level, and is as--or nearly as--disturbing as either ignorance or malice. I know nothing about Brown or Chertoff, except that they should have been fired on Thursday morning.
Inara: So. Would you like to lecture me on the wickedness of my ways? Book: I brought you some supper, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped. Sin and hellfire... one has lepers.
'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.
Topic!Cindy - Sep 05, 2005 2:57:34 pm PDT #4764 of 10002
What is even happening?
brenda m - Sep 05, 2005 3:02:10 pm PDT #4765 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
— an egotistical self-absorbed prick whose one good quality is that he isn't a bigot.
Perzactly.
I also think this was just sheer incompetence at the Federal level, and is as--or nearly as--disturbing as either ignorance or malice.
I think, after tossing this around in my mind the last few days, that it's a combination of single-minded focus on their own priorities tied in with utter confidence that conseqences are things that happen to other people.
It's just their bad luck, or rather, the luck running out, that this one is too big to handwave.
billytea - Sep 05, 2005 3:04:05 pm PDT #4766 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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.
Now I am jealous that you live close enough to say 'maybe next time'. I go by the philosophy of "Live each visit to the San Diego Zoo and/or Wild Animal Park as if it were your last. Ooh, condors!!"
Cass - Sep 05, 2005 3:06:40 pm PDT #4767 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.
We didn't even make it up to the condor ridge.::blink::
Wha????
I go by the philosophy of "Live each visit to the San Diego Zoo and/or Wild Animal Park as if it were your last. Ooh, condors!!"Just because I drove you past one armed robbery???
I can see the smoke from a brush fire that is 18 miles away from me. This is wrong. I kinda hope they get it under control about five minutes ago.
libkitty - Sep 05, 2005 3:07:40 pm PDT #4768 of 10002
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
The one good thing about my dad moving to the central coast is that LA will be just as inconvenient to fly into as Oakland, so I might actually get a chance to see the San Diego Zoo and/or Wild Animal Park for the very first time.
erikaj - Sep 05, 2005 3:08:56 pm PDT #4769 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I've never seen the Animal Park. The zoo is great, though.
billytea - Sep 05, 2005 3:12:17 pm PDT #4770 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Just because I drove you past one armed robbery???
Hey, it's more than anyone else thought to do for me while I was in the States.
Y'know, I reckon Jack Bauer's probably lost more than one lover because he insists on changing the safe word on a nightly basis.
§ ita § - Sep 05, 2005 3:13:18 pm PDT #4771 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I reckon Jack Bauer has the most vanilla of sex.
Kat - Sep 05, 2005 3:15:13 pm PDT #4772 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Wha????
Cass, are you shocked that we didn't go see the condors (I used to know 2 women who worked in the condor release program in the Ventana Wilderness) or have you not been there since they built it?
I go by the philosophy of "Live each visit to the San Diego Zoo and/or Wild Animal Park as if it were your last. Ooh, condors!!"
I can understand that. But we already have one other trip concretely planned and we'll also go in December when they have the holiday lights up in the Wild Animal Park. And we have a membership so it pays to amoratize by going often.
I've never seen the Animal Park. The zoo is great, though.
The Zoo is great. The Wild Animal Park is also excellent, but different. It's pretty cool that they've developped to parks that are close, similar but have totally different appeals.
I also love the idea that over 500 babies are born at the WAP each year.
Cass - Sep 05, 2005 3:16:28 pm PDT #4773 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.
Hey, it's more than anyone else thought to do for me while I was in the States.I try to be a good hostess.
I reckon Jack Bauer has the most vanilla of sex.Oooh! Can I offer to find out? For the team, I mean... Mmmm, Keifer.