You realise that you can't just mate a giraffe with a rhino and expect this result, right?
You never let us have any fun.
You'd never make it. I'd rip your spine out before you got half a step. Those little legs wouldn't be much good without one of those.
Glory ,'The Killer In 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.
Jessica - Sep 05, 2005 3:27:28 pm PDT #4785 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
dw - Sep 05, 2005 3:28:41 pm PDT #4786 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
The fate of various NO landmarks
For years, various pro-South groups have been spending millions on restoring Jefferson Davis's last house, located in Biloxi.
All that's left now is the foundation. The house is gone, destroyed by the surge.
Trudy Booth - Sep 05, 2005 3:28:45 pm PDT #4787 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
billytea, did you see that the New Orleans zoo only lost three animals?
I think W is more of a classist than a racist. I think his disregard for the poor contributed (to the point of causation) to a couple of hundred/thousand post-storm deaths. I also think that racism and classism are intertwined enough that the 'difference' between them is pretty fine and when a bunch of black people die because you're a classist the charge of racism isn't completely our of line.
Consuela - Sep 05, 2005 3:29:35 pm PDT #4788 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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libkitty - Sep 05, 2005 3:30:30 pm PDT #4789 of 10002
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this (she chuckles slightly)--this is working very well for them."
WTF? Not to denigrate the hard work of the good folk in Houston, but if living in the Astrodome with 20,000 other people is a step up, this is just one more sign of how her son and his cronies is ruining this country. On the other hand, I'm sure it is a big step up from where they've probably been the last week. Oh, yeah. I blame him for that too.
dw - Sep 05, 2005 3:30:45 pm PDT #4790 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this (she chuckles slightly)--this is working very well for them."
I keep waiting and waiting for her big mouth to get a fist put in it, but amazingly she's made it nearly 80 years of her tactless life without getting slapped.
Kat - Sep 05, 2005 3:32:07 pm PDT #4791 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I bet they aren't even cute anymore after two years.
Actually yeah. They're still pretty cute after two years.
Rhinos should be Lori's theme animal: super-near sighted, extra sensitive skin.
Connie Neil - Sep 05, 2005 3:32:38 pm PDT #4792 of 10002
brillig
"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this (she chuckles slightly)--this is working very well for them."
I expected better from Barbara, but George Jr. had to learn it somewhere, I guess.
Utah has a few hundred refugees, who were not told where they were going when they got on the plane. They didn't know where they were when they got off the plane and saw mountains. Officials didn't want to have people saying, "No, we don't want to go two thousand miles away to where we don't know anyone and where people can't find us!"
I wonder how many families are being permanently destroyed by the "Get on the bus and shut up, you'll find out where you're going later" policy. How are people going to find each other? I doubt people too poor to have a way out of a critcally ill city have cell phones with free long distance.
Tom Scola - Sep 05, 2005 3:34:15 pm PDT #4793 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
billytea - Sep 05, 2005 3:34:57 pm PDT #4794 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.
billytea, did you see that the New Orleans zoo only lost three animals?
I did see. It sounds like their disaster planning was pretty effective. I feel kind of funny about it. I mean, I'm glad the zoo got through it so well, but it does serve to highlight how poor the human-directed preparations were, and how empty the 'we didn't expect it' excuse is.