Well, if we won't even take an urban search and rescue team from Canada, I suppose this is no surprise.
The US has now accepted aid from Canada, and we are sending 3 navy vessels and a coast guard vessel. They're taking down supplies (food, water, and medical supplies) and include 40-some divers who have experience with floods and have contaminated water diving suits. They leave tomorrow and are expected to be there by the end of the week.
People here are offering to take people in:
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I guess Qatar has offered $500 Million in oil and money, which is more than anyone else so far.
"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."
Now watch this drive.
Hah!
I heard this joke today: Rehnquist actually died on Wednesday, but FEMA only found him on Saturday.
On Prison Break
Making the kid do 'scared straight' with his father on death row is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. And its too bad that the tattoo didn't go all they way to hottie's toes. Wouldn't it be wild if at the VERY LAST SECOND they couldn't go because the bit they needed was on the toe the bad guys went an chopped off? It would be a regular O. Henry moment.
I heard this joke today: Rehnquist actually died on Wednesday, but FEMA only found him on Saturday.
Oh god.
Damn. I meant to tape PB - I think my bartender may be in it.
In response to Trudy's whitefont -- suh-nerk.
Trudy--double snerk since *O Henry served time in prison--right here in downtown Columbus!*
MPEG movie of the MESSENGER spacecraft's gravity-assisted swingby of Earth
And it only took me until "MESSENGER" to realize that, no, it wasn't a link to an MPREG movie. Thank goodness.
That was really cool, that link.
Ya know, Roddick's mojo is quite unattractive.
Next Season on
24:
Everybody Goes to Federal Prison
Maybe they can do a big 24/PB crossover event.
What happens when evacuees go a week without medical care? Bad things.
BRAGGS, Okla. (AP) -- A total of 51 Hurricane Katrina evacuees at the Camp Gruber shelter in northeastern Oklahoma have been taken to hospitals for medical treatment.
The American Red Cross says more than 200 others were treated for minor ailments and injuries at a shelter clinic.
Red Cross spokeswoman Nellie Kelly says a 58-year-old woman died late Sunday night after being taken to a hospital.
The Red Cross set up a separate mental health clinic because several evacuees had not taken their psychiatric medication since the hurricane struck six days ago.
A kidney transplant patient was taken to a hospital because he had not received his anti-rejection medications.
Many evacuees complained of swollen feet. Most of them have spent at least 24 hours on buses after being turned away from sites that were already full in Texas.
