And the eyeliner?

Damn. I meant to tape PB - I think my bartender may be in it.

I've got it, brenda. You're welcome to come over and watch. (You have your own personal bartender?!)

Maybe they can do a big 24/PB crossover event.

I'm waiting for it to become The Fugitive, buddy pic style ( which doesn't preclude a crossover now that I think about it). Tommy Lee Jones can guest star.

What part of town do you live in, quester?

I do think it would have been better to see Roddick as his own cowboy-geared mojo rather than someone else.

Two weeks ago my uncle found a kitten huddled up against the foundation of his house. No idea if he was lost, misplaced, abandoned, or dropped off. They can't keep him because their cat in residence won't tolerate competition. Fortunately they found him a good home without having to resort to the local pound. My aunt finally sent me pictures. The first one is from two weeks ago--he looks to me like he couldn't have been more than six weeks old. The second and third photos are from last Saturday. He goes to his new home tomorrow.

Video link to Keith Olberman's absolutely scathing editorial comment on Katrina and politicians.

Snagged from DailyKos.

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[T]he government reaction the last time an American city was destroyed - San Francisco, April 18, 1906.

The earthquake struck at 5:13 AM.

By 7 AM federal troops had reported to the mayor.

By 8 AM they were patrolling the entire downtown area and searching for survivors.

The second quake struck at 8:14 AM.

By 10:05 AM the USS Chicago was on its way from San Diego to San Francisco; by 10:30 the USS Preble had landed a medical team and set up an emergency hospital.

By 11 AM large parts of the city were on fire; troops continued to arrive throughout the day, evacuating people from the areas threatened by fire to emergency shelters and Golden Gate Park.

St. Mary's hospital was destroyed by the fire at 1 PM, with no loss of life, the staff and patients having already been evacuated across the bay to Oakland.

By 3 PM troops had shot several looters, and dynamited buildings to make a firebreak; by five they had buried dozens of corpses, the morgue and the police pistol range being unable to hold any more.

At 8:40 PM General Funston requested emergency housing - tents and shelters - from the War Department in Washington; all of the tents in the U.S. Army were on their way to San Francisco by 4:55 AM the next morning.

Prisoners were evacuated to Alcatraz, and by April 20 (two days after the earthquake) the USS Chicago had reached San Francisco, where it evacuated 20,000 refugees.

Video link to Keith Olberman's absolutely scathing editorial comment on Katrina and politicians.

Damn.

I wonder if in a few weeks things will go back to normal in the MSM, or does the government's failures really represent a sea-change in the way the media treats our government....

By 10:05 AM the USS Chicago was on its way from San Diego to San Francisco; by 10:30 the USS Preble had landed a medical team and set up an emergency hospital.

Why don't we have a navy or a naval shipyard in the Gulf at all? Why is the East Coast navy concentrated so heavily in Norfolk when the West Coast has four bases carrier groups run out of?

If we hadn't been so overzealous to close military installations over the last 15 or so years, maybe we could have had some support ships within a 24 hour sail of NOLA. I'm talking to you, Mr. Cheney and Mr. Rumsfeld.

BBC editorial: Viewpoint: Has Katrina saved US media?

As President Bush scurries back to the Gulf Coast, it is clear that this is the greatest challenge to politics-as-usual in America since the fall of Richard Nixon in the 1970s.

Then as now, good reporting lies at the heart of what is changing.

But unlike Watergate, "Katrinagate" was public service journalism ruthlessly exposing the truth on a live and continuous basis.

Instead of secretive "Deep Throat" meetings in car-parks, cameras captured the immediate reality of what was happening at the New Orleans Convention Center, making a mockery of the stalling and excuses being put forward by those in power.

Amidst the horror, American broadcast journalism just might have grown its spine back, thanks to Katrina.

There's more... interesting stuff....

I hope the article is right....

I just found this on a list I follow but am way behind on. I don't think it has already been posted here. It's on the significance of New Orleans as a port to the economy of the US and the world: [link]