Oh. It got me in, so I posted. I can email it.

eta: Buuuuut, I closed the window and now it just takes me to an abstract. Bother.

One woman even wrote in to say that she had "conceived the spirit of our Divine Lord," the Flying Spaghetti Monster, while eating alone at the Olive Garden.

"I heard singing, and tomato sauce rained from the sky, and I saw angel hair pasta flying about with little farfalle wings and playing harps," she wrote. "It was beautiful." The Spaghetti Monster, she went on, impregnated her and told her, "You shall name Him ... Prego ... and He shall bring in a new era of love."

tommy, I just emailed it to your gmail account.

Remember Michael D. Brown of FEMA? The one Bush thinks is doing a great job at FEMA?

Well, he isn't losing his great job. Far from it. He's just getting on a deputy to take over operational control of the search-and-rescue and recovery efforts along the Gulf Coast.

Because firing his ass would be admitting that something is wrong.

As much as I love The Daily Show, their guests are allowed carte blanche to present the silliest science with a straight face. It's a daily show staffed by comedy writers on a deadline, not reporters and experts, so what can you do. But I don't know if I'm looking forward to the "scientists" they'll dredge up for an evolution "debate."

From Betsy's link: "a multi-stakeholder nightmare"

I assume that's bureaucrat for "clusterfuck."

tommy, I just emailed it to your gmail account.

Thanks. But brenda's link worked for me.

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Wolfram, after FEMA has cut telephone lines, I am not giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Oh hell no, don't give them shit. I'm happy to jump on the FEMA fucked up bigtime bandwagon. I just bristle at the (possible) misuse of the C word.

Remember Michael D. Brown of FEMA? The one Bush thinks is doing a great job at FEMA?

You mean good old Brownie?

I've been hearing the stories and looking at the pictures. The National Guard was treating the people in New Orleans as the enemy - criminals rather than victims, opponents rather than some of their own.

I'm reminded of the times when dictators have set the army against people opposing them, with orders to shoot, and the soldiers have looked at crowds and seen their own people - their own families. those dictators have fallen. Bush is secure - the NG doesn't seem able to see the people of New Orleans as their own.

You mean good old Brownie?

ION, I have a new idea for a cop show: Brownie and Turd Blossom.