Yeah. I'm stoked they're not just the Hitler Channel anymore...I've actually watched a couple times this week.

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Yeah. I'm stoked they're not just the Hitler Channel anymore...I've actually watched a couple times this week.

Yes. Hopefully this will last a while before it turns to the Jesus channel around the Holidays

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I'd been wondering if that movie would ever see the light of day again.

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Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, a motherly but steely figure known by the nickname Queen Bee, knew that she needed help. But she wasn't quite sure what. At about 8 p.m., she spoke to Bush. "Mr. President," she said, "we need your help. We need everything you've got."

Bush, the governor later recalled, was reassuring. But the conversation was all a little vague. Blanco did not specifically ask for a massive intervention by the active-duty military. "She wouldn't know the 82nd Airborne from the Harlem Boys' Choir," said an official in the governor's office, who did not wish to be identified talking about his boss's conversations with the president.

Blanco didn't know the secret word(s): "There's an election soon and the Republican candidates could use some support."

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Today always makes me think of you, you know, and that's not a tease. I saw your posts first at Vanessa's, informing us of the plane(s) hitting the twin towers. I think EverDawn might have posted first, but I saw your post, first

Just the bearer of glad tiddings. *sigh* It was such a surreal day

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Just the bearer of glad tiddings. *sigh* It was such a surreal day

Was it ever. I pretty much went from reading your posts, to packing up Julia and Chris to go to Ben's Kindergarten Tea Party.

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Math is hard.

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How Bush Blew It

Longish Newsweek article - interesting. A (supposed) behind-the-scenes look at how Bush and his aids did and did not handle the crisis.

President Bush knew the storm and its consequences had been bad; but he didn't quite realize how bad.

The reality, say several aides who did not wish to be quoted because it might displease the president, did not really sink in until Thursday night. Some White House staffers were watching the evening news and thought the president needed to see the horrific reports coming out of New Orleans. Counselor Bartlett made up a DVD of the newscasts so Bush could see them in their entirety as he flew down to the Gulf Coast the next morning on Air Force One.

How this could be—how the president of the United States could have even less "situational awareness," as they say in the military, than the average American about the worst natural disaster in a century—is one of the more perplexing and troubling chapters in a story that, despite moments of heroism and acts of great generosity, ranks as a national disgrace.

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Yep. That's my question. How could the POTUS know less than the average citizen?

Foreign papers have also been commenting on Bush's apparent lack of any human feeling, and his inability to even fake caring. Among other things they've been commenting on.

I have a friend who's simply refusing to talk about it or think about it, at all, because it's too upsetting. As opposed to me - I can't stop thinking about it, and I'm sure that a number of people wish I'd shut up about it.

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Here is a thing.

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