Timelies! I'm going to go off and try to spend the day at work. I'm also hoping HOPING HOPING to hear about my car's disposition. Le Sigh.

About Bush's 8:00 p.m. press conference:

(AP): President Bush is planning a prime-time address to the nation on Hurricane Katrina from Louisiana on Thursday night.

Press Secretary Scott McClellan says details of the speech are still being finalized.

He says the president will use the 8 p.m. central time speech to discuss ongoing recovery efforts -- and what the spokesman calls ``the way forward.''

The administration's response to the disaster has been criticized as slow and disorganized, and yesterday, Bush's disaster chief, Michael Brown quit.

But McClellan says Bush intends to stress the "unprecedented'' nature of the hurricane that struck two weeks ago -- and say America needs to "come together to support'' Katrina's victims on the Gulf Coast.

from wwltv.com

Curious story on the news this morning about Shaquille O'Neal witnessing a man who shouted a bunch of slurs and threw a bottle at a gay couple. Shaq apparently called the cops and then tailed the guy until the police got him.

Timelies all!

I have Bones and House on my VCR, waiting to be watched. Not sure if I'll like either, but I'll give them a try.

Happy Anniversary Lyra Jane and DH!

But McClellan says Bush intends to stress the "unprecedented'' nature of the hurricane that struck two weeks ago -- and say America needs to "come together to support'' Katrina's victims on the Gulf Coast.

Why is he saying this now? He should have said this two weeks ago. He's just going to spend an hour telling us what we already know. It's stupid.

In class last night, the professor said that she had heard that the president had gone on tv and taken personal responsibility for everything that went wrong. I cannot tell you how disappointed I was to learn that was an overly optimistic rumor. Stupid campus telephone game.

Cashmere, did the evil kitty wake you again, this morning?

Nope. We worked it out, I think. We put up the baby gate at the top of the stairs (to keep the dogs and the cat) away from the doors. Shut the door to the nursery AND our bedroom and turned on the baby monitor. We slept undisturbed until I had to get up. The baby slept until nearly 7, so that's good, too. This might continue to work to everyone's advantage.

Curious story on the news this morning about Shaquille O'Neal witnessing a man who shouted a bunch of slurs and threw a bottle at a gay couple. Shaq apparently called the cops and then tailed the guy until the police got him.

Shaq wants to be a cop after he retires, and is training to become a deputy with the Miami police. He's all about the law and order.

In class last night, the professor said that she had heard that the president had gone on tv and taken personal responsibility for everything that went wrong.

Overly optimistic, indeed. There's a method to his madness. He's saying, "I'm responsible" because he's falling back to his default, man-of-the-people-straight-shooter facade in order to try to use the entire Gulf Coast as a lab experiement for the wonderful GOP idea of "smaller goverment, less regulation" that has worked out so well for all the poor people down there already.

From the Washington Post:

Bush already has dispatched his top strategist, Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, and other aides to assemble ideas from agencies, conservative think tanks, GOP lawmakers and state officials to guide the rebuilding of New Orleans and relocation of flood victims. The idea, aides said, is twofold: provide a quick federal response that comports with Bush's governing philosophy, and prevent Katrina from swamping his second-term ambitions on Social Security, taxes and Middle East democracy-building.

A top aide said he will stress that New Orleans officials will dictate how the city will be rebuilt, but will also make plain the reconstruction should reflect his vision of government -- including reducing regulatory obstacles and emphasizing entrepreneurship over big government, the aide said. He will discuss plans to provide health care, education, jobs and housing assistance to flood victims, another aide said.

The Administration will basically use this to test school vouchers and dumping the prevailing wage laws for construction and service industries for the profit of employers (especially Halliburton) who will get the fat contracts for reconstruction. And to prove that private charities can take the place of the feds in providing relief.

They've managed to spin it very well into an opportunity to continue conservative hegemony. Nice, isn't it?

Timelies. I missed w & p :(

I saw BONES, HOUSE and RESCUE ME.

BONES: Liked it (and the title character) a lot more than I thought, and DB wasn't as smug as he came off in the commercials. However, I thought the ending was outrageously dumb. Yo, just because you cop to the fact that shooting the guy might get her in trouble doesn't mean you just get to hand wave away in the next second.

HOUSE: Loved it, loved the snark. @@ forever, however when the Hallelujah montage came on. LL rocked the...ahem...house, but I've always liked him as an actor.

RESCUE ME: Well everything went to shit as expected. Not a single happy for anyone. I just wish they'd at least let one of the characters off the hook for an extended period.