Hey, it's after midnight, so it's the 20th now!

Happy Birthday Sue!!

Happy Birthday to Sue!

Hippo Birdies, Sue!

Emily, after all this, you're going to have to show us the answer you submitted!

I'm not sure the evacuation of NO is an overreaction. On CNN yesterday, they said that if NO gets even a steady rain, that the flood waters may rise. Now, will Rita miss it enough not to bring down rain, I can't tell looking at the maps.

BTW, more fuckups:

HUNDREDS of tons of British food aid shipped to America for starving Hurricane Katrina survivors is to be burned.

US red tape is stopping it from reaching hungry evacuees.

Instead tons of the badly needed Nato ration packs, the same as those eaten by British troops in Iraq, has been condemned as unfit for human consumption.

And unless the bureaucratic mess is cleared up soon it could be sent for incineration.

One British aid worker last night called the move "sickening senselessness" and said furious colleagues were "spitting blood".

The food, which cost British taxpayers millions, is sitting idle in a huge warehouse after the Food and Drug Agency recalled it when it had already left to be distributed.

Scores of lorries headed back to a warehouse in Little Rock, Arkansas, to dump it at an FDA incineration plant.

The Ministry of Defence in London said last night that 400,000 operational ration packs had been shipped to the US.

But officials blamed the US Department of Agriculture, which impounded the shipment under regulations relating to the import and export of meat.

The aid worker, who would not be named, said: "This is the most appalling act of sickening senselessness while people starve.

I love the Brit's plainspeaking:

The worker added: "There will be a cloud of smoke above Little Rock soon - of burned food, of anger and of shame that the world's richest nation couldn't organise a p**s up in a brewery and lets Americans starve while they arrogantly observe petty regulations.

"Everyone is revolted by the chaotic shambles the US is making of this crisis. Guys from Unicef are walking around spitting blood.

"This is utter madness. People have worked their socks off to get food into the region.

"It is perfectly good Nato approved food of the type British servicemen have. Yet the FDA are saying that because there is a meat content and it has come from Britain it must be destroyed.

"If they are trying to argue there is a BSE reason then that is ludicrously out of date. There is more BSE in the States than there ever was in Britain and UK meat has been safe for years."

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Has anyone been taking the OKCupid politics test? I like the presentation of the results a lot. The accuracy seems to be better than other tests too. My results

Unsurprisingly, I'm a big crazy socialist. At least I didn't get anarchist this time. I like how I'm next to Gandhi's head on my results.

Thanks for the Birthday wishes guys!

the world's richest nation couldn't organise a p**s up in a brewery

This is funny. And sad because it's apparently so true.

Happy Birthday, Sue!!!

Unsurprisingly, I'm a big crazy socialist.

That's why I came to post the link, because kid_lit_fan reminds me of a Buffista, but she came out socialist. I was wondering whether I should have been expecting that.

Timelies all!

Happy Birthday Sue!

Well, we're one step closer to finally getting DSL set up at home. The Verizon guy came by and checked our phone set-up. All's well there, so we just have to wait for the Covad guy...this has been rather annoying.