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September, 2005
September 27th, 2005
As I try to catch up with the day’s events after being locked up with the crazy people I work with from 8am to after 5pm in a little hot room, New Orleans weighs heavily on my mind…
Probably because there’s been quite a few stories in the news about it today.
It’s no surprise to me that main stream media is under attack from misreporting the aftermath of Katrina. Euphoric Reality has an excellent post about it and I’ve already expressed my opinion.
Police Superintendent Eddie Compass of New Orleans resigned after the chaotic aftermath
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Tags: New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, Ray Nagin
September 27th, 2005
Remember that scene in Galaxy Quest where the crew of Protector, while looking for something to power the damaged ship, come across an apparently abandoned mine; only it’s not abandoned as they soon discover. There are these cute innocent-looking little blue-green aliens that look just E.T. precious. Then a poor little injured cute alien arrives and it looks like the others are going to help him get a drink of water.
Suddenly they visciously turn on him in a most cannibalistic manner…
That’s what the reports of Michael Brown’s testimony regarding FEMA’s failures
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Tags: FEMA, Republicans, Michael Brown, Hurricane Katrina
September 26th, 2005
I’ll be in training all week. This means, my posting rate will probably be slow…particularly since I will hopefully be disconnected from the real world for about 8 hours a day….the down side, of course, that I will be locked in a room with the crazy people and the ones that decided we were starting at 8am aren’t even required to bring coffee for those of us who said 9am. Bastids.
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September 26th, 2005
I’ve seen a few posts/articles the last two days about U.S. soldiers posting gory pictures of dead and mangled Iraqis/Afghanis to an amateur porn website. Note that the censored pictures on AMERICAblog show proud, smiling soldiers…this is deeply disturbing and eerily remenicent of the Abu Ghraib with an added horror of these being more than just pictures of torture and guards gone wild.
If these pictures are the real deal, it opens up a whole new can of worms, so to speak.
It’s easy to understand that war and it’s daily stresses can be waring on a person’s mind,
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Tags: Iraq, Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib, American soldiers
September 25th, 2005
From Molly Ivins Freepress.org article “A Giant Snit“:
So here are all the liberals going into a giant snit just because George W. Bush appointed a veterinarian to head the women’s health section of the Food and Drug Administration. For Pete’s sake, you whiners, the only reason he chose the vet is because Michael Brown wasn’t available.
Tags: Quote of the Day, politics, Molly Ivins, George W. Bush, Women's Health
September 25th, 2005
Over at In Search of Utopia there’s a post, like many I’ve seen today (and many times in the last four or so years), about how the press is finally waking up to President Bush’s administrations failures, etc. I wrote the below in the comment section but decided that it was something I felt so passionate about, it needed to be here as well.
You know, every time something happens that I would think would “damn” Bush and his administration, I get all hopeful, but no one in power seems to be doing anything about it.
I mean, all of
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Tags: George W. Bush, hopeless, Democrats, liberals
September 25th, 2005
I’m not very good at this “rendering” stuff and I find this to be a very expensive hobby, but here’s what I put together using Daz Studio. I wanted to do me, but they don’t seem to have a chubby cheek map and I can’t figure out how to add the blonde highlights to the red hair or the nose ring and I can’t seem to find a skin map pale enough. 
Tags: 3D imagery
September 25th, 2005
Remember that accident I had earlier this summer? I just wanted to whine a little that my back is still not right. Even doing the laundry is a pain in the -er- back and once the pain starts, it’s with me pretty much the rest of the day. Usually it goes away while I’m sleeping but during the day, I just can’t get comfortable enough for it to go away.
And 15 minutes of work is about all I can stand before I have to go sit down and let the agonizing part of the pain subside
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Tags: car accident, wellness
September 25th, 2005
- Dodgeball - While I often find Ben Stiller’s movies just too stupid for words and I grew to hate the game of dodgeball growing up, I found this movie the perfect mind-numbing weekend activity last weekend…well, I liked it enough to watch it twice anyway. I won’t say it was particularly good, but it wasn’t so horrible that I wanted my time back.
- New York Minute - Now this was a waste of my time. Outside of the fact that I can say now withot a doubt that the Olsen twins have grown up from ugly baby to gorgeous
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September 25th, 2005
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It suddenly hit me today that Bush was conviently overseeing Hurricane Rita operations (when he diddled about on vaction prior to and during and even after Hurricane Katrina) while protestors where marching past the White House yesterday. The conspiracy theorist in me that thinks that Bush’s advisors who prefer to keep him in rose-colored glasses would rather him see a natural disaster up close than be present for massive numbers of Americans who think he’s doing a terrible job.
Or maybe I’m just being sarcastic…
Maybe.
Tags: George W. Bush, Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Katrina, protestors, Conspiracy Theories
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September 23rd, 2005
A co-worker pointed out this morning that President Bush is damned-if-he-does-and-damned-if-he-doesn’t in this whole Hurricane Rita thing. Already he’s been making more of a show of interest regarding Rita than he did regarding Katrina.
If his administration and their underlings like FEMA are more on the ball with the Rita recovery, some will say that he learned from his mistakes less than a month ago, but some will say that he’s showing his home state, a state with a Republican Governor, preferential treatment while leaving the state with a Democratic Governor to drown in quicksand…or swampland.
However, if FEMA and Bush’s
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Tags: George W. Bush, Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Katrina, FEMA
September 23rd, 2005
A lot of finger-pointing has been going on in the aftermath of Katrina. Certainly a lot of fingers were pointed at Democrat Governor Blanco by Republicans claiming she and New Orleans city Mayor Ray Naggin are to blame for poor planning and not evacuating the city soon enough. They’ve been blamed for not commandeering city and school buses (though the drivers had abandoned ship) to evacuate the poor without transportation.
The tale from Republican-run Texas regarding Rita doesn’t sound much more organized and successful.
“I done called for a shelter, I done called for help. There ain’t none. No one
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Tags: Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita, New Orleans, Kathleen Blanco, Ray Nagin
September 23rd, 2005
Hmmm…I need to get back into the habit of this…
- The whole thing was a bad enough experience on it’s own, but the fact that she had to repeat the story to every new person she met was beyond agony.
- There’s always that one guy who you can’t trust to collect the money to pay the dinner tab and tonight it was Martin.
- Father’s Day was just another painful reminder that Louisa still hadn’t managed to get pregnant and after three weeks, she was beginning to lose hope.
- The mandatory city-wide curfew left Angeni and her kindred with practically nothing to eat — not
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Tags: writing, Friday Five 1rst Sentences
September 22nd, 2005
Yesterday, Big Dog wrote an excellent post about how illegal immigrants displaced by Katrina are afraid to seek help for fear of deportation. Some organizations believe that they should be given “protected human status” because they’ve already lost so much thanks to Katrina.
Illegal immigrants are…well…illegal. They’re committing a crime and I agree that they shouldn’t be awarded for committing the crime. All that does is make committing the crime more appealing to people who haven’t yet, but were thinking about it — which I know may sound heartless. I’m not saying they shouldn’t be given
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Tags: immigration, Hurricane Katrina
September 22nd, 2005
I spoke with El last night. If you think Louisiana and the Gulf Coast looks chaotic from the comfort of your living room, you’re under-estimating the chaos. She has become extremely frustrated with both Red Cross and FEMA — though interestingly, she recognizes that Red Cross is made up of volunteers and FEMA is not and therefore holds more bitterness for FEMA.
With Red Cross, it just seems like not everyone knows what’s going on. For one thing, she’s supposed to contact her local Red Cross center (not shelter) for help, but the center for her area is
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Tags: FEMA, Gulf Coast, Red Cross, New Orleans, Kathleen Blanco
September 22nd, 2005
I must say that I’ve always liked David Vitter and was really disappointed when Blanco beat him out of the governorship. I was glad to see him elected to the Senate last fall and if I were still living in Louisiana, I’d be proud and grateful for the statements he made last Tuesday at a Senate subcommittee (Disaster Prevention and Prediction) hearing on the prediction of Hurricane Katrina and the work of the National Hurricane Center.
“Mr. Chairman, at your June 26th hearing on hurricane prediction, I gave an opening statement describing a ‘worst case scenario’ – the hypothetical
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Tags: David Vitter, Hurricane Katrina, Senate
September 22nd, 2005
An article in Michigan’s The Gloucester Daily Times today tells more about FEMA’s confusing ice issues. The article breaks down the costs indicating that in the end, the government will pay more than $4 for each of the thousands of five-pound bags of ice that would have cost us $1.50 each at the gas station or convenience store; plus, it will cost close to $1 billion in trucking for the $2 million worth of ice.
The initial problem was that too much ice was ordered by FEMA for areas that had been evacuated. As a result, some truckers
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Tags: FEMA, incompetence
September 21st, 2005
Seriously, you’d think someone would be selling them. I know they exist because there was a gym in New Orleans who had laptops on their treadmills and stationary bikes. *sigh*
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September 21st, 2005
Well, I’ve said it a lot here recently. I want to be my mother when I grow up. After all, I’m very proud of the work she does for the American Red Cross. I’m proud that she’s a nurse and that she’s a take-charge kind of woman (when my dad isn’t around). The fact that she sacrifices herself so often to help others is something that fills me with awe. I want to be less selfish and more helpful.
Mind you, I’m not a nurse so I can’t actually follow in her footsteps, but today I
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Tags: Red Cross
September 21st, 2005
Fox has finally listened to the pleading and begging of the Firefly cult masses and has at last released a soundtrack from the dearly departed television series.
However, there’s a catch.
Isn’t there always?
You can’t get it on a physical CD as of yet. The only way to get the fabulous music from the well-done and network-abused and abandoned series is to download it from Fox Music for $9.99. This is not a bad price actually.
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