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    Crazy Katrina photojournal

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    well if you read through the captions he mentions that some people (friends? family?) from Nicaragua saw him on tv. Also I deduced from his name, the less thanperfect English and his picture near the end that he must be from Nicaragua.

    Prayer

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    I think it's a ploy by Bush to appeal to the core of supporters that put him in office in the first place. Rove probably told him to do it.

    Our Fine President

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    "Our infrastructure is devastated, lives have been shattered," Ms. Landrieu said during a helicopter tour of the area with an ABC interviewer. "Would the president please stop taking photo-ops?"

     

    --Mary Landrieu, US Senator

    Our Fine President

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    "If I put you out on the street and made you get into gun battles all day with no place to urinate and no place to defecate, I don't think you would be too happy either," Mr. Compass said in an interview. "Our vehicles can't get any gas. The water in the street is contaminated. My officers are walking around in wet shoes."

     

    P. Edwin Compass III, New Orleans Superintendent of Police

    Our Fine President

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    I agree that it's easy to point fingers at a time like this and I keep thinking to myself "I wonder how Clinton would have handled this situation?" But I also keep thinking of Bush's slow reaction time on 9/11/01 when he sat in a classroom in Florida while the NY World Trade Center Towers crumbled to the ground. GW just doesn't impress me as a man of action IMO.

    Some good news...

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    imagine if we all tried to collectively change things instead of the time we post on climbing forums.

     

    nah.

    you first.

     

    oh by the way, the guy who founded Burning Man has this to say:

     

     

    BTW Is TLG at Burning Man? She's been conspicuously missing lately...

    Saw the flood coming

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    September 2, 2005

    A Can't-Do Government

     

    By PAUL KRUGMAN

    Before 9/11 the Federal Emergency Management Agency listed the three most likely catastrophic disasters facing America: a terrorist attack on New York, a major earthquake in San Francisco and a hurricane strike on New Orleans. "The New Orleans hurricane scenario," The Houston Chronicle wrote in December 2001, "may be the deadliest of all." It described a potential catastrophe very much like the one now happening.

     

    the rest of editorial

    If wishes were fishes

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    From MSNBC:

     

    Norwegians generally reckon that their economic upturn is fuelled by high oil prices -- a bonanza out of any government’s control. A fund saving Norway’s oil wealth for future generations is worth $180 billion, or $39,000 for each citizen.

    Subterranean Homesick Alien

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    The breath of the morning

    I keep forgetting

    The smell of the warm summer air

     

    I live in a town

    Where you can't smell a thing

    You watch your feet

    For cracks in the pavement

     

    Up above

    Aliens hover

    Making home movies

    For the folks back home

     

    Of all these weird creatures

    Who lock up their spirits

    Drill holes in themselves

    And live for their secrets

     

    They're all uptight

    Uptight.

     

    I wish that they'd swoop down in a country lane

    Late at night when I'm driving

    Take me on board their beautiful ship

    Show me the world as I'd love to see it

     

    I'd tell all my friends

    But they'd never believe

    They'd think that I'd finally lost it completely

     

    I'd show them the stars

    And the meaning of life

    They'd shut me away

    But I'd be all right

    All right..

     

    I'm just uptight

    Uptight.

    video

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    I think you may have something with that analogy.

    The real shit is that there was talk about "if the international community will give us aid" yelrotflmao.gif

    Like the rest of the world is going to help us. If we spent so much money on Iraq that we can't afford to fix this ourselves then our gov. sucks. Why are we the only country that helps others before ourselves. confused.gif (assuming you belive helping people consists of taking over a country with oil-iraq

    and ignoring genocide-rwanda)

     

    Actually I just heard on the news that Japan and France have pitched in some aid as well as corporations such as Disney and Nike.

    video

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    After the 1906 earthquake leveled SF, it was rebuilt on the exact same spot. They didn't seem to learn their lesson there either. rolleyes.gif

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