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I am too wrapped up watching the Hurricane coverage to be of much use to you all right now.
It looks like New Orleans had some small fortune in that thes storm weakened slighlty and turned eastward, but there are reports of levee’s failing. I have also heard that the Superdome roof has not necessarily failed, but part of a covering of the roof (not structural, but waterproofing and weatherproofing) has been peeled back.
I just heard on the news that some people are refusing to evacuate New Orleans. This can’t be true, can it?
I understand some people can’t be evacuated. But refusing to leave?
BTW- In the aftermath of the hurricane, when Bush goes to Louisiana, who do you think will be the first to say ‘Bush will take time from his vacation to see these victims, but he won’t take time from his vacation to meet Cindy Sheehan, a victim of his policies?’
Your choices:
1.) Someone at the DU.
2.) Someone at dKos.
3.) A front pager at dKos.
4.) Some random blogger.
5.) Someone at the Camp Crawford circus.
6.) Cynthia McKinney.
After further thought, my guess is someone at the HuffPo.
*** Update ***
The natives are restless and cussing out Fox News.
*** Update ***
Who will be the first to blame this on the nation’s moral slide?
There is now a Mrs. Belgravia Dispatch.
Looks like New Orleans is going to get hit hard:
Emergency officials along the Gulf Coast urged residents to move to safer ground as powerful Hurricane Katrina churned toward shore with maximum sustained winds of 160 mph.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said low-lying areas along the Gulf Coast could expect storm surges of up to 25 feet as the Category 5 storm makes landfall early Monday.
Florida- I couldn’t care less about. New Orleans, on the other hand, is a national treasure.
For your entertainment.
 You are dependable, popular, and observant. Deep and thoughtful, you are prone to moodiness. In fact, your emotions tend to influence everything you do. You are unique, creative, and expressive. |
From the look of my results, I think we can all agree the test is hopelessly flawed.
This does not inspire confidence:
Illegal immigrants threw rocks at a Border Patrol helicopter, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing when one of the rocks damaged the rotor, the agency said.
Neither the pilot nor the Border Patrol observer was injured.
The A-Star helicopter was two miles west of the U.S. Port of Entry in Andrade, Calif., on Tuesday when a group of immigrants began throwing rocks at the aircraft.
I think helicopters are fascinating, and have flown in them numerous times, but I don’t think most people know how easy it is to bring them down. I know some people who swear that helicopters are the one machine out there that actively fights you when you use it as designed.
Seriously wild:
Cambodian Buddhist monk was in hospital and his colleague was under detention on Thursday at a pagoda after a drug and alcohol fuelled fight allegedly ended in one attacking the other with a machete.
Police chief of Kandaing district in the central province of Pursat, Pen Thun, said after a night spent binging on methamphetamines and rice wine, the pair had quarrelled over a 50 cent loan owed to Khieu Aen, 23, that fellow monk Van Chanthoeun, 19, said he would need time to repay.
“Khieu Aen became enraged, produced a machete and chopped Chanthoeun once in the shoulder, requiring him to be sent to hospital,” Thun said. “It is unseemly behaviour for monks and it gives the police a headache dealing with such cases.”
He said police were now waiting for the ministry of cults and religions to make a decision on the case as the police cannot arrest monks.
That is the weirdest story I have read in a while.