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Saturday, 09 February 2008

I'm bringing Xanga back - drop a comment if you're with me!

Thursday, 07 February 2008

Apparently, Xanga misses me. They sent me an email to let me know that. How sweet. But when I tried just to look at my blog, it made me choose a "theme". The choices were so small I could barely see them, but this one looked colorful so I picked it. As it turns out, I hate it, but there are kids to pick up and (PTA) bills to be paid, so I'll have to get back to this when I don't have a life.

Monday, 12 June 2006

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."--WH Murray

Thursday, 01 September 2005

The longer he's in office, the more George W. Bush fucks up.

The streets of New Orleans now look a war zone in Iraq, but with one important difference--Iraq has the military personnel and National Guardsmen that are so desperately needed here.

Two of the three worst disasters predicted by FEMA in early 2001 have now come to pass--a terrorist attack in New York and a hurricane striking New Orleans.

Since we weren't prepared for the first two, I'm guessing that we're not prepared for # 3 either.

Here's an excerpt from a recent article at salon.com.

"A year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the research not be undertaken. After a flood killed six people in 1995, Congress created the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, in which the Corps of Engineers strengthened and renovated levees and pumping stations. In early 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a report stating that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S., including a terrorist attack on New York City. But by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war. In 2004, the Bush administration cut funding requested by the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80 percent. Additional cuts at the beginning of this year (for a total reduction in funding of 44.2 percent since 2001) forced the New Orleans district of the Corps to impose a hiring freeze. The Senate had debated adding funds for fixing New Orleans' levees, but it was too late. "--Sidney Blumenthal, Salon.com

Want to know what disaster # 3 is predicted to be?

Then look for the answer. If you're an American citizen, it's your obligation to be informed. Get off your lazy ass and do the research.

I was born on the rain of the Ponchatrain, beneath the Louisiana moon.
Don't mind the strain of the hurricane, she comes around every June.
And high black water, she's the devil's daughter, she's hard and she's cold and she's mean.
Nobody's taught her that it takes a lot of water to wash away New Orleans.