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September 10, 2005
Babbitt: Make New Orleans an Island
Babbitt makes a good point: why pour money in there, only to have another cat 5 knock it all down?
Posted by Eddie at 04:09 PM | Comments (16)
The glaciers are melting! No, they're growing! No, they're melting!
Reports of a looming water crisis in South Asia and China, thanks to melting glaciers, led me to do some poking around. I came across this website which insists that, to the contrary, ice packs and snowfall are actually increasing. Global warming? What global warming? What this world really needs is a global acqueduct!
Posted by Kay at 10:35 AM | Comments (0)
ROBERTSON BLAMES HURRICANE ON CHOICE OF ELLEN DEGENERES TO HOST EMMYS
What is up with this guy? He believes in a God who is so enraged with some Hollywood whack job that He smites the entire region she grew up in, thereby killing thousands of innocent people, including babies and old people? This is actually what he believes in?
A localized version of this crap came from a woman working out on a machine next to me the other day. "There's a lot of Sodom and Gomorrah down there. God decided to clean it up." "So," I replied, "you believe in a vengeful God who to "clean up an area" kills thousands and creates a million evacuees?" She started backpedalling.
Posted by Eddie at 10:06 AM | Comments (7)
September 09, 2005
Deployed Soldiers Contribute to Hurricane Relief
An interesting twist in the Katrina saga: soldiers in Iraq send care packages back to the U.S.
Posted by Brendan at 11:20 AM | Comments (1)
Squirrel Causes Power Outage
What the hell? I thought we had a Department of Homeland Security! Don't think for a moment that al-Qaeda isn't watching stuff like this!!
Posted by Eddie at 10:50 AM | Comments (3)
Turlington's Lower Back Tattoo Remover
A cute SNL clip, via MilkandCookies
Posted by Eddie at 10:25 AM | Comments (1)
Canadians Arrived In New Orleans Five Days Before The U.S. Military
Thanks, Canada!
Posted by Eddie at 10:08 AM | Comments (0)
September 08, 2005
Cheney told to 'go fuck yourself' in Gulfport, Mississippi
Freedom of speech is such a wonderful thing.
Posted by Eddie at 11:46 PM | Comments (0)
Jack Kemp: Imagining the unimaginable
An imaginative list of possible economic incentives that could spur unprecedented growth in Katrina land. It's visions like this, rather than adding MORE federal agencies, that could take a disaster and transform it into something that could instead spur our economy.
Posted by Eddie at 10:25 PM | Comments (15)
German anarchist party's TV advert offends viewers
Some of us may have joked about the Party Party at campaign time. Well, the Germans have actually done something about it.
Inside the article you can find a link to their 90-second campaign spot, which was broadcast on public TV and federally funded. Warning: not safe for work.
Posted by Brendan at 04:53 PM | Comments (4)
September 07, 2005
Price-gouging 'clear,' Hinchey says
Hillary Clinton, as well, has been playing the "price-gouging" card." what did she expect oil companies and refineries to do? 25% of American refineries were down, or in danger of being down. Given that, the rise seems reasonable. With her kind of pandering thinking, I can only hope that Hillary won't be making Pennsylvania Avenue her future address.
Posted by Eddie at 05:40 PM | Comments (4)
Dennis Hopper Keeps Bush Support Under Wraps
In 1961 my buddy Al and I waited all week to see the Japanese monster movie Gorgo. In those days they would show a second "B" movie along with the main attraction. We didn't have much to do those days, as many of you recall: no computers, no cable TV, it really was a different world. The "B" movie that day was a B&W teenaged-gang film, Key Witness, and as I recall Hopper was the main punk who terrorized just about everyone. I loved it and hated Gorgo. The rest of the audience was way too busy throwing crushed popcorn cartons to notice either movie.
When you think of it, that role really wasn't all that different from Hopper's most well-known role, that of the cocaine-crazed Frank Booth, though I am also fond of his Shooter in Hoosiers. I don't recall much about his third most-famous role, that of Perter Fonda's buddy, in Easy Rider. Tried to catch it again a year or so ago, but it's just too dated.
Hopper will be co-starring in a new NBC series this fall, playing a general or something. I've heard the ad on the radio a zillion times, but never really listen. Hopper's 69 now, still a great actor and if he's in it, it'll be a good series. One last item re Hopper: back when he making Key Witness he was also an an aspiring artist. He never gave up his love of art, though, and has collected so much through the years, at bargain rates, that today he is mega-rich, and, still paints and photographs as he goes along.
Posted by Eddie at 11:52 AM | Comments (5)
Katrina proves experts' early warnings right
At this point, fingerpointing and dire "I told you so" stories are akin to shutting the barn door after the horse got out - or if you want, plugging a levee after the water's poured through. But it's unfortunately true that "[The system].. is programmed to respond to disasters rather than prevent them. And when the stakes are high, and the probabilities low, it nearly always opts for short-term gain. A politician who can win funds for a new yacht marina is more likely to gain popularity than one who fights to replace a levee that seems to be working just fine, at least for now."
Posted by Kay at 10:51 AM | Comments (0)
Time: Billion Dollar Blowout
Katrina just wasn't a "hurricane." It was the worst natural disaster in our country in our lifetime. As I alluded the other day, the rugged-individualistic "states-first" neoconservative world-view doesn't really have an answer when a localized-Götterdämmerung hits, especially when it hits in an area like the Mississippi delta. As the article states "You name the commodity--coffee, fertilizer, lumber, steel, wheat--it ships through the Gulf's ports, rails and riverways." The effects reverberated throughout our country in a way our Founding Fathers could never imagine. It's all connected in a way it never has been before and we need to concentrate more as a nation on collective thinking and preparedness. And despite BIL's protestatations, industry will demand such preparedness and they will get it.
Posted by Eddie at 09:29 AM | Comments (3)
September 06, 2005
Leonard Cohen is broke
Sad story about how he was taken in by someone he trusted. Of course, L. Cohen is taking it philosophically.
"This has propelled us into incessant work," he says of himself and Thomas. He exudes optimism about their new CD. "It's one of the best albums I've heard."
Posted by Jan at 01:38 PM | Comments (8)
September 05, 2005
How to handle a telemarketer
Some people have way too much time on their hands.
Posted by Eddie at 06:09 PM | Comments (0)
September 04, 2005
Around Town
Posted by Eddie at 03:29 PM | Comments (1)