During flu season, never let anyone lick your keyboard.

Link is given for crediting purposes--it's not that great of an article...

for someone who keeps asking the American people to be better conservators, Bush has burned an awful lot of jet fuel to make 7 round trips to, not to mention a number of flyovers, the Gulf Coast in taxpayer-funded charter (AF-1, Marine-1) flights...

( I'm infected )

On people accused of stealing TVs...If they had a generator, but no television (damaged, or didn't own one to begin with), maybe some were attempting to gain access to information about their situation?

Stretching, perhaps, but possible

http://thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050909/NEWS01/509090331/1002Read more... )

US Navy ship at the Riverwalk (Photo snagged from Sigmund Solares' link through interdictorhttp://sigmund.biz/0906/DSC_0333.JPGRead more... )

( New Orleans: A Geopolitical Prize, by George Friedman )

Rome. Nero. Lyre. Pleasure palace.
New Orleans. Bush. Guitar. ________???

Let's hope history doesn't repeat itself here.

(crossposted similar to two comment threads)

Has anyone verified if the shots that prevented the helicopters from landing were fired AT the helicopters, or were the shots fired INTO THE AIR to attract attention? I've caught myself wondering this for several days now--if lost in the woods/side of a mountain/etc. and a gun was handy, wouldn't it make sense to attempt to make loud noises with ( Read more... )

Hope you are all OK. I'm so terrible at keeping in touch with friends that I don't necessarily have phone numbers to check in with you in person, but that doesn't mean I have forgotten about ya! If there's anything you need, drop me a line and I'll do what I can.