w00t w00t booyah

Running like hell to catch up. Yes, I AM cleaning out the refrigerator before I go to work this morning, and taking the proceeds to the trash can. Yes, I am. So help me. It's scary in there.

However.

Anyone taking bets on the outrageous claims of who to blame for Katrina - and none of them hitting the mark, anywhere near close - are getting paid. Yes, the nutjobs who wanted to blame abortionists, gays, feminazis, acid rain - they're all out in force and getting airtime.

Uh, guys? Turn the television off. Really. You can do that now.

Quit paying them. No, I mean it. This is how these guys get paid. They're entertaining enough to sell soap at the commercial break.

Does anyone believe this crap anymore? If I hear someone say something that profoundly STOOPID within earshot, you can believe I react. On the national media? Please. Someone's got an agenda, and it's getting pretty thin around the edges these days.

Not by words, by actions. That's how you judge.

And yeah, I found $10 for Katrina relief yesterday. I hope to find more in the next couple of weeks.

I blame the people whose job - whose primary, sworn function - was to operate for the public good and squandered the funding that needed to be put into the infrastructures and services overseas.

Don't tell me it's really impossible to look after this many people. Dude, that was your job and I don't want hear whining about how hard it is. Do a good job, and don't complain about how you weren't allowed to do a half-assed mess of it all and blame it on whatever. Do the job you were paid for. If it takes money, SUR-FUCKING-PRIZE. Make the case and get the funding. I don't want to hear about how hard it is. If you've got time to complain, you aren't working hard enough. Get with it.

*snarksnark*

Running like hell to catch up. Yes, I AM cleaning out the refrigerator before I go to work this morning, and taking the proceeds to the trash can. Yes, I am. So help me. It's scary in there.

However.

Anyone taking bets on the outrageous claims of who to blame for Katrina - and none of them hitting the mark, anywhere near close - are getting paid. Yes, the nutjobs who wanted to blame abortionists, gays, feminazis, acid rain - they're all out in force and getting airtime.

Uh, guys? Turn the television off. Really. You can do that now.

Quit paying them. No, I mean it. This is how these guys get paid. They're entertaining enough to sell soap at the commercial break.

Does anyone believe this crap anymore? If I hear someone say something that profoundly STOOPID within earshot, you can believe I react. On the national media? Please. Someone's got an agenda, and it's getting pretty thin around the edges these days.

Not by words, by actions. That's how you judge.

And yeah, I found $10 for Katrina relief yesterday. I hope to find more in the next couple of weeks.

I blame the people whose job - whose primary, sworn function - was to operate for the public good and squandered the funding that needed to be put into the infrastructures and services overseas.

Don't tell me it's really impossible to look after this many people. Dude, that was your job and I don't want hear whining about how hard it is. Do a good job, and don't complain about how you weren't allowed to do a half-assed mess of it all and blame it on whatever. Do the job you were paid for. If it takes money, SUR-FUCKING-PRIZE. Make the case and get the funding. I don't want to hear about how hard it is. If you've got time to complain, you aren't working hard enough. Get with it.

*snarksnark*

I'm doing my bit for the economy by doing my Christmas shopping now.

I R DORK.

Well, yeah.

My local Louisiana connection, Ragin' Cajun Cafe, should have some news on local efforts - that's where lunch is today, methinks.

Talking to Jim this morning, I posed the following scenario - say, what would happen here if the water rose as high as it did in New Orleans?

Roughly, we said the hurricane brought 25 ft. Then the broken levees added another 25ft - or so.

Torrance - 84 ft above sea level.
Manhattan Beach - 100 ft. (I don't buy that entirely - some of it is distinctly AT sea level or only a few feet above. Like most coastal cities.)
Bellflower (where Jim works) - 71 ft.

I was saying you'd have to go significantly inland to get much higher. The elevation at Mom's house in Hemet is above 1,200 ft - Ontario? 988 ft.

If something like this showed up in our backyard, we'd be just as screwed. And I can count the number of freeways on one hand you could use to beat feet out of here. Ask betnoir about traveling the one out of her neighborhood at most times of the day. It resembles a parking lot due to the harbor traffic.

I didn't have to tell the boss anything. He's got a cousin down there who has lost everything except a week's worth of clothes and the car she drove out.

If that doesn't sicken you, throwingstardna has the posts of the day on what a fekking waste of carbon Bush has been through the whole mess.

Opportunist. Asshole.

And there, for the grace of God, go I.