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CNN 9/2/05 One New Orleans police sergeant compared the situation to Somalia and said officers were outnumbered and outgunned by gangs in trucks. “It’s a war zone, and they’re not treating it like one,” he said, referring to the federal government. The officer hitched a ride to Baton Rouge Friday morning, after working 60 hours … Continue reading »

The scale and suffering of the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina has enthralled me via cable tv and the web. I’ll start at channel 60 with MSNBC, then go downwards through the channels to FOX and CNN. What concerns me the most is that there’s so much suffering going on at a local level, but … Continue reading »

CNN 9/2/20 Terry Ebbert, New Orleans’ homeland security chief, told WWL-TV that he thinks FEMA’s response to the disaster has been an “embarrassment.” Walter Maestri, the emergency management director in suburban Jefferson Parish, said FEMA and other federal agencies are not delivering help nearly as fast as it is needed. Yet, back in Washington, Homeland … Continue reading »

From the New York Times: President Bush alluded to the energy situation today during a appearance in El Mirage, Ariz., where he was speaking on Medicare. “You just got to understand that the situation we got ourselves into, dependency on foreign sources of oil, took a while to get there, and it’s going to take … Continue reading »

My dear daughter starts her first day of kindergarten next Tuesday. I am so happy we don’t live in an area where people are trying to push intelligent design to be taught beside evolution. In the 80s, there were those that tried to push a similar agenda in the classroom with the teaching of creationism. … Continue reading »

The stories Mistakes Led to Tube Shooting and Leak disputes Menezes death story are very disturbing considering the first news reports said that Jean Charles De Menezes was running and wearing a heavy overcoat when he was shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder. It appears now that De Menezes was … Continue reading »

My sense of illusion was lost when a old Huey picked up the soldier who had just lost his leg from an IED at the end of the pilot episode of Over There. The pickup would have been with a Blackhawk, not a Huey, but perhaps the budget isn’t big enough or there are no … Continue reading »

Yesterday, I was checking out SDSL rates on the Covad website. This morning, I get a call from Covad. It turns out they process a log every night of who checks out the rate page for their services and cross-reference the IPs with a company’s contact info and give them a call to ask if … Continue reading »

According to this cyclingnews.com article, the Trek Madone was named by Lance Armstrong Lance actually named the bike himself after the Col de la Madone in Menton, France, where Armstrong tested himself in training. “The Col de la Madone is a 12km climb that starts in the French village of Menton. It rises from close … Continue reading »

After you’re done using a Slip and Slide, don’t leave it out in the sun to dry. The sun will heat it up and bake the grass underneath. We have a nice brown strip of burnt grass in the backyard right now. At least only the tips were burnt.