Day 1095: Damn You, Gustav! [Updated]
August 26, 2008 - Filed Under WTF, new orleans, weather
August 29th, 2008 - finally a day off from work where I travel nowhere and can spend time by myself in quiet contemplation. Now, I have to take pictures of all of our stuff and gather the important items in Rubbermaid containers that fit in the back of the truck. All Just In Case We Have To Evacuate For Hurricane Gustav. This time, our tentative plan is to head straight up to Wisconsin, in order to avoid long waits in westbound traffic.
What a pain.
Dad thinks the storm will head to the Yucatan while Mom utilized her divine powers of prognostication to deem that it will come nowhere near us. This would make me feel better if we hadn’t used up all of our Storm Repulsion Karma over the course of the last two seasons.
All of you out there may be listening to Mahler, but we’re currently rocking Holst at VatulBlog World HQ. Here’s Jupiter - The Bringer of Jollity from The Planets suite. Jollity, indeed, because this five-day storm track is nothing if not jolly. Oh, rapture!
Update: You know what, I’m really stressed out right now while slowly preparing for a possible evacuation and do not need negative Twitterheads, people like Will Bunch and vile commenters at Daily Kos making my mood fouler. Democratic bloggers who think that the hurricane, if it comes here, will be “a potential nightmare for the Republican Party” are, to quote Adrastos, “the left wing equivalent of those wingnuts who want another big terrorist attack because it will help the ‘daddy’ party and hurt the ‘mommy’ party.” Listen up, stupid self-centered faux progressives, we are voters, citizens and humans, not your political lab rats! More from HumidCity.
Day 1083: Chupacabra!
August 14, 2008 - Filed Under WTF
D believes this is the real deal, methinks it’s a feral Xolo dog on steroids. Whatever it is, that’s quite a snout.
Packers hire Ari Fleischer as Favre-o-rama consultant. D asks, “Who next? Karl Rove?” Read Mark Kriegel’s spot-on and hilarious take on this whole mess. “… But the last time I recall Ari Fleischer, he was telling everyone about the weapons of mass destruction.” 1 comment #
Day 1072: Take Your Stinking Paws Off My Baby
August 3, 2008 - Filed Under WTF, computing & internet, government
washingtonpost.com | Travelers’ Laptops May Be Detained At Border (Hat tip, NOLASlate)
Federal agents may take a traveler’s laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.
Also, officials may share copies of the laptop’s contents with other agencies and private entities for language translation, data decryption or other reasons, according to the policies, dated July 16 and issued by two DHS agencies, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“The policies . . . are truly alarming,” said Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.), who is probing the government’s border search practices. He said he intends to introduce legislation soon that would require reasonable suspicion for border searches, as well as prohibit profiling on race, religion or national origin.
If they’re already wiretapping our communications without warrants and still need our physical computers, there is one of four things happening in the hallowed halls of government: a) technological incompetence, b) paranoid schizophrenia, c) extreme police state or d) an alarming combination of all of the above. Small government much, conservatives?
This is all I have to say: If DHS takes my computer when I come back into the country, it is effectively impeding the acquisition of a vital economic product. So there.
And, Russ for president!
This list is a damned lie because the University of Wisconsin is not on it. 3 comments #
ZDNet: Scrabble-Scrabulous standoff spells L-A-W-S-U-I-T. Earth to Hasbro, stop being W-A-N-K-E-R-S! Scrabulous reinvigorated my interest in Scrabble to the point of wanting to purchase copies of the physical board game for my nieces and home and as Christmas gifts. With this latest development, Hasbro has lost a customer, maybe more. 5 comments #
Hit-n-Run Novak. Once again providing an opportunity to cry into the keyboard that this douchebag spoke at my college graduation ceremony while, a few hundred miles away, Wisconsin’s graduating class was addressed by the Dalai Lama. 0 comments #
Day 1014: NOLA All Set For Hurricane Season!
June 6, 2008 - Filed Under WTF, We Are Not Ok, city planning, government, new orleans, photographs, recovery, weather
Folks must leave their trailers by July 1st and New Orleans emergency connectivity having problems
Assessor Hell by nolareno
No, no, this isn’t a problem. To the contrary, it is a foolproof plan concocted by the architects of our recovery. See, folks in trailers will be safe from any possible hurricanes and flooding because they will still be standing in line at City Hall on November 1st, waiting to prove that their homes are as yet unlivable thanks to the scarcity of reliable contractors and loads of time previously sacrificed to standing in line at City Hall to lower their erroneous home assessments and to get pieces of paper permitting intermittent progress on their respective properties. And they will be right there to get those NOLAReady messages, which will be yelled out over a generator-powered PA system instead of texted to cellphones. All while the mayor is safe in his Dallas home. Mission accomplished!
If you think the above scenario is absurd, how about the City’s decisions and ineptness that brought New Orleanians to this point?
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