Rather Vs. Bush
Posted on September 30, 2004 - Filed Under government | Leave a Comment
How the Republicans view Dan Rather vs. George Bush:
Dan Rather, CBS News Anchor:
1) given documents he thought were true
2) failed to thoroughly investigate the facts
3) reported documents to the American people as true to make his case
4) when confronted with the facts, apologized and launched an investigation
5) number of Americans dead: 0
6) cost to the […]
A Lesson In Clear Speech
Posted on September 29, 2004 - Filed Under government | 4 Comments
Prior to the first prez. debate, an interesting assessment of the speech styles of the two candidates that came my way on the heels of Kerry’s description of his vacillation on the war vote. I hope the senator realizes that he should have reserved the word “inarticulate” to describe his opponent, and not his […]
Read More..>>REAL Material for Kerry’s Useless Campaign
Posted on September 24, 2004 - Filed Under government | Leave a Comment
A few days ago, I emailed the usual culprits an editorial cartoon that showed Cheney and Bush standing by the coffins of American soldiers being conveyed out of airplanes. With a sad look in his eyes, Bush says, “It’s too bad their dads couldn’t get them out of military duty.” The cartoon nails […]
Read More..>>New Orleans After Ivan
Posted on September 19, 2004 - Filed Under new orleans, travel, weather | 2 Comments
Give me my money back,
Give me my money back, you bitch!
– Ben Folds Five, Song For The Dumped Guess I owe everyone an explanation of the Hurricane Ivan fallout. Well, two anxiety attacks and panicked packing and storing later, D and I raced to Houston with our Important Belongings (in the little Honda, after dropping my […]
Hurricane Websites
Posted on September 12, 2004 - Filed Under new orleans, science & technology, weather | Leave a Comment
Hurricane Ivan has us New Orleanians really, really nervous. Here are a few National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration images and animations that help foment anxiety attacks:
NOAA
NOAA Satellite
Western Atlantic Water Vapor Image Loop
Gulf of Mexico Water Vapor Image Loop
Atlantic Loop
Charles Lyell
Posted on September 10, 2004 - Filed Under geology, science & technology | Leave a Comment
From Newsscan.com:
Today’s Honorary Subscriber is the Scottish geologist Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), who popularized the theories, methods, and principles on which the modern science of geology is based.
Lyell’s major contribution was demonstrating that physical, chemical, and biological forces operating over long periods of geological time produced all features of the Earth’s surface. This was intended […]
My Sentiments Exactly
Posted on September 7, 2004 - Filed Under culture-society-history, general | Leave a Comment
“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Read More..>>Aaaaah!! Aliens!!!
Posted on September 2, 2004 - Filed Under science & technology | Leave a Comment
Holy spankin’ supernovas! We may have made contact or are wrongly excited about our instruments passing gas. I’m a Pisces and D’s an Aries, so if the signals are coming from between us, it may be that ERF is picking up our “transmissions,” you know what I’m sayin’? Still, if the signal […]
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