Someone still loooooooves you!
No, not Bush, who dare enter this city after all of his useless promises.
Of $110 billion in relief aid that Congress has approved, $83 billion has been committed to projects, and $53 billion has been spent, Powell told reporters aboard Air Force One.
As Da City Accountant points out, this is a blatant lie. Listen to the crux of his post, folks.
I am not writing the same post over and over again about the $110 billion number to say that we aren’t getting enough federal funding. I keep mentioning the $110 billion number because it is WRONG. $110 billion is NOT how much money that has been dedicated, appropriated, allocated, sent, or given to the Gulf Coast to rebuild.
Madam Speaker has a cameo role in this latest feature.
“Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster, compounded by a man-made disaster. It is now 18 months past time to get our response right,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said …
Are we still in the first 100 hours? Better yet, is there a correct response plan to go with that all-too-true statement? Money to mouth, Nancy, not foot in.
No, it’s about me! You heard that right, Queen is rocking out in my office; Faroukh Bulsara and I look at seismic data together while the Pet Shop Boys and Thomas Dolby are yet to show up. My sinuses have cleared up from the post-Mardi Gras croup and the limbs cooperate with the brain’s requirements.
Julie sent me a picture of the Sesame Street characters with someone she claims is Ninja Bert, but I say is Ninja Elmo. I’m older and have watched that show a lot longer than you, missy! (On second perusal, she’s right, it’s too skinny to be Elmo)
I wrote a friend:
… it doesn’t feel calamitously different to be married or 3x. On waking up this morning, I did feel a certain cold There’s No Turning Back (on age or obligations) run down my spine, but it went away just as soon as I was lovingly cooked and served a full breakfast [by my sleeping-dragon-wake-at-your-own-risk-in-the-morning husband] and, for a long moment, realized that I really dig my life the way it is, even with my [tremendous] parents in Ohio, dearest friends all over the nation and world, and New Orleans a solid, lovable mess.
I guess what I’m trying to say is thank you for sticking by me all of these years. Obviously you see something I often fail to appreciate and for that I am nothing but grateful.
Also, Liprap is a doll, because she writes a great piece and wants to take me geologizing by the San Andreas Fault. Perhaps this would be a good time to tell her that a fault that large isn’t a discrete scar in the earth, but a series of tears, fractures, breaks and a general deformation zone surrounding a (rare) main fault scarp. The earth, like us, reacts to stresses in many compensatory ways. Oh, and Liprap, all of my faults are normal.
Happy Birthday, Maitri! When I woke up this morning and heard George W. was visiting New Orleans today, I immediately thought, “Oh NO he did NOT just visit Maitri’s city on her birthday.” But I hope you have a great birthday anyway!
Happy Birthday!
However, I want to believe that the ninja is “Beaker”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-bYwopBnXA&mode=related&search=
Beaker has NEVER appeared on Sesame Street. I know that from years of being a watcher as a kid, and then as an adult/innocent bystander, stewarding my four-year-old through “Tortellini Tortellini Tortellini” skits and studiously avoiding Elmo’s World as best I could.
Thank God the Muppet Show episodes are now on DVD, because I can now expose my son to guest stars Peter Sellars, John Cleese, and Dudley Moore (among many others) doing their thing with Kermit, Miss Piggy, Scooter and the gang.
“Oh, and Liprap, all of my faults are normal”
I’m just glad you realize they are all your faults, madam. 8-)
Happy birthday, one mo’ time.
As a father, I think Oyster knows that, but just wants to pretend it’s Beaker. Beaker is funnier anyway. Oh, and not ALL the Muppet Show stuff is on DV, especially The Muppets Go To The Movies (my all-time favorite which I used to have on VHS until the Iraqis invaded Kuwait and someone took it out of my house during its pillaging). That tape contained “Silent Strawberries” in which Gummo Bergman, Ingmar Bergman’s lesser-known brother, directs the Muppet version of The Seventh Seal (Swedish Chef as the knight and Beaker as Death).
My mom swears she doesn’t remember this, but she had me watch The Seventh Seal when I was 3 years old. It was fun, actually. Very quiet and existential.
Also, all of MY faults are normal. Yours must be reverse or, worse, strike-slip. :-P
Actually, since my son leaves a lot of his toys lying around on the floor, the strike-slip description seems particularly apt.
If I’m anything geological, it would most likely have something to do with fire, since I’m a fire sign, and I was involved with 2000+ degree temperature materials and equipment for a good third of my life on this planet. Magma or pillow lava, maybe…
There’s a good meme for you: which geological phenomenon are YOU?
Oh, and my dad got hold of “8 1/2” when I was a young ‘un, which probably explains a great deal…
Ooooh, Fellini, tell me more …
Did you read the Vidal-Fellini article in Vanity Fair a few months ago? It was good.
Happy Birthday Maitri! This was a great post! I had a friend, a counselor, a priest, many years ago, who taught me to look at the “faults” of those I loved, geologically, as their broken places. It changed my life. Beautiful, beautiful post. *sophmom scurries off to liprap’s*
Happy Birthday Maitri !
I heard the 110B number reported as fact on the radio earlier today. Good that blogs are around to keep them honest.
Thanks for the wishes, everyone. A great relaxing birthday was had, despite the looming spectre of having to wake up at the crack of dawn tomorrow. Eeeee!
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Happy birthday, sweetie.
But birthday or not, you can’t win that “I’m older” game with me. The ninja is definitely Bert. Elmo’s head is rounder and his eyes are near the top of his head.
And I’ve watched Sesame Street since the very first day it aired. Before Elmo existed, before Mr. Hooper died, before anybody but Big Bird could see Snuffleupagus, and before all the Puerto Ricans showed up and made everything bilingual.