Let the Frogs never again say…

that we are ignorant.

A Sign From the God of Posts

In the entry below, I note that the NHC discussion correction looked like Haiku. My brain being what it is, I then thought “What fun ~ a Hurricane Haiku Hullabaloo!” Googling proper haiku format to set ground rules, I immediately came across this informative page containing THIS timely, hurricane related GEM:

kono dote-ni(5) noboru-bekarazu(7) keishichou(5) :
“Do Not Climb This Levee – The Police Department”

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Fear Not, Crawdads!

Nagin’s Noggin’ is working overtime for your benefit:

“I am hopeful that people have seen the effect of Katrina and they understand the threat of a Category 3 coming right behind Katrina,” he said, “and that we won’t have the struggles in getting people out like we had the last time.”

Due to the fact that your useless ‘we’ won’t be involved.
Either that or he’s channeling Queen Victoria…

“We are not amused.”

Oh, the wonder of…

managing your cash flow. Of course this will be Chimpy McHitlerburtons doing.

Schweet Mac Daddy

Respect your elders!

That Would Be

…Hurricane Rita now.
UPDATE: I just love the personal touches on the National Hurricane Center discussion page. The previous one cleaned “up some sloppy writing”, while the current one notes:

FOR THOSE WHO FOLLOW
JUST THE SKINNY BLACK LINE…IT IS ALWAYS GOOD TO REMIND THEM THAT
3 TO 5 DAY FORECAST ERRORS CAN BE LARGE.

UPDATE: Houston, you have a problem. Cat 2.

A Teeny, Tiny Step

Intel thinks they have a winner.

“Test chips made on Intel’s ultra-low power 65nm process technology have shown transistor leakage reduction roughly 1,000 times from our standard processes. This translates into significant power savings for people who will use devices based on this technology.”
While the technology will reduce the drain on batteries in notebook PCs, Jim McGregor, principle analyst at the In-Stat research firm, says the advance will be a major boost for Intel’s efforts to get its processors into mobile phones.
“If they can get this down to a product for handheld devices then the opportunities are huge.”

Chili Today

…hot tamale, especially for peesed off Mexican chili farmers. Not only are the Chinese flooding our markets with cut rate goods, they’ve taken to growing and processing traditional Mexican chilis and exporting them in vast, cheap quantities…to Mexico.

Mexico’s farmers are fuming over its country’s prided chili peppers. Peppers are the everyday spice of Mexican cuisine. But increasingly, Mexico’s hot peppers are being grown in China.

An audio Chili Pepper Report from PRI’s “The World”.

The More It Looks Changed

…the more it stays the same.

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This

…is called ‘evacuating‘.

And THIS is called ‘someone with my kinda luck’.
Let’s review.

I Think Mayor Nagin

…needs to scurry back to his cot in Dick Cheney’s Secret Location. You know, like where he hid out as the city flooded?

NEW ORLEANS – Residents began trickling back Monday as part of a plan by the mayor to reopen New Orleans one ZIP code at a time, despite repeated warnings from the top federal official on the scene — and President Bush himself — that the city is not ready.
Mayor Ray Nagin defended his decision to let people back in, and suggested that the federal official in charge in New Orleans, Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen, had made himself “the new crowned federal mayor of New Orleans.”

Because every time he pops his little bald head out of the hobbit hole, he stuffs his foot in it. And, surprise! People could start dying again. I sense an ugly trend here.
UPDATE: The man just doesn’t get it.

After backing off on his call for some residents to return to New Orleans, the city’s mayor ripped into the top U.S. government relief official on Tuesday,…
…The mayor reversed course even as residents began trickling back to the first neighborhood opened as part of his plan, the lightly damaged Algiers section.

“You’re in”, “you’re out”, “come back”, “run away”…SOMEbody please eat the Mayor. I’m so confused.

I’m tired of men always coming and going, going and coming and always too soon.

We Left the House Boarded Up

…for a reason.
UPDATE: Great weather blog from the Palm Beach Post folks. Maybe I should send it to Mayor Nagin before he shoots his mouth off again, ya think?
Nah.

Whatever You Think of the Idea

…it makes for some interesting reading.
Via Instapundit.

Bless Her Heart!

She doesn’t bite.
A warm Swill Salute to The Political Teen.

These F@ckin’ People Should Be SHOT

Via Crusader, an abomination chronicled in print.

No one has been able to say how many people died inside the convention center; police, military and center officials estimate the number is about 10. Nor has there been any attempt to document the number of assaults, robberies and rapes that eyewitnesses said occurred from the time the first people broke into the convention center seeking shelter on the afternoon of Monday, Aug. 29, and when units of the Arkansas National Guard moved into the center on Friday, Sept. 2.
But even without those numbers, what happened in the convention center stands as a harsh indictment of government’s failure to help its citizens when they needed it most. That futility was symbolized by the presence in the convention center for three of the most chaotic days of at least 250 armed troops from the Louisiana National Guard. They were camped out in a huge exhibition hall separated from the crowd by a wall, and used their trucks as a barricade when they were afraid the crowd would break in.
The troops were never deployed to restore order and eventually withdrew, despite the pleas of the convention center’s management. Louisiana Guard commanders said their units’ mission was not to secure the facility, and soldiers on the scene feared inciting further bloodshed if they had intervened. “We didn’t want another Kent State,” said Army Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honore, commander of the active-duty military forces responding to Katrina. “They weren’t trained for crowd control.”

My God.
My GOD!
And I just started reading.

One Year Ago, This Morning

Ivan

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This news from Australia is….

shocking. I think I would change my taste in fashion.

Powerful Words

Favorite lines from favorite works that make you smile.

þæt wæs god cyning!

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Time Stood Still

Peering closely, I noted that the clock was stopped at about 6:35 . . . and indeed it didn’t move at all. Then I remembered why that time looked familiar . . . two blocks to the rear of St. Louis Cathedral sits Cats Meow, at the corner of Bourbon and St. Peter. Our webcams there – Bourbocam and Beadcam – sent their last images on the morning of Aug. 29, 2005, as Katrina’s rising wind blew out the electricity in the Quarter . . . 6:34:51 a.m. . . . that’s when the clocks stopped.

Jon Donley, Bourbon Street Journal

Sir Rob of Apple Lane, Crabbeton

…has some Crab Apple Lane Katrina before and afters. Which means he can post which means…WOO HOO!

Hold Your Hand Out, Hold Your Hand High!

Isn’t that, like, an Argent song or something? NO, it’s NOT…
Surprise!!! It’s the Governor of Louisiana!!

In her address Wednesday night, Louisiana Democratic Governor Kathleen Blanco (search) said, “…in order to rebuild this state, ALL levels of government must work together, as never before, with one purpose — the well-being of our people.” Then she said, “I have asked the federal government to cover 100 percent of what Louisiana will spend on this disaster.”
As for the subsequent contracts for rebuilding, will they go to the lowest bidder? Not necessarily. Blanco said she told the Federal Emergency Management Agency to give top priority to Louisiana companies.

Has she said ‘sorry’ yet? I missed that part.

“Don’t Sweat the Fiscal Stuff” Says Le Grande Frommage

Mr. Spierenburg, the author of the Bush-Chirac/Louisiana Purchase piece (BSNews.org) we had posted here, has apologised quite handsomely for his comment meltdown. That takes intestinal mettle of a good sort and we thank him for it. We also want to reiterate that, had we known the source of the article, it most assuredly would have be attributed, for we are as scrupulous as humanly possible with links and ‘atta boys’. And his piece was very clever. “Shuba-pie!”* back at you, Ben.
*Ben Spierenburg wrote that. {8^P

More efforts…

to save us from ourselves…
God Forbid parents actually feed their kids decent stuff at home, in whivh case the one meal of crap at school would be of little consequence. Nope, easier to let someone else fix it for you.

No, It’s Christmas in

…well, you know.

Moments later, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., criticized Bush, saying
“Leadership isn’t a speech or a toll-free number.”

[offstage]I’m the Orifice of Oration, the Guru of Gotcha!
Who’s your Daddy??
BHUUWAhahahahahaha!! BHUUWAhahahahahaha!!

One Step

…forward…

Saudi women to get first taste of polls
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi businesswomen will be able to stand for election to a local trade and industry chamber in the first vote of its kind for women in the conservative Muslim monarchy, a top executive said on Thursday.
Saudi authorities allowed businesswomen to take part in a November election of 18 board members of the Red Sea city of Jeddah’s Trade and Industry Chamber (JTIC), the chamber’s chairman Ghassan al-Suleiman said.

…and two steps back.

NEW YORK (AP) — A Muslim organization has demanded that India’s Sania Mirza wear more than her tennis attire during her matches, calling her short shirts and sleeveless shirts “un-Islamic.”
A top cleric of the little-known Sunni Ulema Board said he has issued a fatwa against the 18-year-old because of her “indecent dressing” on the court and in advertisements, the Hindustan Times reported Friday…

…He said Islam did not permit women to wear skirts, shorts and sleeveless tops in public, and that she should follow the example of Iranian women who wore long tunics and headscarves while playing in the Asian Badminton Championship in Hyderabad earlier in the week.

If you didn’t have to worry about some fanatic doing his duty and executing your a$$ for wearing a TANK TOP, more of these girls and their families would have the courage to say “Fatwa THIS, a$$hole!” But no, we have to respect their ‘peaceful’ death edicts.
Sania, maybe Salman Rushdie has a room over the garage he can spare.