...to supposedly help with the fuel shortage.Dumb, dumb, dumb.The problem is not so much supply right now as it is a refining problem. Simply putting more crude out there on the market is not going to have any significant effect on gasoline prices.I've no idea why he would do such a thing, but there it is, defying all wisdom regarding petroleum economi...
Saturday, September 03, 2005
The New Orleans situation as a model of American government
That's practically what's being argued at Enemy Of The State blog right now. Is what's going on truly "Anarchy in New Orleans??" Here's a sample:Friends of mine have come up to me with almost gleeful self-righteousness and proclaimed,"SEE! SEE! This is why Anarchy can't work!"Ironically what is going on in New Orleans (specifically the looting of private property) resembles the behavior of Government and not philosophical Anarchism.Philosophical...
KWerky Productions website is down at the moment
Ed asked me to make a note of this a few days ago and it somehow got lost in the jumble of things. The KWerky Productions website (including the Forcery website) is currently down because of a physical relocation of the server. It should be back up and running fairly soon though. This is happening because of a development that is seeing KWerky Productions branch out a bit in terms of what we can and want to do. More on that later. In the meantime...
This bar never closed (uplifting Katrina story)
The Toronto Star has a story about a bar in New Orleans's French Quarter that rode out Katrina and is still doing business! This place will become bigtime legendary if the city ever comes out of this, like Cafe du Monde (which I understand is still standing and could recover pretty easily). Here's the start of the story:Doors never closed at this Big Easy barROSIE DIMANNOThe sign behind the bar says "Never Closed."That ain't no lie, cher.At Johnny...
Another good piece by Kyle Williams at WorldNetDaily
Now, if only WorldNetDaily would make it so you don't have to dig through the site to find it. Williams went from being one of the most at-the-forefront writers WND has, to being someone... ahhhh forget it I've ranted about this enough already. Head over here to see what Kyle has to say about some Christians who think Katrina was an enema sent by G...
Found a better picture of Jabbar Gibson
Somebody commented on the earlier post that Jabbar should drive the bus back to New Orleans and take over as mayor :-) If you're just now hearing about it, Jabbar Gibson is a 20-year old (not 18 as previously reported) from New Orleans who stole a schoolbus, picked up victims of Katrina and drove them all the way to the Houston Astrodome. Theirs was the first busload of...
Friday, September 02, 2005
So... who was at fault for the destruction of New Orleans?
I've been thinking about that a lot during the past few days, and the conclusion I'm coming to is......that it was nobody's fault, but a lot of people were not adequately prepared for this.If anyone, blame the French, or one lousy Frenchman anyway......Because Jean Baptiste Lemoyne, Sieur de Bienville - the founder of New Orleans - conned the King of France to making all the cheap swampland that he swiped up near the mouth of the Mississippi be the...
August activity made for a busy blog
I just looked through all the posts made in the previous month and August 2005 was the most active one yet: 70 posts total. This past month covered hit on just about everything. There were a lot of them toward the end as Katrina bore down and the aftermath, but otherwise it's a nice normal peek into the tortured psyche of me ...
PaleoBlog on pro-war hypocrites
Lee Shelton posts a good essay about pro-war hypocrisy on PaleoBlog. Here's a sample:Over the last four years, the message sent by neoconservatives to the rest of the nation has been clear: Get behind the Bush administration's "war on terror" or be prepared to face the consequences. But when the grieving mother of a fallen U.S. soldier tops the neoconservative most wanted list of treasonous, terrorist-sympathizing, America-haters, you know something's...
Video games becoming too easy?
AfterShock posts on his blog on an interesting phenomenon: are video games becoming a pushover to play? One of the things he cites is Super Mario Brothers 3 on the original Nintendo system, that it had no "save" feature so you had to play through the entire game in one sitting. Anyway I thought it and the article he found was pretty neat reading so check it o...
Teen steals school bus to get others out of New Orleans
Give this kid a medal now! From Local6.com:Storm Victims Steal School Buses To Flee New OrleansPOSTED: 12:13 pm EDT September 2, 2005UPDATED: 12:52 pm EDT September 2, 2005Several school buses were stolen from Orleans Parish, loaded with storm victims and driven out of New Orleans toward Houston in desperate acts to leave the ravaged city, according to reports.Three school...
This might explain where Dick Cheney has been...
Halliburton just landed a contract to repair Navy installations in the Gulf. Whatcha wanna bet Cheney's been working behind the scenes the past few days getting all the paperwork in order for this?Whatcha wanna bet that this was a non-competitive bid, t...
Was New Orleans aid held back for a Bush photo op?
I'm getting several reports (including this one and this, Interdictor's blog which has been an invaluable source of firsthand information) that supplies of food and fresh water had been brought to New Orleans already. But the National Guard was under orders not to begin distributing them. They only started going in with the supplies today when President Bush arrived. They could have started rolling into the Superdome and Convention Center areas...
George W. Bush is officially worse than useless now
I'm "watching" him on teevee right now (which actually means that I've got my back to the screen so I'm only listening to what happens, without the visuals distracting me). No leadership qualities coming out of the President of the United States at all. He's congratulating a lot of other politicians, saying a lot of broken phrases, is stumbling for words. I heard that just...
"Lestat"... with music by Elton John?!
Haven't read many of the more recent ones (I think Pandora was the last one and that was some years back) but I've always enjoyed the Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. If nothing else than because of its sweeping sense of history: it's set against the backdrop of so many eras and locales.As anyone who's even casually approached the books knows, New Orleans is a major setting for most of the series. That's where the story of Louis begins in Interview...
I'm gonna try to lay off the hurricane posts for awhile
For the past several days I've been watching the Katrina tragedy, pouring over probably ever news story that's come out of it. I've been posting about a lot of them here, mainly the ones that had some particular interest for me. And I've been writing about how Katrina is effecting some things here, even far away from where the storm hit.Mostly, this has been for my own benefit. As a personal chronicle of how I watched this story unfold. And it's...
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Fats Domino has been found
Updating from a report earlier today, it's now being reported that Fats Domino has been located and that he is okay. So some good ne...
