August « 2005 « Sam's Thoughts

An Absence of Real Leadership

Over Dave Winer’s Scripting News blog he quotes the following from Daily Kos

Fair question: “How is it that today, nearly four years after 9/11, we have no cohesive plan to deal with the region’s refugees, the potentially one million American citizens without work or a home or basic care?” Permanent link to this item [...]

August 31st, 2005 | Category: Hurricane Katrina, politics | Leave a comment

Hard Scientific evidence of Pastafarianism

Here is the real reason that the bush administration doesn’t want to fund updates to the Hubble Telescope.

Hubble actually captured an image of the flying spaghetti monster

August 31st, 2005 | Category: Unintelligent Design | 2 comments

The real cost of the disaster

The situation in New Orleans continues to deteriorate. It will probably get much worse in the coming days and weeks. Many hundreds if not thousands of people will die from hunger, dehydration and disease. Although there is water everywhere, there is nothing to drink. I keep hearing about all the looting going on. However under [...]

August 31st, 2005 | Category: Hurricane Katrina | Leave a comment

What, No ID?

Sofia had her first day of high school today and brought home a bunch of papers to sign today with all the class rules and marking procedures. As I perused the syllabus for her biology class, I saw stuff about dna, genetics, evolution, etc. There was no reference to unintelligent design whatsoever. What do they [...]

August 30th, 2005 | Category: Unintelligent Design | 6 comments

Spoke to soon

Although New Orleans missed the full brunt of Hurrican Katrina on the first pass, it apears that the end result is the same. The levee around New orleans broke allowing the waters of Lake Pontchartrain to inundate the city. All of the worst case predictions of what would happen if New Orleans was hit by [...]

August 30th, 2005 | Category: Hurricane Katrina, politics | Leave a comment

Faux News on the Hurricane

I found this via boing-boing . Got to Thepoliticalteen.com see the video.

SHEPARD SMITH: You’re live on FOX News Channel, what are you doing?

MAN: Walking my dogs.

SMITH: Why are you still here? I’m just curious.

MAN: None of your fucking business.

SMITH: Oh that was a good answer, [...]

August 29th, 2005 | Category: Hurricane Katrina | 4 comments

Adios New Orleans

Update: It looks like New Orleans is going to surve this one, but sooner or later it will get hit, and some serious thought needs to be given to this now to prevent a major tragedy.

Too bad I never got a chance to visit

URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA [...]

August 29th, 2005 | Category: Hurricane Katrina | 3 comments

The entertainment industry will soon disappear

And good riddance to it. The executives in the industry are obsessed with protecting their products and limiting what customers can do with it. Well once I buy something, it is mine and no one should be able to tell me what I can do with it as long as I am not putting anyone [...]

August 28th, 2005 | Category: drm | Leave a comment

I’ve been away

I’ve been away for a few days. We went over to the west side of the state and hung out a place called the snooty fox. They have six little cabins and it is pretty nice. Check out their site for more info.It is only a few minutes from the beach. The beach is great [...]

August 28th, 2005 | Category: Announcements [A] | 2 comments

So that explains it

I found this on Sivacracy.net and had to repost it.

August 21st, 2005 | Category: politics | Leave a comment
 
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