Comments on: Lightning strikes twice.

By: jcburns

jcburns — Wed, 14 May 2008 19:39:29 +0000

Thanks to everyone for the good thoughts. We’re blue tarp people now, and will be for a long, long while. We’ve got some amazing pictures…will put them up somewhere.

By: whitebeard

whitebeard — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:58:53 +0000

Re invading Burma, I wonder how many countries considered a humanitarian military invasion after El Presidente refused countless offers of financial and material aid to the stricken people of New Orleans (yes, New Orleans, one of the most beautiful cities in North America). His reasoning was that “we” can handle it, the handling being to award the lucrative mortuary contract to a Texas pal to stack the victims’ bodies days before the infamous “Brownie” could even get his act together and get FEMA fully on the scene. New Orleans is still waiting for the “handling” to be completed as promised. Don’t get me started.
And, Caliban, the “progressive horseshit” you mentioned, I have always believed that the English language’s so-called leading example of an oxymoron being the phrase “military intelligence” was easily trumped by the Canadian political party known as the Progressive Conservative Party.

By: whitebeard

whitebeard — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:03:26 +0000

I just read that Washington Post article and it hit home, seeing as we are raising our grandson who is a combination of Canadian Indian and African-American and born in the USA. When he was told by another young lad at summer camp that his (white) “people” saved my grandson’s “people” from slavery, I politely countered with the fact that our grandson’s “people” were standing on shore watching the first Europeans land. That young lad became our grandson’s staunchest defender for the rest of the summer. One conversion at a time in my lily-white section of America.

By: Jolene

Jolene — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:00:37 +0000

I saw that article too, Brian. Very disheartening.

By: brian stouder

brian stouder — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:22:06 +0000

I found this article, about some of the racists encountered by Obama campaigners out on the trail, upsetting. It features several unpleasant (and a few criminal) incidents from right here in Indiana, as well as the antics of blockheads in the Keystone state

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051203014.html?wpisrc=newsletter

But then, after I thought about it, it occurred to me that I have heard some pretty appalling sexism just in casual conversation amongst people I know, directed against Senator Clinton. One can only guess what HER campaigners are weathering, out there

That realization put the WaPo article into perspective….although the overall effect is somewhat depressing and deflating

By: John c

John c — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:13:50 +0000

Dang! Best of luck JC and Sammy.

We just lost a huge elm and were feeling pretty bad about it. Probably for the best, of course.

I lived through a bad apartment fire about 20 years ago. My roommate lost everything and I lost a lot. I also lost the ability to breathe for a moment as I was calling 911 - a vivid reminder that it could have been worse. The feeling of gratitude that I was alive and well, and that all I’d lost was “stuff,” was striking. Glad you’re well. Hope you didn’t lose any stuff that mattered.

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Tue, 13 May 2008 01:39:14 +0000

OK, try this now for the Time/Burma article –
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739053,00.html

By: joodyb

joodyb — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:49:03 +0000

that is just not fair. so sorry, J.C.&Sammy. i live in relative fear of creaky rotting elms.
your house is pretty, though!

By: Jeff (the mild-mannered one)

Jeff (the mild-mannered one) — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:37:28 +0000

Hello — Time magazine says invade Burma? I’m in topsy-turvy world here . . .

http://www.time.com/world/article/o,8599,1739053,00.html

snip — “The trouble is that the Burmese haven’t shown the ability or willingness to deploy the kind of assets needed to deal with a calamity of this scale — and the longer Burma resists offers of help, the more likely it is that the disaster will devolve beyond anyone’s control. “We’re in 2008, not 1908,” says Jan Egeland, the former U.N. emergency relief coordinator. “A lot is at stake here. If we let them get away with murder we may set a very dangerous precedent.”"

By: caliban

caliban — Mon, 12 May 2008 23:55:47 +0000

Seriously.
What is this progressive horsheshit, These people are maling up crap.