blah blah hurricanes blah blah

[curiouslyadrift]

Gas prices this week were such a tease. See you soon, $4/gallon.

----------------------I'd like to comment on natural disasters' emergence as primetime entertainment following the devastation of New Orleans. Sure, people have always gotten excited over a rare, hugely disasterous event, such as Mt. Saint Helens erupting or, more recently, the

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[_snowandlights]

I don't think that one can sound like a prattle.

[curiouslyadrift]

You're probably right. I'll add an r.

[lifein2x3]

One can, however, sound like a prat.

Those pictures are un-frickin'-believable.

I wonder what's going to motivate the much faster cleanup from Rita in Texas: it's Bush's home turf, it's mostly white, or they learned their lesson after Katrina. I'm betting it'll be the first two couched as the third.

[curiouslyadrift]

Hahahah, sounding like a prat... I'll have to use that sometime.

And wait, I thought it wasn't Bush's responsibility to help unless he was formally begged?

[lifein2x3]

It's very British, make sure to use the accent. Otherwise the whole effect is ruined.

Somehow, I don't think Shrubby will have to be begged this time. Call me crazy...

[hekissedmyhand]

I'll bet there are more hispanics than white people. At least that's what it's like in Dallas.

[curiouslyadrift]

I kind of figured they weren't from Katrina, but I didn't really care. I just liked them. What storm they're of isn't going to make me like them any more or less than I already do.

Psh, busy. Whatever.

mai's fall collection '05

[curiouslyadrift]

Disabling comments on a cam-whoring entry?

s'wrong wit u

[_buenavista]

my english teacher had some "EMT department chair" from phoenix community college (wow) come and talk to us about terrorism and other bullshit. he kept talking about how it's not the federal government's fault for anything that happens, they're not babysitters, etc. etc. he also threw in that bill clinton is a "scumbag" and he hates how terrorists are crazy fundamental followers of islam...i was fuming, but right when he finished yapping, the bell rang and i wasn't going to be late for my class for that asshole, plus half the people here are mormons or rednecks or mormon rednecks and there's no arguing with them.

gas actually just dropped down to $2.89 here.

[curiouslyadrift]

You should ask your teacher if they're planning on having someone with an opposing viewpoint come in to talk, so as to provide balanced discourse.

If your teacher tries to tell you that there isn't any need to have an opposing viewpoint presented because the man is an "EMT department chair" and "knows what he's talking about" (and it sounds like there's a good chance yout eacher will say this), tell the teacher that the man not only brought up but also opined upon topics which are under heavy debate in the country at the moment, and it would only be appropriate to present opposing viewpoints in the same exact manner.

Gas has dropped to about $2.89 here, too, but apparently it's going to shoot back up. Katrina hit the oil refineries in the eastern part of the Gulf, and this new hurricane is going to hit the refineries in the western part.