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Senator Reid needs to brush up on his math skills and history.

Katrina - death toll 1,836 - monetary damage - $108 billion
Sandy - death toll 253 - monetary damage - $65.6 billion (approx)

[Source] ETA: They should be worried about getting help to those who need it, not circle jerking around and trying to use tragedies to make themselves ( Read more... )

As of Saturday, I've mailed off all my cards and gift packages. I had to do it in batches because my arms (and big bags) can only carry so many boxes at once, and the lines at the post office are crazy long - up to 50 people deep some days. And a lot of them were rude and/or grumpy. Tack on aggressively cheerful, poorly sung carols cranking out of ( Read more... )

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Made me laugh. Too good not to pass on. XD

I hate cooking. It's something I can do, but don't get much joy out of it which is why I'm all about the crock pot ( Read more... )

Isaac's finally blown through my area. And I mean finally! At one point, it was moving a 10th of a mile in 3 hours which is why St. Tammany and Baton Rouge got pounded.

My area seriously lucked out since the storm landed and shifted in such a way that we were 15-20 miles outside of the strike zone. We got about 3" of rain and A LOT of wind with ( Read more... )

I officially delete August from my mind and this whole year. It's totally sucked. Hard. Ugh. I'll save you all the gory details and just stick with the purpose of this post -- Hurricane Isaac is going to "bless" Louisiana which is where I live ( Read more... )

Mom drug both our dogs to the groomers yesterday. For our lhasa apso, it was a normal trip. For our poor rat terrier, Penny, however, it turned into an adventure ( Read more... )

I have the strangest luck ( Read more... )

If you have a Walgreen near you, be sure to check and see if you're one of the markets that got a deal on eggs.

My local Walgreens has a dozen eggs on sale 2/$2, making them $1 a dozen.

If you print out the egg coupon currently available from the egg council here on Facebook, you can get those eggs for 73¢ a dozen. (The site will let you print ( Read more... )

Dear Flist,

After watching several people on my flist lose a lot of weight, I figured I ought to get off my fat butt and follow their lead ( Read more... )