Watched Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room yesterday. Was kinda fun being in a theatre with people who actually follow a bit of the news, rather than the usual brainless teen audience - nothing against Forty Year Old Virgin and others of course, but definitely a different demographic to an Enron movie crowd LOL. The movie itself was good, in a want to reach through the screen and strangle Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling way LOL - and, yes, I have to admit that I have become like Pavlov's dog with George W Bush - even though it wasn't a political movie like Fahrenheit 9/11, every time Georgie Boy made an appearance, I wanted to throw popcorn at the screen LOL.
Although I think that amount of audience participation is only for Rocky Horror or Sound Of Music. Eh, will start my own traditions, lol where is that DVD of Fahr 9/11? Strangely enough, I haven't got it yet though - was much more a fan of Bowling For Columbine actually.
Today the main excitement will be the planned haircut and window shopping at the mall LOL - yeah, it is going to be that quiet a day. Mmm, mallratting :) So yeah a quiet day.
Over the next couple of days, the US military death toll will hit 2000 - the latest toll is 1996, and October has been the bloodiest month on daily average thus far since January. Good war journalism piece today from the New York Times of the ongoing conflict in Ramadi - it has often been said that Iraq has no front line, but from the report it sounds like Ramadi is a hot zone.
And still the debate about the original case for war continues - by proxy in the Valerie Plame CIA leak case. Weapons of mass destruction, remember those? I think the special prosecutor is going to give his report or send indictments out on Monday, North American time. Will be interesting :)
Some more post-Katrina aftermath from the Gulf Coast - New Orleans is broke, and has laid off half the municipal staff. If people do return, who is going to run the schools, provide public transport, or provide any of the other basic services. More importantly, who is going to pay? Despite the President's 'whatever it takes' soundbite, the federal government is only thinking of giving municipalities money by loans rather than as grants.
Anyone else think that the powers that be in Washington are now more interested in the CIA leak case, or looking over their shoulder at Hurricane Wilma hitting Florida, than one of the worst natural disasters to hit the country ever? The phrase 'poor, mainly black' keeps ringing in my head for some reason. When September 11 happened, or even Hurricane Andrew in 1992 as the article also mentions, the feds bent over backwards to help out.
Grrr.
Approximately thirty to fifty thousands houses look like having to be demolished in New Orleans - over a quarter of the total number of houses in the city. And that doesn't include the extra sixty thousand houses that are deemed repairable - if the owners don't have the money to repair their houses, they could be on the demolished list as well. Hmm, just reading about a federal requirement that damaged houses in floodplains be raised a foot in height - of course, the federal government just makes the rules, they don't provide the money to actually do the work.
Enough of the depressing news LOL. Will get a haircut and mallrat for a bit :) Like, you know, that person is so totally hot, and, like, whatever - practising my Valley Girl accent LOL.
Pauly
Although I think that amount of audience participation is only for Rocky Horror or Sound Of Music. Eh, will start my own traditions, lol where is that DVD of Fahr 9/11? Strangely enough, I haven't got it yet though - was much more a fan of Bowling For Columbine actually.
Today the main excitement will be the planned haircut and window shopping at the mall LOL - yeah, it is going to be that quiet a day. Mmm, mallratting :) So yeah a quiet day.
Over the next couple of days, the US military death toll will hit 2000 - the latest toll is 1996, and October has been the bloodiest month on daily average thus far since January. Good war journalism piece today from the New York Times of the ongoing conflict in Ramadi - it has often been said that Iraq has no front line, but from the report it sounds like Ramadi is a hot zone.
And still the debate about the original case for war continues - by proxy in the Valerie Plame CIA leak case. Weapons of mass destruction, remember those? I think the special prosecutor is going to give his report or send indictments out on Monday, North American time. Will be interesting :)
Some more post-Katrina aftermath from the Gulf Coast - New Orleans is broke, and has laid off half the municipal staff. If people do return, who is going to run the schools, provide public transport, or provide any of the other basic services. More importantly, who is going to pay? Despite the President's 'whatever it takes' soundbite, the federal government is only thinking of giving municipalities money by loans rather than as grants.
Anyone else think that the powers that be in Washington are now more interested in the CIA leak case, or looking over their shoulder at Hurricane Wilma hitting Florida, than one of the worst natural disasters to hit the country ever? The phrase 'poor, mainly black' keeps ringing in my head for some reason. When September 11 happened, or even Hurricane Andrew in 1992 as the article also mentions, the feds bent over backwards to help out.
Grrr.
Approximately thirty to fifty thousands houses look like having to be demolished in New Orleans - over a quarter of the total number of houses in the city. And that doesn't include the extra sixty thousand houses that are deemed repairable - if the owners don't have the money to repair their houses, they could be on the demolished list as well. Hmm, just reading about a federal requirement that damaged houses in floodplains be raised a foot in height - of course, the federal government just makes the rules, they don't provide the money to actually do the work.
Enough of the depressing news LOL. Will get a haircut and mallrat for a bit :) Like, you know, that person is so totally hot, and, like, whatever - practising my Valley Girl accent LOL.
Pauly
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