I’m going to have to move into an assisted-living type environment sooner rather than later. Lost the use of my legs for about 35 minutes the other day when I woke up. Went back to sleep and the signals from my brain to my legs worked like they were ’sposed to, and I could use my legs properly. They’d been giving me problems but not that bad. This is scary, and what happens if the use of them doesn’t come back? Crap!
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April 4, 2007Top experts predict heavier activity this hurricane season…
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/tech/news/4685984.html
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Raped by the Army Corps
April 3, 2007BASTARDS!
Corps caused disaster, report says
State inquiry finds decades of blunders
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
By Bob Marshall
Decades of incompetence and neglect by the Army Corps of Engineers allowed Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge to devastate New Orleans, according to a long-awaited report being released today, the state’s only official investigation into the causes of the disaster.
In a sweeping indictment of corps stewardship, the report alleges that agency supervisors ignored increases in the threat level for their project, knowingly built levees and floodwalls lower than congressionally mandated, failed to detect or ignored glaring errors during the review process, underestimated the impact of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet on the city’s defenses, and failed to properly maintain the system.
The report, conducted by Team Louisiana at the request of the Department of Transportation and Development, echoes many points made in other probes last year, including that of the Independent Levee Investigation Team, led by the University of California-Berkeley, and the interim report from the corps’ own Independent Performance and Evaluation Team. But while those efforts focused largely on technical aspects of the structural failures, the LSU-based Team Louisiana sought to pinpoint the decisions that caused those failures.
Story continued here:
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1174456253193610.xml&coll=1&thispage=1
Estimated weekly cost of war in Iraq: $2 billion
Estimated cost to build Cat 5 levees in NOLA: $2.5 billion
I guess we know our government’s priorities… BASTARDS!
1953
April 3, 2007In 1953 (the year I was born) |
 Dwight Eisenhower becomes president of the US. President Eisenhower announces that he has given France $60 million for the Indochina War Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkay reach the top of Mt. Everest Julius and Ethel Rosenburg are executed by electrocution at Sing Sing Prison The Korean War ends in stalemate The first color television sets go on sale for about $1,175 Ron Jeremy, Tony Blair, Pierce Brosnan, and Kim Basinger are born New York Yankees win the World Series Detroit Lions Win the NFL Championship Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is published Elvis Presley records for the first time 68% of all United States television sets were tuned in to I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth to little ricky. |
Death has been on my mind a lot lately…
March 28, 2007One in five people is set to die a “shameful death” new research has claimed.
A book by sociology professor Allan Kellehear, claims that 20% of the population will die alone, ravaged by dementia and without dignity.
In “A Social History of Dying”, Professor Kellehear argues this kind of death would be co5nsidered “shameful” by previous generations.
In a bleak portrait of death in the 21st century, the professor from the University of Bath, claims the act of dying is becoming increasingly “tragic and antisocial”.
He argues that medical advances are enabling us to live longer but society is at a loss with how to treat this large ageing population. He said: “Most people think only fleetingly about how they will die and usually it surrounds some romantic notion dying in our sleep at home. This couldn't be further from the truth – we are significantly more likely to die a prolonged death in a nursing home or hospital, preceded by multiple organ failure, pneumonia or dementia.
“As we live longer, there is every chance that we will outlive those friends and family who have traditionally seen us through our last years. It is also likely that we will have exhausted the financial means by which we would pay professionals to look after us instead.”
He argues that the act of dying may have actually been handled better by earlier generations with “good” peasant deaths surrounded by friends and family.
He claims that the rise in “shameful deaths” is leading an increasing number of elderly people to consider suicide in order to take control and manage their own death.
Kellehear urges governments worldwide to re-assess how the act of dying is treated before it becomes a major crisis. He said: “Whether it is introducing more liberal policies that enable people to better manage how they die, a closer examination of medical ethics, better training for nursing homes or support for people who care for the elderly- something needs to happen.
“We need to tackle the subject of dying head on. Talk about dying, let alone our own death, is not a popular theme for politicians or public debate. But there is no escape from the tragedy that will befall many of us when we die.”
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20070404/tuk-one-in-five-face-shameful-death-6323e80.html
Royal Grocery will be sorely missed…
March 21, 2007Robert Buras & Royal Grocery, we are so sorry to see you close.
Royal Grocery was an institution in New Orleans’ French Quarter [the Vieux Carre]. Robert’s Grandfather opened the store like 60 years ago, and it has now so sadly joined the scores of French Quarter shops that have been forced to close as a result of The Thing [Katrina, Army Corps, FEMA, George Bush, Ray Nagin, Governor Blanco, et al.]; Now over 100 are closed and gone…
This is another devastating blow to the soul of New Orleans and our French Quarter. We are forever changed.
Thank you, Robert. You will be missed.
Chris Rose
March 21, 2007For so many reasons, we admire this man:
Chris Rose goes bald for kids with cancer…
Go Chris! You Rock!
New Cops & Nagin’s a No-Show
March 17, 2007With all of the challenges that this city faces, we finally add police officers and when they take their oath Nagin is a no-show. What disrespect he shows for the people of our city and the police officers that prove so hard to recruit and keep.
Shame on you Mr. Nagin!
Don’t Piss-Off the Doctor
March 17, 2007Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Doctors’ unions in Romania have criticised a decision to make a surgeon pay £100,000 in damages after he lost his temper and hacked off a patient’s penis during surgery.
Surgeon Naum Ciomu, who had been suffering from stress at the time, had been operating on patient Nelu Radonescu, 36, to correct a testicular malformation when he suddenly lost his temper.
Grabbing a scalpel, he sliced off the penis in front of shocked nursing staff, and then placed it on the operating table where he chopped it into small pieces before storming out of the operating theatre at Bucharest hospital.
SO… The doctor cuts the dude’s dick off and chops it up into little pieces while the guy is obviously under general anesthesia and can’t do a feakin thing about it, and THE DOCTOR’S UNION CRITICIZES THE FINE? Talk about everything that is wrong with this world!
When ya gotta go, ya gotta go…
March 17, 2007SkyWest Airlines apologized to a passenger who said he wasn’t allowed to use the restroom during a one-hour flight and ended up urinating in an air-sickness bag.
James Whipple said he had two “really big beers” at the Boise, Idaho airport. While on a flight to Salt Lake City on March 7 he wanted to use the cabin restroom.
The captain had declared it off-limits during the short flight because a light wasn’t working.
Whipple said he had used the cabin restroom before the plane departed but had to go again and finally reached for the air-sickness bag.
“It was like I had no choice,” Whipple told The Salt Lake Tribune, which posted the story on its Web site Friday.
No other passengers noticed Whipple using the bag, but a flight attendant asked him about it and told the captain, who called airport police.
Whipple was questioned and took a taxi home to Sandy, a Salt Lake City suburb.
The airline sent him a letter of apology and a flight voucher, SkyWest spokeswoman Sabrena Suite-Mangum said Friday.
She said SkyWest decided to go ahead with the flight and get the light fixed in Salt Lake City, rather than delaying it or canceling it for repairs.
“For such a short flight, we really felt we were trying to inconvenience the least number of passengers possible by operating that flight,” Suite-Mangum said.
