UConn James

Then again, the Romans learned from their mistakes. Except for that last one where they didn't have anyone in Rome to fight off the invaders.... Next to how the Incas built Macchu Pichu and the Egyptian pyramids, they probably had the finest architectual people with vision, and the builders who could execute that vision, in the history of the world. Some of that stuff, we can't do or have a hard time doing now, even with all of our technology. Raising the city above sea level will take a hell of a lot of fill. It was built over marshes, which, I'm sorry, but you're just asking for trouble. I'd say the structures that are still standing will need to be leveled. And if it were up to me, if you really have to build N.O. again, you go inland and leave the part that is flooded as a marshy break zone like it was before. Since this is the politics forum, I hope this isn't too crass to be asking at the moment, but what are the political ramifications of this? With refugees moving from the city of N.O. to NC, Miss, Texas, etc, I would guess that Louisiana is now firmly a red state. It's a Democrat diaspora.

Blasphemy! What would W.C. Fields think if he could read that sentence? I'm reading the wall with the pleasant company of Captain Morgan. Mmm.

Listening to the game on the radio (I live close to the ol' alma mater). Just tried to find the stats on the ESPN site, but it's as if the game isn't being played. Or do they exclusively cover just the Top 25 teams? From what I have heard, Bonislawski (Bones, they call him) is sucking at 7 of 28; he was the backup to Orlovsky and has no arm and I have no idea why they don't just start DJ Hernandez. The reason for the 24-0 score beside that we are playing UBuffalo, is our running game is just badass with Caulley (leading NCAA rookie rusher 2 years ago, out with knee injury last year), Lawrence, who filled in for him last year and we didn't lose a step and a few other horses, and the STs returns with Larry Taylor. Lots of losses due to graduation, so there are some holes to fill.

God must've gotten lazy and done Copy and Paste, and then only changed a few lines so he didn't get accused of plaigarism.

Would said spy get a watch with built-in laser and a Russian sexpot sidekick?

Tempting Murphy's Law, I see?

It was really a way of saying "You need a backup plan, and it's amazing how many people just don't have a practical plan." I was on winter vacation back in the 90s helping on my gandparents farm in WNY when they had one of the famous ice storms when the power was out for a week and a half. Not familiar with those, Steve? You will be, and I hope you're prepared. You need something besides systems that require electricity. Or have a generator to run sparingly.

At this point, acknowledgment that there is a problem would be a big step for a lot of world leaders, ours included. I don't have visions of granduer here, but it would be something for President Bush to issue a direct challenge to America, like Kennedy did for landing on the moon, for an issue that is increasingly becoming the most important in our time and the time to come. We like to meet a challenge with a known beneficial result, and this is an area where virtually every American agrees; now is the time to lead. I see you've inherited AD's mantle, only his putdowns were good.

I don't understand why the stores don't do this. Supplies in the short term are extremely tight and people are in dire need of them, when in a little while, the relief supplies will be coming in. If doing the right thing just to do the right thing isn't enough, it would be great PR for the companies that do it. There are concerns about looters and the people with guns and itchy trigger fingers tho. It's hard to reason with people in desperate circumstances.

That would be the plan where the first and only step is to put your head between your legs and kiss your wee arse goodbye.

Any situation requires on the spot decision-making. That's where experience comes through. I was installing a pond and waterfall this summer and it would usually require 2-3 big decisions per day. I have a background in construction from my college summers, so most of the time I was sure of what would work, sometimes I was only pretty confident. Needed to go back and change a couple of small things along the way. But that's how life goes. You do the best you can with what you've got. I tried hard not to but I may have seemed like an ass in a couple of my posts yesterday for the people who stayed behind and those who established a city in a place with geography like that in the first place, and I'm sorry; I was venting a little, but I think that only comes from being able to see so much destruction and not being able to be there and do something useful. My budget doesn't allow for any deviation right now, so it's doubly so. Thoughts and prayers are pretty much all that a lot of people have to offer.

Where is the National Guard, he asks? ~50 percent of them are in Iraq. Sorry for how that may sound, but it's the truth.

He just needs experience? As if he hasn't learned anything in his functional year and a half of starts? Add "being able to cover the pass better," Coy, b/c I have talked with experts and they say that's something safeties should be doing. I directly reference the Jax opener. Swat at the ball and it's a W. Your butt is where it belongs on the bench and as an adequate STer.

They also forgot a wood stove and five cords of wood. You can cook on the wood stove, too. I don't get people who think they can hack it w/ electric or oil only.

So sorry that we can't have an apples-to-apples comparison for you complete with 250,000 dead, but this is closer to the tsunami than to 9/11, whether you agree with it or not. As if it's your agreement that makes it so. A thousand? Wait awhile.

Hey, I don't care how big you are, Rich! You take that back!!! Joke, joke.

Low blow! Calhoun really should release them from their scholarships and they should be expelled. I don't care how good M. Williams is at putting a ball in a hoop. Will that happen? Probably not. There was an indcident with five starters on the football team being in a car when one of them (who was expelled) shot at someone with a BB gun. I'm so tired of athletes getting off Scot free b/c they're athletes.

And then there's the times, for example, when the score is 14-12 and a touchdown was just scored, and there's 2 seconds left. Rare, to be sure, but....

I think that's the reason why it was moved back. Some guys were seriously injured by running or being hit into it. I remember Cookie Gilchrist saying something in that vein in one of my highlight videos.

Hope you're OK, Cajun! Even tho you're an LSU fan.

It made the college game and the pro game more consistent in how the scoring is determined in the sport. That's nothing but good, and the NFL caught up with how the game was originally formed. In its practical usage, I'm not sure how much it changed the game. Not much; I also am surprised it's been 10 years. Coaches don't give up an almost guaranteed 1 point unless they really need to. Adds more excitement to the game in the rare instances it's used.

Katrina was so bad b/c of it's path. It was able to recharge over the Gulf. But following from the hard data, hurricanes in general will be getting more frequent and stronger. Bobby Jr. could have explained the science a bit fuller, and I'm not sure that now was the best time to bring it up (tho, when is a good time?).

While doing your laundry, did you ever try plucking out the debris from jeans from the drain while water was still flowing down it? Damn near impossible. You can only do it when the drain is stopped up completely (and it'll take some doing) or after the water's all drained. I'm sure the ACOE has other techniques in their bag of tricks, tho. You can't ask them to do more than they're already doing. Amazing things, they do.

When you value your silverware and end tables over your life, that's when you need to learn about priorities. The Buddhists actually have a good worldview about possessions. Don't be handcuffed to them, b/c they will fail you and you shouldn't spend your time being sad when they do. In a larger sense, even your own body will eventually fail on you. That's just the hand we as humans are dealt. We just have a different perspective on possessions that oftentime leads to acts of desperation. As for the looters, I can fully understand people taking water and food, even clothes. They can use it immediately and the flood will just put it to waste anyway. But what really gets my crag is when people take TVs, etc. Where are they going to put it? How do they think that under 10' of water it's still operable? One police officer was shot yesterday and there were reports of heavy gunfire in other areas. That's just beyond comprehension.

If it were up to me, I'd be looking into the wonder that is preformed concrete. The U put up the structure of a parking garage in about a week with it. Water, water everywhere kind of complicates the problem tho. Don't know how much capacity those choppers can hold, and there's the problem of finding pilots who could possibly set them down adequately. They need to stop the major flow, then they can start to finetune. Sandbags at this point will probably be swept away by the undercurrent, even at 1.5 tons per. I work construction; that's really not much. Like shoveling sh-- against the tide.