Crap Throwing Monkey

Source? National Hurricane Center's still reporting 906/175...though their next update's in 75 minutes.

Sad thing is, that probably does end up being a major determining factor.

Big dogs, small car. I have to believe she did everything she could possibly think of to take care of them. Personally, though...I would have found a way to fit them in the car.

You HAVE left town, haven't you? Just talked to a good friend (finally, phone lines into NO are pretty jammed), she changed her mind last night and is getting the hell out...but she had to leave her dogs behind. With her neighbor, who thinks "riding it out" is a good idea. Sounds like enough people are doing that, that the death toll could be very bad if it hits NO head-on. Stay safe.

It ain't vicarious, dumbass.

You live your live vicariously through a crap-throwing monkey?

Imagine the water and sewer utilities, and the graveyards. That'd be a public health disaster; if it hits head-on, even aside from the rebuilding NO wouldn't be habitable for weeks.

NHC's forecasting as high as 28 feet...or 38 above ground level in NO. What's that, a four story building? I don't recall any of historic NO having anything higher than three.

I would humbly confirm that submission... And Joe's right...why does this get a separate thread?

That before-and-after of Merry Mansion is unbelievable.

But it begins with the blocking...and the blocking sucks. Hopefully when they put in the real blocking schemes for the regular season it'll improve...but the linemen still have to execute, and they're not. Good thing for Bledsoe he's gone; he'd get killed behind this line even worse than he did the year before last.

The qualification is they have to take themselves out of the breeding pool. So if their genitalia are what's amputated...then, yes, they're eligible.

The 11am advisory from NHC quotes 166kt flight-level winds and a central pressure of 907 mb, with no gross structural signs of it weakening (though they say it should weaken, because "it can't stay this strong for very long". Wishful thinking is a bad forecasting tool.) For comparison, Hurricane Camille had a central pressure of 908. Andrew, 922. Hurricane Gilbert, which had the highest wind speeds ever recorded in an Atlantic of Gulf hurricane, was 888. Actually, only Gilbert and two unnamed hurricanes have had lower recorded pressures than Katrina. Nasty B word-mother of a storm...

And oh-by-the-way, this thing's roaring straight through the Gulf oil producing, refining, and shipping regions. Oil's probably going to go nuts next week.

Or his lack thereof. More likely, in fact.

But this is a good thing, because Abu Ghraib is bad...

It was a full six-hour shopping trip. And this was years ago, before I met the wifey. And please don't tell her I called her "the wifey".

Right. I went shoe shopping with a woman once. Sometime along the fifth HOUR of shopping, I was watching her literally try on three shoes at once, and although it was pretty amusing to watch her try to figure out how to put three shoes on two feet, I swore at that moment I would NEVER do that again. It was a shopping trip that changed my world... In fact, it was a stated contingency of my marriage that I would never be required to go shoe shopping with my wife. I ain't stupid.

"Own" or "owned"? I thought the Japanese pretty much broke them up. They worked with a lot of stuff, I know; anthrax was the only one I distinctly recalled. But Aum Shinryko (for those who don't know) had a $2B war chest and one of the better bio labs in Japan. One would assume it wasn't just for anthrax.

I'll watch Wire's highlight film, then take an 88-minute nap.

Do you even know how the coaches use preseason games?

Someone refresh my memory. Wasn't Wire originally picked up for run support in Williams' 4-6? I seem to remember statements - probably from the same people now lambasting him - to the effect of "Oh, goody, we've got a run-stopping tackler of a safety for the 4-6!"

Because between the two of us, we might accidentally stumble over a rational decision occasionally. But consider: I want to watch football this afternoon. She wants me to go with her shopping for shoes. How irrational does my decision seem now?

But, as a partisan hack, you're not upset that they did it and STILL lost the election? I mean, damn, if you're going to rig an election, at least do it so you win the damned thing...

I just had that discussion with my wife: "Why do you want to watch the game [rebroadcast at 1pm] if you know they lost?" "Because it's just preseason, the loss doesn't matter." "But they still lost." "Because it doesn't matter; it's a preseason game, and the outcome's far less important than evaluating individual performance." "You know what their performance was like already: they sucked. They lost."