As we wrap-up from Katrina and move on to frettin’ about Rita, I thought I’d pass along a small archive of coverage from New Orleans as Katrina was wreaking havoc on the area. Foamy, I couldn’t have said it better myself!

Foamy’s Coverage from New Orleans

And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this — this is working very well for them.

-Barbra Bush

I think Bill Maher put it best, when discussing it: “This just proves that the moron doesn’t fall far from the tree!”

$40 to fill my car up - and that was before Katrina got to the Gulf Coast….

What the Republican right slime machine refuses to recognize is, Cindy Sheehan, as an American citizen, has an absolute right to petition her government for redress of grievances, and ask George Bush a goddamn question. He’s not the Pope. He’s not God. He’s not the king. He’s the president, and he should be asked tough questions.

-Dan Savage on
Real Time with Bill Maher
HBO
8/26/2005

I just don’t think I could have put it better myself. I’m tired of this President. I’m over this Administration. 2008 can’t come soon enough!

So this fat bitch (you know what, shut the fuck up right now, because I’m gonna tell you why she’s a bitch - and I’m fat too, in that I’m overweight and don’t like how I look and admit that I need to do better - so get off my ass for calling her fat and I’ll call her a bitch if I want because it’s a free country) in New Hampshire filed a complaint with the state’s board of medicine after her doctor told her she is obese.

What in the Live-Free-or-Die fuck is going on here? First of all, read what the doctor has to say.

I’m going to assume that this lady really is overweight - i.e. that she carries more fat for her frame and age than is considered healthy by whatever established standard is accepted by the medical community at large (no pun intended). You don’t need me to tell you that based on that fact alone, and the sheer volume of studies that are out there to support the concept, this woman is at increased risk for a whole laundry list of complications as her life progresses. This guy is her doctor. This guy is the one that is supposed to fix her when she is broken. This guy is the one who is supposed to work with her to mitigate all the risks that come with every day life in our world today so she can stay healthy and lead a full life.

My opinion is that this woman went to the wrong doctor - and not because the doctor in question is wrong - but because before she can be in any position to address the condition previously pointed out, she needs to get her fucking head examined by a psychiatrist.

Lady, I don’t know your name. I don’t even know what you look like. I don’t know anything about you - nothing about your values, ideas, hopes, dreams, marital status, kids, sexual preference, race, creed, socio-economic standing. But, here’s the deal: Just like me, you’re fat and you need to hear it and fix that shit so you don’t die.

If you’re offended because you think your doctor called you fat - guess, what - he did! And he’s gonna bill you and your insurance for the time and your gonna fucking pay, and I’ll tell you why: because that’s exactly what you went to see him for in the first place. This doctor did not look at some bloody wound on your knee and tell you that your liver was broken. He looked at you, and based on common sense and the fact that he isn’t blind, determined that you have a weight problem. His is what’s reffered to as a professional medical opinion. In fact, courts of law in this country will take his opinion as fact where its applicable simply because he is a properly credentialed practitioner.

And by the way, this is for your lawyers - shut the fuck up and sit down, you ambulance chasing piece of sheister-shit! Just because the doctor never got a weight reading in the chart, doesn’t mean he can’t make a qualified determination regarding her health - I would argue your client purposely avoided the scale in the first place because she knows she’s fat!!!

I’ve always thought that the vast majority of what’s on the news today is crap. I think this story is important because it speaks to a huge problem that faces our society today and that is our over-litigious sense of denial and immaturity. This woman wants to go to the doctor and wants to pay this highly educated man to lie to her - an act that will land him in court and possibly in jail. If this case sees the light of day in any significant manner beyond the media coverage it’s garnered thus far, the message we should take from that fact alone is that your doctor should never talk to you because no matter what he says - truth or fiction - he’s gonna end up in trouble. That’s no way to practice medicine.

Lady, you’re obese. So am I. Maybe we should both put the cupcake down, and hit the gym and stop wasting everyone’s time with this bullshit. Last time I checked, there were much more important issues facing our society.

It’s official - people are out of their gawd-damn minds! I had long believed it to be true, but felt it was only a matter of personal opinion. Today, however, events have transpired which lend credence to the idea.

We have long been suspicious of conspiracy theorists, and reclusive anarchist shut-in’s… but based on this single incident, I can simply tell you that it seems to me they just might be on to something.

WTF is going on???

Reported by MSNBC off the A/P wire…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far as to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line.

“This is total, total chaos,” said Latoya Jones, 19, who lost one of her flip-flops in the ordeal and later limped around on the sizzling blacktop with one foot bare.

An estimated 5,500 people turned out at the Richmond International Raceway in hopes of getting their hands on one of the 4-year-old Apple iBooks. The Henrico County school system was selling 1,000 of the computers to county residents. New iBooks cost between $999 and $1,299.

Officials opened the gates at 7 a.m., but some already had been waiting since 1:30 a.m. When the gates opened, it became a terrifying mob scene.

People threw themselves forward, screaming and pushing each other. A little girl’s stroller was crushed in the stampede. Witnesses said an elderly man was thrown to the pavement, and someone in a car tried to drive his way through the crowd.

Seventeen people suffered minor injuries, with four requiring hospital treatment, Henrico County Battalion Chief Steve Wood said. There were no arrests and the iBooks sold out by 1 p.m.

“It’s rather strange that we would have such a tremendous response for the purchase of a laptop computer — and laptop computers that probably have less-than- desirable attributes,” said Paul Proto, director of general services for Henrico County. “But I think that people tend to get caught up in the excitement of the event — it almost has an entertainment value.”

Blandine Alexander, 33, said one woman standing in front of her was so desperate to retain her place in line that she urinated on herself.

“I’ve never been in something like that before, and I never again will,” said Alexander, who brought her 14-year-old twin boys to the complex at 4:30 a.m. to wait in line. “No matter what the kids want, I already told them I’m not doing that again.”

Jesse Sandler said he was one of the people pushing forward, using a folding chair he had brought with him to beat back people who tried to cut in front of him.

“I took my chair here and I threw it over my shoulder and I went, ‘Bam,’” the 20-year-old said nonchalantly, his eyes glued to the screen of his new iBook, as he tapped away on the keyboard at a testing station.

“They were getting in front of me and I was there a lot earlier than them, so I thought that it was just,” he said.

Watch the video linked from MSNBC. I am typically of the opinion that those blithering talking-head idiot bimbos are full of nothing but hot air - but the most intelligent thing I’ve ever heard one of them utter is exclaimed at the tail-end of this clip: “Pathetic!”

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That’s what I’ve felt like that last few weeks…

I’m still alive!

Stay tuned…

James Doohan died early this morning at his home in Redmond, WA.
He was 85.

Scotty, you will be missed. I don’t think a week goes by without some refference to that most memorable of lines, “I just can’t do it, Cap’n!” uttered in that deep Scottish twinge…

More info on his life and death can be found:

• MSNBC
• MTV
• Reuters

I’m looking at my TiVo last nite… and I’m realizing that I haven’t caught up on my favorite shows in weeks… WEEKS!!!

I think I’m like 5 or 6 episodes behind on the newest season of Six Feet Under… well… make that 8?

Point of Order, Mr. Chairman… I move that we slow the rotation of the planet using rockets or a shitload of rope and add about 6-8 hours to each day…. Will someone please second my motion?