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Dan, I don't understand how you cannot make the obvious connects to Bush and this administration. Yes, of course, our involvement in Iraq and our response to Katrina are inextricably linked: manpower, equipment, CASH! Also, the argument about Bush, global warming and the hurricane has to do with this administrations desire to ignore scientific facts and try to pull the wool over the public's eyes about climate change. This disaster is another proof (do we really need any more?) that we are heading downhill when it comes to our environment and we have a group of people who could care less about our future - yes, they care about their future, but when money could be used to, at least, attempt to cut emissions or an attempt is made to better the conditions in N.O. before a major disaster strikes (sound familiar?) and it is not - actually, when money is CUT - then you have a callous, arrogant, group of people who claim to have a "leader." Moore makes an excellent point - it's just that you are missing it. It really doesn't matter which direction the storm is going at any last minute, hour, etc. It doesn't matter what the NYTimes thinks may or may not happen with a levee. It is the fact that we are supposed to be PREPARED for this possibility! If we have an earthquake in California next week - something that you can't generally predict as to time - we should STILL have a plan - especially since we know of it's possibility!

Gosh, you know, I can just see this large Democrat leaning group of people being spread out now over the country. No concentrated group of "liberals" in Louisiana anymore, eh? Wow, what a gift!

Ray Nagin (mp3) This'll break your heart.

OK, well, now you're just trying to get a rise making statements like that. I'm expecting next: "Let's go whoop us some ass - Yeeeeeeee-Hah!!" Hard to take anything you say seriously really...

Not Irma:

and this! "...And Irma Thomas, the Queen of New Orleans soul, has reported in from Baton Rouge where she escaped to the home of her aunt..."

Yes, of course. I believe it was meant to show his work chronologically, but it seems to have some detail that couldn't (yet) be found elsewhere. Evans

Mike, I found this: (the highlighting is mine) I'm guessing that the quintet is the same as Quintessence from May 27-30 1976? and the trio is on "I Will Say Goodbye"?

Also this may be of some help: Evans

There's a GEMM seller who lists the LP and it states that there are two versions of "Nobody Else But Me." Evans

Maybe we can wish the same good news for Irma Thomas too.

I think I'm gonna play thru the Selects - gettin ready for the new batch...

OK, thanks guys! I'm using an Epson too (R800) and between it and Photoshop, I may find a way. Sounds easier than I thought it'd be because I was thinking "dimensions" instead of "centering." Great, Thanks!

OK, so we are missing: Fats Domino and Irma Thomas? and we have Allen Toussaint holed up in the Superdome? !!!

Does anyone know a good tutorial on how to print on the inside of the "booklet" insert? I put this in quotations cause I just really want to do the inside of a single folded sheet. Never a problem with the outside (which becomes the front and back of the booklet), but inside printing has me wondering...

Well, we have to be careful who we blame in the "local" scheme of things. News people interviewed a local guy who closed his station for two days because he couldn't bear the thought of having to charge his customers over $3...so, he closed in protest of what he was being charged for fuel. Earlier in the day, he apparently had a lot of irate customers screaming at the station employees and accusing them of price gouging. So, yes, there are clearly store owners out to make a big buck (like that idiot in Atlanta who's charging 6 bucks/gal), but not all. Maybe if you own a little place that's not like the big guys, you're getting soaked by your distributor?

Wonder how long they'll be releasing vinyl?

time to bring this ol' chestnut out:

"...Bush's chief environment adviser, James Connaughton, blamed the Clinton administration for making America's energy problems worse by presiding over increased oil imports, less reliance on U.S. coal and no new refineries. He said: 'We inherited an energy crisis.'"

Um.... ← hahahaha, yeah, Joe! - well, actually, it's not funny, but... it seems this administration has always pulled off the unbelieveable (and, please, I do not want to hear claptrap about "it was Katrina and not this administration..." in case anyone was going there).

My wife does work involving the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory and those folks in association with NOAA claim that: "...an 80 year build-up of atmospheric CO2 at 1%/yr (compounded) leads to roughly a one-half category increase in potential hurricane intensity on the Saffir-Simpson scale and an 18% increase in precipitation near the hurricane core..." Anyway, increasingly filling our atmosphere with greenhouse gases is not a good thing no matter how many people want to spin it in their warped direction.

Mark! You really aren't kidding?

I was discussing this over lunch the other day. I said that I thought that we would hit $5.00/gal before this administration is done with us and the fellow I was talking to said, "Hell, it'll be before the end of this year!" Pure speculation of course, but what if?

I remember when Jimmy Carter heard the when he asked people to put a sweater on in the winter.