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did anyone else just see richard simmons on CNN?

maybe there will be a clip posted somewhere.

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Interesting find...

Weather Modification Research and Technology Transfer Authorization Act of 2005
- Senate 517
- House 2295

" It is the purpose of this Act to develop and implement a comprehensive and coordinated national weather modification policy and a national cooperative Federal and State program of weather modification research and development."

Definitions:
...
(4) WEATHER MODIFICATION- The term `weather modification' means changing or controlling, or attempting to change or control, by artificial methods the natural development of atmospheric cloud forms or precipitation forms which occur in the troposphere

This Act shall take effect on October 1, 2005.

FEMA head fired from last job -- head of Nat'l. Arabian Horse Ass'n.

The federal official in charge of the bungled New Orleans rescue was fired from his last private-sector job overseeing horse shows.

And before joining the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a deputy director in 2001, GOP activist Mike Brown had no significant experience that would have qualified him for the position.

The Oklahoman got the job through an old college friend who at the time was heading up FEMA.

The agency, run by Brown since 2003, is now at the center of a growing fury over the handling of the New Orleans disaster.

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CAUSE OF KATRINA FOUND

According to blog "The Conservative Voice", it seems the ACLU and lack of God has directly caused Katrina!

So, does that mean human rights piss God off, or the devil off? Did God or the devil cause this storm?

PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD ARE FUCKING MORONS.

Was it caused by global warming? Or was it weather control? Or perhaps just ... BAD WEATHER?

Duh, it's God's response to all the fags and liberals! And it can be .. um, proven ... THROUGH PRAYER!!!111

In America.

"They killed a man here last night," Steve Banka, 28, told the Reuters news agency before he left on Sunday.

A body lies face down in water next to the Superdome. Death was everywhere, both inside and outside the Superdome

"A young lady was being raped and stabbed. And the sounds of her screaming got to this man and so he ran out into the street to get help from troops, to try to flag down a passing truck of them. He jumped up on the truck's windscreen and they shot him dead," Mr Banka said.

-BBC

when the levee breaks

If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break,
If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break,
When the levee breaks I’ll have no place to stay.
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Lord, mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.
Don’t it make you feel bad
When you’re tryin’ to find your way home,
You don’t know which way to go?
If you’re goin’ down south
They go no work to do,
If you don’t know about chicago.
Cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good,
Now, cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.
All last night sat on the levee and moaned,
All last night sat on the levee and moaned,
Thinkin’ ’bout me baby and my happy home.
Going, go’n’ to chicago,
Go’n’ to chicago,
Sorry but I can’t take you.
Going down, going down now, going down.

by led zeppelin, on the album "Led Zeppelin IV".

Email from survivor - this morning

My IRL friend Francesca posted this, which contains an email she received this morning from a friend that was in New Orleans.

I want to post this in the hopes that people will read it and pass it on. I am distressed by the incredibly racist opinions I keep hearing from those who believe that the people remaining in the city were lazy, greedy, handout-wanting people who are just whining about how bad it is. I can't handle the proliferation of blogs and such repeatedly stating these incredibly assinine views of a truly dire, tragic situation exacerbated by our own governments greed and lack of forsight and social prioritizing. This is a letter from a friend who just escaped the city. This is not Fox News, people. This is reality:

one more note, NOW is the time to donate ANYTHING you can to the relief effort. I mean it. Even 5 dollars is better than nothing.



Just a note to say Im alive.
i am extremely traumatized.
The anarchy,storm,flood water and the smell of rot in
the city can not be put into words.
I am healthy except my stomach is sick and my feet are
slightly infected from contaminated water.
My house is perfectly intact and all the trees fell
away from it.
The French Quarter from Canal to Burgundy up to Poland
Avenue is an island.
It is starting to smell like bodies and birds are
starting to flock.
We didn't get water in our neighborhood until
yesterday.
Ive become a pro at looting for food and all the
neighbors get together.
I am now outside Baton Rouge.
We had to siphon gas to leave and it was stressfull
with all the down trees and lines,military and gangs.
People in our neighborhood are walking on the streets
with shotguns,axes,bats.
Houses are getting robbed and buildings are getting
blown up.
People are hotwiring city buses and running them into
houses
People are getting shot over gasoline and water.
I don't know who's alive and who's dead.
People from the neighborhood are taking canoes over
St.Claude and France area to pull people out of water.
There are dead Children on Canal Street
Dog Packs are forming
I am mentally having some problems.
People are getting raped
New Orleans is the most scariest place on the planet
The cops are looting and drinking beer riding on the
back of cars with rifles
Its under a police state
They are shooting people and taking away our weapons
We had a gun,ax,hooks,a staff,cleaver and a few
knives.
I will be able to repond but please dont expect too
much from me right now.
Im really over alot of this.
Masako-Couldn't even get past Claiborne to check your
house. Water too deep.
Sarah-Your house is still intact-no damage Water
receded,your car is there but someone put a
screwdriver in the gas tank to get gas.
Robin-Couldn't get to your house because of water and
violence.
Tark and David-Houses are fine as far as I can see
Steve Garafano-House looks ok but the brick fence is
all over the road.One window may be broken.
People are robbing houses so this is only storm
damage.
I do have photograps to download and will later but Im
really fucked up right now.
Im having a hard time in society.
I hope we can all return.
i may have more stories later when I can.
The government are idiot. They left us to die.

Also-
Sarah we had to use your house for resources-thank
you.
Friends that gave me keys to their houses-thank you.
You helped us survive.
Noone ever take anything for granted.
I am grateful for a flushing toilet
We had to use buckets and go to neighborhood pools to
gather water.
I am grateful for ice
And for life.
there are still children there!
There are Old people
People with their limbs rotting
people lying on the street on mattresses.
Yes this is the bywater.
This was our home.
................XXXX




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Open Letter from Michael Moore

I know that many people that read my friends list don't like him. Here's a letter he posted to his website on Friday:

Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush

Dear Mr. Bush:

Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.

Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?

Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!

I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?

And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!

On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.

There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.

No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!

You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.

Yours,

Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.com

P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.

This is only the 2nd time he's written on his website since January.

"Bring Them Home Now" rally in Indianapolis

It all started at Camp Casey with Cindy Sheehan.

Monday-Wednesday, September 5-7

Event Details

Other Stops (includes 4 stops in Ohio plus many other states)