Who cares about the beaches?! Have they fixed Trent Lott's house yet???

[AlGore-08.com]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101329,00.html

It isn't easy picking George Bush's worst moment last week. Was it his first go at addressing the crisis Wednesday, when he came across as cool to the point of uncaring? Was it when he said that he didn't "think anybody expected" the New Orleans levees to give way, though that very possibility had been forecast for years? Was it when he arrived in Mobile, Ala., a full four days after the storm made landfall, and praised his hapless Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director, Michael D. Brown, whose disaster credentials seemed to consist of once being the commissioner of the International Arabian Horse Association? "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," said the President. Or was it that odd moment when he promised to rebuild Mississippi Senator Trent Lott's house--a gesture that must have sounded astonishingly tone-deaf to the homeless black citizens still trapped in the postapocalyptic water world of New Orleans. "Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house--he's lost his entire house," cracked Bush, "there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch."

[izzie]

1. I have been wondering what happened to Lott's house.

I can re-call when father Bush got money for a large storm we had in Maine. Since my mother lived on a point that also sticks out in to the sea about 12 mies south, she was also badly hurt by the same storm so we were all looking to see how Bush made out. I think it was when he was Vice-and I think every thing was re-built for him. There was some fuss about it on his part. My mother's ins. paid for hers. She also sits higher on the rocks which helps in water storms. In fact people moved into our home in the 1939 storm. Yar I was very small but I can recall sitting on the stairs and wondering why our living room was filled with all these people. It must have been scary to me as I was so small that I can still recall it.

[Surya Gayatri]

2. Sam Seder (AAR) did a really funny

riff on "the beautiful beaches" last night on Majority Report. :rofl: SG