Perhaps if I can figure out mobile blogging I can share my random thoughts more often. Or not.
…success.
Category Randomly
That’s a lot of email
Finally got fed up with my unruly gmail account and moved everything to the archive. Even with all the messages I’ve deleted over time, I still ended up archiving 27,950 emails. Damn.
In other news, obviously got a lot going on that’s kept me from sharing lately. Will try and do a little better.
Google Wave Blogging
*Note: If you don’t have a wave preview account, you can’t see the wave integration. Just me screwing around.
…Removed. Testing complete
Leave Our Body Thetans Alone
I fear the Scientologists will call forth Xenu to settle this dispute.
Re: Pennington
As a quick follow up to my previous post, it must feel kind of weird in Atlanta Sheriff Richard Pennington’s shoes these days. After pulling successful stints in DC and New Orleans, cities with much more prevalent violent crime “issues” than Atlanta, Pennington’s got to be perplexed by the heat he’s catching in Atlanta. Or maybe not… I’m not a mind reader. Maybe it explains Pennington’s reaction to the public outcry. Maybe it doesn’t.
I do find it a little ironic though that Pennington was lauded for his work bringing down crime rates in some very tough cities, but is being panned here for basically doing the same thing. The rates of crime really took a dip when he showed up on the scene in 2002, and while he’s not responsible for all the goodness, it all happened on his watch.
Not defending or justifying, it just occurred to me when I was finished up the other post that Pennington was the Sheriff when I lived in NOLA. I haven’t taken the time to look it up or anything, but I bet Atlanta was a relative Disney World compared to the violent crime rate of New Orleans at the time.
Bring Back Capitalism
As I pulled into Beverage World to pick up a six pack of cold beer, I noticed a truck in the parking lot with a huge bumper sticker that read “Bring Back Capitalism”. This gentleman was presumably in the privately run store purchasing some sort of libation made and sold by a private brewer. Like a lot of the “Don’t let the government come between me and my Medicare” folks, this dude needs to spend a bit more time with Proverbs’ 17:28.
Just in time for hurricane season
I lived in NOLA for a few years in my younger days. I’m not a native, but I have relatives in Baton Rouge and a strong connection to the area that goes all the way back to my early childhood. I love that place. In 2007, I went back and had the opportunity to work on a Habitat for Humanity home in St. Bernards Parish. I saw first hand what a devastated post-Katrina New Orleans looked like – and that was nearly 2 years after the storm. The house we worked on was in a distressed area even before Katrina, and the street was about 10 feet underwater when the storm passed.
That’s why I get royally pissed when dicks like this continue to perpetuate zombie lies. It’s especially maddening when said dick has no clue about the area or circumstance beyond the teevee, a cruise ship, and google earth. I mean, really, it’s a level of wankery I’ve almost never seen before.
Diseased.
(h/t to grift’s tweet)
Things which make Erick Erickson’s head explode
For nearly one-out-of-three voters (32%), Jimmy Carter is the living ex-president who has done the best job since leaving the White House, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
George W Bush will rise in the rankings when the genuis of clearing brush in Crawford is finally revealed.
Deep Thought
It’s time the cops tase somebody at these healthcare townhalls so the media will cover them.
