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One of eight million similar stories here. What now for the city? Well as you can see (tip to Kingfish for finding the pictures), yesterday our belov'd President was hard at work:

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Humanity building project being taped for a morning televsion show, in Covington, La., Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005. Hurricane Katrina left an estimated 350,000 families homeless in the region. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Help is on the way!

Meanwhile, Poppy Z. Brite is about to move back in and the Interdictor's site is now the overall nola.us domain.

So more seriously, how's everyone doing, who's from there or around there or had relatives there etc.?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

..this reminds me of that Will Ferrell MoveOn ad from the election.

"Oh hi! Just mending some fences!"

― giboyeux (skowly), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

how am i not surprised that dubya doesn't know how to hold a hammer properly?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

hahaha I was thinking the same thing. He couldn't break a glass nail holding it like that.

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

To be fair, I'm not sure he's actually in the process of using that hammer. He's just pointing with it.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)

Wait, I have to be fair?

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Kate and I are enrolled at the U of MD for the semester and won't be going back til December. However she's heading down there tomorrow and will return with exciting pictures.

My sleazeball landlord is insisting on rent starting from Oct 1--which I'll pay because I imagine rents will be rising in the coming months, there being much less housing than there was 6 weeks ago. This annoys me.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

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"pussy."

― _, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

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Looks a bit nervous with that hammer, don' he? Biting his lip already?

Also! He's offering moral support!

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more here

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

I just read a Poppy Brite story in an anthology and wasn't crazy about it.

― andy --, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

on the left, GWB is obviously hammering a nail into his back, mistaking him for a 2x4

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

as somebody pointed out on my LJ, note Laura's MOM JEANS

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Since they didn't pour any cement, he just carved his name into the back of that one guy. (argh xpost)

― William Paper Scissors (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

apparently Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is already hard at work building a house or two for Katrina victims, in typical self-serving "look how awesome we are" manner.

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

i hate that show

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

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http://soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/oof.gif

― _, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:56 (twenty years ago)

"I'm the President, so this is allowed. Now, lean forward til I'm done."

"Yes, sir..."

― gear (gear), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

"K...I...C...K... M.... E.... heh-heh"

― _, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

anybody else read this http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2005/oct/science/pt_neworleans.html ?

― _, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Because more than 100,000 houses were flooded, Pardue says that he is now beginning to look for other chemicals that might not normally be detected in mud left behind after a flood. He is also working with horticulturists to see whether this muck, which contains salt and other chemicals, may kill off the city’s plants and trees.

“If this was a waste site, EPA would require a cleanup to a certain level before they let anyone go back in,” says Wilma Subra, president of Subra Co., Inc. To address the concerns of local residents, Subra is conducting her own tests of the sediments. She advises residents to not enter the city unless they wear a respirator, boots, and gloves. She notes that Wal-Marts within 100 miles have sold out of such equipment.

― _, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

others are pitching in, too:

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Lead singer of Pearl Jam Eddie Vedder performs at a $1,000-per-ticket Hurricane Katrina benefit at the House of Blues in Chicago October 5, 2005. All net proceeds are to benefit Habitat for Humanity, the American Red Cross and the Jazz Foundation of America. NO SALES NO ARCHIVES REUTERS/Stephen J. Carrera

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Um, you don't want to know who this guy is. Trust me.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

He's looked like that for years.

― Rotgutt (Rotgutt), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 21:49 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was gonna say. Ol' Robert's a craggy dude now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

It's been a long time.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

Haha :D

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

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