Karen at Dark Bilious Vapors has discovered the reality of Shrubbery’s “Noble Cause” in a Jim Morin cartoon.

Mark Fiore presents the future of education.

Via The Yellow Dog Blog the Pentagon’s numbers for Deployed National Guard and Reserve. [Warning PDF]

Louisiana – 4,109
Mississippi – 4,793
Alabama – 2,432
Florida – 2,985

They and the people on the Gulf Coast would really like them back now! We need them and their equipment.

CNN/Money looks at the effects of Katrina on oil and gasoline.

Our oilman pResident is apparently unaware that even if the oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve isn’t under floodwaters in the Louisiana salt mines where it’s stored, you have to have working refineries to use it. I guess no one, like our oilman Vice pResident, bothered to tell him that 9% of our refining capacity is in three units at New Orleans.

While the rest of the country is worrying about the coming increase in price of gasoline, the Gulf Coast wonders when we will get some at any price. Before the storm the pResident’s brother had a spokeweasel tell us that there was no problem with gasoline supplies on the Panhandle; it wasn’t 24 hours later that we ran out.

53^rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron [USAFR]
403^rd Wing, Keesler AFB, Biloxi, Mississippi

Hurricane Katrina Discussion Number 27

Special thanks are extended to the United States Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter crews stationed at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi Mississippi…who have been flying continuous missions through Katrina even as their families and homes are being seriously impacted by this hurricane.Forecaster Pasch

Roger that and fly safe.

Tropical Storm Warning in effect…
Hurricane Watch in effect…
Tornado Watch in effect until noon CDT today…
Flash Flood Watch in effect until Tuesday morning…