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Terry at Nitpicker has a long post, Memories on the reaction among the wingnuts to the Big Dog pointing out what an incompetent the Shrubbery has been.

It seems like they forget that Shrubbery blamed every that has gone wrong on the Clinton administration, or that Reagan and Bush the Elder were constantly kvetching about what Clinton was doing.

This is the same as when they claimed that only supporters of the enemy complained about American policy when there were troops in danger. Many of those making the claim are on record complaining almost daily during the Bosnia and Kosovo campaigns. A few of them were repeating Milosovic talking points as Serbian forces were shooting at American aircraft.

IOKIYAR

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In their report, Canadian warships leave U.S. Gulf Coast after finishing hurricane mission, the CBC notes:

On Wednesday, the coast guard ship was told not to unload all of its relief supplies when it was in Pensacola, since some of the items such as tents were no longer required.

Somehow I think that people in small towns in Mississippi and Louisiana would be prepared to argue that large tents are very much needed where they are, because they have no confidence anything else will be provided for them.

By now you’ve read that the FDA has declared that German and British military rations are “unfit for human consumption” and will be burned. As anyone who has ever eaten MREs will tell you there are no military rations fit for human consumption, but you eat them anyway because they will keep you alive. They are a damn sight better than FEMA promises.

No agency that permits the sale of Chicken McNuggets has the right to look down its nose at “creamed braunschweiger on toast” or “bangers with mashed peas”.

As my Mother used to tell me: “You eat those cookies and tell your Grandmother how much you love them! She thinks you like them, so she bakes them, and you will love them!” Society doesn’t always make sense, but it works.

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SciGuy points out that the thin black line that indicates the path of the eye of the storm is the center of the destruction and the most powerful part of the storm, but not the totality.

When Katrina came ashore there were hurricane force winds all the way to the Alabama-Florida border and tropical storm force winds east to Panama City, Florida. A tornado may only be a block wide, but hurricanes are corridors of destruction hundreds of miles wide.

If Rita hits Lake Charles, Louisiana, Houston to New Orleans have a problem.

Right now it looks like Northstar of The People’s Republic of Seabrook picked the right time to visit Virginia and Steve Bates of The Yellow Doggerel Democrat is breathing a little easier.

I’m reaching an age when I will evacuate because I’m getting really tired of dealing with the mess.

If we run through Stan, Tammy, Vince, and Wilma, they will designate the storms with the Greek alphabet. I have a problem with filing a damage claim base on being hit by a Beta hurricane. The IT and Sci-Fi jokes would be too much.

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Former Dublin tool shed snapped up for $350,000.

A 10 by 28 foot building originally used as a tool shed has sold in Dublin, Ireland for three-eights of a million dollars. There’s no yard, no famous crime was committed there, nothing of note was created there, no one famous slept there, and it’s worth $350,000!?

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