Even if this hurricane doesn’t grow beyond current levels. it could wipe out what’s left.  Everything was weakened and undermined by Katrina, and things are largely as they were after the storm left.  Sad…

For those who are gaydar-challenged, a nifty little device has come out (haaaaaahahahahaha) that confirms what you think you may already know.

Thanks to Mr.

reddywhip

 for making it HTML/LJ friendly:

The Food tasting meme

1. Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2. Bold all the items you.ve eaten.
3. Cross out any items that you would never consider eating (or eating again)
4. Optional extra: Post a comment http://www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

To make the filling out of this form and generating the HTML for it a bit easier, reddywhp has played around with some PHP. Go to http://reddywhip.org/lj/foods/ and fill it out there. After filling it out, you will be given the code to copy and paste into your blog.

Livejournal users, remember to use your LJ-Cuts!

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth $120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frog’s Legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

Damn, I’m feeling feisty today…

Yet another brilliant point, this time from Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russia. 

For those who still have their political heads up their ass in this country are not familiar with this story, Russia is attacking the very small country of Georgia in retaliation for an attack on aircraft.  Georgia fired first, yes.  Bush Co. has decided to ramp up rhetoric in staunch support of it’s Georgian ally (read: Georgia sent a couple of thousand soldiers to fight in Iraq among the “Coalition of the Willing”). 

Bush chastised Putin (quoted from the Huffington Post):

“I’ve expressed my grave concern about the disproportionate response of Russia and that we strongly condemn the bombing outside of South Ossetia,” Bush told NBC Sports.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin criticized the United States for viewing Georgia as the victim, instead of the aggressor, and for airlifting Georgian troops back home from Iraq on Sunday.

“Of course, Saddam Hussein ought to have been hanged for destroying several Shiite villages,” Putin said in Moscow. “And the incumbent Georgian leaders who razed 10 Ossetian villages at once, who ran elderly people and children with tanks, who burned civilian alive in their sheds — these leaders must be taken under protection.”

You can read the whole story here at The Huffington Post.

My friend, <lj user=”opsmainframe”> made a profound statement today about replacing trees when a company mows ‘em down:

“That’s like having a baby just cause you reversed over a pedestrian.”

Point brilliantly made, mate.

*edit*  To avoid continued arguments, let me explain that this was a comment made which I felt fit well with the extreme fundamentalist sides on the issue of reforestation and “eco-awareness”.  The most extreme eco-fundamentalists (terrorists) and the most extreme religious fundamentalists (terrorists) share the same opinion about their cause du-jour.  Eco’s feel that trees are sentient life that must be defended against victimization, and they put their life on the line - and destroy property - to defend that.  Jesus freaks feel the same way about the zygote.  Unfortunately, they don’t put themselves on the line - they would rather bomb clinics and kill doctors who perform abortions.

That is the context for which I felt this statement was brilliant.

John Edwards and his $500 haircuts are the least of his worries…smarmy bastard.  JUST LIKE MCCAIN, who had not even finalized his divorce from his first wife (who he abandoned when she was severely injured while he was off to war) when he married his second wife. 

Sanctity of marriage, y’all.

I’m SO voting for Paris Hilton...

Go, PINK!