We need to show the faces behind the faxes and the emails and the phone calls.  Show that we are mothers, fathers, business owners, writers, tech people, people of all races, creeds, religions, you name it.  It would be nice if we could get people from all 50 states.

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We had a great crowd of Tribbers and dKos people.  It was great to finally put faces to screennames.

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For your reading pleasure I bring you the transcript from the show:

Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said it all, starting his news briefing Saturday afternoon: "Louisiana is a city that is largely underwater..."

Well there's your problem right there.

If ever a slip-of-the-tongue defined a government's response to a crisis, this was it.

The seeming definition of our time and our leaders had been their insistence on slashing federal budgets for projects that might've saved New Orleans. The seeming characterization of our government that it was on vacation when the city was lost, and could barely tear itself away from commemorating V.J. Day and watching Monty Python's Flying Circus, to at least pretend to get back to work. The seeming identification of these hapless bureaucrats: their pathetic use of the future tense in terms of relief they could've brought last Monday and Tuesday -- like the President, whose statements have looked like they're being transmitted to us by some kind of four-day tape-delay. CONTINUED BELOW:

This is a new DC Metro bus line that goes from one side of the city to the other.

Is it me or does it look like the Jesus fish is on the side of the bus?

Sorry for the short diary, just not feeling verbose.

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Something to think about before going into the flip zone:  who or what inspires you to garden?  Whether you container garden or have acres of land, why do you get your hands dirty and do potentially back breaking work?