The Ponderer

Now that they seem to be providing an audio link to his ponderings, I have added Alan Walden's "Walden Ponderings" to my list of regular readings. I added a link to the right, if you want to check it out.
Usually I try to catch it on the radio on the way to or from work, but now thanks to the Internet, I won't have to miss any.
Alan Walden has always impressed me with just how much common sense he projects, and to his dedication to always providing the absolute best product he can. Of all the people that I don't know, I think he is at the top of my list of people that I would love to have the chance to get to meet and listen to for a while.
And yes, he is the inspiration for all those fights I started on the nest with a story that started "I have been pondering..."

Rach – Just realized he has a book that I’ll have to look for.

FEMA tapeworm plans not to evacuate New Orleans

I shit you not.
I was curious about what our friends to the south thought of our hurricane troubles up here. So I was looking at this article. However, I was having a lot of trouble reading it, since it was in Spanish. No problemo, Google to the rescue.

Well at least we have a plan for dealing with all that dirty water I keep hearing about.

Perhaps, our brothers to the south are more insightful than we give them credit for...




FEMA tapeworm plans not to evacuate New Orleans

Published - Published: 19/09/2005
WASHINGTON, 19 September. - Almost eight years ago the Congress ordered to the Federal Direction of Control of Emergencias (FEMA) that developed a plan to very hard evacuate New Orleans in case of the arrival of a hurricane, but the money was used in a study on a bridge that crosses a lake of that city, informed the authorities.The result offers more examples of the failure of the federal government to prepare itself before a massive catastrophe that could have avoided, indicated a legislator who helped to that the FEMA had the bottoms to develop an evacuation plan."they never used [ the money ] for the intention that establecio '", indicated ex- legislator republican Billy Tauzin.After the passage of the Katrina hurricane, the attention has been concentrated in the incapacity of the local and federal authorities to evacuate or to prepare themselves to help to thousands of poor men.That possibility was one of the fears that in 1997 impelled the Congress to that it allocated equipment million dollars to the FEMA.


Rach - they wern't kidding about "don't drink the water"

Wash off the dust

After a short hiatus, let's see if I can actually use this thing…

I moved a selected set of my favorites into the new ‘Links’ section.
Next, Ill register with the Bear, and then perhaps put my stories here.

Rach – wonders if I actually have much to say.

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