Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Decisions
I just finished reading about some folks in Texas who were once again made homeless by a hurricane. It seems their places were destroyed by hurricane Rita in 2005 and now in 2008 by Ike. Some of the folks were still living in FEMA trailer that were destroyed by Ike. One of their complaints was that insurance would be going up to high.
I can't tell you how many times I've heard about folks from New Orleans who have been made homeless - again. There's all kinds of TV shows rebuilding houses and businesses from Louisiana - This Old House being one of the latest. We still have people here up north putting together care packages to be sent down south to bail out yet another community mashed by a hurricane.
What do you expect? If I decide to build a house on a railroad track, I ought to expect it to get mashed by a train every so often. Building a house on the Gulf Coast - especially the actual coastline, you have a one hundred percent, no doubt about it, guarrantied, without question certainty you're going to get nailed by a hurricane.
I've heard suggestions that Obama should switch out Biden for Hillary - do you think Palin will decide to switch out McCain for somebody else?
| The Kalamazoo Gazette reported [Judge] Lightvoet had considered sentencing Cleland to 7 months in jail on a felony charge of retail fraud. He also faces a misdemeanor retail fraud charge and has at least six previous felony convictions. Cleland said he's trying to get out of "a really big hole." Lightvoet said it's his last chance to avoid jail.(Cleland will wear a sign on his sleeve for 7 months saying "Daddy, don't steal") |
His last chance? Geez, he's already had at least seven of them. I can see a similar article in about six years. He'll have 14 previous felony charges and the Judge will say, it's his last chance - really it is.
toe-may-toe or toe-mah-toe?
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