interdictor ([info]interdictor) wrote,
2005-08-27 23:05:00
Hmm. This could actually be a nasty storm.

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[info]qtguy

August 28 2005, 04:44:21 UTC 6 years ago

are you leaving this time??

[info]lemonhd

August 28 2005, 04:46:57 UTC 6 years ago

Plan to leave. Or at worst, plan to leave after it blows through.

[info]shamroq

August 28 2005, 05:57:08 UTC 6 years ago

You backpedaling little pussy....

[info]fyremaven

August 28 2005, 12:33:51 UTC 6 years ago

i didnt see your car leaving on the freeway....our local news delights in showing long shots of some freeway down your way with one side completely blocked and the other empty.

so you are staying, then?

[info]whumpdotcom

August 30 2005, 02:26:10 UTC 6 years ago

Hmm. This could actually be a nasty storm.

In hindsight, I think you won the Internet for that one.

[info]rhapsody_98

September 2 2005, 04:40:06 UTC 6 years ago

I read this one on Thursday night, and it struck me as very amusing.

[info]kalyai2113

September 2 2005, 13:59:46 UTC 6 years ago

yes definitely won the internet on that one.

[info]kingfox

September 2 2005, 15:51:06 UTC 6 years ago

Completely. The understatement with the most memorable words in LJland since ``Just to let everyone know, my mother was murdered.''

[info]kath__adoro

September 2 2005, 18:13:40 UTC 6 years ago

Bahahahaha!

[info]tx55metalgear

August 31 2005, 21:26:10 UTC 6 years ago

Thou hath stated the truth.

[info]spherissa

September 1 2005, 16:39:06 UTC 6 years ago

classic example of understatement

Anonymous

September 2 2005, 16:54:40 UTC 6 years ago

lol

lol

[info]renniedragon

September 2 2005, 19:54:02 UTC 6 years ago

This is one time I wish I had tv and not rely on internet news .. but I have been checking on New Orleans more then any other state that was hit ...

ren

[info]mne1983

September 2 2005, 19:58:49 UTC 6 years ago

Haha. Nasty storm, indeed...

[info]mcity

September 2 2005, 20:56:01 UTC 6 years ago

Well, that was ironic.

[info]galtine1

September 2 2005, 20:59:14 UTC 6 years ago

I work at HP

Hi guys, posting way back here so I can find the replies. ;-)

Saw your make-shift bed using HP packing boxes. Forwarded to our Customer Response Team that's helping Katrina-slammed customers. What are the systems that you are using? I hope HP can help out with keeping you guys up and running.

Cheers,
Sandra Childress, (contract) Administrative Assistant, San Diego, CA
sandra.childress@hp.com

[info]cidsa

September 2 2005, 21:22:13 UTC 6 years ago

Understatement of the century. GJ!

[info]vorona

September 2 2005, 23:12:40 UTC 6 years ago

I nominate that for the first line of your book on this!

[info]ratherunlikely

September 3 2005, 02:43:28 UTC 6 years ago

Hahahahahahaha, oh, brilliant! XD

[info]glass_girl

September 4 2005, 02:40:20 UTC 6 years ago

haha... no comment.....

Anonymous

September 4 2005, 23:29:44 UTC 6 years ago

Quote-of-the-century nominee

[info]pilgrim_eye

September 8 2005, 16:18:46 UTC 6 years ago

Indeed.

[info]millerwolf

September 6 2005, 11:54:34 UTC 6 years ago

I'm wondering how useful his collection of Ayn Rand books was through all of this.

By day 4, they might have made good eating for someone (or maybe useful for propping up a dead body by some desolate highway)

[info]interdictor

September 9 2005, 02:23:29 UTC 6 years ago

Never read Rand, believe it or not.

[info]millerwolf

September 9 2005, 12:18:17 UTC 6 years ago

Ayn Rand

I think that her attacks on authoritarian "communism" were really good, though Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman had made the same observations almost 20 years before.

Her problem, in my mind, was that she made elaborate semantic arguments that placed non-authoritarian leftists (beats, hippies, civil rights activists, liberals, anarchists) in the same category as the authoritarian ones (maoists, trotskyists, stalinists, leninists, social engineers). She helped convince so many people that authoritarian altruism and collectivism could never have an anti-authoritarian counterpart. Perhaps a valid point could have been made that you could not be an honest leftist while the USSR still existed - but then that meant that serious social problems in the USA would have to be ignored until the USSR finally collapsed.

What was more embarrassing to me was her defense of huge corporations (even the cigarette industry), rather than solely the small businessman. Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln all had warned people about the business trusts which would be a great danger if they got too big and powerful.
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