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Laura Bush – Corinna Corinna

Laura Bush – Corinna Corinna

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Laura Bush (and again, what drugs do they have her on?) referred to the hurricane Katrina as “Corinna” twice.

Laura Bush - Hurricane Corinna Corinna

It wouldn’t bother me so much except that:

1) It occurred to me that it was a Freudian slip. Whoopi Goldberg may be the only black person that Laura can think of, and she is assocated with a killer hurricane? What does that imply? Some sort of “they brought it on themselves” idea? Or should we look at the movie itself, a low-key romantic comedy, for the answers? I’d love to hear Whoopi’s opinion on this – she could write a whole routine on this one.

2) When the transcript was put on the web, they corrected her words. Hey, I listened to the clip on Randi Rhodes. She said “Corinna” – twice!

3) The other Bush woman, the mighty Barbara, had also made a very revealing statement: “What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality,” she said in a radio interview from the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. “And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this — this is working very well for them,” she said – with a laugh. (Crooks and Liars has the audio)

It reminded me of Barbara’s comments before the invastion of Iraq, when she indicated her lack of interest in the potential death toll. “Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths, and how many, what day it’s gonna happen, and how many this or what do you suppose? It’s not relevant. So, why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?”

Beautiful, beautiful minds there. Sigh. I have a pile of stuff here about FEMA and photo op fakery and some amazingly repulsive quotations, but it looks like it’s all being covered elsewhere in the blogosphere and even on some of the news – so I think I’ll skip it for today.

This afternoon, we’re doing to my nephew’s first year birthday bash. Ben picked out a great present, and we’re going to try to appreciate what we have. It’s a beautiful day in Atlanta – crisp early fall – my favorite time of the year. I’m about to turn off the computer.

After that, I will be requesting that Benevolent Deities, Inc. deliver love and necessities and all-over healing to everyone who is hurting. I’m sure they can do a better job than the government of the USA. Oh – there was a memo – it seems that Big God (of which none greater can be thought) is getting a bit…. I believe the word might be….”miffed.”

Rapture Letters

Rapture Letters

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Rapture Letters

Ok, this cracks me up.

After the rapture, there will be a lot of speculation as to why millions of people have just disappeared. Unfortunately, after the rapture, only non believers will be left to come up with answers. You probably have family and friends that you have witnessed to and they just won’t listen. After the rapture they probably will, but who will tell them?

We have written a computer program to do just that. It will send an Electronic Message (e-mail) to whomever you want after the rapture has taken place, and you and I have been taken to heaven.

Lisa Baron, PR for Ralph Reed

Lisa Baron, PR for Ralph Reed

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I try to read up on both sides of the political tension wire. Down and dirty right-wing stuff is presented here in Atlanta on the pages of the “Sunday Paper”, which looks as though it is trying to compete with “Creative Loafing.” Here you will find a column by Lisa Baron. I think it’s meant to be on marriage, at least that’s the title.

Dear friends* called my attention to a recent article called “Boredom breeds trouble when playing the singles game.” Among other things, this article tells the story of a bored Lisa Baron (nee Gimbel) trying to amuse herself while her husband (99X’s Jimmy Baron) is out of town. After ruling out any neighbors with children for socializing, she decides to drink an alarming amount of alcohol (a running theme) with her neighbor’s 25-year old son.

Like a good neighbor, he was there.

As the night progressed, I completely lost track of time. One empty beer can, six bottles of wine and fifth of scotch down, it was 11:00 pm. I heard the door unlock and in walked Jimmy. It turns out that he was able to take an earlier flight home and wanted to surprise me. Boy, was I surprised, but so was he. Why was his wife entertaining young men in his living room? I stumbled over to the door to greet with a big, sloppy hug and accompanying kiss.

Trying to explain the scene, the words came out of my mouth painfully slow. I wanted to make sure that my half-soaked brain had correctly told my mouth which words to use. “Hi honey. I’m entertaining.” I assured him that there was no need to overreact. He said that if I wanted to see overreacting, I should come home from a trip and find him drunk on the coach with a 25-year-old.

Lisa Baron has previously worked as press secretary to Georgia Rep. Saxby Chambliss, and for Ralph Reed for three years, who she left temporarily to work on George W. Bush’s inaugural committee. It looks as though she might also have been a spokesperson for the Florida republican party (in 1999) as well. What her larger background story is, I couldn’t say, but considering that her husband is reportedly a vegetarian and animal rights activist, she probably does have a fairly interesting marriage.

She’s back with Reed as “communications director” during his run for the office of Georgia’s lieutenant governor.

Why would the PR voice of the way-way-way ultra-right pseudo-christian con-artist Reed engage in and publically admit to such behavior, especially in such a forum and in a column on marriage? Let me call your attention again to the amount of alcohol and to the astounding inappropriateness of her behavior – and then remind you once again, or maybe twice, or three times again (like T did) of her position as the voice of Ralph Reed. Ralph Reed, folks. Ralph Reed.

My friends and I are weirdly fascinated. I don’t know Lisa Baron – she doesn’t really seem so much a slimy creature as, say, Ann Coulter, but what on earth is she thinking? Is it time for some sort of intervention?

I’ve been told (no claim on the truth status, it’s a rumor) that Ralph Reed is referred to as “Damien” – even by some of his cohorts. Can you just see him in the “Omen” movies, chanting “Sanguis bebimus corpus edimus Satani…”


Ok, that was gratuitous. He is scary to me, like Terry Randall or is it Randall Terry? Like Eric Roberts, or is it Eric Rudolf? These are the guys that might secretly have the middle name “Wayne.” It doesn’t help that Reed has always looked strangely familiar to me. Anyone know where he keeps his portrait?
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*T and P would want to remain anonymous, I’m quite sure.

Unusual Red Tides

Unusual Red Tides

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An unusally lethal, widespread and long-lasting red tide has been identified from northern Pinellas to northern Lee County on the Florida coast.

Diver Mike Miller struggles to convey the horror he has seen on the ocean floor. He struggles because there are only so many ways you can say dead. “I’m talking zero things are alive out there,” Miller said. “The only way to describe it is a nuclear bomb.” Miller and other alarmed divers say they have documented a dead zone 20 miles offshore in the Gulf waters from Johns Pass to Clearwater. ..

“Normally when we get a red tide, you can go a little north or a little west or south or someplace else and dive,” said Ben Dautermen, who takes divers out of Clearwater on his charter boat. “Usually it doesn’t kill every single thing.”

Red tide, an algae toxic to fish and an irritant to humans who breathe its choking vapors, has hung stubbornly to Florida’s west coast for close to three months. Miller and other longtime locals who make their living in the Gulf say it’s the worst outbreak in their experience.

Though it’s not certain that red tide killed the turtles, scientists at the Fish & Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg think the toxic algae wiped out sea life, creating the dead zone Miller and other divers discovered.

The scientists’ theory goes like this: Red tide cells don’t like to pass through water temperature differences of more than 2 degrees. Scientists think a thermocline, or zone of cold water, formed above the warmer water at the bottom, holding the algae bloom there longer than it naturally would stay.

“So the things that would not normally be affected were exposed for longer periods,” said Jeremy Lake, spokesman for the institute.

Harmful algal bloom forecasting and mapping for Florida

A similar red tide has decimated the New England shellfish industry this year.