Wow - if GW calls you an "Enemy Combatant", he can put you in jail for as long as the US is at war against terrorism, with out charging you for a crime.

1) What gives him this right? I'm not talking theoretical, I'm talking something actually written down somewhere. "The president has the right to bend you over." Something like that.

2)Where does it say this is not allowed? In the constitution, in a law somewhere? Specifically, please point me there. I've been looking and I can't find it anywhere.

3) What is an 'Enemy Combatant'? Do we have a definition of that? Is that what the Japanese American citizens were during WWII in the internment camps? Enemy Combatants?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/09/09/padilla.ap/index.html

First off let me tell you that I just skimmed this artical. I was looking for something I heard about a 'magic marker evacuation plan'. It talks about it in this artical. In an odd 'tough love' or 'love and logic parenting' sort of way, I think its funny.

I don't have much of an opinion on most of the artical, but I did find the information about the evacuation plans in Virginia interesting.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9271757/

One of the reasons

Here is one of the infinite reasons the water in New Orleans should NOT be pumped back into lake until it is properly processed.

This is a bulletin published by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife

http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/apps/netgear/index.asp?cn=lawlf&pid=13&id=1123684803

...I guess this won't be a problem anymore.

I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees.

—President Bush on ABC's Good Morning America, Sept. 1, 2005

I hate being played for a fool.

"We pretty much knew this would happen somewhere along the line," Gregory W. Stone, director of the Coastal Studies Institute at Louisiana State University, said Thursday.

Wow, I guess Gregory should have called GW to let him know there was a problem.

There have been so many studies, journal articals, etc. written about the scenerio that played out in New Orleans, that it makes it all the more tragic. I can't comprehend that there wasn't even an evacuation plan in place. Go out on the net and look up information on Hurricane Pam.

This was published in National Geographic 11 months ago. Read through the whole thing. There is also a lot of information about oil and gas industries.

http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/index.html

Aside from Playboy, is there another magazine as beautiful as National Geographic?

An "Ah-Ha" Moment

I just realized that Butter-Pecan ice cream tastes so good, because it is actually butter flavored ice cream. Too bad they put pecans in it.

Impact of pumping out after the hurricane

It looks like they are just starting to pump the water out of the New Orleans. That sounds great after they have talked about the 'cess pool' and 'toxic sludge' that is in the city. However, they are pumping this water back into Lake Ponchitrain (sp). Holly crap, what is that going to do the lake? I can't imagine it would be any better to pump it into the river to send it down to the gulf.

Don't get me wrong, if I lived there I would sure as hell want the water pumped out of my street, yard, and living room. But shit, putting all of that water that is tainted with sewage, trash, oil, and chemicals back into the lake is just another environmental catastrophe in the making.

My prayers are with all of them.