Thanks for the Heads-Up, Guys. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ridge, Mueller. Is there anyone who has not warned us of Armageddon over the past few weeks? As far as I can tell, the only slacker in this White House game of Wag the Dog is Spot.


You don't have to be a cynic to believe that the point of the warnings is not to save lives so much as to save political hides. After all, we can't go about our daily business much differently just because of these dire pronouncements. Nor have they budged the Homeland Security Office's color-coded "threat level" from its weaselly yellow. What this orchestrated chorus can do is guarantee that we duly credit the Bush administration for giving us a heads-up should disaster strike between now and Election Day 2004.

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Our house is thrilled that Skyler will be entering high school in the fall. It was such a stressful eighth grade for us all. And she still needs to go to summer school. She's entering a time in her life where she'll come in contact with lots of influences--- both good and bad. So many teens her age (14) have already been in trouble with drugs and gangs, etc. The only rehab I see in her future is the "Facility For Teens Hooked On Phonics".

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Ever notice how some bloggers play the "blog game"? Some of the bloggers just keep linking to each other with their mutual admiration society that it doesn't leave much room for objectivity. Then there's the true independant individuals who stand alone and play by their own rules and could care less who's reading their words. Most bloggers are independant people and very intelligent. I rejoice when I find these bloggers with no agenda. Danelle's is one of the most recent ones I've seen.

There is SO much talent in the weblog community. Real design artists and great writers. I wish I had time to read them all. Sigh.....

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Fighting to Live as the Towers Died

From their last words, a haunting chronicle of the final 102 minutes at the World Trade Center has emerged, built on scores of phone conversations and e-mail and voice messages. These accounts, along with the testimony of the handful of people who escaped, provide the first sweeping views from the floors directly hit by the airplanes and above.


On this Memorial Day weekend, there's a moving story and lots of photos today in the New York Times about the first 102 minutes of the WTC attack. I am surprised that it's still as heart-wrenching for me to read the accounts today as it was when it happened. What I need is assurance that this can never happen on American soil again. And I wonder if I'll ever feel secure here anymore.

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Robot can bring you a beer AND put the baby to sleep. Men everywhere reach for wallets. From YAHOO!



[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 5.25.2002] Saturday Vent


Your driver's license in 45 minutes or it's free. Now if we could just get them to deliver.


In case of nuclear attack, the evacuation route for all Yankees is I-285. (another never-ending rant of North V South)


I think Darva Conger is now in her 17th minute of fame and needs to quit.


Will you men quit telling me you're in the middle of getting a divorce? I'm in the middle of losing weight, but until we both are finished, I am fat and you are married.


The Phoenix FBI agent who wrote the memo on Arabs in flight training will probably be demoted now that he's embarrassed his superiors.


We need an emergency plan to protect Atlanta's key landmarks -- the Varsity, the Big Chicken and the Krispy Kreme on Ponce.


A sampling taken from the Atlanta paper's Daily Vent section.

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