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  Do any white people live in New Orleans?

  by sonnyboy in

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  i've never been there myself, but every single person being shown on the news is black.

  wading through the streets, stranded on rooftops, etc.

  i'm not sure if the media is just focusing on certain areas of new orleans or if it's a predominantly african american city.. the only footage i've seen other than this has been mardi gras and that consists mostly of tourists.

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  I kept saying yesterday: why didn't these people LEAVE????? I was really irked.

  Then, I watched some of the interviews, and read some of the interviews...a lot of people couldn't leave. They didn't have a way out of the city. For those of us that have been to New Orleans, it is a bit difficult to get out if you don't have a car or cannot pay to leave on a bus, etc. I was told that the government was offering to bus people out for free, but I bet there was some percentage of people that were not aware of it.

  There definately were the stubborn...they were fools to stay. And, you know, I really think it would be foolish to try to build the city as it was. I think it is high time to think about possibly moving back the city, and filling in some of the area.

  It just drives me crazy when you see this kind of devastation...the loss of life could have been minimized if people had listened. I hope we learn a lot from this one and make better civil engineering decisions in the future with our coastal communities...

  Valis...I hope your aunt is okay. My stepkids grandmother was in Port Sulphur, but left. The house she was in and the house across the street where they used to live is gone. They lost a lot of toys and things...who cares about that. I don't like their grandmother, but I am so relieved she is okay.
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  Is it crazy at the gas pumps in your State?

  by LyinEyes in

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  me and the kids went to rent movies and noticed that there were long lines of people waiting for gas.

  we live in shreveport/bossier louisiana about five hours north of new orleans.

  we do have tons of evacuees here and so i understand it is going to be busier here than usual.. people were breaking lines to get gas tonite, and you could feel the tension in the air.

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  Well...I got about $20 of gas this afternoon at 2.71 at Sam's club...but then, my husband came home later and asked me to fill up the van and the car because it is just going to get so out of hand...so I go back out again...thank goodness it had only gone up 1 cent since the afternoon.

  All in all, I spent a total 106 on gas between both vehicles today. But we both expect gas to get up to $3 in the near future, so we had to get it cheap while we could. There were fairly long lines when I went, but it wasn't too crazy.

  What WAS crazy though is the difference in price at different stations. 2.71 was the lowest I saw in Plano, but I drove by others at $2.90...and at one intersection, there was one station that had gas for 2.71 and diesel for 2.69, but across the street the gas was 2.89 and the diesel 2.49...go figure.
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  Everyone here from Louisanna, Missippi, etc okay??

  by Eyebrow2 in

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  i know most of those you in the the path of katrina probably cannot even see this right now...but i hope you are all okay.. my stepkids used to live in port sulphur, la...thank god they don't any more, but their grandmother still does.

  i just got off the phone with their mom, and her mother and brother are okay...they are up somewhere safe in missippi, but their house is completely gone...i hear that whole parish is in really bad shape, as bad or even worse than new orleans.. i see bryan is safe...and if any of you know of others that are in that area, if you know they are safe, please let us know.. maybe this latest hurricane will convince la and other areas to rethink developement in such flood zones...so next time the devastation in loss of life and property isn't so extreme.. i hope you and your families are all okay..

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  I know most of those you in the the path of Katrina probably cannot even see this right now...but I hope you are all okay.

  My stepkids used to live in Port Sulphur, LA...thank god they don't any more, but their grandmother still does. I just got off the phone with their mom, and her mother and brother are okay...they are up somewhere safe in Missippi, but their house is completely gone...I hear that whole parish is in really bad shape, as bad or even worse than New Orleans.

  I see Bryan is safe...and if any of you know of others that are in that area, if you know they are safe, please let us know.

  Maybe this latest hurricane will convince LA and other areas to rethink developement in such flood zones...so next time the devastation in loss of life and property isn't so extreme.

  I hope you and your families are all okay.
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  Americans, would you buy a car this small to save on gas?

  by Elsewhere in

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  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/a30439-2004dec27.html.

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  No, I wouldn't...if I had to get something THAT small, I would just get a bicycle and attach an xtracycle to it:
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  Useful website for those that plan & cook meals for the household

  by Eyebrow2 in

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  http://www.mealsmatter.org .

  this is a free site, and has a really cool meal planning tool.

  you can add recipes, or select the ones from their database and plan out meals for the week..and then add the ingredients to a shopping list.

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  This weekend I am going to ask each of my kids to pick which recipe they would like to appear on the meal plan. It is sad, but sometimes I have a hard time remember who likes what, hahah.

  Maybe using this I can assign cook nights to the husband, my son and my sister....now THAT would be sweet hahah

  =)
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  Useful website for those that plan & cook meals for the household

  by Eyebrow2 in

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  http://www.mealsmatter.org .

  this is a free site, and has a really cool meal planning tool.

  you can add recipes, or select the ones from their database and plan out meals for the week..and then add the ingredients to a shopping list.

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  http://www.mealsmatter.org
  

  
  This is a free site, and has a really cool meal planning tool. You can add recipes, or select the ones from their database and plan out meals for the week..and then add the ingredients to a shopping list.

  I know it isn't that exciting, hahah...but this is a huge help to those of us that need a little help in getting organized for grocery shopping and meal planning. This is the best free site I have seen for it, so thought I would pass it along...I find it helps in the budgeting area too, because I have a good idea of what I need to spend to buy groceries for next week's meals.
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  Here is another reason to celebrate on December 25th

  by Eyebrow2 in

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  okay....i tried reading the whole thread about not taking christ out of xmas http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/97085/1.ashx, but really, no, that is just too much to read through...and i figured no one would both to see what i had written anyway...so here are a few other reasons for those of you to celebrate on dec 25th if you don't have "christ in your christmas".

  i suppose if you don't have christ in your christmas we could call it "christmas lite" or "christ free christmas" "nonchrist latte with half decaf".

  anyhoo.... 1. isaac newton's bday...a giant in math and phyics .

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  We should start a list of good xmas recipes...."Xmas-Newton-Lite" recipes...maybe put in an archive file some where...very good idea.

  Another reason to celebrate on Dec 25th:

  ALL THE GOOD FOOD....almost as good as turkey day
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  You Won't Believe....

  by RichieRich in

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  i don't have much time but... .

  i met with the elders, and they restored all my priviledges!!!!.

  haha!!!

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  I don't know whether to laugh or be sad for you hahah.

  Maybe you should say, well since you took my privillages away, I discovered I really didn't miss them all that much, so you can keep them.
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  Here is another reason to celebrate on December 25th

  by Eyebrow2 in

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  okay....i tried reading the whole thread about not taking christ out of xmas http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/97085/1.ashx, but really, no, that is just too much to read through...and i figured no one would both to see what i had written anyway...so here are a few other reasons for those of you to celebrate on dec 25th if you don't have "christ in your christmas".

  i suppose if you don't have christ in your christmas we could call it "christmas lite" or "christ free christmas" "nonchrist latte with half decaf".

  anyhoo.... 1. isaac newton's bday...a giant in math and phyics .

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  Dan-O

  thanks for the clarification on Clara Barton...I stand corrected...this is what I get for relying on accessing the files in the back of my skull. How annoying...as soon as I read your post, I thought "oh god...I knew that, I am such a dolt. What was I thinking!" This is what I get for not thinking before posting hahah. My bad...

  I found the bdays with this site.

  http://www.who2.com/birthday/25december.html

  And oooo the egg nog....i do love a good nog. sigh.
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  Taking back my lawn

  by Scully in

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  my family spends a lot of time on grooming our lawn, hedges and flowerbeds.

  we live near a main street and there is a path beside our house that is often used by dog owners as part of their dog walk.. i don't know how many times i've watched people allow their dogs to urinate on our hedges and defecate on our grass, when the public park is just a few feet away.

  they think that poop-n-scooping is the limit of their duty of neighbourliness.. today, i had enough.

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  It didn't help that my husband would pet the damn cat every time he came to the door looking for attention hahah.

  We finally agreed that if he is in the driveway, okay, but shoo him away if he is in the back yard.

  We live in a neighborhood where people don't seem to understand what leash laws are. Last year and the year before my kids would often come home from school upset because of a few big dogs that were roaming around. (no matter how friendly a german shepard is, if you are a little kid, they are damn scary looking) So far, it hasn't been so bad this year, I think enough of us parents complained to the police about it.