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Waiting for Fitzgerald

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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Homer, pick a title

Waiting for Fitzgerald.

A truly awesome public servant

Ignore the fact he's a Democrat, tapped by another Democrat, and just admire State Representative Rick Noreiga:

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Noriega, who returned to Texas from Afghanistan Aug. 2, had been trying to make dinner plans with Mayor Bill White when he got a call from the mayor's office on Aug. 31.

"I'm thinking we're going to decide if it's going to be Italian food or Mexican food," Noriega said.

Instead, the mayor asked Noriega to join in on an 8 a.m. logistics meeting the next day, saying he wanted to tap into the lieutenant colonel's military experience in preparing to house evacuees.

Noriega told White he'd do whatever was needed, although he didn't realize at the time the magnitude of the effort White wanted to put together.

Noriega arrived at the convention center at 11 a.m. on Sept. 2. By 6 p.m., the George R. Brown was operational, with nearly 1,000 beds set up and a team of plumbers working to install 80 showers.

The next morning, the shelter was up and running.

"There's a lot of anxiety when you see buses roll up and no one knows what to expect," Noriega said. "This is a four-star shelter. It's been quite remarkable."

[...]

Manning the shelter is a round-the-clock duty. Noriega has only been home once in the past 12 days.

And as soon as he and his wife, Melissa, put their son to bed and were enjoying some quiet time, the phone rang. It was a conference call with the Red Cross, which lasted until after 1 a.m.

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White tapped Noriega to run the facility just as he was about to return to his job at CenterPoint Energy.

The mayor asked CenterPoint's CEO if Noriega could be assigned to the evacuee effort at the convention center for 30 days.

"I still have a mission to serve," Noriega said.

Noriega breaks the mission into phases: The first was taking care of evacuees' immediate needs. Last week was focused on social services. This week he is in "demobilization," preparing to close the shelter as guests — that's what they call evacuees at the convention center — return to their homes or become Houstonians.

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Penske
Notwithstanding my obviously facetious post, I have no problem condemning Helms' statement. It's exactly the thing I was talking about in my earlier post about the Dimwits degradation of decorum and respect for institution in our society. And further, it may have violated the statute in question. It appears that the Secret Service investigated the Helms trheat and their was no recommendation for prosecution. There should have been a censure.

As there should be for Landrieu. Can you admit that, or is Ty the only liberal here with any integrity?

Sure, if you're happy to admit that the failure of Republicans to call for Helms being jailed (as you have for Landrieu) constitutes an equivalent failure, and contribution to the degradation and respect for institutions in our society.

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Waiting for Fitzgerald.

I don't understand what this means.

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
I don't understand what this means.

egad, do I need it to be babyjesus this, babyjesus that?

Godot/Fitzgerald
eternal wait
bunch of bullshit while doing so.

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
I don't understand what this means.

Wait. i thought we made a rule that you can't win a K race with a "filler" post. If a non-substantive post goes in at 5000, isn't 5001 supposed to get the gold?

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
egad, do I need it to be babyjesus this, babyjesus that?

VLADIMIR:
Ah yes, the two thieves. Do you remember the story?
ESTRAGON:
No.
VLADIMIR:
Shall I tell it to you?
ESTRAGON:
No.
VLADIMIR:
It'll pass the time. (Pause.) Two thieves, crucified at the same time as our Saviour. One—
ESTRAGON:
Our what?
VLADIMIR:
Our Saviour. Two thieves. One is supposed to have been saved and the other . . . (he searches for the contrary of saved) . . . damned.
ESTRAGON:
Saved from what?
VLADIMIR:
Hell.
ESTRAGON:
I'm going.
He does not move.
VLADIMIR:
And yet . . . (pause) . . . how is it –this is not boring you I hope– how is it that of the four Evangelists only one speaks of a thief being saved. The four of them were there –or thereabouts– and only one speaks of a thief being saved. (Pause.) Come on, Gogo, return the ball, can't you, once in a while?
ESTRAGON:
(with exaggerated enthusiasm). I find this really most extraordinarily interesting.
VLADIMIR:
One out of four. Of the other three, two don't mention any thieves at all and the third says that both of them abused him.
ESTRAGON:
Who?
VLADIMIR:
What?
ESTRAGON:
What's all this about? Abused who?
VLADIMIR:
The Saviour.
ESTRAGON:
Why?
VLADIMIR:
Because he wouldn't save them.
ESTRAGON:
From hell?
VLADIMIR:
Imbecile! From death.
ESTRAGON:
I thought you said hell.
VLADIMIR:
From death, from death.
ESTRAGON:
Well what of it?
VLADIMIR:
Then the two of them must have been damned.
ESTRAGON:
And why not?
VLADIMIR:
But one of the four says that one of the two was saved.
ESTRAGON:
Well? They don't agree and that's all there is to it.
VLADIMIR:
But all four were there. And only one speaks of a thief being saved. Why believe him rather than the others?
ESTRAGON:
Who believes him?
VLADIMIR:
Everybody. It's the only version they know.
ESTRAGON:
People are bloody ignorant apes.

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Wait. i thought we made a rule that you can't win a K race with a "filler" post. If a non-substantive post goes in at 5000, isn't 5001 supposed to get the gold?

you'd have to delete posts to get that result. Who are you, Ty?

BTW, why would Hillary introduce a bill setting up a Katrina Commission? story

I thought she was from New York?

And, on that count, why would I (living in DC) get a fundraising letter from her Senate campaign? (Don't even know the threshold answer to that one--probably cheaper to mail to everone in DC that figure out who's a registered democrat)

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
[dialog]

shouldn't that be about 20 posts? And include pictures?

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
shouldn't that be about 20 posts? And include pictures?

You're just trying to get Ty to delete me.

Slippery Slope - my favorite

Penske

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It absolutely does. The liberals seek to throw out any sense of morality, decency, and decorum, because any lit bit of it threatens the boundaries of their faux-intellectually elite rude boorishness.

Its like the NARAL strategery on abortion. Abortions in the 39th week?!!? We can't prohibit those, its the woman's right to choose. Any infringement is a slippery slope. Disgusting.

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Kind of like the NRA position with gun control. "If we outlaw cop kiling bulletes (armour piercing bullets) eventually they will ban all hand guns".

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
You're just trying to get Ty to delete me.

No, that sounds relatively interesting. I'm willing to return the ball* on those.

* This phrase should be used wherever possible. It is a very fecund phrase.

Dikes or civil liberties

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Hors Categorie

Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Messing with your cake
Posts: 6022
Simply Classless Post #4996

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Originally posted by Penske_Account

Its like the NARAL strategery on abortion. Abortions in the 39th week?!!? We can't prohibit those, its the woman's right to choose. Any infringement is a slippery slope. Disgusting.
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Aren't you confident they'll just rot in hell for this? Why do we need to regulate?

Spanky?

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Why do I feel like my mother is calling me?

What did I do?