Fwd: Breaking News
President Bush Sells Louisiana Back to the French President Bush and a giddy Jacques Chirac shake hands on the deal. BATON ROUGE, LA. The White House announced today that President Bush has successfully sold the state of Louisiana back to the French at more than double its original selling price of $11,250,000. This is a bold step forward for America, said Bush. And America will be stronger and better as a result. I stand here today in unity with French Prime Minister Jack Sharaq, who was so kind to accept my offer of Louisiana in exchange for 25 million dollars cash. The state, ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, will cost hundreds of billions of dollars to rebuild. Jack understands full well that this one's a 'fixer upper,' said Bush. He and the French people are quite prepared to pump out all that water, and make Louisiana a decent place to live again. And they've got a lot of work to do. But Jack's assured me, if it's not right, they're going to fix it. The move has been met with incredulity from the beleaguered residents of Louisiana. Shuba-pie! said New Orleans resident Willis Babineaux. Frafer-perly yum kom drabby sham! However, President Bush?s decision has been widely lauded by Republicans. This is an unexpected but brilliant move by the President, said Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. Instead of spending billions and billions, and billions of dollars rebuilding the state of Louisiana, we've just made 25 million dollars in pure profit. This is indeed a smart move, commented Fox News analyst Brit Hume. Not only have we stopped the flooding in our own budget, we've made money on the deal. Plus, when the god-awful French are done fixing it up, we can easily invade and take it back again. The money gained from 'The Louisiana Refund' is expected to be immediately pumped into the rebuilding of Iraq. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Two Moons Passing in the Night
http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050909a.html Taking advantage of extra solar energy collected during the day, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit settled in for an evening of stargazing, photographing the two moons of Mars as they crossed the night sky. It is incredibly cool to be running an observatory on another planet, said planetary scientist Jim Bell of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., lead scientist for the panoramic cameras on Spirit and Opportunity. In this animation, both martian moons, Deimos on the left and Phobos on the right, travel across the night sky in front of the constellation Sagittarius. Part of Sagittarius resembles an upside-down teapot. Phobos is the brighter object on the right; Deimos is on the left. xponent Extraterrestrial Observatory Maru rob ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: This is to type on?
Julia Thompson wrote: My impression is that keyboards didn't always come with dedicated keys for moving the cursor, and it was on one of those that didn't that Dan first learned to use a keyboard properly I once got used to using a keyboard that had both the full NUM PAD and a full arrow pad with diagonals and a center space key. That was pretty useful, and every now and then for a game I'll miss it, then remember I can use the NUM PAD if I turn NUM LOCK off and use it. Games are the rare exception where I might turn off the NUM LOCK. Otherwise there are just so many long numbers that are much easier/quicker to type on the num pad. -- --Max Battcher-- http://www.worldmaker.net/ I have no idea what I'm doing. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Anniversary
Many people today are remembering what happened four years ago on September 11th in New York. Our family is, but we are also remembering this as the day, one year ago, when Chayla saw Wes for the last time at Camp Lejeune, just before he headed back for Iraq for his second tour. She almost missed the departure -- she'd gone off to get something for the waiting wives, as I recall, and suddenly the buses came... she just made it back in time to say goodbye to him. One month later was Wes and Chayla's first wedding anniversary. A month minus a day later Wes was gone. A year ago on this day, I thought many times of Wes on that plane. This time, I thought, he knows what he is headed into. May we all be infected with the spirit of self-sacrifice that led him there. Nick -- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages: 408-904-7198 ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
