Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Month: September 2005

  • Rumsfeld in the ‘Eighties

    I was working on Saturday at the Reference desk on an obituary search for somebody. At SPL we do this for people doing Geneology research, search the Spokesman Review for obits, since we have a run of it since forever-ago. I was kind of enjoying it because I was searching the paper from 1980..It was…

  • it’s been too long

    Bush sends 7,000 troops for Katrina relief – Yahoo! News acknowledging the initial federal relief effort for Hurricane Katrina was unacceptable, said on Saturday he will send 7,000 additional troops to storm-ravaged region. No shit! It took him five days to tour the site! Five days! Five days to get his ass in gear and…

  • This is a good editorial

    A Can’t-Do Government – New York Times Before 9/11 the Federal Emergency Management Agency listed the three most likely catastrophic disasters facing America: a terrorist attack on New York, a major earthquake in San Francisco and a hurricane strike on New Orleans. “The New Orleans hurricane scenario,” The Houston Chronicle wrote in December 2001, “may…

  • so sad

    Bodies, gunfire and chaos in New Orleans’ streets – Yahoo! News Rotting bodies littered the flooded streets of New Orleans on Thursday and escalating violence threatened all-out anarchy as thousands of survivors of Hurricane Katrina pleaded to be evacuated, or even just fed. The historic jazz city has fallen prey to armed looters since Katrina…