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This Metafilter post sums up bias in the media quite nicely.

Black people loot, white people borrow. Follow the link to the MeFi article which then links the pictures/captions in question. It _does_ look like the photographs (and captions) come from different sources, but I gotta tell you, the optics are pretty awful…

Holy s*** and shinola!

And I quote:

URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
413 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

EXTREMELY DANGEROUS HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA

DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED

MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS…PERHAPS LONGER. AT
LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL
FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL…LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY
DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.

THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL.
PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD
FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE
BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE…INCLUDING SOME
WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.

HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY…A
FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.

AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD…AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH
AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY
VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE
ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS…PETS…AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE
WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS…AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN
AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING
INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.

THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY
THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING…BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW
CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE
KILLED.

AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WATCH IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR
HURRICANE FORCE…OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE…ARE
POSSIBLE WITHIN THE NEXT 24 TO 36 HOURS.

This might start me going to church again. Especially if I get Friday’s off as a religious holiday. I think they’re on to something with their talk of the correlation between pirates and global warming…

WWFSMD?

Besides the obvious benefits of your children providing slave labour when they get old enough (I know Brad’s cabin is giong to be sweet once he has kids), there is stuff like this.

I mean the sheer joy of running up the stairs as you are about to send your kid into 15 years of therapy would be awsome. Then there is that little bit of additional joy you feel after recounting the story to your buddies over beer (again and again and again).

I can’t wait to be a parent. Awww heck, who am I kidding. I am not going to wait that long. I can’t wait to baby sit Ryan

Finally another elephant Post!

Sure elephants are big, but not as big as this..

Big isn’t your thing, but weird is, then this is for you..

$130,000 crayon drawing. Hope baby Ryan gets working soon.

If that doesn’t catch your fancy, how about getting some serious hate on for horses.

Used to be that to call something ‘extreme’, all you would have to do was add alcohol.

Extreme walking. Extreme coffee. The list goes on and on. But we’ve graduated beyond that. Been there, done that.

Somebody brought a set of extreme jenga on our most recent trip. And I’m sure you’re wondering “how could extreme could jenga be? sure, you add angles to all the blocks but come on, the game stays the same.” And you’d be right — its not that hard.

Not until you make it one-eye closed, non-dominant hand, no thumb, twin tower jenga. We’ve got just the one picture before this one came tumbling down…

(Edited: Thx to SlantyOJ for reminding me that we weren’t allowed to use our thumb either. And if you brought the tower down, you did a shot.)