number eight

9/8/20059/1/2006 ~ jamie ~ Leave a comment

i’m happy, i think.

i spent time during the last few days redoing the code for my site, to get rid of the frame-based navigation that was cutting edge in 1998, but now not so much. i especially thought that search engines would be able to find my site better, because with the new system of div tags, each page’s address shows in the address bar. before, it always just said “queerspace.com” no matter what page you were on.

well, i got my wish. if you google my name, i’m now the eighth most popular “jamie howard”, right behind the wrestler and the guy at christiangays.com.
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well-expressed outrage

9/7/20059/1/2006 ~ jamie ~ Leave a comment

i know i’m getting clip-happy. but there are finally things to watch in the media that have actual impact and forethought and usefulness.

keith olbermann makes sense.

another must-see. he perfectly sums up exactly what is wrong on the gulf coast of america in the aftermath of katrina.

my favorite quote?

[the government] has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water.

there’s more better. much more better.

working well for them

9/6/20059/2/2006 ~ jamie ~ Leave a comment

from an ap wire story at yahoo.com. capital letters removed.

barbara bush, who accompanied the former presidents on a tour of the astrodome complex monday, said the relocation to houston is “working very well” for some of the poor people forced out of new orleans.

“what i’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in texas. everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality,” she said during a radio interview with the american public media program marketplace. “and so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.”

um.
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please watch this clip

9/3/20059/1/2006 ~ jamie ~ Leave a comment

i’m no fan of fox news, but this clip has to be seen to be believed. it’s at the site crooksandliars.com, and it shows shepard smith and geraldo rivera getting in the face of a spin-obsessed sean hannity. it takes some time to download (i think a lot of people must be watching it) but trust me, it’s worth the wait.

fox news clip at crooksandliars.com

what’s it going to take to get these people fed? it’s been nearly a week, and people continue to die.

how is this happening?

9/2/20059/1/2006 ~ jamie ~ Leave a comment

warning: this is going to be an irrational freeform rant.

is it in the genetic makeup of the bush family to have an inability to respond to a natural disaster?

you’d think that, after his great leadership in the days immediately after 9/11, he’d have a clue. but the federal government response, and bush’s personal response, was pathetic from the start.
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