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I would like to apologize for all my comments which made it seem as though I didn't believe the BushCo was moving fast enough to address the Katrina situation in NOLA. It turns out they are already taking advantage of this opportunity to start handing out taxpayer dollars to their freinds, specifically Halliburton. That's right, contracts are already in the hands of Halliburton. Seen the VP lately?
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050904/ap_on_bi_ge/katrina_halliburton_hk3_1
By the way, look up the former scandals about that company and you'll find all funds have been released - the admin waited until the fickle public forgot about the stolen funds, and gave them right back.

BushCo is trying to delay an investigation into the failures to NOLA, while the media machine tries to blame victims and the NOLA officials. They know that within days the USian public will not remember this and their feelings will be focussed on the latest reality show.

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Oh poop on a stick.
I just came back from my interview.
The location...was across the street from the Green Lantern. Oh be-have! It's a great place to be, lined by quiznos, blimpies, and Jerry's - no shortage of sandy witches.
The interview didn't go well. I got nothing positive from the guy's body language, and he asked me questions I could not answer. He didn't seem thrilled with my lack of DULL HR experience (bens, classification) and asked me to know a case name and CFR #s off the top of my head. I write and research, I do not have a reason to memorize things. Ugh. Hope my friend has a lot of input, because I'm not confident after the interview.
Of course I did good on the parts where I could draw in my mgt and ER experience.
I won't hear back for at least 1.5 weeks, and if I hear back it only means I'm one of 2-3 called back to interview with the Director.

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I don't want an ipod. I don't want a super-small ipod. I don't want an ipod that is a phone. I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them, Sam I am. I bought a tiny player, from memorex, and downloaded a few hours of music onto the thing. I hardly ever listened to it. The most I used it was walking to work, but not hearing stuff outside me freaked me out a bit. I used it in the gym, but preferred to hear the music playing that others hear even if a lot of the songs suck. I don't want to not hear what is going on around me. I don't want to shut out the world. I don't want the things I enjoy to be hidden from others. I don't want to isolate myself even more. I want to be aware of the world around me, and to interact with it even at the most minimal level. Even if I wanted to shut out the world, I don't know that buying into a monopoly (a small one granted, since their take over the world plans failed) is cool. I don't think that having the same goddamn product that every rich boy and girl and their mom has straped to their arm or tucked in their pocket is cool. I'm sick of white earbuds, moreso when you recognize that they don't face the right way and therefore hardly deliver bass to the eardrum. I don't want an ipod.

The IT guy who fixed my computer poked the lcd screen with a blue pen. It's bad enough having a blue ink mark on my screen - worse when you're thinking "How could an IT guy sent here to service the computer do something more ignorant than the average user might do? Oh yeah - they contracted this out to "save money."