Hurricane Ike was a bit of a nightmare, though compared to Katrina and New Orleans’ ordeal a mere tempest in a teapot. I was raised on Grande Isle, Louisiana (Louisiana’s lower case Galveston island) and spent the next 30 years or so dodging hurricanes; they are nothing new. As I said in my last post, the hurricane was predicted to hit West of Port Arthur. The question was always how far West. Needless to say, it wasn’t far enough.
RAMBLINGS
I was notified my contract with the project I have been working on will be terminated in a month or so. I will work on-site for another two weeks…and then be paid, but off-site, yet available for consultation via cell phone and e-mail for another couple of weeks after that before my contractual obligations are complete. I’m not disappointed; it’s been a good run, all in all. When I arrived here two years and two months ago I was the ninth person hired, and the only contract engineer. When I leave, there will be just under 90 people on the client team, over 800 design engineers, and almost 1,000 construction personnel milling around. So, yes, it’s been a good run indeed, though, unnecessarily, a rough project for me. On the other hand, not many engineers get to work from on $2.5 billion dollar mega projects from initial concept through the FEL1, 2, and 3 Stage Gates and into the EPC phase…all the while designing their department from the ground up. It was worth it, though admittedly it will take a while to get the taste of French, Indian, Belgian, and British engineers out of my mouth, no pun intended. A weird lot they can be.
I support Barak Obama.
I don’t support Obama because he is the Next Great Hopefor the GLBT wierdlings (which he won’t be), but because I would like to hope he would bring the change he so often talks about. And just what is that change? Hopefully it will be an end to the partisanship that separates our country and a move away from the general divisiveness and conservatism of the Republican party. Politics is politics and I am naively optimistic I suppose.
But when I read crap like this on ENDAblog …HERE…and this incredibly stupid piece HERE…and this bullshit HERE.
And Pam’s House Blend’s puedoscoops HERE…and this pathetic piece of useless argument HERE.
And the all knowing, “out on a limb” super freaks at The Bilerico Project HERE…and HERE… and HERE…and HERE.
And this supreme idiot HERE…
One has to wonder just what the hell drives these morons. And these are just a few of the blogs where one can see this kind of irresponsible bat dung…served up like “journalism”…for debate. BS!
I have no biological children, I am a classic transsexual, post op and it was never in the cards, ever…but I have seen both the success and heartbreaking failures of those who have done their very best and then succeeded…or failed at raising theirs. And those parents do everything they can to raise their children correctly and then simply hope for the “grace of God.” For anyone…repeat ANYONE …to stoop so low as to in any way bring the children of any of the presidential/vice-presidential candidates into the debate on any level is about as disgusting as it comes to me. Those who do that give new meaning to the social definitions of scum and low lifes.
Bringing this beautiful young lady into the political debate and process is WRONG…no matter what your ill conceived motives are…no matter what the religious right has to say about it…no matter what !
