“We all know that there were failures at every level of government: state, federal and local. At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.”
The congressman is William Jefferson, D-La.
A military truck, a helicopter and a half dozen military police were employed for rescuing a laptop, three suitcases and a box.
The details here.
Link, thanks to Drudge Report.
There was a large power outage in Los Angeles. More coverage on Bush’s mishandling of this emergency at Patterico.
Rushdie calls for Reform Muslims:
“There are hundreds of thousands of Muslims in Britain who do not follow their religion as strictly as do the older generations . . . We are the mainstream Muslims who are keen to live in peace and harmony with other faith groups, feel proud of being British and are patriotic . . . I know of no organisation that represents the secular and liberal Islam that the vast majority of Muslims follow.”
(Hat tip: Dinocrat)
Today I found an automatic vending machine that ‘da il resto’ (gives change). I was so happy! Most automatic vending machines in Italy don’t, so if you buy a 30 cent cup of coffee and use a 50 cent coin to pay for it, you lose 20 cents. Imagine if you only have a pocket full of 1 Euro or 2 Euro coins ?
The salaries in Italy are already low, so that donating 70 cents or 1 euro and 70 cents to a vending company that makes thousands of dollars unfairly taking hard working folks money is a crying shame.
I started thinking of my pre-Italy life in the US. I have never seen an automatic vending machine there that states that it does not give change. No person would use it if it did. In Italy, where being treated badly is considered normal, they are so used to machines that don’t give change it doesn’t even cause a reaction..
Hope that some of the money given to Red Cross won’t be wasted this way.
