Gustav

Hey-Happy Labor Day to those in labor. The rest of us are staying home enjoying one last day of Staycation. Hmmm, no comment necessary on that one. On a completely tangential note, yesterday was spent watching Hurricane Gustav churn, slouch and twist and the general suck-uppery of the 'authorities' (I don't want to be arrested as a terrorist for naming names and Camp Guantanamo is definitely NOT optimal for a quickie vacation at this time of year even if it is FREE)in homage to the cluster-fuck we call Katrina. Lots of time has been spent this go-round by Deathwishers Jim Cantore of The Weather Channel, Anderson 360 Cooper'on the ground' and at times nearly in the air giving us more news than we could possibly ingest, digest and regurgitate to others as that nasty little piece of us secretly hopes we see THE LATEST DISASTER OF THE CENTURY. Earlier today I blew a tiny bit of coffee out of my ears when Cantore jokingly said words to the effect that this is not a good time to look for a beignet. Well, hardy har har for the worst joke of the day. The rest of it is just fluff and stuff except the part where Your President said he wouldn't be able to attend the RNC due to the impending storm. Hilarious-he just didn't want to get pelted with silence-Lord knows he's accustomed to awkward moments just after he opens his mouth but silence is just deafening and he needs to keep an open ear in case his good friend Putin calls to say "hey-what's up?"

Words and phrases that need a time-out after this weekend with my super brief commentary:

'dodging a bullet' Just think about the visual of this one
'pounding the Gulf' Forgive me, but I think of sex here
'halted' misspelled by the crawlmeister on CNN as 'HAULTED' Laziness-I want that job
'vetted' Should just be permanently eliminated due to gross overuse
'what we learned today' Nothing was learned today

Oh, and by the way, this really could give Florida a temporary boost and also a bit of the real estate economy generally. If, after the worst of the storm is over and Governor Palin tidies up her inconvenient truth of the day, the best thing to do would be to simply take all of the evacuees into Florida when it is safe and put them into the unsold condos that sit empty. I think it is about an eight year oversupply right now-my business partner says real estate agents there call them 'see-throughs'-they are so empty you can see all the way through them. That will be a huge boost to Florida and it will give FEMA a lot of time to really rebuild the levees.