After Ike

Hurrucane Ike hit Galveston and Houston yesterday and did a Job on both places. Houston is without water and power and the glass windows were blown out of a lot of downtown skyscrapers and the bill for all the damage may be 18 billion bucks, and many pages could be devoted to the wreckage from the storm. Not much of a blog writeup on such a mind boggling disaster, but at least I have noted that it happened. The web is full of news on the event. And yesterday 2 trains crashed into one another headon in LA and at least 25 people on the commuter train were killed, and the news tonight is that the commuter train engineer was text messaging right before the crash. It has been steamy and cloudy in Des Moines all weekend and the whole population seems to be in a bad mood as of now. I rented an old movie I had never seen before that seemed as if it might have some insights into Palin. The flik was Kisses for My President. Fred MacMurray was the First Husband when his wife Polly Bergen become the 1st woman president. Really cheap black and white movie that seemed like a 1964 TV movie, but it actually had some stuff in it that was a little like what has actually happened in the last few decades. Fred almost has an affair with an old girlfriend, and at the end of the movie Polly gets preggers in her middle age and resigns the presidency. Shades of Palin, Nixon, and Clinton, in a movie released in 1964. Nejad from Iran is supposedly coming back to New York for another visit. Considering all the natural and mechanical disasters that have occurred this weekend this is a very short blog entry, but all the reportage can be found on a whole bunch of professional news sites. so, this is going to be all for right now. You take care. Di di mau!