—“this is working very well for them.”
I took this as "them" being the evacuees, and that Mrs. Bush thought it worked for them to meet and be assisted by Houstonians they could relate to.
I'm in Houston, but I see something different, because I meet Toyota-driving soccer moms and Starbucks baristi who are volunteering.
How are other readers identifying the "them" in that sentence?
I have to ask for clarification, since I have no idea what PHB means.
Hockney Blue-Escape to the tropics with this soothing and tranquil blue-green.
The name just makes me wonder if it's losing it's hearing and busy designing opera sets.
So far I haven’t seen anyone else blogging it.
Don't we count in Live Journal as bloggers?
Is Bechtel the ur-supervillain that drives the entire superhero universe?
I was a contract accountant for Barbara Bechtel in the 1980s. Very thrifty and a micro-manager of info.
Doesn't sound supervillainy compatible to me. Unless there's a Baron Bottomline somewhere in the Marvel universe.
I was in Europe last month, where the security on trains was more than my last rail travel in 1998. The passport inspectors were armed, with a gun and a laptop. They carried the latter like a snack tray, suspended from shoulder straps. I'da laughed at that, but it's not funny at the time, and I was trying to answer in Czech which took extra energy.
The security at Frankfurt airport was even tighter than before, and they've always been one of the strictest airports I've been through. Because I was making a connection, I only went through three security checkpoints. They were taking baby strollers apart to put through x-ray. Every passenger had a wand reading, each belt was removed and inspected, and they felt our collar and cuffs.
The staff was friendly and multilingual, but the atmosphere was so serious that two children in different lines went into hysterics when it was their turn to move forward. Yes, they were also frisking the kids.
I wonder if they'll check our buttons in future.
When I departed Houston, my luggage was opened after I checked it through. TSA left a note to notify me. I'm glad my 321 page manuscript was still there, and that it didn't look like coded messages.
This year I've been to four countries, flown to the east, west, and south USA coasts, and the security measures from airport to airport are inconsistent. There's no way to plan ahead and allow time for procedures.
It takes commitment to fly nowadays. If you're a parent traveling with kids, it takes extra courage.
I enjoyed Franken's Q&A here:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030901-477919,00.html
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