Many forget, but one of the things (besides Ross Perot, and the bogus supermarket scanner story, and his seeming unfeeling toward those who felt that the recovering economy wasn’t recovering fast enough) that resulted in George Herbert Walker Bush’s loss of his second term, was the limp response of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to Hurricane Andrew in the summer of 1992 before the election, in southern Florida. If his son is smart, he’ll have FEMA ready to aid the Gulf Coast immediately this weekend, if Charlie is even a small fraction as devastating as many are predicting.
[Update at noon Pacific Friday]
Welcome, Corner readers. It occurs to me that this is now likely to be worse than Andrew was, in terms of property damage. It’s at least as strong a storm, and there’s a lot more population in the current track. The Gulf Coast hasn’t been hit in over forty years, and there are a lot more people living there now than in the early sixties. It’s very likely to set a new record for financial losses from a natural disaster.
Alan Boyle has an email interview (something that I should have done long before now, if I hadn’t been buried in other issues recently) with John Carmack, in the wake of this past weekend’s vehicle loss (though not necessarily test failure). What was most interesting, though, was a little aside at the end of his column:
…Sunday’s explosive rocket mishap put Space Transport Corp. in the national limelight as an X Prize underdog with a can-do spirit.
The result: A slew of investors have e-mailed the cash-strapped company, saying they are interested in making an investment in the partners’ dream of developing space tourism.
“The national attention has been great. We’ve gotten a flood of e-mail, a lot from potential investors,” Space Transport vice president Eric Meier said Monday after he, company president Phillip Storm and volunteers cleaned up the wreckage and debris of Rubicon 1 on the beach near Queets.
“I’m trying to raise some money, and am responding to people who have expressed interest.”
Of course, it remains to be seen whether these were serious investors. We’ll find out in the next few weeks and months.
Alan Boyle has an email interview (something that I should have done long before now, if I hadn’t been buried in other issues recently) with John Carmack, in the wake of this past weekend’s vehicle loss (though not necessarily test failure). What was most interesting, though, was a little aside at the end of his column:
…Sunday’s explosive rocket mishap put Space Transport Corp. in the national limelight as an X Prize underdog with a can-do spirit.
The result: A slew of investors have e-mailed the cash-strapped company, saying they are interested in making an investment in the partners’ dream of developing space tourism.
“The national attention has been great. We’ve gotten a flood of e-mail, a lot from potential investors,” Space Transport vice president Eric Meier said Monday after he, company president Phillip Storm and volunteers cleaned up the wreckage and debris of Rubicon 1 on the beach near Queets.
“I’m trying to raise some money, and am responding to people who have expressed interest.”
Of course, it remains to be seen whether these were serious investors. We’ll find out in the next few weeks and months.
Alan Boyle has an email interview (something that I should have done long before now, if I hadn’t been buried in other issues recently) with John Carmack, in the wake of this past weekend’s vehicle loss (though not necessarily test failure). What was most interesting, though, was a little aside at the end of his column:
…Sunday’s explosive rocket mishap put Space Transport Corp. in the national limelight as an X Prize underdog with a can-do spirit.
The result: A slew of investors have e-mailed the cash-strapped company, saying they are interested in making an investment in the partners’ dream of developing space tourism.
“The national attention has been great. We’ve gotten a flood of e-mail, a lot from potential investors,” Space Transport vice president Eric Meier said Monday after he, company president Phillip Storm and volunteers cleaned up the wreckage and debris of Rubicon 1 on the beach near Queets.
“I’m trying to raise some money, and am responding to people who have expressed interest.”
Of course, it remains to be seen whether these were serious investors. We’ll find out in the next few weeks and months.
No one who was paying attention should have been surprised by Senator Kerry’s current public-relations problems. Emailer Mike Daily points out one of the indicators from this past spring about the “Boston Strangler” (and if true, what does that choice of code name tell us about Senator Kerry?):
If this is not atypical, and the word gets out, Tunisia could expect a huge inflow of Yankee tourist dollars. It gives one hope for ultimate victory in the war.
“Well, on any movement we would do, we are talking four or five boats going in on an engagement, we were always within 50 or 75 yards of each other. And to be perfectly honest about it, if you were to look at an overview, if your were looking for an overview of a situation, you were better off being on another boat and looking at the rest of the other boats.”
Read the whole thing.
[Update a few minutes later]
The first movie biography of John Kerry is about to come out.
…the mainstream media does not like George Bush, and they will do nothing to help him win re-election. Did you think for a minute that they would rush to cover your press conferences and report the news that the majority of Veterans cannot stand John Kerry? Did you actually believe you would be invited on