the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[Geowhizzer]

Better keep our eyes on Hanna, Rome.  Who knows where that one will end up.

[MDS]

so wait can we send reese/cole down there

[Diomedes]

best mass produced cookie

[shorebird]

Have never had those, but if you live in Baltimore, you've had to have tried these.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Jay better keep his eyes peeled.  If it tilts 100 miles to the west then Houston could get drilled.

I'm on it. Thats why I am logged in to the net now, to see whats goin down. I flew into PHL this morning for Sat-Sun and I fly back at 0700 Monday morning. If that thing starts tracking towards Houston I am landing Monday morning, packing my shtein and going to San Antonio.

Could be an interesting week.

[shorebird]

Could be an interesting week.

You ain't kiddin'!

Very Active Atlantic Basin

[MadMarchHare]

I'm so glad we spent billions rebuilding NO, so it could be annihilated 3 years later.  Christ, that money would have been better spent in Iraq.

If those fargtards want to move back again after this, let them do it on their own dime.

[Diomedes]

It seems like such an extreme position, but really it's just common sense.  It's an awful, awful location for human habitation.  We cannot defeat the ocean, it's just not possible.  To persist in rebuilding New Orleans is folly by definition.  Sure there's lots of history, and sure lots of people are affected, but neither of these concerns change the fact that the city is located in a place where only lizards fish and birds should live.

[PhillyGirl]

why the farg are there people AGAIN refusing to evacuate? I especially like this quote:

"Really, how bad do you think it's gonna get?"

Uhhh, I don't know dipshtein, why don't you tell me when you're floating down the street?

[PhillyGirl]

Was this posted? Slain couple's very interesting will:

SLAIN COUPLE'S WEIRD WILL

By ALEX GINSBERG

Mark Schwartz and Christina-Maria Petrowski-SchwartzLast updated: 11:27 pm
August 26, 2008
Posted: 9:02 pm
August 26, 2008

They were bitter to the end - and beyond.

A Brooklyn couple slain in their home last month spoke from the grave in drafted last wills, leaving a bizarre legacy for unloved ones they detested in life.

"To my brother who I know hopes to be in my will, well, here you are," chided Mark Schwartz, 50, as he bequeathed nothing to his estranged sibling, Robert, in an unsigned April 2006 draft.

In an earlier version, Schwartz had already left his brother "the sum of zero ($0.00) Dollars," zinging, "I believe this sum is fitting, as you are probably the most greedy person I know.

"With respect to the will dated April/May 1995, . . . believe me, it's worthless, and just in case, I expressly void again," Schwartz said. "You are probably screaming and yelling by now.

But, "Robert, brothers are supposed to want each other to be the most they can be and make the most money they can. You, on the other hand, just sat in judgment of me and were always jealous.

"I, on the other hand, only wished you the best and to win the lottery.

"So, Robert, you have a choice, you can come to my grave site to say hello out of love or piss on me for not giving you money."

Schwartz's wife, Christina-Maria Petrowski-Schwartz, 48, first expressed her love for her children, Melissa and Nicholas. She then took an apparent shot at her first husband, James, leaving him no cash but decreeing that a "gift" of $10,000 be made in his name to a battered-women's shelter.

Her ex declined comment last night.

Her own family - with the exception of a favored brother, Christian - fared little better.

"With regard to my estranged family who were never there for myself or my children, but always there for their distorted version of Catholicism, I give and bequeath the sum of $1 each to my" mother, father, two brothers and sister "and request that they donate same to their precious church to whom they had a greater allegiance, than to their first child and sister."

In several drafts, Schwartz lays out his wish to be outfitted in scuba gear "and cast over the side of a vessel into the ocean where my body may rest undisturbed by any persons in the deep."

"Although I recognize that this request may very well violate certain . . . laws of the State of New York and Federal as well as multiple other jurisdictions, I trust that my Executor and friends will ignore same," he wrote, adding that his estate could be used to pay for any legal problems.

In a later draft, he urges his friends - should burial at sea be impossible - to come up with something befitting his character.

"Perhaps a beach party with strip[p]ers," he wrote.

Schwartz also lays out $25,000 for each of two friends - Steven Rezac and Peter Klages - but cautions them not to tell their spouses.

"This gift is conditioned upon each of them not telling their respective wives of said gift so they may not get their hands on same," Schwartz decreed.

Schwartz and Petrowski-Schwartz were found shot dead in their home on July 16. Cops said the estranged brother is not a suspect.


Because none of the draft wills is a signed original, none is expected to have any legal bearing.

Robert Delvicario, a friend of the couple, was named executor, given $50,000 and left Schwartz's collection of guns and knives. Police sources have named Delvicario as a person of interest, but he has not been charged and has strongly denied involvement.

One possible reference to him in the 1995 draft, however, may be chillingly ironic.

"In the event my friends [brothers] fail to provide me with a burial befitting my character, then and in that event, I curse each one of them as follows," Schwartz wrote.

"To Boom Boom, the electricity never be on when you need it; to TR, never will any of your radios work again"

Then, possibly addressing Delvicario specifically, he wrote: "To Bobby, never will your gun shoot when you need it."

[MadMarchHare]

Exactly.  Katrina was bad, and it was only (only?) a Cat 3, and it made landfall east of NO.  The western edge of hurricanes in the Atlantic is never as bad as the northern and eastern.  Gustav might still be a 4 when it makes landfall, and the estimates sure seem to suggest it'll hit west of NO, so heavier winds and more devastating storm surge.  I'm sure those levies will hold, though.  Those stragglers should be fine.

[shorebird]

Extreme engineering on DSC just had a show on the levies being built. There are steel coffers going into the ground 70 to 80 feet anchoring the top of the levies. The old ones were anchored with coffers that were only 40 feet into the ground, so the new ones were built much, much stronger.

[Rome]

why the farg are there people AGAIN refusing to evacuate? I especially like this quote:

"Really, how bad do you think it's gonna get?"

Uhhh, I don't know dipshtein, why don't you tell me when you're floating down the street?

[PhillyPhreak54]

Seen in Pennsylvania this weekend;

1. A mid-90's Ford Taurus painted to look like the General Lee with GIT-R-DONE on the back window driving down 422.

2. A guy rockin a Freddie Mitchell jersey.

[SD_Eagle5]

What were you doing in Souderton?