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In today's - No good deed goes unfreakinpunished catagory - we have - $UE-NAMI HITS U.S.

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The legal papers filed in Manhattan federal court accuse the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration ...of being asleep as thousands perished Dec. 26.

Oh no! I was asleep, too!

Will they sue me next?!

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Lawyers, they're the worst! I wouldn't be surprised to find one of my former employers joining the tsunami class action bandwagon. Just wondering, if you sue God for a natural disaster, must you obtain personal service, or would service by publication (in a newspaper of general circulation) do, I wonder? But seriously, did the NOAA have a duty to warn the entire world of the earthquake (assuming it could have done so)? When Germans and Austrians pay taxes to the U.S. government, perhaps they can make such demands of its agencies.

That Austrian and German plaintiffs are suing a French hotel chain in this whole mess is amusing, in a way. Maybe the families of soldiers killed in Iraq should sue the German and French governments for doing nothing to help - emotional distress, and all that.

Speaking of the tsunami, the body of the boyfriend of model Petra whatshername has been found, story here.

Why am I rambling aimlessly at 5:30 a.m.? Mr. M's bad cold woke me up at around 3:45 a.m. It will be a long day - I'll be heading to Pgh this afternoon to stay at my mother's tonight in order to take her to the hospital at 6 a.m. Wed. for a heart catheterization.