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randman  Suspended Member (Idle past 4927 days) Posts: 6367 Joined: |
I'm going to look into it and talk to my fishing friend (it's his boat). But it strikes me that some people could die if they don't start getting freshwater, mosquito repellant and food, and just get them off the island that is now New Orleans and into some air conditioning.
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randman  Suspended Member (Idle past 4927 days) Posts: 6367 Joined: |
Thanks, Monk.
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robinrohan Inactive Member |
They were looking for people with flat-bottomed boats.
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robinrohan Inactive Member |
There's a small town in Miss. which had gotten cut off--the bridge in was destroyed--and finally the search and rescue teams entered the town, took a look around, and said, "This is not a search and rescue mission. It's a bag and tag mission."
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randman  Suspended Member (Idle past 4927 days) Posts: 6367 Joined: |
That's horrible, almost unfathomable.
This message has been edited by randman, 08-31-2005 05:03 PM
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1494 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
Oddly enough, it turns out that this is Bush's fault, too:
quote: Bush flip-flopping on his promise to preserve Gulf Coast wetlands almost certainly contributed to the tragedy, as well.
"No one can say they didn't see it coming" | Salon.com Just like FEMA, I'm going to go ahead and make a prediction of my own - I predict that Tal and Faith and all the other mindless Bush apologists will respond with something like "oh, another liberal 'blame Bush' attempt." My question to you two is, why shouldn't Bush be blamed for this?
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Cold Foreign Object  Suspended Member (Idle past 3075 days) Posts: 3417 Joined: |
That's horrible, almost unfathomable. YOUR god-damn theory said they were not fit to survive. Herepton
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AdminJar Inactive Member |
I don't know who you are yet but that is uncalled for. One more such post and you will be banned.
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1494 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
I don't know who you are yet but that is uncalled for. Not to mention, humerously misdirected. Randman may be many things but he's definately not an evolutionist.
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Cold Foreign Object  Suspended Member (Idle past 3075 days) Posts: 3417 Joined: |
Sorry I intended the comment for a Darwinist.
Herepton
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CK Member (Idle past 4155 days) Posts: 3221 Joined: |
Can we not have the purely factual "this is what is happening" on one thread and the mud-slinging and blame assigning/dodging on another?
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AdminJar Inactive Member |
It doesn't matter. First there is no such thing as a Darwinist. Second, your comment showed a total lack of even grade school understanding of the Theory of Evolution. Third, it was impolite, sophomoric and uncalled for.
If your future posts do not show an immediate increase in maturity you will have a short life here. Edited to change to Admin mode. This message has been edited by AdminJar, 08-31-2005 05:51 PM New Members should start HERE to get an understanding of what makes great posts.
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AdminJar Inactive Member |
Certainly, suggest away. I think it's a great idea. Want to make a side-bet on the likelyhood?
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randman  Suspended Member (Idle past 4927 days) Posts: 6367 Joined: |
If that's true, it's terrible.
Bush was never my first choice although I tend to agree with Paglia that it's not so much Bush but his unwillingness to fire subordinates who give him bad advice. My hope next election is that Guiliani gets in there. He can say some absolutely stupid things, but I think he'd get the job done better. I am somewhat shocked they didn't bulk up the levee system although it might not have done any good if they were just concentrating on the levees for Lake Pontchartrain and not the canals. The thing is this could have been prevented, and highlights a big issue I have with government. We tend to do things at times in the most expensive manner. We wage war in the most expensive manner at times, lobbing million dollar missiles are thousand dollar buildings. We allow something like this to happen so we can create a new federal agency of baggage handlers. It's the idiocy of government that gets to me at times. It doesn't take rocket science to figure out some of the things that need to be done to protect ourselves as much as we can from natural disasters. We should bury all power lines so that falling trees do not knock out power, and invest in technology to decentralize the power system anyway and get us off fossil fuels. We have no business allowing a major city like New Orleans not to have levees that can withstand a Cat 5 hurricane with 200 plus mpr winds. It's cheaper to pay for prevention that what we will pay now. Of course, we can't do much to protect barrier islands. This message has been edited by randman, 08-31-2005 07:05 PM
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Trump won  Suspended Member (Idle past 1267 days) Posts: 1928 Joined: |
It's not just Bush.
last cat 5 1992 last cat 5 1965 or around there. The major hurricanes keep coming quicker because of global warming. 92 to 2005? That's only 13 years.
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