most important question of the day...

[ddr]

why is this bitches face on the front of CNN:



like anyone listens to what that idiotic hag has to say anyway.

[CactusBeats]

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She had surgery about a year ago and had to be put under. What I want to know is, when that happened, was Mrs. Cheney sworn in to take over the responsibilities of the first lady temporarily?

[subterFUSE]

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Is there any point to this thread? Just curious.

[toasty]

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I was a little curious why they had Laura Bush do a press conference about the Myanmar cyclone. Also, how the fuck is she in a position to blast anyone for massive-storm-preparedness? I wonder if she gave her husband a similar dressing-down post-Katrina.

[subterFUSE]

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That said..... I remember being a 7th grader in 1990, and we watched a video about New Orleans in my Earth Science class. In this video, they showed a cartoon cross-section of New Orleans, and ran a simulation of what would happen when a hurricane hits that city. They showed the city filling up with water like a soup bowl.

That was 15 years before Katrina. And I'm sure everyone knew long before then that this would eventually happen. Funny how nobody did anything about it.

The real tragedy is that we are rebuilding that city. What fucking idiot could possibly think that's a good idea? This is so simple, people. It's water. It's one of the most powerful and destructive forces on our planet. We are feeble weaklings by comparison. We can't hold it back forever. When you fuck with nature, shit like this happens. You can't keep a city below sea level from flooding. Try it, and you'll eventually meet consequences like we did in Katrina.

The answer is to tear down the levees, and let the water find its equilibrium. Then worry about rebuilding the parts which remain above water, if they exist at all.

[ddr]

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Is there any point to this thread? Just curious.

no there wasn't any point to this thread really...

i went to cnn.com while at work and almost threw up at the sight of that picture above.

thought i would share, that is all

[88Mariner]

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That said..... I remember being a 7th grader in 1990, and we watched a video about New Orleans in my Earth Science class. In this video, they showed a cartoon cross-section of New Orleans, and ran a simulation of what would happen when a hurricane hits that city. They showed the city filling up with water like a soup bowl.

That was 15 years before Katrina. And I'm sure everyone knew long before then that this would eventually happen. Funny how nobody did anything about it.

The real tragedy is that we are rebuilding that city. What fucking idiot could possibly think that's a good idea? This is so simple, people. It's water. It's one of the most powerful and destructive forces on our planet. We are feeble weaklings by comparison. We can't hold it back forever. When you fuck with nature, shit like this happens. You can't keep a city below sea level from flooding. Try it, and you'll eventually meet consequences like we did in Katrina.

The answer is to tear down the levees, and let the water find its equilibrium. Then worry about rebuilding the parts which remain above water, if they exist at all.

shut the fuck up. be a good citizen. pay your taxes. leave the big decisions to the adults.
meanwhile...idiots run the country

[subterFUSE]

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It's just sad that we all knew what would happen long before that storm hit, and nobody does a thing about it.

Then the storm does hit, and it plays out exactly like it was predicted, and everyone cries "Why didn't we do something?"

But did we learn from this? No. They're just rebuilding that area, and setting up the next generation for an even worse situation when the next big storm hits.

Makes no sense to me.

[CactusBeats]

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It's just sad that we all knew what would happen long before that storm hit, and nobody does a thing about it.

Then the storm does hit, and it plays out exactly like it was predicted, and everyone cries "Why didn't we do something?"

But did we learn from this? No. They're just rebuilding that area, and setting up the next generation for an even worse situation when the next big storm hits.

Makes no sense to me.

In 2002 the Army Corps of Engineers wanted the millions or so dollars (small potatoes compared to the damage one by Katrina) in their budget in order to upgrade the levees to withstand a Category 4 to 5 instead of a category three. The people of Louisiana, their representatives in Congress, and LSU (through their studies) were instrumental in lobbying for this to get done.

The Bush administration axed it from the budget. Not a priority.

[88Mariner]

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^ link?

[CactusBeats]

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^ link?

Here are a couple. My facts were a bit off. I heard the report on CNN a couple of years ago and paraphrased from memory. Anyway, they were actually trying to complete the levees to only category three strength. Opinions seem to be split along partisan lines, but there were clearly funding cuts. I particularly found this passage to be particularly poignant.

<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica" size=3>April 24, 2004: The Times-Picayune reported that “less money is available to the Army Corps of Engineers to build levees and water projects in the

[CactusBeats]

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^ link?

Sorry, ignore my previous post. It was incomplete.

Here are a couple. My facts were a bit off. I heard the report on CNN a couple of years ago and paraphrased from memory. Anyway, they were actually trying to complete the levees to only category three strength. Opinions seem to be split along partisan lines, but there were clearly funding cuts. I found this passage to be particularly poignant.

April 24, 2004: The Times-Picayune reported that “less money is available to the Army Corps of Engineers to build levees and water projects in the Missisippi River valley this year and next year.” Meanwhile, an engineer who had direct the Louisiana Coastal Area Ecosystem Restoration Study – a study of how to restore coastal wetlands areas in order to provide a bugger from hurricane storm surges – was sent to Iraq "to oversee the restoration of the ‘Garden of Eden’ wetlands at the mouth of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers,” for which President Bush’s 2005 gave $100 million.

Here are the links:

http://www.factcheck.org/article344.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/01/AR2005090102261.html

[ddr]

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^^ hahaha priceless.

and it is stories like this that never see the light of day... why?

because american's are ignorant to everything except when it comes to if britney spears is shaved or not.

when something bad happens, THAT is the only time when we look back at the when and why that event could have been prevented.

[Miroslav]

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jeez what did Laura do to you? The woman is basically harmless: a librarian...takes care of the home, bakes cookies, gives some talks for some charities, occasionally says some obligatory nice about her husband to the press... leave her alone, the poor woman has to put up with George

[88Mariner]

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jeez what did Laura do to you? The woman is basically harmless: a librarian...takes care of the home, bakes cookies, gives some talks for some charities, occasionally says some obligatory nice about her husband to the press... leave her alone, the poor woman has to put up with George

exactly the type of people who should stay out of politics.

man talk, dear. run along...