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Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen?
Philadelphia Editor and Publisher ^ | 8-30-05 | Will Bunch

Posted on 08/30/2005 7:04:35 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache

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To: My Favorite Headache

I was going to type a snide/smart comment - but I am actually without words. This is quite possibly the most obsurd thing I have read or heard all day.


61 posted on 08/30/2005 8:50:04 PM PDT by TheBattman (Islam (and liberalism)- the cult of Satan)
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To: Pukin Dog
"Conservatives Rejoice! Because Liberals have lost their effin' minds."

They're sooooo predictible

62 posted on 08/30/2005 8:55:10 PM PDT by Matchett-PI (Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind'. Albert Einstein)
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To: My Favorite Headache

I really WANT the left-wing looney-tunes Bush-bashers to keep it up. Every time they say something they reach a higher plateau of stupidity. They will eventually lose because everyone will be laughing so hard at them their message won't get through.


63 posted on 08/30/2005 8:59:52 PM PDT by billnaz (What part of "shall not be infringed" don't you understand?)
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To: ladyinred

It's not nice to fool with Mother Rove either...


64 posted on 08/30/2005 9:05:29 PM PDT by takbodan (AP Help)
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To: My Favorite Headache
It's costing me $19k to get the flood damage to my property fixed from last year's rains. I'm still waiting for Bush's personal check. After all, his policies caused
31 inches of rain to fall in three days and undermine my foundation.

I would also like reparations for the sunburn I got on the Fourth of July weekend. Because of W the ozone layer ain't what it used to be.

My boat's paint job fades quicker too. He owes me for that also.
65 posted on 08/30/2005 9:14:04 PM PDT by socal_parrot (The coyotes are stalking my house.)
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To: ladyinred

Hmmmm....

Now that you mention it, I thought he looked a little...."funny".


66 posted on 08/30/2005 11:36:22 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Owl_Eagle; brityank; Physicist; WhyisaTexasgirlinPA; GOPJ; abner; baseballmom; Willie Green; Mo1; ..

ping


67 posted on 08/31/2005 3:08:43 AM PDT by Tribune7
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To: billnaz
I really WANT the left-wing looney-tunes Bush-bashers to keep it up. Every time they say something they reach a higher plateau of stupidity. They will eventually lose because everyone will be laughing so hard at them their message won't get through.

It would be funny if it weren't for the fact that many people do think this way, and articles like this perpetuate that thinking.

68 posted on 08/31/2005 3:17:40 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: My Favorite Headache

And so it begins....


69 posted on 08/31/2005 3:19:40 AM PDT by hershey
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To: soycd

wouldnt have mattered since that state is so corrupt even if they did build up to date systems they would have been built sub standard and signed off by a corrupt building official. At which point they would have failed anyway.


70 posted on 08/31/2005 3:19:44 AM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: My Favorite Headache

Wasn't the Kyoto Treaty drafted during the Clinton administration? And didn't Bill wisely refuse to sign it? So why isn't all this his fault?


71 posted on 08/31/2005 5:51:35 AM PDT by joonbug
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To: My Favorite Headache
In fact, the federal government has been working with state and local officials in the region since the late 1960s on major hurricane and flood relief efforts.

They've been spending money for 40 years and couldn't get the job done? Seems as though the money was squandered.

72 posted on 08/31/2005 6:00:30 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: My Favorite Headache

I'm still trying to figure out how a State problem is the Federal government's fault?


73 posted on 08/31/2005 6:02:05 AM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Clintonfatigued

What else is his fault? Perhaps that he's not fighting back.


74 posted on 08/31/2005 6:11:00 AM PDT by Dionysius (ACLU is the enemy)
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To: gondramB
Yes, it's a little known fact that during the time President Bush was supposed to be in the national guard he was actually lowering the ground in New Orleans and sabotaging the levies in preperation for a class five hurricane he intended to cause 30 years in the future by using global warming...

And I thought it was Halliburton with top secret weather control equipment in Dick Cheney's basement trying to boost the profits of George Bush's oil buddies. Figures. Jeb Bush had no businees letting that hurricane go past Florida...

75 posted on 08/31/2005 6:42:20 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: LibFreeOrDie
Check out this one written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. According to him, Katrina is the Pubbies' fault because they didn't sign the Kyoto treaty!

The Kyoto treaty banned hurricanes...

76 posted on 08/31/2005 6:44:07 AM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: rabidralph
I'm still trying to figure out how a State problem is the Federal government's fault?

The federal government has jurisdiction over our navigable rivers and inland waterways. And the Army Corps of Engineers is tasked with building/operating/maintaining a vast system of locks, dams and levees to control the flow of water as best they can.

There is no way of knowing for certain, of course, whether the proposed levee improvements would have withstood the catastrophic forces of Katrina. But you would have to assume that upgrades and improvements would have fared better than postponement of those projects.

Bottom line: the Bush Administration IS responsible for placing a lower priority on maintainence of this domestic infrastructure. There's not much that can be done now except to sit back and watch the administration apologists squirm, spin, dodge, dance and weave their way out of accepting responsibility for not addressing these infrastructure issues.

77 posted on 08/31/2005 6:44:41 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: TheForceOfOne

And people wonder why we jokingly say "It's Bush's Fault" on every bad news thread.


78 posted on 08/31/2005 6:45:39 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: My Favorite Headache

We live with the same stupid attitude in NC. Fools build their houses in areas prone to disaster and then whine when the government doesn't take care of them. A pox on all of them.


79 posted on 08/31/2005 6:49:57 AM PDT by NCSteve
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To: Tacis

"It makes no sense to build a city below sea level and in a vulnerable location. Let's take ALL the public money now being spent on illegal aliens and use it to relocate the devastated Americans!"

Or...why don't we let in another million aliens, send them to NO and give them a pail and have them start bailing. Might save some money on new pumps.


80 posted on 08/31/2005 6:52:02 AM PDT by Miles the Slasher
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