Always good to hear the Hun's take on things.
Simple. It's a U.S. city that's most like a European city.
This would NEVER happen in Europe.
Klaus, izzat you??
I'll insert the missing text in bold:
The catastrophe in New Orleans may have something to do with America's unusually religious nature. "God bless America" -- a phrase used even by the President -- expresses an unshakable faith in God which makes human striving beside the point. In Germany we say "Government Bless Germany" which makes individual striving unnecessary. All hail the omnipotent state! The indifference to those unfortunates who couldn't save themselves under their own power might be explained by the maxim, "God helps those who help themselves." In Germany we say "The Aryan Worldsoul despises the weak Untermenschen!" New Orleans presents an image of the United States, on the whole, that is unworthy of a cultivated nation. If America wants to get with it, it needs to start gassing millions of innocent people to death. We Germans are totally kicking America's ass in this regard.
We don*t need to ask. We already know. It*s because they had a RAT for Mayor and another one who was the Governor of LA. Case closed, but we*re glad you all could give us your irrelevant comments. :o)
I think these people post here at FR.
Hmmm...the tsunami killed about 300,000 people over a good part of the globe. Katrina so far has killed less than a thousand.
The 'massive cooperation' after the tsunami was mainly US-driven and supplied. The local populations affected had absolutely no means to cope with the disaster without huge amounts of aid and an injection of good old American efficiency and command and control.
NO on the other hand, well that was run by Democrats.
Probably because the initial relief efforts there were US Military backed up by armed Marines rather then backed up by unarmed NG troops and an understaffed, under equipped NO police force.
Dr. Schmitz is revealing a little too much here. He admits that there is no proof - little evidence, in fact - that global warming is linked to the frequency of storms in the Atlantic or anywhere else. That isn't important to him. What is important is that it must be pretended to be true for political purposes. This is as profound a betrayal of science as it is possible to commit.
Politically "fatal" to whom, exactly? Certainly a government predicated on political action that is not backed by science must be backed by something else. In this case, it is nothing more than fervent belief in ecological and economic principles that are imposed for political reasons. A government backed by fervent belief and phony science has a rather sordid recent history in Germany. Perhaps Herr Doktor Schmitz might bear that in mind.
Need we remind Europe that nearly 15,000 peope died in France because it was too darn hot? http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2003-09-25-france-heat_x.htm where was the outcry then?.......
At least this guy has brought up a point that many here would tend to agree with. Socialism Kills.
Are Germans really this pathetic?
Cooperation?
I seem to recall tons of concern about sex worker recruiters hunting for orphans, people fighting over kids, and massive confusion and disorientation that continued for weeks.
The main difference was the onslaught of the '06 elections here, and the quickly arriving political spinmisters in LA behind the scenes turning every little issue into a battle while people died.
Good grief - and these people are supposed to be our so-called allies? If they had the military might, I think they would start a war with us.
"Ve haff vays uff schtopping dese hurricanes..."
LOL! They sure have their share of folks who are either ignorant of how our government functions or who are just more barking moonbats...
Hey Krauts, it was just about 50 years ago when your last gasp was made. So tell us, how did that wonderful Nazi gig of yours go. Your BS had reduced not only your own country to s shti hole, but destroyed all of Europe and cost tens of millions of lives.
America doesn't need a pathetic pack of murdering Nazi swine offspring such as you to tell us about what is right.