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Sam Neill blames Bush for disaster
Miami Herald ^ | 9/16/05

Posted on 09/16/2005 1:40:52 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon

Posted on Fri, Sep. 16, 2005

Sam Neill blames Bush for disaster

Actor Sam Neill has blamed President Bush's economic policies for contributing to the disaster that engulfed Louisiana when Hurricane Katrina hit, reports The Associated Press.

In a speech Wednesday night attacking New Zealand opposition leader Don Brash ahead of the country's general elections on Saturday, Neill, a supporter of the ruling Labour Party, compared tax cuts proposed by Brash to Bush's election pledges in 2000.

'Perhaps we should look at somewhere else where they recently used the time-old bribe of tax cuts, and see how it worked. In 2000 George Bush, under the reasonable sounding `compassionate conservatism,' offered huge tax cuts. And he delivered,'' Neill told an audience in Oamaru, 200 miles east of his home and vineyard on New Zealand's South Island.

''Take a look at America now. The rich are certainly richer, but the economy is in the tank, a healthy surplus has been converted into a massive deficit, and the U.S. is a place that cannot even afford the basics. Like maintaining levees in low-lying Louisiana. Might I suggest that tax cuts led indirectly to the flooding of New Orleans?'' Neill added.


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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
"Actor Sam Neill has blamed President Bush's economic policies for contributing to the disaster that engulfed Louisiana when Hurricane Katrina hit, reports The Associated Press."

In related news, Emeril LeGasse has offered some critique of current neurosurgical techniques and Asian monetary policy as it affects papermaking in Belgium.

41 posted on 09/16/2005 2:01:07 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
Might I suggest that tax cuts led indirectly to the flooding of New Orleans?''

You you may. But then again I might suggest crawfish led indirectly to the flooding of New Orleans and be more accurate than you.

42 posted on 09/16/2005 2:01:10 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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To: wolfcreek

I always thought he was Australian. I guess it's New Zealand though.

He was pretty Igood in a movie called "Dead Calm" with Nicole Kidman. It plays many times on late night tv. They were a couple on a boat that gets hijacked by a loon.


43 posted on 09/16/2005 2:01:17 PM PDT by Republican Red (''Van der Sloot" is Dutch for ''Kennedy.")
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

If you put Sam's brain in a bird, it would fly backwards and crap all over itself!! He's a dip, and I hope they pull his visa and he stays in New Zealand! (N.Z. does not like the USA, and I say, to hell with them too!)


44 posted on 09/16/2005 2:02:24 PM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: encm(ss)

Damien Omen III. Economy in the tank! Maybe for actors because the public thinks they should keep their mouth shut. For every one that opens their mouth, thats one less movie I go to see.


45 posted on 09/16/2005 2:02:45 PM PDT by Always Independent
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To: Mears

I really liked him in "Hunt for Red October". Too bad he's such an idiot!


46 posted on 09/16/2005 2:03:06 PM PDT by indiana_gop
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Well, he's played the anti-christ and a scientist. Yep, he's qualified.


47 posted on 09/16/2005 2:03:51 PM PDT by Petronski (Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
"I do so know the difference between my #*@ and a hole in the ground! A hole in the ground is deep and dark and my #*@ is...
...gee...this is harder than I thought."

---- Sam Neill

48 posted on 09/16/2005 2:04:00 PM PDT by Artemis Webb
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To: Conspiracy Guy

He was in that sailboat movie with Billy Zane and Nicole Kidman. And "The Dish".


49 posted on 09/16/2005 2:04:21 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Question Liberal Authority
Wait a minute . . . wait just a minute . . .





Are you telling me . . . they bred raptors?

50 posted on 09/16/2005 2:04:56 PM PDT by Petronski (Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
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To: encm(ss)

Who is Sam Niell?

and who cares what he thinks?????

51 posted on 09/16/2005 2:06:47 PM PDT by jos65
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Another day, another actor flaps its demonrat jaws.


52 posted on 09/16/2005 2:11:22 PM PDT by E=MC<sup>2</sup> (Are liberals born stupid, or do they have to work at it???)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
In other news, Stella Myrtle Joe Kinkersteen's hair turned an unusual shade of red when using Miss Clarol's #6 Sage Brunette. We go now to the scene.....


53 posted on 09/16/2005 2:12:18 PM PDT by Hi Heels (Guns kill and cause crime? Dang, mine must be malfunctioning....)
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To: Petronski

"New Orleans is not some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or the building of a dam. New Orleans, uh, HAD their shot, and nature SELECTED them for extinction!"

(Not Sam Neill, but still.)

In the future, someone might consider a list of celebrities who do NOT blame Bush for certain things and the thing that they don't blame him for.


54 posted on 09/16/2005 2:12:43 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
How about a opinion that matters??

What does Carrot-Top think?

55 posted on 09/16/2005 2:13:55 PM PDT by F16Fighter
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To: muir_redwoods

Great point. I always wondered how these Hollywood types would react if GWB did movie and theatre reviews.

Can you imagine the outrage?


56 posted on 09/16/2005 2:16:13 PM PDT by Mears (The Killer Queen)
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To: frogjerk

This guy has no clue. His mouth is just spewing garbage.


57 posted on 09/16/2005 2:17:38 PM PDT by Bombard
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Sam Neill has removed all doubt that he is an ill informed fool. That last sliver is now gone.


58 posted on 09/16/2005 2:19:33 PM PDT by auboy
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To: Hi Heels

EXACTLY....HEY SAM.....GO FIND A ROLLING DONUT
AND STRADDLE IT....Jake


59 posted on 09/16/2005 2:20:39 PM PDT by sanjacjake
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The pen is ...blue!

60 posted on 09/16/2005 2:21:01 PM PDT by evets (God bless president Bush!)
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