Posted on 09/18/2005 5:14:49 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
"I still can't believe that my father gave me a toaster and a radio as bath toys on my fifth birthday."
:-)
A great movie. Get it several times a month on the rerun channel. As someone who has read Tolken repeatly since a child, I commend them for a very good job. There are some "Hollyweird" parts stuck into it but it is pretty faithful to the book.
Morning Alas! Sorry I've not been here lately.
Also don't forget they forget to mention to FEMA and the military that there were people in the Convention Center.
I recall reading that they stood in the way of some sort of "flood gate" proposal; which would have been one part of a flood prevention system.
Enviro and local interests objected even to many of the ongoing minor upgrade and routine repair projects.
The honest enviros will admit that they advocate large parts of NOLA reverting to wetlands.
Don't forget the 1996 article where the Dems in LA got out the BUSES --
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_091605/content/truth_detector.guest.html
Excerpt from the aricle:
We found it, though, in the New Orleans Times Picayune of November 9th, 1996, and basically what happened there was that Mary Landrieu was trailing badly in her race with Woody Jenkins for the Senate, and they found out that the inner city of New Orleans had not voted something to the tune of 186,000 people. They pulled out all the stops. Clinton was making phone calls. Clinton, Landrieu, and Harry Connick, Sr., put this whole thing together. The work to get African-American voters to the polls started at the True Gospel of Jesus Christ church on North Broad Street before the polling places opened. A thousand workers would hit the streets that day, 500 in the morning, and 500 that afternoon. And they went all through town. They put together parades with New Orleans music to go through the housing projects. They gave away red beans and rice... and they found busses. They found countless buses to get people to the polls. Now, the only reason I bring this up is to, once again, confirm that when they really want to move people, they can do it in New Orleans. When they really want to move them, they can do it.
One of my best friends as a kid ended up being his dorm mate at Georgetown in college. My buddy, a very, very smary guy, said that Clinton was always hanging around some of the "northerners", trying constantly to win their approval. He had and has a real problem.
Arkansas watermelons, his mother's odd behavior, and Hot Springs on his mind constantly.
A very good point. To a "Liberal" caring about something IS "doing" something. Sort of like the Hard Right Buchannites who think whining about something is "doing something". Difference is the Hard Right is on the fringe of the Republican party while the "Liberals" totally control the Democrats.
It was a great read. Glad to see honesty and common sense can still rule the day for some.
That's what I was reading too.
Anita you are just a fountain of good info today, thank you!
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Inquiring minds will always wonder, just hope it did not include the aforementioned cigar.
Pulling weeds, walking the dog are all more beneficial uses of your time than listening to Clinton's mindless rhetoric on MTP.
Yeah Byron -- pointing out that areas such as St. Bernard parish and Mississippi gulf coast are majority white and suffered equally as the NO's 9th ward (majority black).
As it appears the story of the failure of the city and state's emergency response is now getting out (Timmy actually quoted the mayor from July as saying in case of a major hurricane, residents are on their own), MSM such as Russert is now saying it is not just the feds, but equal responsibilty (still living in the fantasy world I see, where he does not recognize that it's the local and state duty to provide first response for the first 48-72 hours).
(FOX News Alert just reported hurricane watch issued for Florida Keys -- and it starts again.)
I have been offended quite often at Donna Brazille's rhetoric.
This time I think she is in mourning for her hometown.
Let's give her some slack, as we would want to be treated if our hometown had just gone thru such an ordeal.
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The natural disaster was him getting elected............. or, was that an unnatural DISASTER?
I wonder how many people the MSM are responsible for giving Heart Attacks and strokes or serious depression because of the way they portray our Military, Our President, People of Faith, Republicans? They are never upbeat unless there is Tragedy that they can use to beat Republicans up even though it has nothing to do with Republicans, but is really because of Democrat lack of Leadership, and responsibility. Clinton failed to keep us safe every time he got the chance he was too busy raising money and having sex with untold number of gullible women. He once remarked that he loved his job and it was easy when he was President, sure when you don't do a &^%&#@(*) thing when you are President, you leave the mess for the next guy, always kicking problems down the road. George Bush does not do that, and that is what makes a Great leader instead of a total failure as a leader, and human being like Slickie. Slickie always had to take a poll whenever he had to make a decisive move, and he failed miserably because he was not willing to take a political hit to do the right thing. He really had no moral compass, and no vision.
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