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Sandy shows the U.S. is unprepared for climate disasters
Washington Post ^ | October 31, 2012 | by Brad Plumer

Posted on 10/31/2012 6:46:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

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That didn't take long.
1 posted on 10/31/2012 6:46:49 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yeah, everyone complains about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it!


2 posted on 10/31/2012 6:49:23 AM PDT by Obadiah (The corrupt MSM is the enemy of the American people.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I was NOT a climate disaster. It was a big honking storm.


3 posted on 10/31/2012 6:50:24 AM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh how do we appease the gods of global warming? Let us offer sacrifices of carbon credits and taxation of dirty industry.


4 posted on 10/31/2012 6:52:13 AM PDT by Arkansas Toothpick
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
From my Introduction to Business course in College bureaucracy is and big government can handle any problem and is the least efficient way.
5 posted on 10/31/2012 6:52:24 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I bet the solution is more communism.

Pray for America


6 posted on 10/31/2012 6:53:07 AM PDT by bray (Nov 6, tell Obama to Stand Down!)
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"We are only a few feet above sea level.”

Can I get a "No Duh?"

7 posted on 10/31/2012 6:54:00 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Triple

Shemp the Stooge Smith yesterday afternoon was going on and on about how we had to rethink everything and redo everything because of this storm. How ridiculous! we are going to spend billions on reconfiguring things based on one freak storm? Climate change cultists jumped on this with both feet.


8 posted on 10/31/2012 6:55:28 AM PDT by xsmommy
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It’s all global warming and humans wasting resources. The WaPo should lead by example and shut down the print edition because it’s wasting trees. Then they should all just shut down their buildings, all their employees should just give up their cars and stop utilizing resources like electricity and gas/oil to heat their homes.
Oh, and they should all lead the way and pay higher taxes.


9 posted on 10/31/2012 6:55:34 AM PDT by newnhdad (Where will you be during the Election Riots of 2012/2013?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Climate disaster” is newspeak for weather.


10 posted on 10/31/2012 6:59:10 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The first priority is get Obama out of the White House.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If New Yorkers are so worried about hurricanes, they should not rebuild next to the Atlantic Ocean. The barrier islands should be off limits to rebuilding, according to the EPA....and you know how Liberals love the EPA. Perhaps an endangered spider or salamander will be discovered on Long Island and the entire reconstruction process will come to a halt.


11 posted on 10/31/2012 7:03:36 AM PDT by txrefugee
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He couldn't bring himself to say "Sandy shows the U.S. that man's works is unprepared are usually not a match for climate natural disasters."

"Never let a crisis go to waste" includes never letting a natural disaster go by without using it to further the idea that Washington, DC needs to aggregate more power to itself in order to "protect" us from something they have no control over.

Mr. niteowl77

12 posted on 10/31/2012 7:07:21 AM PDT by niteowl77 (Getting stuck with other peoples' just desserts good and hard for over 50 years.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Unprepared? Wasn’t that what the 1.5 billion rounds of ammo were for?


13 posted on 10/31/2012 7:07:33 AM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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Now imagine nukes launched from barges about 200 mules out. There’d be about 5 minutes warning. DC, NYC, Boston, Miami, destroyed with tens of millions of dead and dying.

The muzzloids are probably planning this right now.


14 posted on 10/31/2012 7:07:36 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Triple
I was NOT a climate disaster. It was a big honking storm.

You are so right. Big difference between climate and weather.
Climate is what you EXPECT.
Weather is what you GET.
This was a weather event. Period.

15 posted on 10/31/2012 7:09:06 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great; until it happens to YOU.)
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To: Arkansas Toothpick

We need Sacrifices !!! Let’s see, Michael Moore, George Soros, both Clintons, and both Obamas, into the nearest active volcano. Michael Moore last: we need his sheer bulk to plug it, in case the volcano gets as sick of them as we are. . .


16 posted on 10/31/2012 7:09:06 AM PDT by Salgak (Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border. I **DARE** you to cross it. . . .)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“The construction of this city did not anticipate these kinds of situations. We are only a few feet above sea level.”

LOL! I wonder how many times throughout history those words have been spoken and yet they've still rebuilt?

17 posted on 10/31/2012 7:16:34 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (People will vote for Obama to replace a god that they don't believe in)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why should it? The guy has a big problem on his hands that probably needs fixing.


18 posted on 10/31/2012 7:16:38 AM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Maybe if we stopped buying Sandra Fluke the Flake condoms we could afford to have disaster control.

Shove it, WaPo. As if anyone with a real education is going to believe a collection of bottom of the SAT journalism majors.

You’ve be-clowned yourselves to such an extent that even clowns disown you.


19 posted on 10/31/2012 7:17:10 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Triple

A big honking storm with disastrous results that didn’t have anything to do with climate?


20 posted on 10/31/2012 7:21:02 AM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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