Posted on 09/16/2005 8:48:12 AM PDT by lOKKI
Air America Hosts: Farrakhan Not Wrong on Levees
Two hosts at the liberal radio network Air America are defending Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan - saying he's not wrong to suspect that white people deliberately blew up the levees in New Orleans.
"You cannot blame people for coming up with conspiracy theories," Air America host Chuck D. said, after he was asked Thursday about the paranoid pronouncement by MSNBC's Tucker Carlson.
Carlson gave him a second chance to denounce Farrakhan's lunatic declaration, saying, "You're a smart guy. You know that white people didn't blow up the levees to kill black people. You've gotta know that didn't happen."
But the Air America host refused to budge, insisting instead that there was a chance Farrakhan could be right
Reprehensible.
I used to listen to them here in central Oregon just to see what the latest dribble is...
Can't listen any longer, they're gone!
Wasn't he part of "Public Enemy", a rap group exhorting violence against various other ethnic and racial groups?
Don't forget the checks cashed in at a strip joint...
They've developed Electile Dysfunction..
I am unable to answer that. Just don't know.
I do know, however, that he is a meathead.
Yep, same guy. Real name is Carlton Ridenhour.
Bush blew up the levees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The lake Nyos disaster, which claimed 1800 victims in August 1986, was not unprecedented, but never before one had heard of Mother Nature asphyxiating human beings and all terrestrial animals on such a scale in a single and brief event.
Two years previously however, a lethal gas burst originated from the neighbouring lake Monoun, in the same remote area of Cameroon, and killed 37 people, an odd and tragic episode that went almost unnoticed. Both lakes occupy the crater of a supposedly extinct volcano, in a region known by geologists for its numerous gaseous water springs, a common feature of old volcanic areas. The region belongs to the so-called volcanic chain of Cameroon, which ends and culminates 300 km farther south-west at the still active Mt. Cameroon (4,000 m ).
In both cases, without prior notice, a cloud of dense gas erupted from the lake, covering the surrounding area under a deadly blanket several tens of meters thick, for an unknown amount of time. The source of the gas became clear in the aftermath of the disasters, since the normally clear waters of the lakes turned reddish and the lake shores were severely disturbed by waves and strong winds. No one in the path of the cloud managed to escape its lethal effects. Skin discoloration found on some victims were tentatively interpreted as burns, but this diagnosis is still controversial. Witnesses on topographic hights report a loud noise originating from the lake and, in the case of lake Nyos, flashes of light visible over the lake ; both disasters occurred at night, darkness adding to the mystery of these dreadful natural catastrophes.
Ten years later, thanks to the dedication of scientists - such as H. Sigurdsson, K. Tietze, G. Kling, W. Evans, M. Kusakabe and G. Tanyileke, to name but a few - who put both lakes under almost continuous scrutiny, the causes and mechanism of these tragedies are much better understood, albeit not yet completely elucidated.
A dumbass.
Is he related to that idiot, Rob Reiner?
Geez, will you stifle!
Well, he's right about that.
I have a theory that Chuckie D, Calypso Louie, Jesse, and Al blew up the levees so they could blame it on Bush and boost their sagging careers.
And there is a chance I am correct.
They are purposefully repeating crap they either know isn't true, or don't care isn't true. The goal is to foster FUD. I read a column in the Star-Tribune that whined about the slow response and how uncaring Bush was compared to how "I feel your pain" Clinton was during the ND flood, and the piece ended with the same crap, Bush doesn't care about anybody, especially the needy. It was ridiculously snide and hateful. To believe such nonsense one has to be deliberately obtuse.
I hope that panic is justified by their showing at the polls.
This is comedy? Right?
Where was Farrakhan when this happened during the Clinton years?
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On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over. Meteorologists had been warning residents about a two-day heat wave, but these temperatures did not end that soon. When the heat wave broke a week later, city streets had buckled; the records for electrical use were shattered; and power grids had failed, leaving residents without electricity for up to two days. And by July 20, over seven hundred people had perished-more than twice the number that died in the Chicago Fire of 1871, twenty times the number of those struck by Hurricane Andrew in 1992--in the great Chicago heat wave, one of the deadliest in American history.
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