European left blames bush for floods

[Dauphin]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and blame the flooding on the fact buildings were built on a flood plain.

Also, most urban building materials are non-porous, so the water just has to be surface overflow. Given that most of the surface can no longer take water (thanks to buildings that are in the way), you are left with loads of water, and little surface area to hold it on. No surprise flood waters rise.

[Pavlov]

@SD

Also they've been cutting down so much forest that nothing is there to absorb the flood.

You think that global warming might have...*flees to the mountains*

[MrWhereItsAt]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
I'm gonna go out on a limb and blame the flooding on the fact buildings were built on a flood plain.

Also, most urban building materials are non-porous, so the water just has to be surface overflow. Given that most of the surface can no longer take water (thanks to buildings that are in the way), you are left with loads of water, and little surface area to hold it on. No surprise flood waters rise.

NO! Coherent, thoughtful, intelligent responses are not allowed in this thread!

[Pavlov]

Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt


NO! Coherent, thoughtful, intelligent responses are not allowed in this thread!

doh!

Bush is suptid! verk mugv!!!11111

[MrWhereItsAt]

Now we're talking. Bush - it's his fault I'm single. Damn him.

/me shakes fist

[Dauphin]

A new angle to trolling.

Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt


NO! Coherent, thoughtful, intelligent responses are not allowed in this thread!

My new method worked.

[Provost Harrison]

Well I blame Bush for me not being able to get a job, so I suppose we can blame him for all the nasty weather in the world Why not blame the two world wars on him too!

[rah]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Countries get very upset when you kill one of their own. Just look how mad the US got when Singapore merely wanted to cane a young American man. Mexico is one of those more civilized nations where they have abolished the death penalty, so they see the execution of one of their own citizens as particularly barbaric.

AN excerpt from this Morning's Chicago Tribune article that dealt with the snub.

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Mexico, which has no death penalty, had argued that Javier Suarez Medina was a Mexican citizen who was denied his right to legal help from the Mexican consulate. Texas authorities said it was not clear whether Suarez, who spent most of his life in the United States, was born in Mexico.
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Gotta love Texas, (we'll just question which country he's actually a citizen of) Then execute him anyway.

Rich

[DanS]

Fox used it as an excuse to call the trip off. But the real reason is that his agenda wasn't going to be discussed and he could build some distance between himself and Bush.

Not very popular to be thought of as the Grigoes' toady.

[Ethelred]

Sceptor107 sure did stir up a lot of posts before his two week vacation.

I wonder if he would be pleased.

[*End Is Forever*]

Official Monster Raving Loony Party, 2001 Manifesto

TRANSPORT, ENVIRONMENT & REGIONS

Under a Loony government any prospective home purchaser be issued with a full description of such dictionary terms as 'floodplain', 'coastal erosion' and 'exposed headland'. This will save time explaining why they have no house anymore after nature takes charge of the environment. In addition to this policy, building on floodplains in future will be restricted to large houseboats with recoiling tethers like dog leads. These houses will be able to float up with the floodwater and land safely again in the same place when the water subsides.

[Provost Harrison]

Sounds a more sensible policy than any I have seen from the Tories in years

[Dauphin]

Tory policies are a mismatched theft of political ideas from the Raving Loony party, BNP, Natural law party (Yogic flyers) and Monty Python sketches.

Ironically the Labour party stole all their ideas from the Tories.

[Sinapus]

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
I'm gonna go out on a limb and blame the flooding on the fact buildings were built on a flood plain.

Gee... yathink?

Reminds me of something I came across around the time there was heavy flooding along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Something about the Army Corps of Engineers mapping out the flood plains, but people building on them anyway.

Also, most urban building materials are non-porous, so the water just has to be surface overflow. Given that most of the surface can no longer take water (thanks to buildings that are in the way), you are left with loads of water, and little surface area to hold it on. No surprise flood waters rise.

What's next? Building next to a volcano can get your home covered with ash and/or smothered in lava?

[Provost Harrison]

You forgot about the Nationalist Socialist influence, especially for David Blunkett