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  • #31
    Originally posted by Apocalypse
    It is apparently going to hit Mississippi now and New Orleans won't be hit as bad as many predicted originally.

    Going with the God thing, I might tell my evangelical, anti-Catholic ex girlfriend that God is saving the Catholics in New Orleans and attacking the Southern Baptists in Mississippi.
    Let the party recommence!

    Amen.
    I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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    • #32
      Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
      Katrina isn't even the strongest hurricane to hit this area.
      Camile didn't hit New Orleans, so once again, you are wrong. Katrina, at it's peak, was the 4th strongest recorded Atlantic storm in history.
      Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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      • #33
        The tons of hurricanes this year has more to do with us entering an active phase than global warming.

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        • #34
          Yep. It also means the paths changed, meaning Florida is now more likely to be hit that it has been in the past 30 years. Probably means Texas and N. Carolina are gonna take less hits now, but the rest of the Gulf will also get pounded.
          Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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          • #35
            Originally posted by Boris Godunov
            Oooh oooh but can I point out that the Bush Administration has steadily cut New Orlean's funds for hurricane preparedness every year since 2001, including a $71 million dollar slash in next year's budget?
            I think this is a good move. New Orleans should make its own preparations to weather these storms. It's a local problem and it's unseemly to have to beg the federal government for money.
            I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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            • #36
              So reducing their capacity to deal with it and then having to spend billions in federal money to build it up again makes sense? Also, correct me if i am wrong, isn't La. one of the poorer states in the US? Maybe they don't have the money.

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              • #37
                Maybe they don't have the money.
                If they want to live in such low-lying areas, they need to pony up the money so that such a thing is realistic. Pretty simple, really.
                I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                • #38
                  Originally posted by DanS


                  If they want to live in such low-lying areas, they need to pony up the money so that such a thing is realistic. Pretty simple, really.


                  Did you mean to make such a ridiculously funny comment?
                  One day Canada will rule the world, and then we'll all be sorry.

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                  • #39
                    Originally posted by orange
                    New Orleans is sinking man and I don't wanna swim
                    Don't ever sing that song again.

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                    • #40
                      Originally posted by Dauphin




                      Did you mean to make such a ridiculously funny comment?
                      Probably not. What's so funny about it?
                      I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                      • #41
                        I don't know, I see a country as unit stronger through its parts. So New Orleans and Louisana might not be the richest areas of the country, but the oil refining facilities and the port f.ex. add significantly to the US overall wealth, so it's in the federal governments interest to protect these bits and the workers that work on them, as well as the communities around them. But then the whole federal thing is not necesarrily something i am used to. I am guessing though most of the oil money is not going to Louisana but rather to Exxon or Texaco or whoever else is pumping in the Gulf.

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                        • #42
                          All of those things might be true, but that doesn't really answer to whether it is wise to situate a city where New Orleans is situated. If as a net proposition they deem it wise, then the good citizens of New Orleans should find it necessary to spend the money to make sure that the city doesn't sink into the sea.

                          I am rather more disinterested in the proposition as a personal matter you see. The good people of New Orleans (my family included) should be able to make the proper decisions without my permission.
                          Last edited by DanS; August 29, 2005, 17:45.
                          I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                          • #43
                            You act like it's so easy to move a three hundred+ year old city or that the French knew that a hurricane would swamp the place periodically. Economically, NO is very well situated, and is still important for our economy today.
                            Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                            • #44
                              Why would I want to move New Orleans? Why would I even have a say in the matter through the federal government? I'm not a citizen of New Orleans and the surrounding area.

                              I was watching Senator Landreau beg for federal money on TV yesterday and thought it ridiculous that she be brought to the rather bizarre situation of begging me for my consent for her to do the right thing as she saw it.
                              Last edited by DanS; August 29, 2005, 17:58.
                              I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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                              • #45
                                Because the country as a whole would suffer if the people of New Orleans decided to sack it in and move to Omaha or something? As i said i am unfamiliar of the whole federal thing (from personal experience anyway), but in most countries here the rich parts support the poor parts, especially if the poor parts provide essential roles in the smooth functioning of the national economy.

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