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Originally posted by Winston
I always thought "England" was in Europe.
I always thought "England" was in Europe.
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England is still ambivalent about this.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... -
New Orleans has too much historical value to abandon. Where would Americans go for Mardi Gras? Also you have to realise that the Mississippi River is still a major transport route and naturally demands a port where it joins the sea."I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!Comment
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I heard some experts on the News saying that when they rebuild New Orleans that it will be a much smaller city with a improved dikes to help prevent this kind of flooding in the future.Comment
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they will rebuild the city. exactly where it was. maybe with some improvements on the coastline. that´s the american wayI will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.
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New Orleans is (was) the 4th busiest port in the world - that is going to take quite a bit of reshuffling...
In fact because it is so busy, the wetlands that would have helped absorb the storm surges and the power of the hurricane have been gradually whittled away to almost nothing south of the city due to flood controls dredging channels/canals etc eroding them away and preventing the Mississippi from replenishing them...Comment
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Apparently the older historic bits (certainly the FQ - not sure about Garden District) were built on the highest ground therefore mostly intact.Originally posted by Jack_www
I heard some experts on the News saying that when they rebuild New Orleans that it will be a much smaller city with a improved dikes to help prevent this kind of flooding in the future.
I say save those as a historic tourist attraction at the end of a long causeway, ditch the rest and allow the Mississippi to flow 'as nature intended' and repair the delta and wetlands in S. Louisiana...Comment
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That should like a good idea to me MOBIUS.Comment
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I await Adam Smith's calculations, but my feeling is that this is going to be a major blow to the economy.Originally posted by MOBIUS
New Orleans is (was) the 4th busiest port in the world - that is going to take quite a bit of reshuffling...I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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I'm not aware of the fact that New Orleans is the 4th busiest port in the US. Does anybody have a source on this?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, 1891Comment
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Economic impact: Oil shocks send disaffected masses to the street in protest.
Economy grinds to a halt.
Communist revolution fever sweeps the nation.
Che and Kid suffer mild strokes in shocked surprise, and spend a few days in the hospital, and emerge with perma-grins on their faces.
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You're not aware...Originally posted by DanS
I'm not aware of the fact that New Orleans is the 4th busiest port in the US. Does anybody have a source on this?
That is more an indication of your own ignorance about your country that you appear to suspect I might be making this up...
Feel free to comment again when you have educated yourself.
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IIRC, New Orleans is our most important port. Might be the Port of Los Angeles. I think Charleston is the 4th largest port.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...Comment
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I did say the World...
Something else DanS got wrong...
But I did get my info from the not entirely reliable Wikipedia...Comment
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mobius you really have a courage in complaining about other human beings´cultural levelI will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.
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I think the economic impact is no more recovery. I think we are heading back into recession. Yes, the building will help GDP, but NO was LARGE city with a lot of business and was the port in the US. Environmental degradation will have a large effect, but the imports and exports having to go elsewhere could really hurt us badly.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)Comment
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