DHS: NYC has "No Icons, No Monuments Worth Protecting"

[Dinner]

What's really disgusting is how utterly partisan the Bush Administration always is about everything. When it comes time to close military bases it isn't what the military needs which matters and instead the BRAC gets packed with political cronies and only blue state bases get closed no matter what the military needs are. When it comes time to distribute terrorism defense funds then need isn't considered at all and instead all the money goes to Republican districts. It's insane that they're claiming New York isn't a target and that there are no American Icons there.

Bush is literally the worst President since 1932.

[Dinner]

If there was any actual thought put into how we distribute anti-terrorism funds then the first two places to get get funded would be New York and LA since we know that in the past Al Qaeda has actually targeted those cities. Only after those two were fully funded would we fund things like border control, other large cities with major landmarks (think Chicago, San Francisco, etc), then airport security, and then craphole towns like Omaha.

[Drake Tungsten]

People can afford housing in Omaha.

Omaha > San Diego

[Dinner]

People can afford housing in Omaha because no one wants to live in Omaha. San Diego >> Omaha.

[Drake Tungsten]

Warren Buffett seems to like it well enough. Who's the most successful person in San Diego?

Omaha > (x 42 billion) San Diego

[The diplomat]

Originally posted by Oerdin
That isn't going to happen because Bush and his Republican friendsdon't give a rat's ass about border security beyond using it as an election tool.

Well, I am not seeing much from the Dems either on this issue besides a lot of meaningless election rhetoric.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Oerdin
If there was any actual thought put into how we distribute anti-terrorism funds then the first two places to get get funded would be New York and LA since we know that in the past Al Qaeda has actually targeted those cities.

LA? Don't you mean Washington?

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Oerdin
What's really disgusting is how utterly partisan the Bush Administration always is about everything. When it comes time to close military bases it isn't what the military needs which matters and instead the BRAC gets packed with political cronies and only blue state bases get closed no matter what the military needs are. When it comes time to distribute terrorism defense funds then need isn't considered at all and instead all the money goes to Republican districts. It's insane that they're claiming New York isn't a target and that there are no American Icons there.

Bush is literally the worst President since 1932.

Can you back any of this up, or did you read it on DU, get riled up and came here to vent?

[Q Classic]

San Diego sucks as a city. After all, the original meaning of its name comes from the German for "Whale's Vagina."

[Arrian]

1932? I don't think Hoover was nearly as bad.

-Arrian

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Warren Buffett seems to like it well enough. Who's the most successful person in San Diego?

Omaha > (x 42 billion) San Diego

The founder of McDonald's lived here with his wife., Dr. Suess wrote all of his books here, Jonas Salk (who invented the cure for polio) was a San Diegan, Marcus Allen (probably the best football player ever) is from San Diego, Irwin Jacobs (founder of Qualcomm and the world's 413th richest person according to Forbes) grew up and lives here, Margaret Cargill the 438th richest person in the world (heiress to the Cargill fortune) also lives here, Theodore Waitt (founder of Gateway Computer and the world's 488th richest person) lives here, David Copley (548th richest person in the world and owner of Copley Press) lives here, a grand total of 8 of the world's richest people live here but I'll stop listing them. Next we can look up America's richest neighborhoods and then we'll see that San Diego's Rancho Santa Fe neighborhood is the second richest neighborhood in the US and is beat only by a place on Long Island, NY. If we wanted to judge the desirability of a place by the number of people who live there, visit there, and who decide to spend their precious vacation time there then I dare say San Diego pwns Omaha.

Forbes also rated San Diego as #7 on the best cities in America. I'm afraid I didn't see Omaha on the list. http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/...&datatype=Misc

Shall I go on or did I prove my point?

[Dinner]

Here's the profiles of the 8 San Diegans who made it on the list of the world's richest people. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1:1390...iest+People~R~(San+Diego)(E.html?refid=ency_botnm

[Imran Siddiqui]

Why don't you two just whip out your penises and be done with it?

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
San Diego sucks as a city. After all, the original meaning of its name comes from the German for "Whale's Vagina."

Or not. San Diego - Saint Diego (or Saint Donald in English). It's just a standard Catholic Saint.

[Drake Tungsten]

Shall I go on or did I prove my point?

You proved mine. The second richest man in the world finds Omaha to be a perfectly suitable place to live. The most successful person to call San Diego home, on the other hand, is only the 413th richest, based on your data. Game, set, match, Omaha...

Marcus Allen (probably the best football player ever) is from San Diego

Gale Sayers was a better back and he was from Omaha. Omaha produced Ahman Green as well. Does San Diego have any running backs in the NFL at the moment?