Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : Frank Reid
From : Daemon
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 08:17:00

  Re: Re: Um...no comment?
  By: Frank Reid to Daemon on Mon Sep 05 2005 06:47 p
m

 > Let's talk about the facts.

  Blah blah blah.

  Nah.  I've been doing that, and it just seems to make you ornery.  Go back
and take a look at the facts I've already cited, do a little reading, and stop
asking stupid questions intended to misdirect people into thinking mine's
a lonely voice in the wind criticizing the federal preparedness and yours is
the echoed words of god in your ears, bouncing off your brain cells and into
this network to spread wisdom only you're privy to.

  Tell you what...  For your sake, as far as you're concered, we'll just
pretend there wasn't a standing request/demand for $250 million more than was
allocated to shore up the levees and pumps that failed because there wasn't any
money in the budget that wasn't already being sucked up by Iraq, so you can go
ahead and be as right as you want in that little FrankWorld of yours.

  And we can pretend that even though natural disasters have been loudly and
consistently cited as the biggest and most likely possible threat to the US for
a LONG time now, it made oodles of more sense to pour ridiculous amounts of
money into terrorist prevention and bombing the hell out of Iraq.  Oh, and
rolling FEMA into Homeland Security, redesigned not for preparedness for
natural disasters, but for terrorist event preparedness, stripped of its teeth,
and supported by an Army Corps of Engineers that the administration was
dedicated to under-funding.

  And what the hell...  I'll even pretend to give a crap what you say on the
matter in the future, though you don't seem to read more than MAYBE 10% of what
I type and seemingly NONE of what I cite, because you seem to want to be right
SO badly that you only have to live and work in DC and, therefore, have no need
of references or facts or anything like that anyway.

  *shakes head*  you know...  You bitched that you don't have the time for
point-to-point conversation.  Well, then you're in the wrong communications
forum, pal, 'cause that's what a BBS is, you know.  It's not like debating you
is proving to be much of a challenge, either, frankly, Frank, so yes I've got
all kinds of time for it.  I'm going to move any further discussion on the
matter into the debate sub after today, though.

  But if the point-to-point thing is too hard for you, send me an address where
I can send you an AOL disk.  I'll even throw a few thousand hours free in on
top of it, because I think you may just find yourself in a more comfortable
niche there and I think you're such a swell guy and all.  i think a friend of
mine might even have a WebTV setup laying around somewhere.  Maybe that'll
prove more your speed.

  In the meantime, I stopped addressing this topic your way a few days ago, so
do me a favor and "turn me off" like you promised so I don't have to keep
reminding you what a petulant child you're acting like.


       [daemon]                 
       In the shuffling madness...      


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