Subj : Re: Larry King
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Tyler Trafford
Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 21:34:13

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Jim Larson wrote:
> Tyler Trafford wrote:
>
>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>> Tyler Trafford <ttrafford+usenet@gmail.com> wrote in
>>> news:3nmhufF2a02bU1@individual.net: 
>>>
>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>>> "RR" <lynchnutNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in
>>>>> news:bLnRe.214661$gL1.142863 @tornado.texas.rr.com:
>>>>>
>>>>>> John I wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>  I see somebody stated that it was America's tsunami. I know
>>>>>>>>  people 
>>>>>>>> have been killed and homes lost but blimey over react much? I know
>>>>>>>> hundred odd dead but there was warning and the U.S. has a hell of
>>>>>>>> a lot better response and rebuilding facilities.
>>>>>>>>  Ted
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The strongest theme for the failure to evacuate story is simple
>>>>>>> poverty:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.prospect.org/weblog/archives/2005/08/index.html#007548
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Precisely. A hurricane hitting an affluent area is a bad thing, no 
>>>>> doubt.
>>>>>> But when it hits a place where people have no money - hell, most of 
>>>>> these
>>>>>> people didn't even have cars, so vacating the city was a difficult
>>>>>> if 
>>>>> not
>>>>>> impossible prospect - it's a whole 'nother ballgame. To say this is
>>>>>> "America's Tsunami" is hardly an exaggeration.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>
>>>>> A couple of hundred dead = Thousand upon thousand dead. Hardly
>>>>> compares. 
>>>>>  More people probably die of cancer a day in the US. You live in the 
>>>>> richest nation in the world with the greatist ability to look after
>>>>> the people displaced. The tsunami not only wiped out thousands of
>>>>> people but completely wrecked the infrastructure of some of the
>>>>> poorest countries in the area. These were people with fuck all to
>>>>> begin with and they lost everything with little chance of getting it
>>>>> back. 
>>>> 
>>>> Analogies are like vacuums.
>>>
>>> Abhorant but still true despite what people might want to believe?
>> 
>> They are both great in general, but if you take them too literally, they
>> will eat you.
>
> Will not! 

Hey, it's your funeral.

Just remember to change the bag.
-- 
Tyler Trafford

Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
		-- George Chapman

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