Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : notme Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 22:56:48 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote in news:Xns96C3D5E9893Cr73u67jw56nas@80.5.182.99: > John I wrote in > news:Xns96C3872A955FBoiwhnanri@66.26.32.7: > >> weirdwolf wrote: >> >>> John Iwaniszek wrote in >>> news:Xns96C2E940491E7joiwhnanri@66.26.32.7: >>> >>>> weirdwolf wrote: >>>> >>>>> John Iwaniszek wrote in >>>>> news:Xns96C2DACBD390Ejoiwhnanri@ 66.26.32.8: >>>>> >>>>>> It's time he was plastinated and put on a shelf. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Why? >>>>> I mean give us a clue, I don't even get Brit tv let alone >>>>> whatever passes >>>>> for entertainment over there. >>>>> Ted >>>>> >>>> >>>> Have you ever seen the Martin Short parody of a talk-show host? LK >>>> is indistinguishable from the parody. >>> >>> Oh dear, I've not seen the sketch,(never ben to impressed with >>> short,) >>> but I think I can have a guess at the contents. >>> >>>> It would be funny if he wasn't >>>> asking shell shocked Katrina survivors what they plan to do with >>>> the rest of their lives. It's only been 1 day. These people fled >>>> with the clothes on their back. They can barely conprehend how to >>>> find their next meal, much less what they are going to do 6 months >>>> from now. >>> >>> 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 > > Hmm well I'ld need better proof than somebodies blog. Would you take the word of somebody who has seen the poverty of New Orleans up close? It is one of my favorite towns, and I am still awaiting word of the fate of friend who lives (or lived) on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain. The poverty rate of the city is close to 30%, IIRC. These are people who, if they have a car,don't have the $40 needed to fill up the tank to get stranded on the I-10. They have so little, they are willing to risk there lives to protect it,because they have no way of replacing it. They make their money off the tourist trade -- which is now gone. The lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people will never be the same. Just when I think I have my head wrapped around it, I see another picture of the town I love and that will never exist as it once did. And then I see the price of gas go up over 10% in a day, and the price of heating oil go up 30% in a couple of hours, and I realize this will affect every single person in the United States in one way or another. K .