Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 04:25:12 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > K wrote in > news:Xns96C3E88818FFDnotmenotherecom@216.196.97.142: > >> 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. > > You see thats the attitude I don't understand. Me, I like being alive > much more than I do a book or a computer. Stuff is just that, stuff, > whether you have a lot or a little, it's not worth sticking around > risking your life for. Yes, but you live in one of those hoity-toity, high falutin' socialist welfare state that will see to it you don't die in the streets if worse comes to worst. Not that I'm implying anything about the U.S., mind you. I would never imply anything about hte U.S. (The walls have ears! The toilets have eyes!) -- Jim .