Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 04:41:49 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape Jim Larson wrote in news:Xns96C3CFB8D5E1B3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > 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. Trust me on this, our government is nowhere near socialist. If you are deemed unfit to work by your doctor you can apply to be on incapacity benefit. Every year you are then examined by a doctor under the employ of the goverment. A few years back I was told that I was fit for work and that I had to report the unemployment office. When I got there the womans exact words were "Oh god not another one," apparently this doctor was taking the governments wish to cut down on the number of people on incapacity benefit to heart. The person in the queue before me had terminal cancer but was still fit to work according to her. I appealed against the decision to an independent tribunal and got a hearing date months down the line. For my sheer audacity in appealing the goverment deem it right that the lowest rate help that you can get in this period is cut further. You get the difference back if you win the appeal, but all the time I was waiting I didn't have enough money to pay my bills, I ran up a huge overdraught at the bank just paying my mortgauge and bills for food etc. Welcome to our socialist utopia. > 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!) > Walls not only have ears, they also have tails and testicles. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .