Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 04:46:01 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > 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. > I hope you dangled your penile implant at the bastards. >> 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. > pies etc.> Meat pies...delightful. -- Jim .