Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 05:45:27 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > Jim Larson wrote in > news:Xns96C3D340B92753v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > >> 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. > > I didn't have it at the time. It's damn embaressing, the laugh is that > it's the governments own fault so many people are on it. When the pits > were closed down rather than put the miners on unemployment benefit which > shows up on the figures they shoved them onto incapacity benefit to > massage the figures a trick repeated over the years until they realise > that people who are on incapacity benefit for more than 2 years the > chances are that you will retire or die on it. The government are now > taking steps to get people back into work but freezing the benefit, > according to the T.U.C. at it's highest level it is less than 1/5 of the > average earnings. I'm lucky I get an extra few pounds of a different > benefit because I have problems getting around, I can't afford a phone or > TV licence and I don't drink,smoke or go out to the cinema for example. I > by cheap damaged cans and packets of food and have reduced what I eat. > Goodness knows how the hell other people with families survive on it. > I live in dread that I have to go through the same process of appealing > again, I almost lost my house the only asset I have the last time and > spent an age paying back my overdraught. > So next time anybody tells you Britain is a socialist country tell them > my story, there are lots of people a lot worse off than I am. I'm lucky. > I have a roof over my head and food on the table. Well, that sucks. Down with the bastards! Time you folks had a revolution. (P.S. I was kidding about the welfare state business. I know nothing is ever as simple or as easily labelled as that.) -- Jim .