Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : Rick Savoia Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 15:24:56 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote in news:Xns96C3EF9B67ED0r73u67jw56nas@80.5.182.99: > Rick Savoia wrote in > news:Xns96C3BC18E9F77rsavoiaNOSPAMyahooco@127.0.0.1: > >> weirdwolf wrote in >> news:Xns96C3EC682255Er73u67jw56nas@80.5.182.99: >> >>>> Yes. However, short of declaring martial law and activating the >>>> reserves, there's not enough resources to go around and move people >>>> to safe locations. >>>> >>> >>> I guess it doesn't help that the national guard is in Iraq. Lets >>> face it >>> if this isn't the time to activate the reserves when the fuck is? >>> Might stop some of the looting to have heavily armed people >>> wandering around. Ted >> >> The reserves are active. They are in Iraq. >> > > "I guess it doesn't help that the national guard is in Iraq." > Bloody hell it's an echo! > Well I hope that the poor bastards that are requiring them create one > hell of a shit storm about it then. I thought it was only a brigade > over there not the complete complement so to speak. > I see now the mayor is saying that she had been complaining about the > levees for a while now. You probably have the same problems we do. > Distruction of wetlands mean that the reedbeds, well mangrove type > swampy stuff I suppose in your case isn't there to act as a buffer. > Ted > > You'll love this then: "While our attention must now be on the Gulf Coast's most immediate needs, the nation will soon ask why New Orleans's levees remained so inadequate. Publications from the local newspaper to National Geographic have fulminated about the bad state of flood protection in this beloved city, which is below sea level. Why were developers permitted to destroy wetlands and barrier islands that could have held back the hurricane's surge? Why was Congress, before it wandered off to vacation, engaged in slashing the budget for correcting some of the gaping holes in the area's flood protection? " From http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/opinion/01thu1.html?th&emc=th They've actually been talking about the destruction of the wetlands for a while. Now the environmentalists get to say "Told you so". Small comfort but maybe it will bring about change when the next administration comes in. -- "I'm just very selective about the reality I accept." - Calvin .