Subj : Re: Larry King To : alt.tv.farscape From : Rick Savoia Date : Thu Sep 01 2005 15:26:00 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 > > And to be fair, they aren't all in Iraq. I think 28,000 National guard are active and being mobilized to help out. At least, that's the number I heard. I don't know what the actual number is. -- "I'm just very selective about the reality I accept." - Calvin .