Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : RR
Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 01:24:23

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Tyler Trafford wrote:

>>>>>> In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was
>>>>>> one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush
>>>>>> administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44
>>>>>> percent to pay for the Iraq war.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study
>>>>>> how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic
>>>>>> hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the
>>>>>> research not be undertaken.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> After a flood killed six people in 1995, Congress created the
>>>>>> Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, in which the
>>>>>> Corps of Engineers strengthened and renovated levees and
>>>>>> pumping stations. In early 2001, the Federal Emergency
>>>>>> Management Agency issued a report stating that a hurricane
>>>>>> striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters
>>>>>> in the U.S., including a terrorist attack on New York City.
>>>>>> But by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project
>>>>>> essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war. In
>>>>>> 2004, the Bush administration cut funding requested by the New
>>>>>> Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for
>>>>>> holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80
>>>>>> percent. Additional cuts at the beginning of this year (for a
>>>>>> total reduction in funding of 44.2 percent since 2001) forced
>>>>>> the New Orleans district of the Corps to impose a hiring
>>>>>> freeze. The Senate had debated adding funds for fixing New
>>>>>> Orleans' levees, but it was too late.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The New Orleans Times-Picayune, which before the hurricane
>>>>>> published a series on the federal funding problem, and whose
>>>>>> presses are now underwater, reported online: "No one can say
>>>>>> they didn't see it coming ... Now in the wake of one of the
>>>>>> worst storms ever, serious questions are being asked about the
>>>>>> lack of preparation."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> By Sidney Blumenthal
>>>>>> Salon.com Wednesday 31 August 2005
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> (You're trying to make Iwa explode, right?)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> (I've been tracking the flood conrol budget cuts for a few days.)
>>>
>>> (Watch this get next to no coverage in the general media.)
>>>
>>
>> (Who is trying to make him explode?)
>
> They are taking turns.

It's like an Iwan gangbang with keyboards instead of cocks.

(Did I actually just type that?!?!?!?!)

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RR

"It's been my experience that every
  time I think I know 'where it's at,'
      it's really somewhere else."
      - William Holden - S.O.B.

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