Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Tyler Trafford
Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 01:38:10

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

RR wrote:
> 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?!?!?!?!)

(No.  So don't worry.)
-- 
Tyler Trafford

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink
that they may live.
		-- Socrates

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