Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Chaya
Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 02:31:45

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Jim Larson wrote:

> Chaya wrote:
> 
>> John Iwaniszek wrote:
>> 
>>> "RR" <lynchnutNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in news:XYMRe.12760$Nx.7305
>>> @tornado.texas.rr.com:
>>> 
>>>> 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?!?!?!?!)
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> yes.  But the question I have is:  What did you type it with?
>>> 
>> 
>> LOL!  You two are crackin' me up tonight.
>> 
> 
> So what are the rest of us? Chopped liver? *sob*
> 

Truth be told, I'm enjoying the entire thread.  

<<hugs for Larson>>

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