Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 02:51:36

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Chaya wrote:

> 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>>

Yay!

-- 
Jim

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