Subj : Re: Some good news at least To : alt.tv.farscape From : Nick Date : Mon Sep 05 2005 03:15:11 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape John Iwaniszek wrote: > Mark Nobles wrote in > news:040920051433178119%cmn-nospam@houston.rr.com: > >> John Iwaniszek wrote: >> >>> Jim Larson wrote in >>> news:Xns96C75B0F53FBF3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: >>> >>>> John Iwaniszek wrote: >>>> >>>>> Nick wrote in >>>>> news:Xns96C76B3801495ndtcm@ 68.1.17.6: >>>>> >>>>>> John Iwaniszek wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> John Iwaniszek wrote in >>>>>>> news:Xns96C76EE68D0BBjoiwhnanri@66.26.32.8: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> "Steve Brooks" wrote in >>>>>>>> news:fGCSe.3238$7p1.3164@newsfe7-win.ntli.net: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> According to our radio all the people who want to leave >>>>>>>>> New Orleans have now been evacuated. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Except for the peopel trapped in their atics and everyone >>>>>>>> else who aren't being counted as part of "Operatoin Cover >>>>>>>> Bush's Ass". >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> "There was a striking dicrepancy between the CNN >>>>>>> International report >>>>>>> on the Bush visit to the New Orleans disaster zone, >>>>>>> yesterday, and reports of the same event by German TV. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ZDF News reported that the president's visit was a >>>>>>> completely staged >>>>>>> event. Their crew witnessed how the open air food >>>>>>> distribution point Bush visited in front of the cameras was >>>>>>> torn down immediately after the president and the herd of >>>>>>> 'news people' had left and that others which were allegedly >>>>>>> being set up were abandoned at the same time. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> The people in the area were once again left to fend for >>>>>>> themselves, said ZDF." >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> It's been more than a week. This is a national >>>>>>> embarrasment. Worse: people are still dying. >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Those particular Germans are full of crap. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Nothing mus be said against Dear Leader. I wonder who the >>>>> good Germans are now? >>>> >>>> Conversely, everything said against Dear Leader is not >>>> automatically true. Independent confirmation would be nice. >>>> >>>> Just as a point for consideration: >>>> >>>> http://medienkritik.typepad.com/blog/heute_zdf/ >>>> >>>> (I'm not taking the above at face value. However, I have >>>> followed a little German and French news now and then , and in >>>> my throroughly unenlightened and subjective opinion, they do >>>> not match the Brits for objectivity.) >>>> >>> >>> Some of the reports of the potempkin relief stations came from >>> people on the ground, and people watching live feeds. And >>> frankly, considering the lies and deception these people have >>> proven they are capable of in just about every situation large >>> and small, who are you going to believe? >>> >>> >>> For example: >>> >>> >>> "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." - >>> George W. Bush, Sept 1, 2005. >>> >>> (Do I need to point out how ridiculous and lame this particular >>> lie is?) >> >> You were posting every random thought that happened to cross your >> mind back before the storm. When did you post your prediction >> that the levee would break? >>> > > > It is very apparent from article printed after the levees broke > that it was widely held that the likelihood that the levves would > break was very high. It is a lie that no one "anyone anticipated > the breach of the levees". Denying this fact is in itself a lie. Technically, I think most people, myself included, believed that the water, from the rise caused by the storm surge, would go over the top of the levee rather than having the levee itself break. Particularly the 17th street canal since it was just made higher. .