Hurricane Katrina: Political Aftermath

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That's exactly why they want it wiped out. It looks like the Republicans' wishes are coming true.

I have a question for you Fern.

If you had a brain..would you take it out and play with it? Seriously.

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That's exactly why they want it wiped out. It looks like the Republicans' wishes are coming true.

I have a question for you Fern.

If you had a brain..would you take it out and play with it? Seriously.

How much you wanna bet that we will soon see stories circulating on the internet about how the damage to the levees resembles explosions conducted with timed charges?

Well, we all know Bush ordered the levees to be blasted in order to flood the black neighborhoods of New Orleans because its part of a larger conspiracy to eliminate the black man from the united states. We also know that the US Shadow government had these hurricanes created using weather modification and cloud seeding in order to drive up oil prices because Dick Cheney has so much oil lust that the President can't fulfill him anymore. This was verified by unknown employees of Haliburton who claim that the company had a no bid contract to seed the clouds in the Atlantic.

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Well, it's not as if jfern invented this (though Republican was wrong, he shoulda said conservative.)

Personally, I wouldn't have minded if New Orleans was reclaimed by the sea. 

I have a question, States and Gabu. If you had the chance to verify something jfern said before slamming him, would you? Seriously.

MODU isn't a republican...

Nope, I'm not.    But I think I'll be investigated for this natural disaster.    New Orleans is now under water, and was the Port where I first boarded the SS Green Island years ago.  In December, Sumatra was under water, a place I had visited on the SS Green Island.  A few years ago, the SS Green Island nearly sunk at sea when a tropical storm ripped a 90+ foot long hole in the side of her hull.  It's either my fault or my old ships fault.  hahaha

But seriously, this thing with New Orleans was a disaster waiting to happen.  Who in their right mind builds a city below sea level and surrounds it with two large bodies of water???  Maybe this time they'll fill in the area between the levies with dirt and THEN rebuild.  Hello!?!?!?  Doesn't take a rocket scientist to see how stupid the city planners were.

Maybe because the city was built like 300 years ago when doing something like that was unheard of and nearly impossible.

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Who does that? The French did that.
Then again, who builds a major city on a narrow rocky island? The Dutch.
They also built their largest home city on some logs in a swamp by the coast.
Oh, and look at the Italians at Venice.

Obviously, cities become great cities for their location on trade routes, at strategic points such as harbours and rivermouths etc...also (in the past) defendability...not for safety from natural desasters.

If this was a disaster waiting to happen, it was remarkably slow in coming too...after all New Orleans has been one of the US largest cities for 200 years. Other cities around the Caribbean such as Mobile ... Havanna ... have taken damage from a hell of a lot more hurricanes. Maybe New Orleans has just been grotesquely lucky all this time...

Or maybe they got such storms before it was really recorded.

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IM A REPUBLICAN WH*RE (if i was with you now..i would slap you very hard and you would deserve it. you get more honesty from a terrorist)

Really?

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IM A REPUBLICAN WH*RE (if i was with you now..i would slap you very hard and you would deserve it. you get more honesty from a terrorist)

Really?

HOWS YOUR HOMPHOBE SANTORUM TODAY?

You've been very mean lately..have you been getting laid regularly? lol

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New Orleans was much higher when it was founded in 1718, long before the dangers of such a place were known. Funny that the Republicans don't seem to blame the victim for rich people in the San Diego exurbs who choose to build in the middle of a fire prone forest, and voted down fire taxes on the ballot.

Is everything, "OMFG those d*mn republicans!!", with you?

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MODU,

In theory I can agree with your stance on NOLA. But the fact remains the city has existed there for well over 200 years and to pick up a city and move it is practically impossible. Especially with the strategic importance of such a city. You continue to say that you want them to build a New New Orleans above sea level but again, where do you propose to put such a city? Most of that area of LA is already below sea level or at sea level as well as many hundreds of small towns and cities along the coastal united states. The best thing for them to do is to do what they did with Galveston after the storm. Build a huge seawall and fill in the middle or "bowl" with sand and make it level with the top of the seawall. Moving such a large city is impracticle and would never happen in reality.

I also found those comments in that article you posted to be f'in hilarious.

"Its globabl warming for sure!!! In the last 50 years hurricane speeds have picked up 50%!!"

Oh Really? What about the 1935 Labor Day storm with recorded winds of 200 mph? These storms have little to do with global warming and more to do with normal weather cycles.

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This is true...unfortunately a *small* rise is not going to lift the city from the floor of Lake Pontchartrain.

Not all that horribly much seems to have been happening in the past 21 hours since I last was online. I'd have sure expected to either (less likely) see the flooding halted or (more likely) an airlift out for the people in the superdome begun by now.

They are going to start busing the people in the superdome out to the houston astrodome starting tomorrow.

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So, while we are at it, why not have some foresight and remove cities from other disaster-in-waiting areas? Besides cities in flood zones, there are cities in earthquake zones. Anyone for removing LA and SF? A 9-pointer is pretty much inevitable in finite time there. 

Thats why the whole idea of doing such things are impractical.