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Uisguex Jack
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First off dusty's plan for sealing the breech is on the money.
Secondly, As to rebuilding New Orleans ...... it should be done. I only regret having never yet been there. Galveston is nearly as vulnerable, isn't it?
If the Dutch were able to get it back together after wwII I think we can manage.
By the way where the hell are the Dutch while this is going on?? They are singularly in a position to help. Silence from Europe.
Why don't people have better provisions?? The democrats made talking points of ridiculing Tom Ridge's advice on what we should all have on hand for a emergency. I think a couple rolls of duct tape could come in handy to a refugee walking. At the least you can make shoes.
I am mystified as to how the hospitals down there don't have better back up systems!! This will be a make or break reality for Chertof and the division of homeland security.
This is a major wake up call for the nation. The effect of the flooding is on par with a sizeable nuclear attack. This is what we are fighting to prevent. What the soldiers in Iraq are protecting us from.
Robert Kennedy is attempting to make political hay on the deaths of what will surely be in the thousands, Michael Moore right along side him.
I'm pretty upset, bout all this. |
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jwb7605
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| Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 2:20 am Post subject: Re: Where have these people been living? |
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| wonhyo wrote: | | After 911, I would have thought that more people would prepare themselves for disasters and emergencies. Obviously none of these people have been listening. My other questions is where has all the money given to the states for emergencies and disasters? The taxpayers have paid millions so that every state could prepare themselves for this kind of event. New Orleans always seems so prepared for Mardi Gras, yet they have no porta pots, no water, no plan for any disaster. I think we should all contact our governors, mayors and ask what is being done with the Homeland Security money in our state. None of these people seem to have listened to the possibility of threatening weather, the first thing I do is get canned goods, water, batteries, a place to meet family, a plan to get out. Am I wrong? |
Most of those monies, it seems to me, have gone to "enhanced" security screenings at airports, studies on how we identify terrorists without using "profiling", first-responder type drills on how you get people out of an area that has been chemically attacked, etc. "Homeland Security" has never seemed to include your basic natural disaster ...
Somebody on Bill Bennet's "Morning In America" radio talk show this morning commented that 911 was supposed to have spotlighted the true character of this nation, but tragically that was just a warmup.
I think you are NOT wrong about cacheing some canned goods, water, etc ... that's just common sense. I'm interested in seeing what "security measures" they come up with now ala "Homeland Security" ... it doesn't take many resources to squirrel away a month's worth of food and you don't have to be much of a genius to understand what "we strongly suggest you evacuate immediately" means.
The parallel (in my view) to "Homeland Security" for this situation will be to fix absolutely all structural problems in all areas of the nation at any cost, require all citizens to have a stockpile of food, and give a mental screening to all citizens randomly to make sure nobody is stupid.
I've already done my part: I suggested at work today that the San Andreas Fault is the next catastrophe waiting to happen, so we should make everybody in California move to Canada until we can evaluate the problem fully and fix it.
That idea was approved by a strong majority  |
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dusty
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| Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 3:01 am Post subject: Re: Where have these people been living? |
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| Quote: | I've already done my part: I suggested at work today that the San Andreas Fault is the next catastrophe waiting to happen, so we should make everybody in California move to Canada until we can evaluate the problem fully and fix it.
That idea was approved by a strong majority |
I hope it holds off for a little while. Now would not be a good time.
Dusty
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SBD
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| Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:19 pm Post subject: Re: Where have these people been living? |
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[quote="dusty"] | jwb7605 wrote: |
| Quote: | I've already done my part: I suggested at work today that the San Andreas Fault is the next catastrophe waiting to happen, so we should make everybody in California move to Canada until we can evaluate the problem fully and fix it.
That idea was approved by a strong majority |
I hope it holds off for a little while. Now would not be a good time.
Dusty |
The California Legislature isn't helping matters.
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This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows.
To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46097
Thursday, September 1, 2005
QUEERLY BELOVED
California Senate OKs same-sex marriage
1st legislative body in U.S. to approve homosexual matrimony
California state senators approved a bill today that would make same-sex marriage legal in the Golden State.
The 21-15 vote marked the first time a state legislative body in the U.S. has voted to OK homosexual matrimony.
AB 849 deletes the phrase "a man and a woman" from California's marriage laws and replaces it with "two persons."
The bill now goes to the state Assembly, and, if passed, to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for final approval.
The Alliance Defense Fund said the vote "slapped the faces" of the 61 percent of voters who passed Proposition 22 in 2000, which limited marriage to one man and one woman.
"Today's action by the 58 percent of California senators who voted in favor of this bill shows they have a reckless disregard for the will of their constituents," said Glen Lavy, senior vice president of ADF's Marriage Litigation Center. "AB 849 flies in the face of the expressed will of the people of California as expressed at the ballot box."
ADF said the California Legislature cannot lawfully overturn a voter-approved initiative.
Nevertheless, Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, an outspoken homosexual, amended an unrelated marine research bill already in committee to sneak the bill through for a vote.
The changes striking the marine research provisions and adding the same-sex "marriage" language can be seen here.
The Campaign for Children and Families has urged supporters to contact their legislators and ask them to oppose the legislation.
“How can God bless California when our lawmakers do this?” said the group's director, Randy Thomasson.
The same-sex marriage bill fell short of passage in the Assembly in June, but proponents believe passage by the Senate will make Assembly members more apt to approve it.
The Assembly has until Sept. 9 to act on the bill.
Meanwhile, same-sex opponents in the state are hoping to put on the ballot for California voters a constitutional amendment that would go further than Proposition 22, the initiative .
The Voters' Right to Protect Marriage Initiative, according to its website, "protects everything about marriage – marriage licenses, marriage rights, and marriage under law – for one man and one woman. It's the true-blue standard we must unite under to truly protect marriage."
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