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What do you expect from a town that rewards women with strings of beads for
showing their tits?

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Peter
Roanoke, VA USA
37°17' N, 79°57' W

"Mick" wrote in message
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Peter Walker wrote:
What do you expect from a town that rewards women with strings of beads for
showing their tits?


A town like that *has* to be saved.

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Tom McDonald
http://ahwhatdoiknow.blogspot.com/

"Peter Walker" wrote in message
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What do you expect from a town that rewards women with strings of beads
for
showing their tits?

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who's doing the rewarding?

"Peter Walker" wrote in message
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What do you expect from a town that rewards women with strings of beads
for
showing their tits?


And what else would you expect from Eleanor Clift?

Ed T.

I'm not a Bush fan, but there's plenty of blame to go around here. As
the writer points out, the Federal Government's response was late and
inadequate. However, the local government's planning was also
inadequate. The levees were long known to be unable to handle a
hurricane of this size, and local newspaper articles had pointed this
out. Fleets of school busses sat parked in their lots during the
evacuation. And while my heart goes out to those who lost everything,
some of this is symptomatic of a population that has come to expect
government to take care of them in every way. The local, state, and
federal governments can't completely protect us from massive natural
disasters or the predators we tolerate among us in our society.
There will be plenty of time later to analyse what went wrong, and
thousands of gallons of ink will be used to place blame. But now is the
time to help the victims of this horror recover, and attempt to find
ways to rebuild in ways to withstand inevitable future disasters.
Marty

Marty wrote:
I'm not a Bush fan, but there's plenty of blame to go around here. As
the writer points out, the Federal Government's response was late and
inadequate. However, the local government's planning was also
inadequate.

I have to agree .. though a bit more empathy and rapid *action* by the federal
government would have been helpful (and no doubt saved many lives). After
all they do have a lot of resources they could have brought in. This is
the richest and most powerful nation on the planet after all.


*** I rather doubt there would have been this sort of delay if a Hurricane
would have hit Kennebunkport. No way would all those people be left alone
to fend for themselves for this many days. This brings up many questions.

And while my heart goes out to those who lost everything,
some of this is symptomatic of a population that has come to expect
government to take care of them in every way.

True.

A little bit of personal and professional accountability would be
refreshing, esp amongst government officials. I find the lack of this
an equally troubling trend in society.. no one is willing to admit problems
or mistakes (these happen, we are all human), and quick to point fingers
elsewhere. (I see this with students too, turn in an assignment late, but
don't take responsibility for doing so ..)

There will be plenty of time later to analyse what went wrong, and
thousands of gallons of ink will be used to place blame. But now is the
time to help the victims of this horror recover, and attempt to find
ways to rebuild in ways to withstand inevitable future disasters.

Yup, first things first, there are still today people needing to be
rescued.

4 years after 9/11 are we really better prepared to deal with disaster
(man made or natural)? This does not instill a great deal of confidence
in me.

Ok, this is sufficiently OT now, I'll stop.

Esmail
ps: I read somewhat that these sort of evacuations are mandatory and
enforced by the state in Cuba .. aside from feasibility, it does
make you wonder.

Here is an article from Scientific American, October 2001.
Quite chilling in its prescience.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?art...7183414B7F0122

T.T. wrote:
Here is an article from Scientific American, October 2001.
Quite chilling in its prescience.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?art...7183414B7F0122

And thoroughly ignored. "Common sense" trumps science these days, as
any good Merkan knows.

Shawn