Summer vs. New Orleans

Hey, Danny Boy, why don't you get lost in a snowdrift next winter
somewhere?

More of the same crap from Danny Boy!

Saul Levy


On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 22:40:06 +0200 (CEST), Nomen Nescio
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THIS HAS BEEN the best summer I've ever had in my forty-seven
years incarnate. While the last two winters had been unusually
long, once April came around this year, we've enjoyed beautiful,
mostly clear and very warm weather practically all summer long.

Because the Colorado Rocky Mountain winters tend to be rather
snowy and cold, I spend as much time outdoors as possible in
the summer months, usually walking, hiking and gambling up at
the casinos. During the winter months I still enjoy walking and
hiking, just not as often. That's when I tend to write and blog
more through the newsgroups as time permits--whence I especially
enjoy reminding readers that our God-fearing Republican moral-
majority shall continue to control the executive and legislative
branches of our federal government, and we shall very soon also
control the federal judiciary, too. First thing we'll do is to
shoot down Roe v. Wade in flames, and we'll re-display God's
Ten Healing Commandments for Eternal Life in every classroom,
courtroom, library and all public buildings in all 50 states
throughout America, no exceptions, no exclusions. I love it!

Intelligent Design will soon become MANDATORY curriculum to be
taught alongside evolution, as it should've been all along. And
we'll be teaching children from kindergarten onward that God
the Creator means what He says and says what He means! Soon,
very soon, the anti-Christ liberal left-wing secular academia
shall lose their vicious stranglehold over America's children.

In the meantime, as we victorious Republicans continue gloating...
Although the summer weather is still with us (up in the central
mountains of Colorado) I have a brief comment about New Orleans:

Recall that the old, near-sealevel central business district
portion of New Orleans was founded by the French in 1718 as
the slave plantation of Jean Baptiste LeMoyne de Bienville.
When Napoleon sold the Louisiana territory to the US in 1803,
New Orleans' population was about 10,000. This plantation land,
later named 'Faubourg St. Marie', extended from Common St. to
near Howard Ave., and from Tchoupitoulas St. to Rampart St.

Before the 20th century, only the slightly higher ground along
the natural river levees and bayous was inhabitable. Most all
other sections of what is today New Orleans used to be swamp-
land that was subject to frequent flooding; hence New Orleans
was nicknamed "The Crescent City".

New Orleanians can thank engineer and inventor A. Baldwin Wood
for adding the vast drainage systems and massive pumps, which
allowed New Orleans to greatly expand into the sub-marine area.

This totally foolish expansion has proven to be New Orleans'
death knell. Mediocre levees are no match for Mother Nature,
so the only part of New Orleans which should remain is the
old "Crescent City" area. The rest should be left in ruins.
Otherwise, another natural disaster is sure to come along and
bury it again beneath the waves. And it needn't be a hurricane.
An earthquake could easy compromise the levees of New Orleans.
Then, all the pumps in the world wouldn't save her from ruin!

It was a stupid idea to begin with, to build so much of the
city beneath sealevel on the hurricane-ridden Gulf coast of
the USA. And there WILL be a major earthquake soon enough in
the greater region. *Surviving* New Orleanians are strongly
advised to relocate to higher ground. The ones who didn't,
well, they died in trauma, and are now haunting the rubble!

The NEXT disaster, which is verily imminent, is going to make
hurricane Katrina pale by comparison. But most people are just
too stubborn to take warnings seriously. They'd rather die in
catastrophe rather than heed these most dire prognostications.

Oh well, too bad.
Daniel Joseph Min