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Re: Hundreds Live In Tunnels Under Las Vegas

Unread postby jupiters_release » Wed 30 Sep 2009, 15:15:39

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ColossalContrarian', 'W')OW!

That's an eye opener, what happens when it rains?


I just checked to see what Las Vegas' annual rainfall is. Four inches. Does that really require 350 miles of flood tunnels?
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Re: Hundreds Live In Tunnels Under Las Vegas

Unread postby Sixstrings » Wed 30 Sep 2009, 16:23:12

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jupiters_release', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ColossalContrarian', 'W')OW!

That's an eye opener, what happens when it rains?


I just checked to see what Las Vegas' annual rainfall is. Four inches. Does that really require 350 miles of flood tunnels?


Flash floods in the desert can be nasty.

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')lash flooding often occurs suddenly and without notice. Floods can happen any time in Southern Nevada and not just during the July through September flash flood season.
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Re: Hundreds Live In Tunnels Under Las Vegas

Unread postby PenultimateManStanding » Wed 30 Sep 2009, 16:27:39

Sounds to me like it's not the rain run-off that's dangerous, it's these little devils:

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Re: Hundreds Live In Tunnels Under Las Vegas

Unread postby ColossalContrarian » Wed 30 Sep 2009, 20:21:45

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jupiters_release', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ColossalContrarian', 'W')OW!

That's an eye opener, what happens when it rains?


I just checked to see what Las Vegas' annual rainfall is. Four inches. Does that really require 350 miles of flood tunnels?


Yeah 350 miles sounds like a lot but just like anywhere in the southwest, when it rains the water doesn't soak into the earth too well it just flows to the lowest point it.

I'm sure those tunnels stay nice cool in the hot summer though.
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Re: Hundreds Live In Tunnels Under Las Vegas

Unread postby Consensi » Wed 30 Sep 2009, 20:33:51

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('deMolay', 'N')ot a pretty scene, I wonder why they tell stories, probably will get them kicked out. http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/fe ... Vegas.html

Unfortunately, this is not new. The homeless have taken refuge in the underground
for decades, especially in cities like NY.

http://leblog.exuberance.com/2005/03/mo ... e_liv.html

Pretty sad commentary of the human race when some of us are perfectly willing
to live like roaches. Personally, I would blow my brains out with 12 gauge buckshot
before resorting to this. Whats the use ?
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Re: Hundreds Live In Tunnels Under Las Vegas

Unread postby Pops » Thu 01 Oct 2009, 08:00:32

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Consensi', 'W')hats the use ?

When asked "Who wants to live to be 80, anyway?"

Studs Terkel said, "Most everyone who's 79."
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Re: Hundreds Live In Tunnels Under Las Vegas

Unread postby deMolay » Thu 01 Oct 2009, 08:26:55

So very true Pops.
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Re: Hundreds Live In Tunnels Under Las Vegas

Unread postby Consensi » Thu 01 Oct 2009, 12:07:57

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Consensi', 'W')hats the use ?

When asked "Who wants to live to be 80, anyway?"

Studs Terkel said, "Most everyone who's 79."

True, but Studs had everything to live for. These folks don't.
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Re: THE Homeless Hooverville Tent City Thread (merged)

Unread postby Kristen » Thu 01 Oct 2009, 16:26:55

Well pass me the gas mask and feed me the nitrogen already. If I were to go homeless, which totally could happen, I'd camp out in one of the many foreclosed homes.
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"Obamaville" -- hopeless homeless huddle in despair

Unread postby Plantagenet » Sun 13 Dec 2009, 00:10:39

A large "Obamaville" tent city filled with homeless folks is getting media attention in Colorado.

Obamaville--homeless folks in Colorado

The human tragedy of homelessness is only going to get worse as Obama's "jobless recovery" sputters along.....and if by some miracle job creation picks up, it will inevitably trigger more oil demand, thereby creating higher oil prices that will trigger another recession.
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Re: "Obamaville" -- hopeless homeless huddle in despair

Unread postby PrestonSturges » Sun 13 Dec 2009, 00:42:58

So a jackass wingnut made that big banner professionally to exploit the encampment of local homeless people and the sign lasted less than a day. I wonder if they threatened to come kick his ass?

Scratch one of the anti-Obama stories, and all too often you find some despicable wingnut trying to pull a hoax, and sure enough there's a smug scumbag behind this one.
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Re: "Obamaville" -- hopeless homeless huddle in despair

Unread postby Sixstrings » Sun 13 Dec 2009, 01:10:04

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'S')o a jackass wingnut made that big banner professionally to exploit the encampment of local homeless people and the sign lasted less than a day. I wonder if they threatened to come kick his ass?

Scratch one of the anti-Obama stories, and all too often you find some despicable wingnut trying to pull a hoax, and sure enough there's a smug scumbag behind this one.


Clearly the sign was put up by jubilant Republicans who certainly never put up "Bushville" signs, and it's not like republicans have ever been champions of the dispossessed so yeah there's a heaping dose of hypocrisy there.

Having said that, they did a good thing -- this really is all Obama's fault now. He's not who we thought he was. After he won, he got rid of his working-class minded economic team and literally packed his White House with Goldman Sachs bankers. It's like the Twilight Zone, I actually wonder if a McCain whitehouse might have been less Wall Street oriented. :(

EDIT: The lesson I've finally learned here is that politicians serve corporate interests, and you can never, ever, believe what they say. This explains a lot of things.. like why Joe Biden was behind bankruptcy reform (all the credit card companies in Delaware) and why Joe Lieberman is anti-healthcare reform (all the healthcare company headquarters in Connecticut).

This same crap is played out over and over again in every democracy that doesn't have strong socialist / populist activism (I'm thinking of France). I was watching a documentary about the Argentine financial crisis the other day, my God it was the same exact stuff. Even some of the same companies behind all the corruption -- Citi, Bank of America, etc. The private corporate debts being passed off to the public debt, all what we're seeing here now in America.
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Re: "Obamaville" -- hopeless homeless huddle in despair

Unread postby Plantagenet » Sun 13 Dec 2009, 01:34:16

Obama's boasting about the end of the recession rings a bit hollow when millions are still unemployed, poverty is at record levels, we are looking at a "jobless recovery" and nothing is being done about the energy catastrophe that is just over the horizon.

Prof. Victor Davis Hansen says Obama's luck has turned, and the coming high oil prices will just make it worse

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Re: "Obamaville" -- hopeless homeless huddle in despair

Unread postby Sixstrings » Sun 13 Dec 2009, 01:43:13

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'O')bama's boasting about the end of the recession rings a bit hollow when millions are still unemployed, poverty is at record levels, we are looking at a "jobless recovery" and nothing is being done about the energy catastrophe that is just over the horizon.


Yeah, well, the irony is that Obama has turned out to be so Republican that Americans are going to elect a Republican in 2012.

We've had some great presidents in the past, at times that were even more corrupt than now. I'll refer you to Thomas Jefferson:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.


We sorely need another Jefferson, but sadly there are no classically educated Renaissance men anymore, only corporate drones and group-think. Who is John Galt?
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Re: "Obamaville" -- hopeless homeless huddle in despair

Unread postby Novus » Sun 13 Dec 2009, 01:46:13

Obama declaring the recession over is akin to Bush landing on the carrier in May 2003 declaring mission accomplished in Iraq. I wonder if we still be in recession 6 years later.
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Re: "Obamaville" -- hopeless homeless huddle in despair

Unread postby PrestonSturges » Sun 13 Dec 2009, 02:07:11

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'O')bama's boasting about the end of the recession rings a bit hollow when millions are still unemployed, poverty is at record levels, we are looking at a "jobless recovery" and nothing is being done about the energy catastrophe that is just over the horizon.

Prof. Victor Davis Hansen says Obama's luck has turned, and the coming high oil prices will just make it worse

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Still trying to erase Hoover from the history books I see
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Re: "Obamaville" -- hopeless homeless huddle in despair

Unread postby alpha480v » Sun 13 Dec 2009, 07:37:44

Move along now nothing to see here. Don't you all know that the economy is recovering with green shoots and all that jazz. :lol:
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Re: "Obamaville" -- hopeless homeless huddle in despair

Unread postby Cloud9 » Sun 13 Dec 2009, 08:51:25

We need an Andy Jackson to go after banks.
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Re: "Obamaville" -- hopeless homeless huddle in despair

Unread postby sittinguy » Sun 13 Dec 2009, 08:58:45

Some comments on the news were, "they should have gave that money to the homeless.
That banner probably only cost a couple hundred bucks.
Just seeing those tents in the snow.


BBBRRRRRRRRRR, looks a little cold
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Re: "Obamaville" -- hopeless homeless huddle in despair

Unread postby Cloud9 » Sun 13 Dec 2009, 09:32:13

There is no question that Mr. Obama has done everything he can do to maintain the status quo by propping up big business and the financial sector. This is pretty much the path taken by President Hoover in the first stages of the great depression. Both men are nice guys and neither of them will be well remembered by history. :(
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