[I_Like_Plants]

Heh. I've been given several opportunities to die, generally through the tender assisstance of our "multicultural" friends, and somehow it never worked out. Quick thinking/quick acting on my part.

This is where I think you're very, very, wrong. Hard cases like me tend to be the ones who are able to do what needs to be done in hard times and make survival possible for many of our own, even if their thinking/emotions are "soft".

[Petro]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'H')eh. I've been given several opportunities to die, generally through the tender assisstance of our "multicultural" friends, and somehow it never worked out. Quick thinking/quick acting on my part.
This is where I think you're very, very, wrong. Hard cases like me tend to be the ones who are able to do what needs to be done in hard times and make survival possible for many of our own, even if their thinking/emotions are "soft".

[Caoimhan]

From the Wikipedia:

New Orleans was founded in 1718 and has played an important role in the history of the United States. The city was named in the honor of Philippe, duc d'Orléans, who was regent and ruler of France when the city was founded; the name of the city alludes to the existing city of Orléans in central France.

[I_Like_Plants]

Shanny yeah I was lucky there!! What's amazing, and needs to be understood, is the public schools where I grew up prevent or at best delay education because in that society, education is not needed to make a way in life. That's set out for you depending on your race and who you're related to. Education does not enter into the calculations.

The original idea behind public education, besides taking child labor away so adults could make more, was to educate the educable, to allow those with superior intelligence and skills to rise up and make the best of their abilities, for the betterment of society, and for all children to find their place, their interests, etc. So, in a classic public school system, you might find the mechanic's kid going on to a college degree in literature, and the principal's kid becoming the classic "gearhead" and acing every auto shop course and going on to own a garage. This was possible, and it was done. This was the high point of public education, say the 1950s/1960s, before my time. By the time I was in high school and college, it was becoming the class/race based caste system we're adopting here in the US.

And as for compassion, I have compassion for the CRACKERS. The white trash, the inbred, the corn-likker swillin', wife-beater wearin', should'a been put down at birth truly evil people. Because we all know they're evil, right? They're WHITE for god's sake, they must be evil! So, Jeff Foxworthy can make a career out of demeaning them, 40 years after Amos 'n' Andy fell into disfavor, TV shows like the modern "Beverly Hillbillies" can be made about them, the new movie version of The Dukes Of Hazzard which I understand is a real hatchet job, etc. There's where my sympathy is, with the people all of you almost certainly hate, because you've been taught to.

Those CRACKERS have gotten out of town, yes out of houses that may have been in their families 100 years or more, and did so quietly. They're the modern Joads, this-here farm don't work any more, 'been in the famblly generations, but it ain't workin., and they calmly get their stuff together, boil up what food they have and pack that, and head out. I bet a lot of them can't afford hotels, and the authorities aren't going to give them any help either. No privelaged minorities these, just some goddamn useless crackers. They'll probably end up camped here and there in their cars or in tents, take what jobs they can get no matter how demeaning, and not make much fuss about it. Crackers have to fly under the radar you know. No good comes of being noticed - it's not like one of the gangbangers at one of these Domes who can shriek and wail on TV and get help. If a cracker does that, all they're likely to get is their hair parted with a billy club, and they know it. That's why they got the hell out. There's my sympathy, with the people whom the rest of you wish didn't exist, the ones with less rights than anybody, the ones who are staying good and invisible, as if anyone on wwltv would film those lousy sonsabitches anyway.

[big_rc]

ILP you are a genuine idiot. Quit trying to turn this disaster into some sort of racial thing. Hundreds of thousands of people of all colors were devastated in this horrible event. Put your backward racial up your ass where they belong.

[o2ny]

Yeah the city's been there almost 3 hundred years, and they must have seen quite a few major hurricanes during all that time. Apparently though some recent property development and civil engineering has created environmental problems that destroyed the natural barrier protecting the city: http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090105P.shtml]link1
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090105I.shtml]link2

[Madpaddy]

MAD MAX IV "BEYOND SUPERDOME"

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[Raxozanne]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Madpaddy', 'M')AD MAX IV "BEYOND SUPERDOME"
Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[I_Like_Plants]

I never said racial I said cultural. And I'll only stick my head up my ass if I want a liberal's view of the world, which I never will.

I hope in the future for your sake, cannibals don't decide they like the taste of Patchouli!

[dunewalker]

It seems that many of these futuristic movies are not so fantastic after all...

The Postman comes to mind as well....

[stu]

Saw that too Raxozanne.

Couldn't believe that the richest country in the world can't even organize a decent response to a crisis on it's own doorstep.

[idiom]

What the HELL happended to their comms?
Nobody in the states heard of peer to peer radio? A.K.A. a Walkie Freaking Talkie?
In New Zealand we use repeaters, but when the repeater goes down you flick a button and transmit out your receive frequency. OMG you can suddenly communicate again!
I can understand emergency comms being out for an hour or so at the height of the storm, but beyond that is just straight incompetence.

[MD]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Petro', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MD', 'I') am a typical wealthy american capitalist. A simple announcement of sympathies from foreign governments would be more than sufficient, in my view. We don't need financial supprt, at least not this year.
Those that wish to stand back and claim we have received or just desserts can kiss my ass.
In search of a world devoid of fallacy and flame.

[I_Like_Plants]

Just Radio Shack walkie-talkies would do a lot, walmart has them too.

[Petro]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MD', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Petro', 'M')endacity, and hypocrisy run deep on these boards. Sometimes. Don't you think?

[MD]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Petro', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MD', '
')Perhaps, but not from this contributor.

[Petro]

Great! I have to take your word on that. Being such a proud capatilist, it does stretch credibility to accept that you have no interest, directly, or, indirectly with big pharma, oil, or, leveraging the debt of American, or, Asian slaves. But, heh. What ever.

[MD]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Petro', 'G')reat! I have to take your word on that. Being such a proud capatilist, it does stretch credibility to accept that you have no interest, directly, or, indirectly with big pharma, oil, or, leveraging the debt of American, or, Asian slaves. But, heh. What ever.

[Petro]

MD wrote:$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')epends on how you define capitalist
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') am a typical wealthy american capitalist.

[MD]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Petro', 'M')D wrote:$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')epends on how you define capitalist$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') am a typical wealthy american capitalist.