Dr. K Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 An article from a year ago from our local (NC) INDEPENDENT WEEKLY that warned about what we are facing today. http://www.indyweek.com/durham/2004-09-22/cover.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 An article from a year ago from our local (NC) INDEPENDENT WEEKLY that warned about what we are facing today. http://www.indyweek.com/durham/2004-09-22/cover.html 425185[/snapback] BUSH LIED! PEOPLE DIED! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Live&DieBillsFootball Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 BUSH LIED! PEOPLE DIED! 425257[/snapback] I thought that the official NRC talking points said to label any dissenter as a kook or a loony. You might want to verify it with the other right wing nut jobs on the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RkFast Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 I thought that the official NRC talking points said to label any dissenter as a kook or a loony. You might want to verify it with the other right wing nut jobs on the board. 425430[/snapback] How DARE someone who blamed the hurricane on George Bush be labeled a kook and a loony??!!?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Where were the valiant Democratic members of congress when this unpardonable sin as reported by this "alternative" newspaper, occured? Visiting the Clinton library? Celebrating another slab of pork in honor of Sen Byrd? Chuckling over memories of Sen. Byrd's successful suit against the line item veto? Demanding driver's licenses for illegal aliens or voting rights for same? Watcha think? WHERE were they??? Where were you? Crickets? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30dive Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Cinncy, The Dems offer no solution to anything, hell they hardly say anythng anymore. But with said, the party that controls everything has to stand up and be accountable. Things are not good today, one can put any political spin on economics, fuel, Iraq, terror and dare I say natural disasters and the response to such, but, one party holds the key to the executive washroom and it is the Republicans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thurman's Helmet Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Didnt take long for the left to politicize this did they? So much for them wanting to be uniters. Guess that only applies to the international community huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Coli Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Didnt take long for the left to politicize this did they?So much for them wanting to be uniters. Guess that only applies to the international community huh? 425652[/snapback] Did you even read the f-ing article, a-hole? It was written last year. Among emergency specialists, "mitigation"--the measures taken in advance to minimize the damage caused by natural disasters--is a crucial part of the strategy to save lives and cut recovery costs. But since 2001, key federal disaster mitigation programs, developed over many years, have been slashed and tossed aside. FEMA's Project Impact, a model mitigation program created by the Clinton administration, has been canceled outright. Federal funding of post-disaster mitigation efforts designed to protect people and property from the next disaster has been cut in half, and now, communities across the country must compete for pre-disaster mitigation dollars. As a result, some state and local emergency managers say, it's become more difficult to get the equipment and funds they need to most effectively deal with disasters. In North Carolina, a state regularly damaged by hurricanes and floods, FEMA recently refused the state's request to buy backup generators for emergency support facilities. And the budget cuts have halved the funding for a mitigation program that saved an estimated $8.8 million in recovery costs in three eastern N.C. communities alone after 1999's Hurricane Floyd. In Louisiana, another state vulnerable to hurricanes, requests for flood mitigation funds were rejected by FEMA this summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30dive Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Who's politcizing??????? The article is a year old! Maybe we need some good old fashioned politics down in New Orleans, every ones so concerned about not politicizing it that no one appears to be taking the bull by the horns, save Haley Barbour in Mississippi. And yep he's about as "right" as you can Get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFanNC Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Unbelievable. Some thoughts posted on democraticunderground.com. This takes "Bush bad" to a level I didn't believe possible. # BTW, does anyone else think it's suspicious that the levees didn't break until AFTER the hurricane passed and it was clear the storm surge was not going to swamp the city. It would probably only take a couple of sticks of dynamite to get those things flowing. Seems like someone wanted Bush to have another pile of debris to climb on top of. # I didn't think of deliberate destruction of the levee, but that's sure possible. No one was there to see. I HAVE been wondering why Bush looks so perky and happy - like he's very PLEASED about the hurricane. It seems like more than his usual sociopathic cluenessness. Is there something about the oil infrastructure, the neighborhoods that were destroyed (surely not strongholds of GOP support), the probable availability of cheap land now that so much has been destroyed. Or perhaps just that the cost of oil has soared so high? He's a sociopath who is incapable of empathy, yes, but doesn't he seem really, really tickled to you? Like he's gotten something he thought he might not be able to pull off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Coli Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Unbelievable. Some thoughts posted on democraticunderground.com. This takes "Bush bad" to a level I didn't believe possible. 425674[/snapback] And here's some idiocy from the other side of the spectrum. "Homos Bad" (with props to Dan Gross for providing the link in the other thread). You see, anyone can dig for some wierd conspiracy to show how crazy the "other" side is. Yours was a reach, so is this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
30dive Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 This is why it is so good to sit on the fence (politically). The left is so extreme, the right is so extreme.......Jesus freekin christ ...........There are extreme nuts on both sides. You know "the biggest problem with America today is judges legislating from the bench"..... yeah right the biggest problems we have are judges.......I just wish someone would do SOMETHING and ANYTHING! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Coli Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 This is why it is so good to sit on the fence (politically). The left is so extreme, the right is so extreme.......Jesus freekin christ ...........There are extreme nuts on both sides. You know "the biggest problem with America today is judges legislating from the bench"..... yeah right the biggest problems we have are judges.......I just wish someone would do SOMETHING and ANYTHING! 425696[/snapback] The empty can rings the loudest, or something like that. There are nuts on both sides of the aisle with plenty of microphones and media to get their word out. Just because they are the ones you hear doesn't mean the whole lot of them think that way, though there are some in this forum who will tell you differently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsFanNC Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 And here's some idiocy from the other side of the spectrum. "Homos Bad" (with props to Dan Gross for providing the link in the other thread). You see, anyone can dig for some wierd conspiracy to show how crazy the "other" side is. Yours was a reach, so is this one. 425694[/snapback] I'm well aware of the idiocy on both extremes. My point was more of the level it sunk to that I found surprising. I guess I shouldn't have though. Although it's equally idiotic, we've seen that type of rhetoric from the christian fundamentalists before so it doesn't come as much of a surprise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Coli Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 I'm well aware of the idiocy on both extremes. My point was more of the level it sunk to that I found surprising. I guess I shouldn't have though. Although it's equally idiotic, we've seen that type of rhetoric from the christian fundamentalists before so it doesn't come as much of a surprise. 425766[/snapback] Guaranteed that race becomes an issue, especially if a lot of those people die. "If it was Hiltonhead that got hit....." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Guaranteed that race becomes an issue, especially if a lot of those people die. "If it was Hiltonhead that got hit....." 425782[/snapback] Meaning what ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Coli Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Meaning what ??? 425792[/snapback] I'm just saying it's a matter of time before someone thinks the lack of response has something to do with race. It goes along with what BillsFanNC and I have been saying about idiocy and conspiracy theories. I was not espousing that theory, just forshadowing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilverNRed Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 Guaranteed that race becomes an issue, especially if a lot of those people die. "If it was Hiltonhead that got hit....." 425782[/snapback] It will, but it shouldn't. This event is essentially unprecedented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Live&DieBillsFootball Posted September 1, 2005 Share Posted September 1, 2005 And here's some idiocy from the other side of the spectrum. "Homos Bad" (with props to Dan Gross for providing the link in the other thread). You see, anyone can dig for some wierd conspiracy to show how crazy the "other" side is. Yours was a reach, so is this one. 425694[/snapback] That link was good for a laugh. But, if God was out to get the "Homos", why didn't he wait a few days until the "Homos" were actually there. I guess it's another strike against "Intelligent Design." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GG Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 Did you even read the f-ing article, a-hole? It was written last year. 425661[/snapback] Federal funding of post-disaster mitigation efforts designed to protect people and property from the next disaster has been cut in half, and now, communities across the country must compete for pre-disaster mitigation dollars. As a result, some state and local emergency managers say, it's become more difficult to get the equipment and funds they need to most effectively deal with disasters. In North Carolina, a state regularly damaged by hurricanes and floods, FEMA recently refused the state's request to buy backup generators for emergency support facilities. And the budget cuts have halved the funding for a mitigation program that saved an estimated $8.8 million in recovery costs in three eastern N.C. communities alone after 1999's Hurricane Floyd. In Louisiana, another state vulnerable to hurricanes, requests for flood mitigation funds were rejected by FEMA this summer. Playing my Dr. Evil role, why should the federal government (ie all US tax-payers') pay for the major portion of states' disaster prevention efforts? I see FEMA's role as largely coming in to do whatever is necessary in the aftermath of natural disasters, when widescale help is really needed. But in the mitigation stage, why should NY pay for propping up NC, when NC has been very successful in taking a lot of people & revenue from NY? NC could raise its taxes to enact its own mitigation plan, given the population explosion in the last generation. Of course, that would lessen its advantage over high tax states like NY, so it's easier to complain that the federal government isn't doing its job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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