…conspiracy theories that would seem loopy were they not backed by solid evidence), we do not yet have the tiniest, flimsiest bit of evidence that the Bush Administration is hiding bodies or faking the death count or doing anything other than wishing…

as for your “war on evil”, just who’s the evil ones, any war that is “good against evil” is simply how you look at it !!!

Mabey it should be a “one nations IDEA of Good, agaist someone elses IDEA of Good”.

I suppose because i have not said anything good about america i will be labelled un-patriotic.
I dont have a problem with that, im Australian.. by far the greatest country on earth !!

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Finally, you US people,
If we are NOT with you, we are NOT against you.
You president, did a great job of insulting THE WORLD, by saying, “if you are not with us, you are against us”.

Question: why did your government NOT go after the Anthrax Terrorest with as much force as Alqada ??
A. The Anthrax came from America (government at that).

Thanks for providing a plausible explanation for the right wing “reasoning” that has me so perplexed. (#70) And the Hofstadter quote is very enlightening.

I am resolved never to respond to a troll again.

A Catch-22 would be if the city had to be rebuilt before the levees could be repaired, and the levees had to be repaired before the city could be rebuilt…… Not the case. Or is it?

The conclusions to be drawn are that the odious and quite dense wwallace must like Fahrenheit 911 and must support Sen. Byrd. See, they use facts and opinions that describe them as insults directed at liberals. Makes no sense.

Example: a fascist compares a leftist film to a fascist film as a way of denigrating the former

The Military will move out of town soon and so will the people living there at the present moment.
The city will rot and fall apart and thugs and criminals will take over the place to build some kind of “Sin City”.

Eventually the current or any future President or Political system will build a great wall around it and even further into the future the town will be used as a giant Jail.
Sounds like too much Sci-Fi? Have i been watching too many Snake Plissken movies?

Take a look at the facts.
The Money spent so far for the leeves (as one correctly pointed out) is over 200Mio. But patching the Leeves needs at least another 100Mio.
But that is just patching and not rebuilding. Engineers have been estimating ten times the already spent amount of money would be needed to build the leeves like it was promised.
But there is another Problem.
IF the money keeps flowing the engineers estimate that the would be just about finished at around june fixing the leeves.
Start of the Hurricane season and like someone else noted the fixed leeves would not hold a cat1, maybe a cat2 storm so all of it is down the drain again (or the missisippi, or the lake…).

Wake up people!!!
You are being fed lies. Not only by the politicians but also by corporations.
The american dream, from the dishwasher to a millionair is no longer existing and maybe it never has.
If, then only on the back of someone else…

So wake up!!!
We have to do something to change this society, this way of living and each and everyone of us has to do so.
Its not for you and its not for your children. It is for the future of this planet and the human race…

Not that I agree with it so don’t throw things at me, but the administration looks at the oil flow of Iraq as a money producer…or, at least a means of keeping this nation from falling into a recession/depression because a gallon of gas is $4. the oil companies subtely reminded us around that time who needs servicing.

New Orleans, on the otherhand, has a much bigger problem:

the levees.

it’s a catch-22. Nobody can go back in and start rebuilding anything until the problem with the levees is solved as they are barely patched and don’t need much of a storm surge before they are breached again (it’s not strictly a patch situation either as some of those levees were originally breached with a category 1 storm surge because they weren’t rooted deeply enough into the ground to start with), but the millions of dollars needed to do that has gone somewhere else.

GW doesn’t want to bring back the inheritence tax which could solve a lot of the money issues. he doesn’t want to raise taxes in any form or fashion. he doesn’t want to cut spending on his cronies and iraq. New Orleans had a bunch of poor people that were tossed into the wind. they aren’t technically “suffering” as they are now living in hotels and FEMA housing or have simply found jobs elsewhere and have taken to living with relatives and friends, so it was easy to forget about massive reconstruction when you really didn’t care about their lives and took the idea that a band-aid was just a good a solution to the problem as any.

But for the old and infirm – Shame on Mayor Nagin for letting buses just SIT in that lot. Have to hand it to that kid on TV who broke into the office holding the school bus keys. This young man picked up young and old and a full bus arrived in Houston!!

I was hoping for intelligent exhange not crybabies and hatemongers.

I think his response, or lack thereof was twofold.

On the one hand, he is incompetent, and sat on vactation while the storm gathered strength.

On the other hand, I think there was a little purposeful incompetence as well. Kathline Blanco had criticized him before, openly criticizing the war effort, and his policies.

We all know how this President cannot deal with criticism.

So I think there was a little, “they’re Dems, fu@@@#k em” attitude going on.

In fact, I bet it happens all the time.

Franklin (not a founder of the country apparently) and electricity: In June, 1752, Benjamin Franklin promoted his investigations of electricity and theories through the famous, though extremely dangerous, experiment of flying a kite during a thunderstorm. Following these experiments he invented a lightning rod and established the link between lightning and electricity. If Franklin did fly a kite in a storm, he did not do it the way it is often described (as it would have been dramatic but fatal). It was either Franklin (more frequently) or Ebenezer Kinnersley of Philadelphia (less frequently) who created the convention of positive and negative electricity.

Franklin’s observations aided later scientists such as Michael Faraday, Luigi Galvani, Alessandro Volta, André-Marie Ampère, and Georg Simon Ohm whose work provided the basis for modern electrical technology. The work of Faraday, Volta, Ampere, and Ohm is honored by society, in that fundamental units of electrical measurement are named after them.

What is wrong with you people? Clinton wasn’t perfect but he was the best damn Republican president we have had since Eisenhower. Perot?

America is lost if people like you two don’t wake the fvck up fast! The Democratic party will be what you make it. The Republican party is what the radicals have made it. A mess.

You better deal with it until a viable third party emerges, very unlikely, or a viable third party or independent candidate emerges, even more unlikely.

You are a boob and a moron if you think that. Perot was psychopathic idiot. It’s people like you and the other guy whining about the fact that we have a small minority of wingnuts running things in this country and you don’t have the balls to kick them where their balls would be if they had any.