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Anulios » Blog Archive » Additions — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 09:58:16 +0000

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By: Glingle

Glingle — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 16:58:57 +0000

Mr Cunningham,
The residents of New Orleans and the Gulf who did not leave, could not leave. Where were they to go? They live in poverty, paycheck to paycheck with no form of transport to get them out of the city and nowhere to go if they could. It’s not as though they could afford to check into a motel for the next couple of weeks. I know in that situation I couldn’t–could you?
What exactly do you mean by “get off their knees … and do something about their situation?” I’d love to know what you think they should have done.
Because, of course, you’d have done so much better.

By: Mike Cunningham

Mike Cunningham — Sun, 04 Sep 2005 10:55:07 +0000

Who’s this god person that some seem to be saying is the author of the damage/hurricane/catastrophe in the Southern U.S.A.?

Hurricanes are natural phenomena, brought about by conflicting atmospheric conditions ove large expanses of ocean!

The damage is the result of man-made levees breaking down, combined with massive influx of rain and tidal effects!

Apart from the frail and medically infirm, the majority of the blacks in New Orleans apparently couldnÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t see the need to get off their knees, stop calling out for help, and decide to do something about their situation!

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 08:50:00 +0000

In fairness, there’s nothing at all stupid about the location of NO: it’s where the river that connects the US’s farming and industrial heartland to the world reaches the sea, and also where the east-southwest railways (and the Intracoastal waterway) cross it, as well as being just between the Texan and Gulf oilfields and their routes to market. If it didn’t exist they’d build it, which is also why they will rebuild it.

Sometimes, it’s just worth taking the risk…

By: JT

JT — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 22:08:31 +0000

Sir,
I congradulate and honor your level headedness and intelligence. It is the only way the world (all of us) has a future.
JT

By: Jim B

Jim B — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 17:17:15 +0000

dearieme, in fairness Amsterdam isn’t in a hurricane zone.

By: dearieme

dearieme — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:05:19 +0000

“We have the best pumping and sewage system in the world”: what, better than Amsterdam? Chap on the telly yesterday evening said that A’s flood defences permit an inundation once per 10,000 years, NO’s once per 100 years. Hire Johnny Dutchman, that’s my advice.

By: Alex Fradera

Alex Fradera — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 11:19:47 +0000

Yet the people who drained the wetlands and built the houses are not the ones who were punished. Unless you consider people living in New Orleans as “the tribe of New Orleans” or something, to make it feel Biblical. Which is, IMO, silly.

By: M. A.

M. A. — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:08:18 +0000

God knew they would sin. He made them build their city in such a dangerous place so that they would be punished for their sins. One of the effects of sins is that a person loses his wisdom, and then he does what is clearly not good for him like draining wetlads and building houses on them.

By: George Carty

George Carty — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 07:43:55 +0000

Regarding the Diana conspiracy theories – could YOU imagine Lady Diana wearing a hijab?? I couldn’t…