Making Baby Jesus Cry - Page 226

Sexual Harassment Panda · 09-02-2005, 01:25 PM

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
Bush is on the ground in Mobile now. The cavalry is on the way!!!

Bush on CNN just now:

"We got a lot of rebuilding to do.... the good news is and it's hard for some to see it now but out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic gulf coast... out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- the guy lost his entire house -- there's going to be fantastic house. I look forward to sitting on the porch. Out of New Orleans is going to come that great city again."

Inspiring. Just what the people need. Hey, Anderson Cooper, how's it looking where you are?

KING: Anderson Cooper in Biloxi, Mississippi and you were an angry man today, Anderson at what?

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I wouldn't say I'm angry, you know. I think I'm tired of hearing the politicians say that, you know, they understand the frustration of people down here. To me, you know, it's not frustration. It's not that people are frustrated.

It's that people are dying. I mean there are people dying. They're drowning to death and they drown in their living rooms and their bodies are rotting where they drowned and there are corpses in the street being eaten by rats and this is the United States of America.

Penske_Account · 09-02-2005, 01:30 PM

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Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
Which is why the levees and wetlands at the mouth of the Mississippi delta are and should be the concern of the US, esp. DHS, Commerce, etc., and not solely the responsibility of the mayor of NOLA or the governor of LA. It is also why Bush does deserve blame for this.

Bush has accepted responsibility. Too bad Clinton does not do the same, for this and 911.

Sidd Finch · 09-02-2005, 01:32 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
And we can skin a buck, we can run a trot line
And a country boy can survive

And I've got me a fine wife, I got me ole' fiddle.
The sun's comin' up, I got cakes on the griddle.

What are we talking about again?

ltl/fb · 09-02-2005, 01:32 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Perhaps, but given that even Tulsa Oklahoma is a deep-water port, I suspect we could find alternatives, even if they're further up the Mississippi. Or if you turn the area into an industrial park like northern New Jersey.

The reengineering of land/rivers that makes it possible to have deep-water ports in Idaho and Oklahoma is part of the problem, not a solution. You have to dam stuff and dredge the hell out of things and make damn sure rivers don't change their courses to ensure that those deepwater ports stay accessible. Going further up the Mississippi is not going to help. Plus, there is already a fuckload of infrastructure built around NOLA being a center of commerce -- have you seen the network of railroad tracks around there? All of which are loading up containerized cargo from the ships in the port and distributing it throughout the country.

OK, I found a picture:

ETA wow, even I didn't realize the extent to which NO is a hub of the distribution network. Christ.

Gattigap · 09-02-2005, 01:34 PM

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Originally posted by Sexual Harassment Panda
Bush on CNN just now:

"We got a lot of rebuilding to do.... the good news is and it's hard for some to see it now but out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic gulf coast... out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- the guy lost his entire house -- there's going to be fantastic house. I look forward to sitting on the porch. Out of New Orleans is going to come that great city again."

After 5+ years, I still fervently wish that Bush would either develop less of a tin ear in extemporaneous remarks, or just stick more religiously to his prepared remarks, and not even try.

"To Trent!" Yes, to Trent. We'll rebuild his house!

Bad_Rich_Chic · 09-02-2005, 01:35 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Perhaps, but given that even Tulsa Oklahoma is a deep-water port, I suspect we could find alternatives, even if they're further up the Mississippi.

Not really. It's access to the ocean that is the issue. For the Miss and all tributaries, that happens in only one place.

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Or if you turn the area into an industrial park like northern New Jersey.

Major-ass landfill is a better solution, if you aren't worried about burrying a 250 year old historic city. Which may not be such an issue now. However, industrial park alone doesn't solve the problem - you need a whole city for the workers & their families to live.

Penske_Account · 09-02-2005, 01:39 PM

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Originally posted by Gattigap
After 5+ years, I still fervently wish that Bush would either develop less of a tin ear in extemporaneous remarks, or just stick more religiously to his prepared remarks, and not even try.

"To Trent!" Yes, to Trent. We'll rebuild his house!

Excellent politics of hate. Again pointing out why the Dems will be shut out of the White House for the rest of the century. The real Americans love that Bush is a man of the people and recognize the compassionate optimism in his remarks. He is a doer and the dems are blamers. Sad.

sebastian_dangerfield · 09-02-2005, 01:41 PM

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Originally posted by Gattigap
After 5+ years, I still fervently wish that Bush would either develop less of a tin ear in extemporaneous remarks, or just stick more religiously to his prepared remarks, and not even try.

"To Trent!" Yes, to Trent. We'll rebuild his house!

"Heh, heh... I plan to go on down to Trent's and sit on his porch. We're gonna discuss that funny time when I used that comment he made about Strom to plow him out of the majority leader role and wreck him politically. Wheew, we'll have a backslapper talking about how I fucked him so hard Jack Abramoff wouldn't take his calls and Denny Hastert started referring to him as 'bitch.' Good times. Good times. Before I leave, I think I'll fuck Mrs. Lott, jus to to 'complete the circle,' like wwe like to say in Crawford."

Gattigap · 09-02-2005, 01:44 PM

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
Excellent politics of hate. Again pointing out why the Dems will be shut out of the White House for the rest of the century. The real Americans love that Bush is a man of the people and recognize the compassionate optimism in his remarks. He is a doer and the dems are blamers. Sad.

A pathetic waste of one of your 3000+ posts, without you also photoshopping derogatory images of hurricane refugees asking for handouts. C'mon, man, get to work.

Penske_Account · 09-02-2005, 01:49 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
"Heh, heh... I plan to go on down to Trent's and sit on his porch. We're gonna discuss that funny time when I used that comment he made

Was that the comment when he said

"Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."?

eta: oh wait no. that was a quote from DEmocratic Conscience, sEnator Robert Byrd, at the tenderly young, naive and impressionable age of 28. And after he renounced his youthful mistake of becoming a Klan LEADER

Penske_Account · 09-02-2005, 01:51 PM

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Originally posted by Gattigap
A pathetic waste of one of your 3000+ posts, without you also photoshopping derogatory images of hurricane refugees asking for handouts. C'mon, man, get to work.

What time does Cindy's patriotic caravan hit the ground in NO to start helping?

Tyrone Slothrop · 09-02-2005, 01:55 PM

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Originally posted by ltl/fb
The reengineering of land/rivers that makes it possible to have deep-water ports in Idaho and Oklahoma is part of the problem, not a solution. You have to dam stuff and dredge the hell out of things and make damn sure rivers don't change their courses to ensure that those deepwater ports stay accessible. Going further up the Mississippi is not going to help. Plus, there is already a fuckload of infrastructure built around NOLA being a center of commerce -- have you seen the network of railroad tracks around there? All of which are loading up containerized cargo from the ships in the port and distributing it throughout the country.

OK, I found a picture:

ETA wow, even I didn't realize the extent to which NO is a hub of the distribution network. Christ.

I say again: network effects.

Gattigap · 09-02-2005, 01:58 PM

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Originally posted by Penske_Account
What time does Cindy's patriotic caravan hit the ground in NO to start helping?

No, no, no. Old news, Penske. If you keep phoning it in like this, soon we'll be reduced to seeing more Byrd photoshops, which God knows you've ridden hard and put away wet.

C'mon -- I've seen pictures today of Bush standing around a conference table in Mobile getting briefed by a bunch of officials. Take one of those and bathe him in some heavenly light or some such shit. The American people will Eat. It. Up.

Penske_Account · 09-02-2005, 02:02 PM

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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I say again: network effects.

Bush didnt create that network.

Penske_Account · 09-02-2005, 02:10 PM

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Originally posted by Gattigap
No, no, no. Old news, Penske. If you keep phoning it in like this, soon we'll be reduced to seeing more Byrd photoshops, which God knows you've ridden hard and put away wet.

When is the Democrat party and the liberal establishment going to apologize for Byrd or Sheehan? Until those apologies come, we must continue to explore the treason and hypocrisy of those who would seek to tear apart our nation.

As far as Bush, just watch and see the man in action. The babyjesus walks!!