On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 18:17, Michael Hipp wrote: > Net Llama! wrote: > > On 09/11/2005 04:06 PM, Jerry McBride wrote: > > > >> On Sunday 11 September 2005 10:32 pm, Net Llama! wrote: > >> > >>> On 09/11/2005 03:15 PM, Michael Hipp wrote: > >>> > Net Llama! wrote: > >>> >> On 09/11/2005 12:58 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: > >>> >>> On Sun, Sep 11, 2005, A. Khattri wrote: > >>> >>>> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, Rick Sivernell wrote: > >>> >>>>> Yes, and now after some time, other countries have sent people, > >>> >>>>> equipment, > >>> >>>>> and some money to help. The best is that we are trying to get > >>> along > >>> >>>>> with our fellow > >>> >>>>> man, for the most part, and help each other who need help. Well, > >>> >>>>> that is except in > >>> >>>>> the Washington DC area, where one ups manship lives. > >>> >>>> > >>> >>>> Washington is defined as 4 square miles surrounded by reality. > >>> >>> > >>> >>> Would that the problem were contained in Washington D.C. It's > >>> >>> hard to find much rationality anyplace in the U.S. Northeast, > >>> >>> it's just that the D.C. beltway area owe its existence to the > >>> >>> plunder machine of the U.S. government. > >>> >> > >>> >> Right, cause fly-over country is where all the rational, enlightened > >>> >> folks live. > >>> > > >>> > The fact that you think of it as "fly-over country" proves the very > >>> point > >>> > you were trying to dismiss. > >>> > >>> You assumed I was trying to dismiss anything. I couldn't care less what > >>> the dubya-loving, enlightened-creationism, red-staters think of the > >>> others parts of the US that provide for the majority of the GDP, have > >>> the majority of highschool & college graduates and pay the largest > >>> percentage of income taxes. > >> > >> > >> Yeah... right... And Clinton never had sex with Monica... he was too > >> busy lying to the public to do stuff like that. Right? > > > > > > Wow, so you need to dig back that far to come up with anything relevant? > > I'm quite sure that Clinton did have sex with Monica. And i really > > don't care. > > Of course you don't because you don't understand the fact that the Lewinsky > scandal was just one more indicator of the walking corpse that is Bill > Clinton's character. And how that utter lack of character predestined him to > be exactly what he was - the worst president in living memory. I'm from > Arkansas, no surprise did I behold. > > > He wasn't dragging the country into multiple uncoordinated, unplanned > > wars, while leaving it simultaneously completely & utterly unprepared to > > deal with internal affairs. He also wasn't on vacation for large chunks > > of his term, fiddling as the gulf coast was obliterated. > > Balkans. Somalia. Aspirin factory. > > Dubya's sins and failings during his 5 years are legion. So were Clinton's. > We're heading toward two decades now without a decent president. It shows. > > But it may come as a surprise to note that FEMA has responded in about the > same way they typically do. Takes 4-5 days for them to get going. Hurricane > Andrew is a case in point. And note that the feds can do nothing until asked > by the governor which did not come in a timely fashion. Let's not get started > on the NO mayor. So we have one pseudo Republican and two Democrats all of > whom have hardly made us proud. > > The real failing goes farther back. The old local civil defense network was > gutted by FEMA several administrations ago and they told us to leave it all > to > them (they're professionals you see <NOT>). So we left it to them and we have > body bags in New Orleans to show for it. > > Do you have any data to suggest that Dubya has taken more vacations than > other > sitting presidents? Or is this just more insult hurling? Is playing a guitar > somehow less respectable than a saxophone? Gee, passing a budget his first year without one Republican vote that started us on the way to a $5,000,000,000 surplus, Al Gore telling D. Cheney to KEEP your eyes on bin Laden, doesn't count, huh?? Bob
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