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I was talking to the girlfriend this morning and we came up with two ideas.
1. Make NO a landfill and build up the ground so it is above sea level. Then the river will go around it naturally. Not to mention, if you build it up 20-30 feet above sea level, it would take some serious waves to crash into it.
2. Level the building there now to build up the foundation of the city, then build on top of that.
Of course both would require some topsoil on that, and what would happen to all the decaying waste in a landfill?
But, whatever you do, don't build a city BELOW sea level right next to the Gulf of Mexico.
TB
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Originally posted by iceddodo:
Did anyone else notice that since the whole lack of WMD...
Come on now, here is a list of what has been found:
-500 tons...that's right...TONS...make that 1million pounds of yellow cake uranium. It was found at Saddam's nuclear weapons facility (yup...he had one of those too.)
-1.8 tons of partially enriched uranium found at the same place. You know, the stuff you need to make nukes.
-Hidden centrifuge parts and blueprints.
-Two dozen artillery shells loaded with Sarin and mustard gas.
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Originally posted by Matt2kSVT:
Originally posted by iceddodo:
Did anyone else notice that since the whole lack of WMD...
Come on now, here is a list of what has been found:
-500 tons...that's right...TONS...make that 1million pounds of yellow cake uranium. It was found at Saddam's nuclear weapons facility (yup...he had one of those too.)
-1.8 tons of partially enriched uranium found at the same place. You know, the stuff you need to make nukes.
-Hidden centrifuge parts and blueprints.
-Two dozen artillery shells loaded with Sarin and mustard gas.
And where are these now?
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Originally posted by Pete D:
Originally posted by dutchie:
rumor is that he was the real 'brains' behind supersize me. he performed tons of research at McD's, Wendy's, and Burger King and passed it along to an independent film maker.
word also is that he slipped on one of his own big mac wrappers as he left work one day, and sued his employer for breaking his eating hand. that's where he got the dough to make his first flick about how phuked up the gov't is...by sticking it to the man first!!!
Talk about conspiracy theory.....
I can't really tell if you are being serious or not? But you do know that he made a film a long time before Farenheit 911 and Bowling for Columbine, right?
Yep, I was joking about the supersize thing.
But there are real facts in him suing his employer years ago, which gave him the funds to start his filmaking career.
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FEMA (that's a FEDERAL organization) had plans to deal with the 3 most likely disasters to face the US for years: a big earthquake in San Francisco, a terrorist attack on New York, and a hurricane in New Orleans.
FEMA was absorbed into Homeland Security, because Bush's administration focussed on the terrorist attack scenario for obvious reasons. The other two were put on the back burner. Now that burner has heated up, and it has come back to bite Bush's gang.
Another point: in most cases, an infrastructure project the size of a refit of the New Orleans levees will feature funding from local, state, and federal governments. This is true in most Western nations. The project was moving forward, and not a moment too soon, as the levees were sinking (four feet from where they were, in some cases, IIRC). The Bush Administration cut the funding by 80 percent, so the project was slowed.
Now how much will this cost the US taxpayer? Significantly more than before. And it cost thousands of lives.
This a lack of foresight, pure and simple.
By the way, my softball team had extra money at the end of the year. We donated it to the Red Cross for hurricane relief. I would encourage others to do the same. Every little bit is going to help.
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Does anyone else not trust the people accepting donations? I am almost scared to donate, thinking about how many hands the money goes through before it reaches the destination.
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Originally posted by AJ�³:
Does anyone else not trust the people accepting donations? I am almost scared to donate, thinking about how many hands the money goes through before it reaches the destination.
Then donate food, clothes, sleeping bags, bed sheet, pillows just to name a few. 
- Tim
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Originally posted by Phil Rohtla:
This a lack of foresight, pure and simple.
Putting your town's residents in the Superdome after the President pleaded for an evac is a lack of foresight, as is not using the city's 300+ buses to evac the poor and disabled.
The point is that three levels of government (local, state, federal) must come together to solve issues and by definition the LOCAL government is the MOST KNOWELEDGEABLE of issues effecting the area. It is the responsibility of the local government to know what is best for their city, not the state and certainly not the feds. Local officials should be THE experts on their city--that is what they are paid to do. FEMA deserves criticism for the timeliness of their response to be sure but to absolve the local government while blaming the feds for a lack of foresight is comical.
The mayor of NOLA should, at THIS moment, be like the citizens of his city--UNEMPLOYED.
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Originally posted by bigMoneyRacing:
Originally posted by Phil Rohtla:
This a lack of foresight, pure and simple.
Putting your town's residents in the Superdome after the President pleaded for an evac is a lack of foresight, as is not using the city's 300+ buses to evac the poor and disabled.
The point is that three levels of government (local, state, federal) must come together to solve issues and by definition the LOCAL government is the MOST KNOWELEDGEABLE of issues effecting the area. It is the responsibility of the local government to know what is best for their city, not the state and certainly not the feds. Local officials should be THE experts on their city--that is what they are paid to do. FEMA deserves criticism for the timeliness of their response to be sure but to absolve the local government while blaming the feds for a lack of foresight is comical.
The mayor of NOLA should, at THIS moment, be like the citizens of his city--UNEMPLOYED.
I don't disagree that the city and state have to share some of the blame. But that funding was cut beginning in 2003, IIRC. If that funding was in place, we *might* not be having this discussion right now. But then again, doomsayers have been warning of this for years.
Here is a decent precis of some of the issues. It's short, but effective:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1125834981511&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes
And it is one thing for the New Orleans government to tell the federal government that they need the money, but another thing for the administration to listen. Even Bush is saying that the federal response is, to use his word, "unacceptable."
That said, get people into shelters, receiving medical attention, and finish the rebuilding effort before assigning any type of blame (I include myself in that statement). I think that task is better left to historians in the future, with the benefit of time and emotional distance.
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Check this out...........I doubt that this will make CNN headlines. http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/5/234033.shtml
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