McCain/Palin ???

[kuhio98]

Well, if you want to point fingers, you have to start with Mayor Ray Nagin and Governor Kathleen Blanco. They were onsite and dropped the ball.

[Edwina's Secretary]

There is plenty of blame to go around. I just don't like to see ANY politician making hay out of the situation.

[Lady's Human]

Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

If they went ahead with the convention as planned, Sara, you'd be the first or second person on this board complaining that the republicans were insensitive to the needs of LA by holding the convention as planned.

Which would you prefer?

Of course, you haven't said a damned word about the stories about Sen. Obama mobilizing his campaign staff to collect donations for New Orleans. That's not making hay?

Oops, sorry, it's okay for Sen. Obama, it's just Sen. McCain you don't want making hay out of it.

[Karen]

Methinks ain't anybody gonna be making hay - mud, yes, sandbags, maybe. Hay floats - and gets moldy when wet.

I think that at this point, whatever else is in the news, good, bad, or otherwise, both campaigns will be all over it. I only hope the people who are about to be slammed the Gustav in the gulf Coast, and then Hanna on the Southeast coast will get some kind of help and benefit from the fuss the election season will add.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

If they went ahead with the convention as planned, Sara, you'd be the first or second person on this board complaining that the republicans were insensitive to the needs of LA by holding the convention as planned.

Which would you prefer?

Of course, you haven't said a damned word about the stories about Sen. Obama mobilizing his campaign staff to collect donations for New Orleans. That's not making hay?

Oops, sorry, it's okay for Sen. Obama, it's just Sen. McCain you don't want making hay out of it.

Do me a favor and do not be so presumptive as to tell me what I will or will not do. I realize you pretty much know everything, but you do NOT know me.

And you might practice your reading. I said ANY politician. And I do think they should hold the convention. I do not see where a bunch of politicians will do any good standing around watching a hurricane.

[Lady's Human]

For starters, in the last couple threads we've had discussions in, you're the one who needs to practice reading comprehension.

You said ANY politician, but you only complain about McCain making hay.........and say they should hold the convention as planned.

Why? So you can then go on and bash the President, the Governor of LA and others in the administration who were scheduled speakers for playing party politics while LA suffered?

[Pam]

Damned if they do, damned if they don't.

If they went ahead with the convention as planned, Sara, you'd be the first or second person on this board complaining that the republicans were insensitive to the needs of LA by holding the convention as planned.

Agree totally with you LH. Also, like Karen, I believe that both sides are going to be "all over this" ..... and I hope for the right reasons.

[Bonny]

Slinging Mud! Watch Out! I think they will need an equal amount of Republicans & Democrats to stick their fingers in the levees. Maybe this time the hurricane will wash New Orleans out to sea. Humans are so dumb! Lets rebuild so we can get swamped & lose everything so we can start all over again. Dah! Head for high ground & build there. I don't feel sorry for anyone that can't learn the first time around.

[pomtzu]

Maybe this time the hurricane will wash New Orleans out to sea. I don't feel sorry for anyone that can't learn the first time around.

This was a rather flip comment to make. Would you think the same way if New Orleans had been your home for your entire life, and everything and everyone that meant anything to you was firmly rooted there???
And as far as not learning the first time around??? - how many wars have we been involved in?
But then - this being a Democracy - I suppose you're entitled to your opinion and your freedom to say what you think. Afterall - those wars helped you retain that freedom!

[RICHARD]

About the polar bears and related "protected species"-

Eviro-mentalists always want to protect a species by cordoning off the areas where those animals/plants/ecosystems exist.

At times closing off those places can hurt the things that people try to protect.

Take you neighborhood and put up a fence in a radius of one mile. Nothing comes in or out. When you start to get hungry make do with what is in the area. Soon you'll see that it cannot be done.

The largest animals will take over, for a while. Because they are top o' the food chain they will dominate until the smaller prey are eliminated. Birth rates go up -no one to keep their numbers in check- until the land cannot support them. Nature reverses course, birth rates go down as well as the size of the larger animals. They die off because of lack of food, then the smaller animals-who were not part of the happy meals, start to overpopulate-and what does that do?


IT tosses the whole ball of wax out of kilter and defeats the reasons we wanted those areas kept pristine.

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IT's the same arguement about what is taught in school.

We only teach what WE want to the kids. THe biggest farce are the hot heads who think that a 'little god' in the curriculum will ruin the planet.
So what? The kids that have a problem with it are the same ones that are brought up to be intolerant slugs by their parents.

The same unyielding AHs who will take the country to task about the words "In God We Trust" on our currency. Again, IF IT BOTHERS YOU DON'T USE IT, write checks or go find a country where the bills have 8 zeroes after the ones!

Parents try to protect their kids from god in the classroom and our bills and coins but have no problems with a cable box with porn channels in their bedrooms, never bother to find out that biatches hoes and G's live inside their iPods and mp3s and that kids are having more sex and less babies because we have to give them classes on birth control!


We all want freedom of mind and speech until we hear an opposing view, then we shout that person down, exercising our right-and stomping the living crap out of theirs - to have an opinion.

IT really is time to get over our bad selves.

There are times I do wish we lived in China, Venezuela or Cuba. That way we would only have a few opinions and we wouldn't waste our time on stupid arguements like Bears, pregnancy and god.


Oh about Ellen and PORTIA, They can afford the best healthcare possible-
It's the poor gay couple that can't hire nannies, fly first class or live in houses that are worth more than the GNP of some nations, that need help.

That's another fallacy we have.
The F.N. morons like Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Neil Young and Michael Moore can bash the U.S. and it's policies, but when we take them to task for what they say WE CAN'T USE OUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH.


IT's oh-so-easy to abhor another person's beliefs or a government's stand on things until we look a little farther into our own world. Then we start making excuses.

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RTCC,

I love that ticket. Can we keep the cabinet the same?

[Pam]

This was a rather flip comment to make. Would you think the same way if New Orleans had been your home for your entire life, and everything and everyone that meant anything to you was firmly rooted there???

I agree with you. That was an extremely insensitive thing to say. Should all of the people in California just relocate too due to the earthquake potential? Easier said than done. Until you have walked a mile in someone else's shoes.....

These people deserve our prayers.