Should rebuilding New Orleans even be considered???

[Venerable Bede]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  Thank god none of you were deicision makers in my neck of the woods in 1906.

come on, i'd be content.    

[smakawhat]

There is a blurb from a guardsmen on CNN's website who was in Iraq and is now at the Supperdome and says he wishes he was on tour in Baghdad instead..
 
 regardless it's a horrid situation.
 
 I will only say one thing:
 
 Bourbon blues on the street loose and complete
 Under skies all smoky blue-green
 I can Forksake the dixie dead shake
 So we dance the sidewalk clean
 My memory is muddy what's this river I'm in
 New Orleans is sinking and I don't want to swim
 
 "New Orleans is sinking" - Tragically Hip.

[walkonby]

"new orleans is a dead museum."
 
 excerpt from "naked lunch" by william s. burroughs.

Originally posted by Shadrach:
 My point, as an Army veteran, is that it is frustrating being deployed thousands of miles from home when there is an emergency in your own back yard that you would much rather be dealing with.
 
 I am not making any political statements here about whether or not the war in Iraq is right or wrong. I'm simly saying that the clean-up and peace keeping duties typically handled by the National Guard in times like this might be going better if they weren't already stretched thin.
 
 Make sense?

It sounds to me like New Orleans could be the perfect, gift exit-strategy that the administration has hoped for...

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by HoyaParanoia:
 on the looting and shooting:

its getting really ugly right now ... vehicles evacuating critical patients from one of the major hospitals took sniper fire and they can't continue to evacuate the hospital

[walkonby]

after it's all over, i'm sure someone will blame "grand theft auto."  or rap music.  or the fact that "new jack city" was just released on dvd.

I blame this guy.

[palahniukkubrick]

Originally posted by clouds R²:
  I blame this guy.

I blame you because you change your screen name so fucking much.

[Guiny]

I kept rewinding that one it was so funny. What a dork he was. And she was annoying as hell.

Armed looters?  Breakdown of social order?  Gas becoming scarce?  An armed and angry Superdome?
    <img src="http://www.cdnn.info/news/fiji_250300.jpg" alt=" - " />  
 Here's your next ROAD WARRIOR movie, George Miller.

[godsshoeshine]

Originally posted by pickup:
   

Originally posted by clouds R²:
  I blame this guy.

I blame you because you change your screen name so fucking much. [/b]

this one is cute, though

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
 
  whoever's in, I support.

Adolf Hitler got a lot of mileage out of blind conformist sheep like you.

[theheadman]

Without a doubt, Federal Funds must go into rebuilding New Orleans. Frankly I could give a shit about Iraq. I we want to rebuild in another country, we must first do it in our own where we have been most affected.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

In fact, even just a fraction of the billions that have gone into the black hole of rebuilding Iraq could have been used to strengthen the levees beforehand to make sure this disaster never happened.

[Jaguär]

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
  It doesn't matter to me, Republican....Democrat...whoever's in, I support. The guy is gonna get trashed by boardies whether he's a Republican, Democrat, Independant, King, Queen, whatever...

My post had nothing whatsoever to do with political parties.
 
 Here's a picture of Rob_Gee:
 
  <img src="http://www.greatdreams.com/reptlan/reptile.jpg" alt=" - " />