"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case.

Coincidence?

I think not."

- Stephen Wright

"do as you would want to be done to or the karma you make may come with regrets"

- Meelousee,

Post #41, Thai Response to Tragedy Vs. Us Response, Hong Klaay Khriat

TV Forum

**Hope you don't mind Mr Skunk that I post your words here?

Plato is boring. - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Pay peanuts... get monkeys"

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

--Anon

"When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!"

- Brian O'Rourke

"Pay peanuts... get monkeys"   

I like that one, never heard it before. Bravo!

Not sure which day of the week you think i was born on, but it wasnt yesterday!!

I am not dealing with the monkey any more i want to speak to the organ grinder

Justice is random.

Martin Fletcher...an American hippy pizza maker from the 70's

In times of crisis, all of us reach for someone, or something, greater than ourselves.

A man's tongue is a glib and twisty thing...

plenty of words there are, all kinds at it's command-

with all the room in the world for talk to range and stray.

And the sort you use is just the sort you'll hear.

Homer, The Iliad

"A clear conscience is usually the sign of failing memory."

--Anon

"Pay peanuts... get monkeys"   

Monkey like banana. Pay peanuts, get sexually frustrated old woman with hearing disability.

"The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women who are focused on what's best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the house."

--George W. Bush

American 43rd US president since 2001 and inventer of the phrase "when the need is highest and domestic, please add 5 days to delivery". b.1946

Chew before you swallow. - George W. Bush

"The shortest answer is doing the thing."

--Ernest Hemingway

American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961

Has GB has read any Hemmingway?

'You go to the courts lookin' for justice, and that's what you find, just us!"

Richard Pryor circa 1975

"But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us; you dismissed our victims; you dismissed us. You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music. Then when you saw us in real trouble, when you saw a tiny minority preying on the weak among us, you called us "Sin City," and turned your backs.

Well, we are a lot more than all that. And though we may seem the most exotic, the most atmospheric and, at times, the most downtrodden part of this land, we are still part of it. We are Americans. We are you."

--Anne Rice

Author and New Orleans born

He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light

--Arabian Proverb

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

- Benjamin Franklin

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

- Benjamin Franklin

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Jai Dee never reads long threads (see posting #81)

-TM

Hypocrite, arch-conservative and communist.

"Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not commit adultery. Don't eat pork. I'm sorry, what was that last one? Don't eat pork. God has spoken. Is that the word of God or is that pigs trying to outsmart everybody?" --Jon Stewart

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

- Benjamin Franklin

Jai Dee never reads long threads (see posting #81)

-TM

Hypocrite, arch-conservative and communist.

D@mn... got me there TM...

How about this one?

"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza."

~ Dave Barry

"Governments at all levels failed,

If our system did such a poor job when there was no enemy, how would the federal, state and local governments have coped with a terrorist attack that provided no advance warning and that was intent on causing as much death and destruction as possible?"

--Susan Collins

Maine Senator and Republican charged with leading an inquiry by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security.

personally, among the other thoughts, I like this one still :

"we are what we are .....

man is a hunter, a killer. we build great cities, and yet we live just like the wolf. the strongest of us dominate the weakest. we might call our leaders kings or generals, but the effect is the same. we create a wolf pack, and the very nature of that pack is to hunt and to kill....

- that man back there was saying the rights of citizens had been taken away.

- ... it is all a nonsence. they suffer because they are sheep in the world ruled by wolves. that is the truth of it.... "

this is form one of books by David Gemmell, can't remember the title name exactly

Sort of a long thought, but more than a bit sobering in light of the gulf coast disaster and all the citizens who were left hanging:

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For any lingering doubts that the mayor was first in line in screwing the pooch in the Katrina evacuation.

These are direct quotes from the New Orleans hurrican evacuation plan:

"Authority to issue evacuation of elements of the population is vested in the mayor."

"The city of New Orleans will utilize all available resources to quickly and safely evacuate threatened areas. Special arrangements will be made to evacuate persons unable to transport themselves or who require specific life saving assistance. Additional personnel will be recruited to assist in evacuation procedures needed."

"Using information developed as part of the Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Task Force and other research, the city of New Orleans has established a maximum acceptable hurricane evacuation time for a category three storm of 72 hours. This is based on clearance time or is the time required to clear all vehicles evacuating in response to a hurricane situation from area roadways. Clearance time begins when the first evacuating vehicle enters the road network and ends when the last evacuating vehicle reaches its destination."

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IN other words, the NO emerg evac plan states that the city shall start evacuating people 3 days before a Category 3 hits.

I guess that means to wait until 3 days after for a Category 4 or 5.

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As a follow-up to further emphasize the failure of the mayor to be proactive and reactive in this disaster.....

From:

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3kt.htm

But the TIMES-PICAYUNE published a story on July 24, 2005 stating: City, state and federal emergency officials are preparing to give a historically blunt message: "In the event of a major hurricane, you're on your own."

Staff writer Bruce Nolan reported some 7 weeks before Katrina: "In scripted appearances being recorded now, officials such as Mayor Ray Nagin, local Red Cross Executive Director Kay Wilkins and City Council President Oliver Thomas drive home the word that the city does not have the resources to move out of harm's way an estimated 134,000 people without transportation."

"In the video, made by the anti-poverty agency Total Community Action, they urge those people to make arrangements now by finding their own ways to leave the city in the event of an evacuation.

"You're responsible for your safety, and you should be responsible for the person next to you," Wilkins said in an interview. "If you have some room to get that person out of town, the Red Cross will have a space for that person outside the area. We can help you."

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So the entire NO emerg evac plan was in the process of being reduced to "you're on your own."

Seems that is painfully obvious to everyone now.

Sort of a long thought, but more than a bit sobering in light of the gulf coast disaster and all the citizens who were left hanging:

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

For any lingering doubts that the mayor was first in line in screwing the pooch in the Katrina evacuation.

These are direct quotes from the New Orleans hurrican evacuation plan:

"Authority to issue evacuation of elements of the population is vested in the mayor."

"The city of New Orleans will utilize all available resources to quickly and safely evacuate threatened areas. Special arrangements will be made to evacuate persons unable to transport themselves or  who require specific life saving assistance. Additional personnel will be recruited to assist in evacuation procedures needed."

"Using information developed as part of the Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Task Force and other research, the city of New Orleans has established a maximum acceptable hurricane evacuation time for a category three storm of 72 hours. This is based on clearance time or is the time required to clear all vehicles evacuating in response to a hurricane situation from area roadways. Clearance time begins when the first evacuating vehicle enters the road network and ends when the last evacuating vehicle reaches its destination."

---------------------------------------------------------

IN other words, the NO emerg evac plan states that the city shall start evacuating people 3 days before a Category 3 hits.

I guess that means to wait until 3 days after for a Category 4 or 5.

---------------------------------------------------

As a follow-up to further emphasize the failure of the mayor to be proactive and reactive in this disaster.....

From:

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3kt.htm

But the TIMES-PICAYUNE published a story on July 24, 2005 stating: City, state and federal emergency officials are preparing to give a historically blunt message: "In the event of a major hurricane, you're on your own."

Staff writer Bruce Nolan reported some 7 weeks before Katrina: "In scripted appearances being recorded now, officials such as Mayor Ray Nagin, local Red Cross Executive Director Kay Wilkins and City Council President Oliver Thomas drive home the word that the city does not have the resources to move out of harm's way an estimated 134,000 people without transportation."

"In the video, made by the anti-poverty agency Total Community Action, they urge those people to make arrangements now by finding their own ways to leave the city in the event of an evacuation.

"You're responsible for your safety, and you should be responsible for the person next to you," Wilkins said in an interview. "If you have some room to get that person out of town, the Red Cross will have a space for that person outside the area. We can help you."

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So the entire NO emerg evac plan was in the process of being reduced to "you're on your own."

Seems that is painfully obvious to everyone now.

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Polemic.

Polemic.

Allai wah?

Polemic.

Allai wah?

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It's not a quote.

It's a series of cutting and pasting from various newspaper articles, just like some people use as a substitute for their own thoughts in other threads.

If this thread degenerates into one of those type of threads, as OP, I'll ask for it to be closed.

If this thread degenerates into one of those type of threads, as OP, I'll ask for it to be closed.

Awww.... cut the cr@p TM... don't throw all the toys out of the pram again...

It's a good thread... and worth a look and a comment now and again...