I KNEW IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE SOMEONE BLAMED BUSH FOR A 300 YEAR OLD PROBLEM.
THAT’S RICH.:lol:
werd,
and werd
Girls Gone Wild Stock just dropped 100 points…!
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No it would have just delayed it. This wasnt some freak accurance that no one saw comming. Many people this was going to happen sooner or later, it wasnt of question of would it happen, but when it would happen.
Just like there are many underwater cliffs in the Gulf of Mexico that are getting close to landslides. That will trigger a tsunami (like in Indonesia) that will take out the coast of the Gulf states, mexico and South America. This also will happen, we just dont know when.
From all of the figures and everything, it seems impossible to make New Orleans even livable. I say just let it sink, who wants to live there after this anyways? It’s like a Love Canal problem in the past.
i agree…so when another hurrican sweeps through next year it can wipe out the new buildings…
[sarcasm]hmmm, what other conspiracy theories can be thrown at this one… .
got global warming, got bush, got the terrorists…
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Global warming is at the root of the current abundance of hurricanes. Ocean surface temperature rising = more hurricanes. Period. Hurricanes love warm ocean.
However, even had surface temperatures remained as they were decades ago, this would have happened eventually. They built that city in a fucking bowl, on a swamp, below sea level. The wetlands were actually a good thing, since they’d have a natural capacity to absorb some flood water. But then they paved them over.
Fuck rebuilding. It’s like rebuilding on the coast of florida. Everything’s just gonna get wiped out again. Another hurricane will happen there, and it will flood the city again. Maybe it won’t be as bad. Maybe it will be worse, and the city will be hit head on, instead of getting lucky like they did this time.
Fuck… read this shit…
“No One Can Say they Didn’t See it Coming”
By Sidney Blumenthal
In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.
Biblical in its uncontrolled rage and scope, Hurricane Katrina has left millions of Americans to scavenge for food and shelter and hundreds to thousands reportedly dead. With its main levee broken, the evacuated city of New Orleans has become part of the Gulf of Mexico. But the damage wrought by the hurricane may not entirely be the result of an act of nature.
A year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the research not be undertaken. After a flood killed six people in 1995, Congress created the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, in which the Corps of Engineers strengthened and renovated levees and pumping stations. In early 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a report stating that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S., including a terrorist attack on New York City. But by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war. In 2004, the Bush administration cut funding requested by the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain by more than 80 percent. Additional cuts at the beginning of this year (for a total reduction in funding of 44.2 percent since 2001) forced the New Orleans district of the Corps to impose a hiring freeze. The Senate had debated adding funds for fixing New Orleans’ levees, but it was too late.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune, which before the hurricane published a series on the federal funding problem, and whose presses are now underwater, reported online: “No one can say they didn’t see it coming … Now in the wake of one of the worst storms ever, serious questions are being asked about the lack of preparation.”
The Bush administration’s policy of turning over wetlands to developers almost certainly also contributed to the heightened level of the storm surge. In 1990, a federal task force began restoring lost wetlands surrounding New Orleans. Every two miles of wetland between the Crescent City and the Gulf reduces a surge by half a foot. Bush had promised “no net loss” of wetlands, a policy launched by his father’s administration and bolstered by President Clinton. But he reversed his approach in 2003, unleashing the developers. The Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency then announced they could no longer protect wetlands unless they were somehow related to interstate commerce.
In response to this potential crisis, four leading environmental groups conducted a joint expert study, concluding in 2004 that without wetlands protection New Orleans could be devastated by an ordinary, much less a Category 4 or 5, hurricane. “There’s no way to describe how mindless a policy that is when it comes to wetlands protection,” said one of the report’s authors. The chairman of the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality dismissed the study as “highly questionable,” and boasted, “Everybody loves what we’re doing.”
“My administration’s climate change policy will be science based,” President Bush declared in June 2001. But in 2002, when the Environmental Protection Agency submitted a study on global warming to the United Nations reflecting its expert research, Bush derided it as “a report put out by a bureaucracy,” and excised the climate change assessment from the agency’s annual report. The next year, when the EPA issued its first comprehensive “Report on the Environment,” stating, “Climate change has global consequences for human health and the environment,” the White House simply demanded removal of the line and all similar conclusions. At the G-8 meeting in Scotland this year, Bush successfully stymied any common action on global warming. Scientists, meanwhile, have continued to accumulate impressive data on the rising temperature of the oceans, which has produced more severe hurricanes.
In February 2004, 60 of the nation’s leading scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates, warned in a statement, “Restoring Scientific Integrity in Policymaking”: “Successful application of science has played a large part in the policies that have made the United States of America the world’s most powerful nation and its citizens increasingly prosperous and healthy … Indeed, this principle has long been adhered to by presidents and administrations of both parties in forming and implementing policies. The administration of George W. Bush has, however, disregarded this principle … The distortion of scientific knowledge for partisan political ends must cease.” Bush completely ignored this statement.
In the two weeks preceding the storm in the Gulf, the trumping of science by ideology and expertise by special interests accelerated. The Federal Drug Administration announced that it was postponing sale of the morning-after contraceptive pill, despite overwhelming scientific evidence of its safety and its approval by the FDA’s scientific advisory board. The United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa accused the Bush administration of responsibility for a condom shortage in Uganda – the result of the administration’s evangelical Christian agenda of “abstinence.” When the chief of the Bureau of Justice Statistics in the Justice Department was ordered by the White House to delete its study that African-Americans and other minorities are subject to racial profiling in police traffic stops and he refused to buckle under, he was forced out of his job. When the Army Corps of Engineers’ chief contracting oversight analyst objected to a $7 billion no-bid contract awarded for work in Iraq to Halliburton (the firm at which Vice President Cheney was formerly CEO), she was demoted despite her superior professional ratings. At the National Park Service, a former Cheney aide, a political appointee lacking professional background, drew up a plan to overturn past environmental practices and prohibit any mention of evolution while allowing sale of religious materials through the Park Service.
On the day the levees burst in New Orleans, Bush delivered a speech in Colorado comparing the Iraq war to World War II and himself to Franklin D. Roosevelt: “And he knew that the best way to bring peace and stability to the region was by bringing freedom to Japan.” Bush had boarded his very own “Streetcar Named Desire.”
Sidney Blumenthal, a former assistant and senior advisor to President Clinton and the author of “The Clinton Wars,” is writing a column for Salon and the Guardian of London.
taken from: http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372455,00.html
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Bleh, more evidence to back it up…
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Hate to say it, but the reason for all the violence in New Orleans right now is because the people that stuck around weren’t exactly some of the areas more intelligent. The majority of them are not well educated and they were the poor of New Orleans.
Well after taking a few climatology, meteorology and geography classes and learing about climate, weather and land forms and useage, I’m fairly suprised this hasnt happened earlier.
lets see here, were gonna build a large city below sea level on previous swamp land, surrounded by lakes, rivers and the gulf of mexico, all in a very hurricane prone area. And depend our survival on a series of levees and pumps designed to withstand up to a category 2/3 hurricane or X amount of rain per hour. hmmm i dunno, maybe that might be a bad idea… my.02 cents
What really amazes me is, with all of this horrible planning and loacation. I am shocked the mayor/government didnt have some sort of plan for when an event like this WAS going to happen. Its just total chaos
anyone found looting, for any reason other than their own or their families survival (i.e. non-necessities, such as tv’s) should just be taken out behind the store and shot.
this should also apply to anyone who rapes or pillages.
the FBI is now getting involved :tup:
see the difference between the New Orleans police officers and the FBI is simple.
New Orleans police officers job’s are to help the needy, and get food, supplies etc etc. They dont have the time for looters, and they believe in something called civil rights.
The FBI basically doesn’t give a fuck. When the FBI’s swat team is called in their job is to kick ass. The boys in black dont give a fuck whether someone they run into, leaves breathing.
all of this sorta makes paying 30 cents extra/gallon baby shit.
sucks hardcore for everyone living down there.
:word: its pretty sad how people are tying to prey on the completely helpless in this situation. shoot first, ask questions later. you obviously are not even close to a decent human being if you are thinking about how much shit you can steal in a time like this rather than how you can help your fellow man.
Well, on a counter point…
if you just lost your entire house to toxic floods, wouldn’t you want to have something of value to try to start over with?
but how is that helping? first off, you have no house, you cant get back into the city for 12 weeks (or whatever it is now), what good is stealing a plasma tv going to do? like you’ll be able to keep the thing dry anyhow.
my real problem isnt so much with the looting, but the crime. mainly that sniper going after the hosiptal, how fucking sick are you to shoot at a hospital trying to help people!?!?!?! i wish the national guardsmen would have shot the shit out of that guy! that is just fucking wrong!