You want disaster relief? Impeach George W. Bush.
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376 - george
if it were up to anti-technology luddites like joe, we'd still be riding horses, because refining crude oil into gasoline would be an unnatural process as well. We'd still be using candles to light the darkness and cooking raw meat over a fire.
Joe is a nuke hating remnant of a past generation of hippie freaks who thankfully were laughed at and scorned by the common sense adults who knew a cheap and efficient energy source when they saw it. The only thing the Joes of the world know about nuclear energy is Three Mile Island and Hiroshima/Nagasaki. This the thinking of a child. There are a lot of children infesting this website. Anyone with a liberal view is a child, for example.
377 - joedaddy
George,
I'm way ahead of you. Stop thinking like your grandfather. The way of war will soon be electro-magnetic pulses. One pulse will shut down everything, including your nuke plants. When that happens...America will be a 3-mile island. Last night, on Sept. 11, I heard that congress stated that "we never vowed not to use atomic weapons, and we never vowed not to strike first". The world is in deep shit.
378 - joe
I forgot to ask..
George,
Why do you think that free energy devices are illegal in America? I'm all for technology... Good technology. Do you understand evaporation? (Not just water evaporation, but chemical evaporation)
How about tidal currents? Wind and solar are very weak sources so we are allowed to have those. But, the technology is advancing in both of those areas. Technology in harnessing nature’s power is the only way.
379 - george
Stop thinking like your grandfather.
My grandfather was a great and wise man. I only hope that I could utilize a fraction of his greatness and wisdom in my own lifetime. Unlike many of my generation, I choose not to be a sniveling ingrate that instantly rejects the thinking of past generations.
The world is in deep shit.
No kidding! So live life for today and stop worrying about things you can't possibly control.
380 - joe
My grandfathers were also very great men. My goal is to utilize everything that they have taught me, and advance on that. I don't think they would be very proud of me if my only goal was to accomplish a fraction of what they did. Perhaps we can start in New Orleans. That channel they have is capable of generating enough clean energy to power the new city. I would be happy to help in the design.
381 - NOTALIB
SO a hate mongerting leftwing does not want to help Americans. Is anyone at all surprised by this attitude. The left talks a good game about caring more than the right, but when it comes right down to it.......well this article is the real prof.
382 - joe
This blog proves nothing. The hate mongering Rightwing extremist’s liars have done nothing to help. This is just a place for everyone to express how unhappy they are with our current government...reps AND dems. Really, the hate is only between you two. I really believe that the democrats are so weak, they will let the republicans walk all over them. Example...The Brady Bill, and the ban on assault weapons. Both republican oriented bills...blamed on the democrats. The democrats would be wise to not sign ANY bill that the republicans come up with again.
What does "mongerting" mean?
383 - Kal
Its a new low for the neo-low-libs.
Let me try to explain something to you.
You can help by digging way down deep and trying to find at least two functioning brain cells that can team up and attempt to grasp it.
NOBODY, but NOBODY wants your tainted money that you have to go forth blowing a trumpet so all can see that you are pretending to give.
The difference is...the so-called "red staters" dont need to announce to all that they are charitable and patriotic. They simply and quietly give what they can with no press coference or blog site to brag it up to all who will listen.
This example of the dem/lib base is a new low even for liberals, if thats possible.
384 - Jake
How Dare you call yourself American? So our president is an incompetent jerk! If you were a Kerry supporter in the last election I'm ashamed that we have people like you in the Democratic Party. I didn't vote for Bush but you seem to have alot in common with him.
Try opening your mind a little Junior and you'll see that it's not the people affected by the hurrican that are responsible for your minor inconvience. They cannot be held responsible for you not being able to do a job that I've seen countless teenagers perform with relitive ease! "no offense to any teenagers reading this" Show a little compassion. It's AMERICAN to help your fellow man, it's AMERICAN to donate to the under privlaged, it's AMERICAN to help a person to their feet after they've fallen, but it is NOT AMERICAN to kick a person when they are down! That's AMERICA, love it or leave it. I for one must say that I am proud of my FELLOW AMERICANS because they have shown compassion in tragity, Heroics in the face of unsurmountable odds,and most of all LOVE in a world of hate. So please pull your head out of your rear and learn to be an AMERICAN if your going to continue to live here!
385 - Jake
P.S. FYI: All Democrats are not like this sorry excuse for a human. I am proud to call myself a democrat and I am proud to have donated a months worth of profit from my business to katrina efforts. I would appreciate it if people would not put all democrats in the same basket with the same label. Because if I were put in the same place with this sorry P.O.S. I'd have to perform brain surgery on the moron and that might get a little messy, and besides, you are just adding to a problem that WE AMERICANS have been working so hard to change. Prejudice!
-Thankyou-
Jake
386 - ryan
Regardless of preparation the hurricane likely still would have killed.. If you don't recall it was the worst fucking hurricane in 50 years
387 - nena
I live over 90 miles frome the mississippi gulf coast. I lost my home to katrina,no one thought it would get that bad 90 miles in. I had ins. they did not pay but 26,000.Fema has been a joke they said i have no damage, we are living with my mother. My childern, husban,and I are in one bedroom.You have no idea what we have been through and I pray you or anyone else never has to go through what we have and are still going through.We sat in gas lines for hours not knowing if they would even have gas when we made it to the pumps.We would wait for hours just for ice,start linging up at 2:00 in the morning just for ice.People were killing people over ice and gas.We had to be inside at dark it was so bad.It was like a third world country.We had no phone service cell or land line, no raido,or tv stations up no news paper nothing. Realestate has jumped so high we cant even afored to do anything right now.I know alot of people has helped out. God will truly bless you for it. That is the only reason you should give is to help another person, and who knows, it might be you in need next time.I pray its not.It dont sound like you have many friends.Your compassion is gone, that is sad.
388 - Someone
Yes, and those same warnings were *ignored* by many of those who could've at the very least walked out. The mayor screwed up mobilizing public transit, too. I'm not supporting Bush - he did appoint to the head of FEMA someone who was not qualified, but there were *far more* blunders in New Orleans before and during the incident than elsewhere.
In any case, support of the levies is a *local* problem. The city didn't pay to build up the levy some time back.
389 - JAZZEE FROM New Orleans
You know what...........Brent! I did get out. A hell of a lot of us GOT OUT. But we were not the entire city. And I couldnt take them all with me. So those who stayed, stayed not because they wanted too, they stayed because they felt as though they had no other choice. If you dont want to help a Katrina Victim then dont. Because we dont want nothing from anyone who isnt giving for the heart. No one that was born in this country can say that they know what is like to go thru a disaster like Hurricane Katrina. We were banned from our homes for months! Here it is over a year later and my city is still faced with the same dilemnas it was faced with just days after the breech. It was a horrible experience that affects me, my family, my friends, my neighborhood, my city, my state and this entire country. So the sooner you realize that what happened was not a result of natural forces but the inability of YOUR president (I never voted for him) to give our state the resources it needed. Resources that were available and should have been granted to us years ago (Source: off shore drilling for OIL in the Gulf in La. territory could have paid to fix our levees 5 times by now). So as for as I'm concerned you CAN and SHOULD Keep your dollar!!! Because we dont want or need any support from a sad hurt heart like you Brent!!! 0r anyone here who posted a negative comment about New Orleans Citizens.......... where ever they are!!!!!!!!!!!
390 - matt
as much as i do not agree with this guys left winged views, i do agree with not contributing to katrina. those people were told how many times "hey, a hurricane is comeing, get the fuck out," but no, they decided to stay, and that is their problem, not Bush's. its pathetic to see what many people in this country have become, something happens, its never their fault, someone else must take responsibility for the horrible thingsthat happen. people say that Bush didn't get the releif down there fast enough, well citizens of new orleans shooting at the godamn rescue helos doesn't help either. something horrible happens, people must blame someone. and since Bush is not very popular in ths country today, he isat the recieving end of all that blame. the people of new oreans are not to blame for the hurrican, and niether is Bush (no one can control the weather). sure the response by FEMA could have been faster, and better, but the people of new orleans could have helped each other out as well. on the news, all u saw was looting, and people only looking out for them selves. yes there were a few brave people who would go around in boats, rescueing others, but they were few and far between. no matter how much money you pour into FEMA or who you put in charge of it, Katrina still would have been a disaster, the levees still would have broke, the city still would have been flooded, people still would have died. with a massive disaster like katrina, its still would have taken some time to put together a rescue, or anything to really help those people in that city. if you are going to blame anybody, blame the dickless mayor of that city, the mayor that just left his people, then came back later and began blaming others. the fact is that not everything goes as you want it to, no matter what you try to plan, or organize, bad things occur, disasters just happen (espeacilly weather related ones), and there is not always someone to blame. shit happens, all we can really do is pick up the pieces of what is left and move on. we can sit here all day and play the blame game, but katrina will still havehappened, those people will still be dead, and no matter who you think was responsible for this disaster will never be punished, because you cannot be prosicuted for what happens naturally in this world. i don't understand why people want to blame someone because no one will bepunished for it. shit happens, people die, get over it
391 - Ruvy in Jerusalem
One of the most difficult things to do is to figure out to respond to a human tragedy when you know where to point the finger of blame - and it will do you no damned good.
A similar tragedy occurred at the very same time as Hurricane Katrina did; to 10,000 Jewish residents living in Gaza and in northern Samaria. It was clear where the finger of blame was to be pointed - at the man who lies rotting like an unpicked vegetable in a hospital bed, the victim of a massive stroke. He is now paying for his sin.
But the question remains, "why should we taxpayers pick up the trash created by an evil régime?" Opposed to this question was the real need of people whose lives have been ruined, whose homes have been ruined, and whose livelihoods have been ruined, all to satisfy the desire of a criminal to escape prosecution.
How do you deal with this question?
It is one of the bitterest questions a people can face.
Eventually, the criminals of Oslo, the criminals who destroyed Gush Qatif, the criminals who have brought a terrible war upon this nation by withdrawing from Lebanon will pay for their sins against the nation. But until then? Who will help heal broken hearts, the broken hearts of people who could not understand the evil set against them?
What a bitter question to ponder on a windy day in the mountains of Samaria...
392 - Tammy
I did not read all of the comments made here but I think that most of it is a bunch of bull shit. If you don't live here then you do not know a damn thing about waht is going on here. The people that are still in New Orleans don't all really need help. For the most part over half of them think that the rest of in the U.S. owe them something. I don't feel that me or anyone else owes them anything. The ones who left New Orleans went to dozens of other cities but most of them came to northern Louisiana and took all the jobs from the people there. "Oh they don't have anything, lets fire a bunch of the people who already live here and have roots here and give their job to these New Orleans people". You know what, that is a bunch of bull shit!!!! If they really want help they need to help themselves and stop whining and bitching about not haveing anything and do something about it for themselves. Most of them have bad attitudes and blame their problems on everyone else. Sure there are those who still act like humans and have sucked it up and carried on but most of them want to be handed what they lost on a sliver platter. And do you people realize how many of those people who "lost everything" really didn't have anything to begin with and are just looking for a free ride along with haveing their hands out for our money. The people who had insureance can rebuild and may need help in doing that but come on people. The folks of New Orleans are not stupid, they have been in a natural disater but they are working the rest of us for everything we have just because you are letting them. There are programs designed to help victims of such disasters and they should seek out the help of those organizations. I am so sick of all the bitching and belly aching that people do, if they would just stop all of that for 5 mins. then they would be able to do something for themselves for once and really apprechaite what they have, and stop looking to get everything handed to them. There are those of us that have worked to hard to see what they have go down the drain because our boss thinks that firing one of us and hireing someone from New orleans will get their sorry ass a better seat in heaven.