The media is responsible for feeding us this crap called terrorism. They make us scared so that we go out and consume. Buying gas masks, canned beans and guns that help feed the machine called war somewhere down the line.
I don't watch much tv, but if I do, it's only to know what not to believe.

Double post.

It strikes me as so ridiculous that after creating amassive media storm about that Karr idiot, when the evidence appears that he was not the one, the media to try to save their own asses from embarrasment at havi ng hyped such a riduculous asshole, decide to attck the DA in denver, for doing her freakin job, you know?

the same "pundits" would have jumped on her ass fro NOt bringing him here to have a DNA test.

what I posted at the top of this thread weer my recollections of what I ahd gone through in the aftermath of katrina, living in Houston as I do.

to blame the people who stayed in Nola is ridiculous. most were not car opwners, and most ahd no money for plane tickets top get out of the city. the poor, of which there were an inordinate amount in N.O., and the elderly got shafted.

remember, it was not the hurricane that flooded the city and stranded those people. it was th federally run and managed levee system that broke, and that flooded the city one day AFTER the hurricane hit.

What happened last year?

Someone refresh my memory.

I seem to remember hearing about some poll that showed people wanted to hear more stories about 'real life, everyday people'. I can't for the life of me figure out how global warming does not fit into this...

Yes, the hurricane had nothing to do with the stress on the levee system...

That makes a lot of sense.

It was defenitely coincidental.

the people currently running the US are OIL/petroleum people. they have avested interest in maintaining the fossil fuel monopoly of energy running as long as possible. global warming is a fossil fuel issue. the less said about it the better, for them.

Now, the other reason the current administration has issues with this is that they are fundamentalist christians, who firmly believe in the coming (soon) armageddon and the second coming of christ. they support israel because as stated in the bible, the state of israel must exist to be destroyed in the rapture. these people REALLY BELIEVE this bullshit.

when this is yr main mindset, why care about the future? they do not believe in a future.

Well, he meant if the proper levees were in place, it would have prevented the flood.

daddylikes, the rain brough by the hurricane stressed the levves, but the levves had been in severe documented disrepair (FEDERALY) for decades. that levee system is funded by public money for the public good. that destruction was caused by faulty levees. the hurricane was what caused it, but it was bound to happen sooner or later becauyse noone in the corrupt city and local and state gov3ernment of louisiana gave a flying fuck to go get these levees shored up to acceptable moderen standards.

I firmly believ that if the exact same scenario had occurred in an all white, middle class, new england city, the governent response to it would have been swift and over the top.

all it took to help those people stranded in the toxic flood was to get the national guard to start airlifting people out. the fact that for three days the only people helping out were volunteers makes me sick.

I'm lost. Something about some bitch named Katrina or something.

Watch the news moron.

Learn correct punctuation, fuck.

sorry, i can't remember last week even.

i think the workable compromise should be that both of you READ the news. that way one learns punctuation and the other finds out what's going on.

yes? :D <- stupid smilies say more than a hallmark card

I love you, cussword.

I was in America at the time. Very shocking. I remember seeing Red Cross commercials all the time.

i still don't remember what happened.

A big piece of bad weather landed on New Orleans and whatnot, and then it was blamed on black people and prostitutes.

It's no use blaming the media for what the public obviously laps up willingly. Katrina only got so much coverage, because people all over America and the world were itching to look at the public destruction of an American city by God and shake their heads and click their tounges and go, "See?"

Katrina only happened because the American government is run by the same types of idiots; idiots who gleefully clap their hands and jump about happily when something like a terrorist attack happens, because they can fight the good fight.

And to think that the majority of the world supports eveything that America does and stands for, and yet in the same breath can display their ignorance and hypocrisy by saying that they believe 'America should change'.

no way.