Interesting. Still, Chow from Tso is pretty bad…

I’m constantly amazed at how people complain about McDonalds
being unhealthy. It’s fast food, geared towards taste and speed.
People coplain that they’ve gotten fat from eating there, and have
tried to sue them. the thing is these people are to stupid to
understand that your diet is up to you, and if you eat crap constantly,
you’ll show it.

I eat fast food more often than I should. A few times a week.
Usually Bojangles on the weekend, and chick-fil-a once a week for
lunch. Maybe a burger thrown in every two weeks. I gained more
weight when I moved back in with my parents after graduating, and
I was being fed home made pasta and sauce.

People that eat out most of the time should know better.

This brings up something I’ve wanted to ask you Europeans… I’ll
post another topic.

I know – I was revolted when I saw my old history texbook spell it
as “Mao Zedong”. I mean, I disike the guy, and everything he
accomplished, but to think modern American Students too stupid to
figure out Tse Tung sounds slightly different than Zeedong. That “T”
is crucial. I know people that pronounce General Tso’s Chicken as
“General Chow’s Chicken” because they simply don’t know. It starts
with simplification/stupidification of things like changing Tse Tung to
Zee dong…

I have a rule: If your portrait is plastered all over the nation you
ruled over, in every possible public place, chances are that you were
a corrupt, meglomanical dictator that ruled by fear, and caused lots
of bad to happen.

If your picture is plastered all over your nation, an dyou’re STILL
RULING it, you’re even more evil and corrupt. (bonus points if
your picture is on the money!!!)

If it is a crime to NOT have your picture plastered all over every
home and building…you’re even worse – you’re Kim Jong Il.

Take a ride all over Washington D.C.. You don’t see half as many
statues and portraits of the presidents as you do of Mao, Kim Jong
Il or Saddam as you did in their countries.

These thiings happen because people fail to listen to arnings, make plans in advance, and depend oin others for their own saftey.

When you build below sea level, the ocean will win. period.

Must point out that the Mumbai, an island, is not below SL and that makes big difference. But what is truly despicable is the shooting and looting.

Additionally, what pains me is the race card baiting by the Jesse Jacksons (Mr. Poverty Pimp himself), the Al Sharptons, the Maxine Waters and this Kanye West characters from that ethnic group. Anything, anytime, it seems to rip Bush a new one.

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Well, the “below sea level” issue is what makes the difference. The Hurricane
destroyed an area roughly equilivant to Great Britain. In all that area, only New
Orleans was subject to such lawlessness and difficulty. When you take more than
half of a major, densely packed city, and submerge it under 4-20 feet of water,
there’s just no comparison. It can’t even be compared to the other cities destroyed
by the hurricane, and certainly not th e27 inches of rain that fell on an island. The
rain isn’t the big deal – how many Lake Ponhcatrains and Mississippi Rivers were
opened up onto that island?

It’s a totally unique combination of natural events, poor-a$$ed planning, bad
organization, bad excecution, and a very VERY bad case of being at th ewrong
place at the wrong time (NO during a hurricane is basically the worst you can
imagine).

The most painful aspect is not that the city state and federal government were
incapable of doing anythign faster, it’s that they WERE able to do it, it just didn’t get
done due to Big government B.S., corruption and too many cooks in the kitchen,
making too many small mistakes at the same time.

Disaster situations tend to bring out the extremes in our population. The good and
the bad. Good people will act really, really good, but the bad people act really bad
– violence, rape and pillage, etc.

You see many people trying to rescue helpless people, volunteering their time and
money to save others. And then you see worthless excuses for humanity taking
advantage of the situation. Next to every looter with a duffle bag filled with jewelry,
drugs and electronics, you see a sick person passing up valuables (they could easily
take) and walking out just with the medical supplies they absolutely NEED to
survive.

The same is done to those only indirectly affected by the disaster. Some will ignore
the failures and simply help, others will try to find out what went wrong, and yet
others still will take advantage and start throwing blame at whomever they don’t
like. I’ve seen it many ways – “Black people are incompetent, and should not be
entrusted with high level positions(the Mayor), and look what they do when given
the opportunity (loot).” “women are incompetent (the governor is a woman).”
“George Bush deliberately delayed federal relief because the black people of New
Orleans didn’t vote for him/he’s a racist”.

They’re using monty-python logic and not studying the actual events – If federal aid
was slow, and the aid was going to black people, then it must have been slow
because it was destined for black people! (She’s a witch because she weighs as
much as a duck, etc…)

Just the other day, Howard Dean, a enator and prsidential candidate in 2004,
HEAD of the Democratic party, said, in front of a large black group, that “race
played a role in disaster.” There is a misconception that Republicans are racist, and
that Bush is racist, in black communities (I guess because of things like this, and
peoplelike Sharpton and Jackson). All this does is get them pissed off at bush. It’s
sickening and unfounded. Federal relief had little problems in the other states, with
equally large balck populations. Some people are going to hear this tripe and
believe it. It’s very frustrating.

All I care is that whomever was responsible for whatever went wrong ets the blame,
and who was not responsible, does not get the blame.

Well, after sending in donations, what else is there to do? Figure out what went
wrong, how it went wrong, and who caused it to go wrong.

All I see when I turn on the news are the same socialist anti-war protestors from th
epast few years changing their signs to read “Bush caused Katrina because he didn’t
sign Kyoto” and now, “People are dying because Bush is a racist”.

This is all over the place, and it’s insulting on a number of fronts.
There is a group of protestors getting hurricane refugees to protest at the white
house, saying that Bush must stop putting the blame on the local government and
accept responsibility.

The thing that disgusts me is that we have these displaced people, who were stuck in
a flooded disaster zone because of their dependence on the government for help
(excluding thsoe too weak or old to leave), despite their being warned to leave,
blaming the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT for not having an adequate exac plan.

None of it is acceptable. The violence is not acceptable. It’s sickening to see it in
my country – nobody’s denying that! I happen to find it even more sickening that
some people (CertainDemocrats, Race-warloard scumbags(JJ and AS, etc.),
Hollywood ignorants, and the like) have taken this disaster as an oppurtunity to
attack the president.

While he is the highest power, his power when it comes to State matters is not in fact
the “ultimate ” power. the President can’t send in the troops – the governer has that
power. The president does not have the ultimate say in matters of the sate.

I was immediatly sickened at the lack of evacuation preparation taken by the City of
New Orleans. I was also sickened by the time it took to get the relief into the areas
it was needed. The Red Cross had TONS of supplies to go in to the Superdome –
but the governer ordered them not to deliver it. They wanted people OUT of the
Dome, not flocking into it. apparantly they didn’t think that there were people
starving in the damned thing. The wonders of our modern big government
beurocracy.

Yeah, you’re right – I didn’t see the original Mad Max until a few weeks ago. Not
the same post-apocolyptic landscape as thunderdome… I thought it was still
supposed to be after a major war.

Nobody’s defending the way things came to be. There’s been some MAJOR F**k
up’s in the process, and people are going to have to answer some questions.
U;timatly, it’snot going to come down to racism, evil will or a massive conspiracy.
It’ll end up being big government burocrats, passing the buck, lots of misplaced tax
dollars and a big helping of corruption thrown in for good measure. All of it leading
up to mistake after mistake and lots of damage.

Regardless, the victims can go one of two ways: Blame the government for not
taking care of them, resettle and resume a victim mentality. OR, they can see that
this is an example of how we can NEVER depend on anything(especially
Government) but ourselves when it comes to our own safety and that of our family.