I never really "got" Captain America, I mean I know people can be patriotic and all but a superhero like him seems so lame to me.
Well, I can completely understand from your perspective. Who would really be interested in Captain France? A guy that dresses up like a croissant, runs away from German bad guys and blames all his problems on Captain America. Would make for a short, annoying movie...
One resident was saving peoples life with exactly that, days before any official help even bothered turning up. Journalists even got there to interview him and still there was no help from the authorities.
Aren't journalist just the most wonderful people? They are always there to interview people that need help. Too bad they rarely provide it. Still, a flat bottom boat can carrying 5 to 10 people...and not very safely. How many would it take and how long to transport 100,000 people?
So exactly why would small arms fire stop airdrops from military aircraft such as helicopters? I know helicopters are somewhat fragile but if they can't handle a disaster area with small arms fire I suspect they shouldn't be used in war zones...
Sure, but the people hanging outside dropping the cargo tend to be not as bulletproof as the helicopters they are riding in. I don't know about you, if you are dropping water to hurricane survivors and someone is shooting at you, I would tend to cease operations and try someplace safer.
This is ridiculous. We're the richest nation in the world, and it takes us over 7 days to evacuate 100,000 poor people from a disaster area?
You're kidding, right? Have you ever tried to move 100,000 people from a disaster area? These are the sick, the old, the very young, injured and, unfortunately, some are the criminal. It is not easy to move them, especially when large parts of the transportation infrastructure has been destroyed. Flat bottom boats are not going to do the job well.
We don't (or didn't) need high-tech toys to control the crowds. Simple, common-sense, things like on-going airdrops of food and water, combined with convoys of buses, and temporary shelters at schools, etc, would have prevented major losses of life in this fiasco.
They did try airdrops and were shot at. The Mayor of New Orleans had over 400 buses at his disposal after he was urged by President Bush to evacuate New Orleans ~48 hours before Katrina hit. He chose to leave those city and school buses in the motor pool. The buses that are in New Orleans had to come from outside the city. The buses that were used delivered the victims to locations without adequate resourses such as the Superdome and Convention Center. It is unfortunate that Nagin ignored his own disaster plan.
Even if that were true, and not just ripped-off National Review agitprop, the question remains: Where are the supplies and equipment the Guard should be using? Oh yeah, Iraq.
Are you seriously advocating the use of Louisiana National Guard 256th Infantry Brigade's equipment, stationed in Iraq, in New Orleans? Man you are cold blooded! Their equipment consists M1 Abrams tanks, M2 Bradley, and M109 Paladin howitzers. You right wingers are crazy. You want these guys rolling down the streets shooting looters with tank rounds?
Chris Graythen wrote the caption for his photo of two hurricane survivors with bread and soda. "I believed in my opinion, that they did simply find them, and not 'looted' them in the definition of the word," he writes. "The people were swimming in chest deep water, and there were other people in the water, both white and black. I looked for the best picture. there were a million items floating in the water - we were right near a grocery store that had 5+ feet of water in it. it had no doors. the water was moving, and the stuff was floating away. These people were not ducking into a store and busting down windows to get electronics. They picked up bread and cokes that were floating in the water. They would have floated away anyhow.
There are over 8,000 National Guard members already in southern Louisiana with other states pitching in help. Not to mention the assets from the Navy and the Coast Guard that are already on the scene. Instead of focusing in on a political angle to hang your hat on, take some of the self absorbed, righteous indignation and channel to something that can actually help those affected by this natural disaster by contributing to the Red Cross or show us all how much of a wonderful, caring human being and go to Louisiana or Mississippi to pitch in.
You jerk! He just liberated 50 million Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq. Do you know how EVIL that is? Those Muslims were perfectly happy under the rule of the Taliban and Saddam Hussein. In fact, 100% of the Iraqis voted for Saddam Hussein in the last Iraqi election and there was a 100% turnout. They were freakin' flyin' kites before Bush rolled and took Hussein out. In Afghanistan, the Taliban relived their citizens from the pain of having giant Buddhist statues in their country. Let's not even start talking about he did to the Lebanese.
I don't what it is with you folks that just can't see through Karl Rove's RethugliKKKan propaganda. Bush is a stupid coke snorting, fibbing monkey that is only President because of conspiracy involving Redneck NASCAR fans that hacked non-Linux voting machines causing 100,000 Ohioans to vote Republican even though they voted Republican in the last election. Jebus Pretzel! What is it with you right-wingers?
During the last election, the press was allowed to support candidates without financial limits while citizen organizations were limited by McCain-Feingold. Fox News, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, New York Time, Washington Post, et al were allowed to run stories and editorials that benefited or harmed candidates for office and did not have to report the expenses incurred in that process or were limited in that pursuit.
I guess it was that damn first amendment that the churches are taking advantage of as well. Maybe you should vent your anger at the loophole these Churches are using instead of the churches themselves.
London has one the most dense forest of security cameras of any city in the world and it did not stop the latest terrorist attack. These sort of items provide the illusion of safety and profitability to electronic snake oil salesmen at the cost of the private lives and dignity of citizens. The only true way to prevent terrorism is to capture, interrogate and kill terrorists. Its cheaper and more effective than having minimum wage bozos who have no other quantifiable skills watching your every move with the latest technological gizmo. Unfortunately, our fellow citizens would rather trust these mouth breathers and cry out against the treatment of those that mean them harm to conform to the trendy PC chic.
I just copyrighted, trademarked and patented the word "The"(c)(tm) (both pronunciations) along with a whole host of definite and indefinite articles. I will be vigorously pursuing everyone using "The"(c)(tm) in books, film and sound recordings. Unless you license "The"(c)(tm) at the low, low price of $0.01 per usage, I will send the(c)(tm) RIAA, MPAA and the(c)(tm) NLAKC (Nazi Librarian Association of Knuckle Crackers) to hound each and everyone of you. And don't let me catch you using Peer to Peer technology to distribute "The"(c)(tm). Recent Supreme Court rulings will allow me to go after such tecnologies as the(c)(tm) keyboard, CRTs and web browsers (you are in my sights "The"(c)(tm) abuser, Bill Gates).
who also supplied Bezos with legal muscle in his personal fight against zoning laws that threatened to curb the size of his Medina mansion (reg.) before the City of Medina eventually gave up on regulating the size of homes (reg.).
What the hell does the size of Bezos' home have to do with a patent? That's right, NOTHING! We have something in this country called liberty and if Bezos owns land and wants to build a house that uses 99.9% of it, he should be able to build it. City councils dictating to folks about the style and size of private homes is over the line. Safety standards and building codes are fine within reason.
So what Sophos is saying is that buying a new PC and connecting it to the internet to access Windows Update is too dangerous. By the time the average PC/Windows users connects to Windows Update, they have a 50% chance of being compromised. It might be time for Microsoft to instruct Windows XP to firewall itself to Windows Update only until it has fully patched itself.
You know, on second thought, the better idea is just get a Mac. The average PC user will find it safer and they can do 99% of what they were going to do anyways.
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Oh, ok. Your nick is "Frogbert" so I got the feeling you might be. We typically refer to the French as "Frogs".
Well, I can completely understand from your perspective. Who would really be interested in Captain France? A guy that dresses up like a croissant, runs away from German bad guys and blames all his problems on Captain America. Would make for a short, annoying movie...
God this can only one thing, great quality straight to DVD movies!
Man Charged With Shooting at Helicopter.
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Please read this.
And they say Americans are stupid for not adopting the metric system. Look at how much we save by using Imperial measurements!
Aren't journalist just the most wonderful people? They are always there to interview people that need help. Too bad they rarely provide it. Still, a flat bottom boat can carrying 5 to 10 people...and not very safely. How many would it take and how long to transport 100,000 people?
Sure, but the people hanging outside dropping the cargo tend to be not as bulletproof as the helicopters they are riding in. I don't know about you, if you are dropping water to hurricane survivors and someone is shooting at you, I would tend to cease operations and try someplace safer.
You're kidding, right? Have you ever tried to move 100,000 people from a disaster area? These are the sick, the old, the very young, injured and, unfortunately, some are the criminal. It is not easy to move them, especially when large parts of the transportation infrastructure has been destroyed. Flat bottom boats are not going to do the job well.
We don't (or didn't) need high-tech toys to control the crowds. Simple, common-sense, things like on-going airdrops of food and water, combined with convoys of buses, and temporary shelters at schools, etc, would have prevented major losses of life in this fiasco.
They did try airdrops and were shot at. The Mayor of New Orleans had over 400 buses at his disposal after he was urged by President Bush to evacuate New Orleans ~48 hours before Katrina hit. He chose to leave those city and school buses in the motor pool. The buses that are in New Orleans had to come from outside the city. The buses that were used delivered the victims to locations without adequate resourses such as the Superdome and Convention Center. It is unfortunate that Nagin ignored his own disaster plan.
Geraldo is reporting there are "buses" at the New Orleans Convention Center.
Are you seriously advocating the use of Louisiana National Guard 256th Infantry Brigade's equipment, stationed in Iraq, in New Orleans? Man you are cold blooded! Their equipment consists M1 Abrams tanks, M2 Bradley, and M109 Paladin howitzers. You right wingers are crazy. You want these guys rolling down the streets shooting looters with tank rounds?
Chris Graythen wrote the caption for his photo of two hurricane survivors with bread and soda. "I believed in my opinion, that they did simply find them, and not 'looted' them in the definition of the word," he writes. "The people were swimming in chest deep water, and there were other people in the water, both white and black. I looked for the best picture. there were a million items floating in the water - we were right near a grocery store that had 5+ feet of water in it. it had no doors. the water was moving, and the stuff was floating away. These people were not ducking into a store and busting down windows to get electronics. They picked up bread and cokes that were floating in the water. They would have floated away anyhow.
There are over 8,000 National Guard members already in southern Louisiana with other states pitching in help. Not to mention the assets from the Navy and the Coast Guard that are already on the scene. Instead of focusing in on a political angle to hang your hat on, take some of the self absorbed, righteous indignation and channel to something that can actually help those affected by this natural disaster by contributing to the Red Cross or show us all how much of a wonderful, caring human being and go to Louisiana or Mississippi to pitch in.
I was just getting good at understanding the Indian accent when I was calling Tech Support!
I don't what it is with you folks that just can't see through Karl Rove's RethugliKKKan propaganda. Bush is a stupid coke snorting, fibbing monkey that is only President because of conspiracy involving Redneck NASCAR fans that hacked non-Linux voting machines causing 100,000 Ohioans to vote Republican even though they voted Republican in the last election. Jebus Pretzel! What is it with you right-wingers?
Yea, they should have chosen Senator Robert Byrd as their spokesman...
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Enlighten me, please...
I guess it was that damn first amendment that the churches are taking advantage of as well. Maybe you should vent your anger at the loophole these Churches are using instead of the churches themselves.
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London has one the most dense forest of security cameras of any city in the world and it did not stop the latest terrorist attack. These sort of items provide the illusion of safety and profitability to electronic snake oil salesmen at the cost of the private lives and dignity of citizens. The only true way to prevent terrorism is to capture, interrogate and kill terrorists. Its cheaper and more effective than having minimum wage bozos who have no other quantifiable skills watching your every move with the latest technological gizmo. Unfortunately, our fellow citizens would rather trust these mouth breathers and cry out against the treatment of those that mean them harm to conform to the trendy PC chic.
I just copyrighted, trademarked and patented the word "The"(c)(tm) (both pronunciations) along with a whole host of definite and indefinite articles. I will be vigorously pursuing everyone using "The"(c)(tm) in books, film and sound recordings. Unless you license "The"(c)(tm) at the low, low price of $0.01 per usage, I will send the(c)(tm) RIAA, MPAA and the(c)(tm) NLAKC (Nazi Librarian Association of Knuckle Crackers) to hound each and everyone of you. And don't let me catch you using Peer to Peer technology to distribute "The"(c)(tm). Recent Supreme Court rulings will allow me to go after such tecnologies as the(c)(tm) keyboard, CRTs and web browsers (you are in my sights "The"(c)(tm) abuser, Bill Gates).
What the hell does the size of Bezos' home have to do with a patent? That's right, NOTHING! We have something in this country called liberty and if Bezos owns land and wants to build a house that uses 99.9% of it, he should be able to build it. City councils dictating to folks about the style and size of private homes is over the line. Safety standards and building codes are fine within reason.
Oh, and the patent sucks, Bezos is a jerk...
You know, on second thought, the better idea is just get a Mac. The average PC user will find it safer and they can do 99% of what they were going to do anyways.