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Jay Honeck wrote:
Why the hell were they there? Everyone in America knew that New Orleans -- and everything for 100 miles on each side -- was about to be blasted by Katrina. Jay, many didn't have the economic means to escape the storm, nor a place to which to escape. That area is about the poorest part of the US. -- Peter ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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"Larry Dighera" wrote in message ... On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:13:26 GMT, "Jay Honeck" wrote in W1iRe.295446$_o.49447@attbi_s71:: I wonder if the insurance companies (and the federal government) will FINALLY wake up to the fact that building permanent structures below sea-level in a hurricane zone is folly? I can understand how your computer malfunctions might be obliquely construed as aviation related, on-topic, for this newsgroup, but I completely fail to see how the subject of this article differs from obnoxious spam. Or has this newsgroup become Jay's sandbox? I'd much rather it become Jay's sandbox than your septic tank. |
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"Peter R." wrote in message ... Jay Honeck wrote: Why the hell were they there? Everyone in America knew that New Orleans -- and everything for 100 miles on each side -- was about to be blasted by Katrina. Jay, many didn't have the economic means to escape the storm, nor a place to which to escape. That area is about the poorest part of the US. -- Peter And many stayed because they knew it would probably be a free for all. Based on the news footage the cops are the worst of the lot. |
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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:25:53 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote in R7qRe.79145$084.55689@attbi_s22:: Don't you think it's foolhardy to ... Personally, I think the off-topic articles tend to drive away those who expect to find aviation related information and discussion in rec.aviation.piloting; I'm referring to original articles here, not follup articles (It's probably futile to attempt to constrain follup discussion). If you choose to dilute the appropriate content by posting articles that lack aviation relevance, let alone 'piloting' relevance, your action reduces the signal-to-noise ratio, and drives away those potential participants who may wish to participate in more serious piloting discussion and provide relevant on-topic content, in my opinion. I know you have met many of the readers of this newsgroup, and you want to discuss your feelings about off-topic matters with them, but the world is on the party-line, so to speak. Like most marketers, you only consider your agenda. Deliberately posting off-topic is rude and inconsiderate; think about it. The choice is ours. We can homogenize the newsgroup's content until it's an unrecognizable Spam like product, or we can try to confine our non-follup articles to on-topic subjects. |
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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:05:33 GMT, "Dave Stadt"
wrote in : : I'd much rather it become Jay's sandbox than your septic tank. I guess I expect to much from fellow aviators. :-( |
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Why the hell were they there? Everyone in America knew that New Orleans --
and everything for 100 miles on each side -- was about to be blasted by Katrina. Jay, many didn't have the economic means to escape the storm, nor a place to which to escape. That area is about the poorest part of the US. I noted from the footage that most had not missed many meals. |
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john smith wrote:
I noted from the footage that most had not missed many meals. You really shouldn't get all of your post-secondary education from the evening news. When I was sixteen I worked at a grocery store on the fringe of a poor section of a city. There were a lot of welfare recipients who shopped at this store to buy their weekly groceries. I witnessed many of these folks spending US gov't money on very poor food choices. Couple that with the fact that most of these folks get absolutely zero exercise and it doesn't take a superb imagination to understand why many look the way they do. -- Peter ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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"JH" == Jay Honeck writes:
JH Why the hell were they there? Ah, finally we see an example of "conservative compassion." They're there because they're there. No fricking place is safe, Jay. Next time some huge blizzard shuts down the mid-west for days or weeks I'll remember your answer. Next time a tornado rips through I'll ask, "why the hell were you living there?" I mean ****, Jay. Life is 100% fatal. What's the point? Why eat breakfast? You'll just be hungry again at lunch. It's all fricking pointless. |
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Bob Fry wrote:
Ah, finally we see an example of "conservative compassion." They're there because they're there. No fricking place is safe, Jay. Next time some huge blizzard shuts down the mid-west for days or weeks I'll remember your answer. Next time a tornado rips through I'll ask, "why the hell were you living there?" I mean ****, Jay. Life is 100% fatal. What's the point? Why eat breakfast? You'll just be hungry again at lunch. It's all fricking pointless. Bob, how much money has been spent on the south to recover from the repeated hurricane damage? How much money has been spent on the midwest from blizzard, flood and tornado recovery? My perception is hundreds of billions in the south vice tens of billions for the midwest. The midwest tax base is steadily shrinking do to loss of jobs to other locals. Money repeatedly spent to hurricane damaged infrastructure in the south siphons money away from repairing the crumbling midwest infrastructure even once. I don't mind my tax dollars going where needed, but to repeatedly spend money on the same things says that the money is not being spent correctly. |
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When I was sixteen I worked at a grocery store on the fringe of a poor
section of a city. There were a lot of welfare recipients who shopped at this store to buy their weekly groceries. I witnessed many of these folks spending US gov't money on very poor food choices. Couple that with the fact that most of these folks get absolutely zero exercise and it doesn't take a superb imagination to understand why many look the way they do. America is the only country in the world with fat poor people. -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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