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Posted by Lyana on Jun 02, 2006 9:54 am
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' The Palestinian Authority and Christian leaders on Thursday signed an accord to repair the Church of the Nativity
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' To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their American mediators quietly
Holy Shit. Anyone who voted for this nitfuck deserves the government that they've gotten. I feel sorry for the
#4 zorki: I think the situation is a little different _ via a vis _ South and Central American
[ #9 ]/ zorkmidden and shop for specials for denture adhesives. [img]
[ #3 ]/ Cam: I know the Chinese do that and that there are networks who loan money to
#5 zorki: She should be tried, then, for the crime of dumbfuckery - assuming that that is is a
#2 zorki: They work it off when they arrive.
A little OT, but every time I read the stories about illegal immigrants who come to the West for jobs,
packen, if you haven't seen "Fallen", you should.
[ #8 ]/ RWC: And when you're not robbing people of their bling, you can commiserate with evariste about
' Of course, I have no way of knowing if the Tamils’ claims are genuine: post-civil war Sri Lanka
It _ was _ surprising, but I felt the movie sacrificed its own internal logic and mood for the sake
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[ PA arrests two Hamas members for the terror attack ]/ . The [ JPost article ]/ does not
[ #5 ]/ king's shadow: It surprised me and I liked it.
[ #6 ]/ Thousand Sons: And they wouldn't drop out of school if only they had schools. Or alarms.
The Fallen was a good movie, but I didn't like/buy the final twist.
Because gangbangers wouldnt be thuggin' or making quick, illegal cash if they just had _ jobs _ .
[ #2 ]/ zorkmidden: There's definitely a simlarity.
[ #1 ]/ zorkmidden Nice chilling story for a * hot day * . Which
' Is there a leak? Does anyone know? ' Apparently a small leak, that's not associated with
It reminded me a little bit of the movie " [ Fallen". ]/
5 comments, latest by Aridog at 3:36 pm 6/2
Pat Robertson has the demonstrated power to deflect hurricanes. Or maybe that was Jerry Falwell.
I blame whichever one it was who neglected to use his power of prayer to deflect the storm.
Whizbang has only about half the story. The scapegoat half.
Follow the money, where it went and where it didn't arrive, or was deleted. Strock is a Lieutenant General, the head of the Corps, a MACOM, but hardly senior in the Army, and hardly the head of appropriations and budget allocations. He was handed his sword and told to fall on it. He is not the first to have to do so.
Do a little research on "O&M" (Operations & Maintenance) funding over the past decade or two regarding NOLA levees. If you think the local Commander's could play Chicken Little over the past decade, you must think they want their careers to end abruptly. Check out those that did...see the next paragraph.
While you're at it research the funding for the upper Mississippi flood mitigation program....soundly trashed by a miscreant economist ex-employee not long ago...e.g., "wisdom" is that nothing major is needed for 25 years...that's not the Corps talking, that is the critics who the Corps was forced to follow...told directly not to be "agressive" in future planning. Another total river flood like the early 90's and NOLA is toast, worse than Katrina, and only dodged the bullet in the 90's due to pure good luck and mitigation of the river's force before it got to NOLA.
Yes, there is a reason the levees were for shit, but if you think it was because the Corps staff in NOLA, who live there, was negligent, think again. Keep cutting the Corps staff and appropriations, it'll get even better. When you run reductions in staffing, Corps wide, guess who gits gone...the experienced people, and you wind up with cake eaters in charge. Have fun Y'awl. You're just about there now.
Aridog, I was wondering about that. That, and if this "admission" would give people the ability to sue for negligence.
With the levels of bureaucracy that exist, it's a wonder that anything gets done remotely close to right.
Aridog, I was wondering about that. That, and if this "admission" would give people the ability to sue for negligence.
With the levels of bureaucracy that exist, it's a wonder that anything gets done remotely close to right.
Negligence lawsuit, I doubt it.
It's no longer just the bureaucracy, it is the process...the Process has become the Product, and there is no product.
Even the logic used by Whizbang is flawed. The levees' proximate cause of failure was the high water levels caused by Katrina. Now they're experts on wall placement...without once ever had to place a single piece of sheet pile...read the "rules" for that sometime...let alone place them in a bog.
LTG Strock has been sacrificed just as his predecessors were over the upper Missisippi issue. Throw enough shit in to the fan blades, it soon spaltters the whole room. Gotta blame somebody, why not the last guy in line...heaven forbid you think the dumb mother fuckers who insist on living there have any responsibility, in a nation with as little open land as we have, mind you.
What is outright amazing is how many times NOLA did NOT flood. The whole of the Mississippi River system is geared to protect NOLA, one way or the other, left unchecked NOLA would have been gone 50 years ago.
Any Dildo brained academic "engineer" can theorize and postulate, in their vacuum, but take that perfect plan, sell it to all of the various interests, from environmental to state economic interests, then sell it to Congress, and once whittled down to a magnitude acceptable to all those, run it through the contracting process. Voila'...the silk purse plan is built as the pigs ear....and the last guy in line gets blamed....and well he should, right...everyone knows a hardtack and water budget produces caviar and champagne maintenance.
BTW...HERE IS what you can build when the hassle is removed and money is no object. Never happen here.