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QUOTE(TheDybber @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 12:30 PM) alert ALLERGY SUFFERERS!!! Don't move to Austin. Allergy capital of the country. My poor fiancee is in her lull for the year...two weeks between the summer allergies and ragweed. There is no freeze (usually) here so it just keeps coming and coming. And now, I have Cedar fever from the juniper spores. FANTASTIC. Although that doesn't happen until December. But you have 6th Street, Austin City Limits, hill country, UT, shall I go on? Lucky dog.

Every time I read the thread title I keep thinking IQ

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 12:46 PM) I hear they taste like chicken. What's nice is they cover themselves in oil first . . .

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 12:28 PM) Very soon the tide will turn, and the deer will have their day my friend. There is a tourist season . . .

If God had a name, what would it be And would you call it to his face If you were faced with him in all his glory What would you ask if you had just one question And yeah yeah God is great yeah yeah God is good yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah What if God was one of us Just a slob like one of us Just a stranger on the bus Trying to make his way home

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 11:42 AM) Just remember this about Richard Nixon...he personally extended the Vietnam war by 5 years. Johnson had an agreement for a framework of a peace settlement in October 1968, but Nixon arranged for it to be sabotaged so that there wouldn't be an "October Surprise" that could defeat him in the election. Do you have a source? This is the first I've ever heard that theory.

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 10:53 AM) I would tend to disagree with the notion that the poor have a lower ability to reason and problem solve. The biggest problem and failure in this case was that the government (local and national) did not have an adequate evacuation plan and alert system in place. Think of the logistics. How would people move from inner city of New Orleans to a safer place? Was there transportation ordered by the governing bodies? Are these people expected to walk miles and miles to safety? How far? Where do they stay? How do they get back to their homes when the storm passes (assuming it passes without major damage)? If were told to leave your home, and you didn't have transportation, some members of your family were sickly or very young and unable to walk for miles at a time, and had no idea where you were supposed to go, what would you do? Probably stay put and hope like heck the threat passed without harm. I agree with your second paragraph. Why I say that the poor have lower abilities to reason and problem solve, is based on having a wider range of experiences and solutions to draw on. The ability to apply a solution from problem A to problem B is more evident in higher IQs. The poor, who generally don't travel much, do not cruise the internet much, do not watch Discovery channel as much, and who did not attain higher levels of education, do not have those experiences to draw upon. The mechanics of problem solving may be the same, but shifting through 3 answers vs. shifting through 3,000 answers may be the difference. We could get into the nature vs. nuture debate in all this, but I don't think it would make a difference.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 10:19 AM) Two years so far me and all the family (and all of the wifes extended family totally 25 people) go up to some cabins in Wisconsin and seriously disconnect from the world for the entire week. We didn't do it this year, but we go back to it next year. It's a wonderful thing really. That describes my families vacations all the time I was growing up. 20-25 of us in Eagle River / St. Germain Oh how I miss seing the indian across from "town" in St. Germain.

Yes it is the halve nots that pay the highest price to live in America. They work for the rich, fight wars for the rich, clean up after the rich, build railroads, stare at atomic blasts to study the effects, and a thousand other things that we could probably think of. I imagine that's the same in every society, but probably better here. I cannot envision a working society where that isn't going to happen. I also believe, we should realize that the poor are probably less educate and probably, as a group, with less mental resources and skills in reasoning, problem solving, etc. Mix in a little mental disease and defect, and you got a nightmare we've been seeing. They have jobs where a supervisor tells them to do this, that, and this other thing. Then follows them around and asks them if they did this, that, and the other thing. Many have lived in their neighborhoods all their lives, and have never been outside the city. It's not like they vacationed at Sea World and think, hey, let's go there. They can survive in neighborhoods that would kill most of us without the "street smarts", but they have an equally difficult time trying to survive the evacuation. I can understand the strong urge to stay and pray. Sadly, it killed a lot of them. I'm not certain, short of arresting them and sending them away, what anyone could have done. The poor are the most at risk group in our nation. We see what a natural disaster did. They are also most likely to die younger and in almost every disease category. Without the financial resources for better health care, minor stuff becomes major. Their diets are high in fats and cholesterol. They get less exercise. They live in dirtier surroundings. They are much more likely to be a crime victim. Those are cold, sobering, realities. But should we be made to feel guilty because we won the biggest lottery? We won the "my sperm was the fastest and hit the egg lottery" and we came up (for the most part here) white, middle class, suburbanites. What I believe we do owe, and many here have done, is share. Share our time, share our prayers, share our talents, share our resources, share our love.

One of my Assistant Scoutmasters is a board member with the local Red Cross, he's been busy non stop, another Assistant Scoutmaster is in his RV with friends from Church and heading north to help. The rest of the Troop has been collecting needed items to send with. I know that workers getting shot at, and the resulting deaths, are more newsworthy. But we all the know the depths of charity that Americans have always displayed to suffering. Sadly, most Red Cross corporate donations were down in the months leading up to this. Many corporations mentioned the Tsunami Relief efforts that they donated to.

I was alive during Watergate, fell in love with journalism during that era, and with time to reflect, have come to the conclusion that Nixon was a far better President than given credit for. His handling of Watergate destroyed what would have been considered a better than average to very good tenure. JMO.

frickin' Red Cross they'll use any tragedy to raise money God Bless them and all the volunteers.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 6, 2005 -> 08:48 AM) Instead, he jokes about how huge Trent Lott's new Gulf Coast house is going to be and how he's looking forward to sitting on his big porch when it's finished. :headshake Hope nobody's still hholding their breath waiting for the 'bullhorn moment' this time around. I hope this isn't second term, I don't give a rip, setting in. And I don't find it that objectionable telling jokes at a time like this. It's how I cope in similar situations. Too bad he couldn't preface it with and speak in green.

The issue with LSU is the fan base. Let's remember the region has lost a lot of fans who have left the area and probably not returning during this football season. Others in the area, are trying to rebuild homes, rebuild lives, hopefully have jobs. It makes sense to have the team playing in a stable area this season. The team owner has business and personal ties to San Antonio. The team would draw fans away from the Texans and some away from the Cowboys. My guess is neither team will be hurt too bad. Fans being fans, and the Cowboys being America's Team and such a huge following in the state, they will still sell a lot of tickets.

A couple blogs have him as safe, but they all could be quoting each other. I couldn't find any independent, journalism site that would confirm. Most reports have him in Houston.

Hello, I am running for President of the US. I cannot do anything. The government is too big and too spread out for me to actually have any effect in an emergency. The courts through activist judges, are making the laws now anyways, so I will not be able to do anything in that area. If I do try and do somethings and it turns out wrong, it's the liberal media or a vast right wing conspiracy out to get me. What I will do is give y'all a tax break so down the road someone else will pay those taxes plus the interest on the money we borrow from countries that hate us. Vote for me. BTW, I cannot picture Reagan doing nothing for a couple days, and I can't see Clinton not rushing to the area, holding some babies, and proclaiming he "feels our pain". Bush blew a chance to take his approval rating through the roof. I truly believed this would have been his finest hour. Looking tough in the cameras towards the lawlessness, and looking compassionate to the victims, and rallying the volunteers and workers. This played right into his strength.

Something about Hammerhead's Avatar got me thinking about this song . . .

^^^^^^^^^^^ like we have a chance in the world of it happening. One side will try to pin it on the Federal response (anti-GOP) and the other side will try and pin it on local (anti-Dem)

QUOTE(farmteam @ Sep 3, 2005 -> 09:48 PM) Where I come from, there's cornbread and chicken. Anyone has any clue what I'm referencing and they get a virtual cookie. QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 12:17 AM) Well, where I come from there's a lot of front porch sittin.' QUOTE(Goldmember @ Sep 4, 2005 -> 09:53 AM) and pickin' I'm guessing if everyone who knew, posted in this thread, it would be as empty as a Monday morning church.

QUOTE(Chisoxfn @ Sep 5, 2005 -> 05:26 PM) Anyway closed the forum down and moved it into the archive section of the board. We'll probably re-open it during the off-season, unless people would prefer to keep all that discussion on the main board (whichever the masses prefer we'll do). I also moved over the two active threads that were in that forum (one made by tony and than the other on Furcal). And we are still up and running link

BMAC suddenly developes a left breast . . .

QUOTE(TheBigHurt @ Sep 5, 2005 -> 05:53 PM) "IT'S GOOD!" Took me a second, then LMAO, well played Mr. Hurt

You know what, if there is a commission, could we get some people from Mars to do it? I'm so burned out by frickin' political commissions whose first goal is to make it a DEM or GOP mistake. If we could somehow find a group of experts who have zero, nada, zip, no political leanings, aspirations, or axes to grind, it just might do something useful.

WHEN THE SAINTS COME MARCHING IN We are trav'ling in the footsteps Of those who've gone before And we'll all be reunited, On a new and sunlit shore, Oh, when the saints go marching in, Oh, when the saints go marching in Lord how I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in And when the sun begins to shine And when the sun begins to shine Lord, how I want to be in that number When the sun begins to shine Oh, when the saints go marching in, Oh, when the saints go marching in Lord how I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in Oh, when the trumpet sounds its call Oh, when the trumpet sounds its call Lord, how I want to be in that number When the trumpet sounds its call Oh, when the saints go marching in, Oh, when the saints go marching in Lord how I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in

From my dearest friends at Catholics for Faithful Citizenship. bold was my edit.