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- MU ATO - 09-08-2005 08:53 AM Quote:DAILY NEWS EXCLUSIVE Freakin accountability PLEASE!!!!???!!!!!! - MU ATO - 09-08-2005 10:57 AM Que the jeapordy music please!!!! :ownd: - blah - 09-08-2005 12:16 PM MU ATO Wrote:Que the jeapordy music please!!!!Why do you want to put the Jeopardy music in a line? :roflol: :roflol: :roflol: :roflol: That word you were looking to use is spelled "queue." However, the word you really wanted to use and that is pronouced the same is "cue" meaning to signal or prompt. Maybe you should check that stuff out before you make a post claiming to own someone...... :ownd: - JTiger - 09-08-2005 01:07 PM blah Wrote::ownd: :roflol:MU ATO Wrote:Que the jeapordy music please!!!!Why do you want to put the Jeopardy music in a line? :roflol: :roflol: :roflol: :roflol: BTW, nice avatar blah. When can we expect the next one? - Motown Bronco - 09-08-2005 03:10 PM MU ATO Wrote:Que the jeapordy music please!!!!No argument from me. It's cronyism. It's simply politicians being politicians. Hires like this have probably happened in every administration since the Whig Party was in existence. The worst natural disaster in history just highlighted Bush's cronyism under a microscope. No Katrina, and it wouldn't have been so noticable. I think the ugly politicizing and mud-slinging over the past few weeks, by all sides, has surpassed the 2004 pre-election levels, if that's even possible. - westernwilly - 09-08-2005 08:16 PM blah Wrote:Chill out blah, this is not the Grammer Forum.MU ATO Wrote:Que the jeapordy music please!!!!Why do you want to put the Jeopardy music in a line? :roflol: :roflol: :roflol: :roflol: If that is what you are looking for then go back up to the top - click on "Lounge" - and scroll across till you get to "Speling Be". - Rebel - 09-08-2005 09:42 PM This comes from a news source that leans to the left. Quote:State Leads in Army Corps Spending, but Millions Had Nothing to Do With Floods - Rebel - 09-08-2005 09:43 PM I.e., the liberals ****ed up. - MU ATO - 09-09-2005 06:32 PM blah Wrote:Oh great a grammar and spelling police officer.MU ATO Wrote:Que the jeapordy music please!!!!Why do you want to put the Jeopardy music in a line? :roflol: :roflol: :roflol: :roflol: Good luck on your journey throughout the internet correcting bad spelling everywhere you surf. - MU ATO - 09-09-2005 06:34 PM Motown Bronco Wrote:Im just tired of people saying we should back Dubya's administration no matter what they do. Its sad and pathetic. I look forward to the Clinton comments as that is the typical whine & *****.MU ATO Wrote:Que the jeapordy music please!!!!No argument from me. - MU ATO - 09-09-2005 06:36 PM - gruehls - 09-09-2005 06:54 PM MU ATO Wrote:Im just tired of people saying we should back Dubya's administration no matter what they do. Its sad and pathetic. I look forward to the Clinton comments as that is the typical whine & *****.i'm not sure who's saying that. this was a cluster f*ck from up and down, right and left, black and white. if this was the best we could do 4 years after 9/11, heads should roll everywhere. but with all respect, it's tough to pin that racial component to gwb, and ignore the more immediate failures of the governor of louisiana who, last time i checked, seemed to be both white and incompetent. - I45owl - 09-09-2005 10:18 PM note: with apologies for being untimely - I wrote this last night but forgot to hit post... RebelKev Wrote:I.e., the liberals ****ed up.This is a national embarassment that required failure at every level of government for many many years. It's clear that the Mayor, Governor, and FEMA have made the situation worse, but there was little room for them to really do something useful in such a disaster. This article is remarkable, if nothing else, because of the corrections posted. That Mike Brown is FEMA chief is absolutely incredible and his appointment is indefensible. Here's a quick summary of his qualifications <a href='http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050919&s=campos091905' target='_blank'>Mike Brown's Padded Resume</a>: Quote:When Brown left the iaha four years ago, he was, among other things, a failed former lawyer--a man with a 20-year-old degree from a semi-accredited law school who hadn't attempted to practice law in a serious way in nearly 15 years and who had just been forced out of his job in the wake of charges of impropriety. At this point in his life, returning to his long-abandoned legal career would have been very difficult in the competitive Colorado legal market. Yet, within months of leaving the iaha, he was handed one of the top legal positions in the entire federal government: general counsel for a major federal agency. A year later, he was made its number-two official, and, a year after that, Bush appointed him director of fema. An honest reckoning of the history leading up to Katrina will probably show that every president, senator, governor, and legislator since the 70s deserves a share of the blame. The key phrase in the article you posted isn't "Democrat", "Republican", "liberal", nor "conservative". It's this: more than any other federal agency, the Corps is controlled by Congress; its $4.7 billion civil works budget consists almost entirely of "earmarks" inserted by individual legislators. The provincial self-interest of our politics and egotism of our politicians almost guaranteed a disaster like this would happen. The one certainty is that there is no more merit to Republican pork than there is to Democrat pork. Part of the problem that we will see play out is that the only people held accountable will be the ones that are least capable of shifting blame. Certainly, Brown is a lightweight, and the only reason he won't immediately be thrown to the wolves is that it's not him, but his appointment that is most embarassing. We may see Kennedy attacking the administration and DeLay and company attacking the faults of the Louisianna pols, but the empire-building and lobbyist-driven decision making of Congress deserve more direct blame. Someone might be able to pin hundreds of deaths directly attributable to the idiot mayor or the idiot FEMA director, but it's the thousands of deaths and Billions of dollars that are attibutable to fundamental corruptions of our political institutions that should be the target. I don't give very good odds that either the President, Congress, or a gold star commission will give an honest reckoning. I think everyone needs to stop being self-indulgent and recognize that this is a national embarassment. Partisan and provincial thinking has a lot to do with how the problem was created in the first place - it's unlikely it will then bring about a resolution to it. - Motown Bronco - 09-11-2005 11:02 AM I agree that the response was sub-par (to say the least), and all levels of government bureaucracy shares some of the blame on this one. I think this is pretty established. But it still goes without saying that when a flood is involved, especially one of this magnitude in a major US city, it really does muck things up. And we don't have much historical experience with these types of floods. In disasters like an earthquake, or Oklahoma City, or 9-11, etc, emergency crews are still able to get in and out of an area once a path through the debris is cleared (and in the case of OC and 9-11, Ground Zero was much more contained and localized than Katrina). With a massive flood, the only modes of emergency transportation are boats and helicopters, which I'd imagine are harder to coordinate. - 99Tiger - 09-18-2005 10:36 AM I45Owl Wrote:The key phrase in the article you posted isn't "Democrat", "Republican", "liberal", nor "conservative". It's this: more than any other federal agency, the Corps is controlled by Congress; its $4.7 billion civil works budget consists almost entirely of "earmarks" inserted by individual legislators. The provincial self-interest of our politics and egotism of our politicians almost guaranteed a disaster like this would happen. The one certainty is that there is no more merit to Republican pork than there is to Democrat pork.Wow...it's amazing to see that someone actually understands how the USACE actually operates. As individuals, they're great and knowledgable people; however, they funding is so tightly controlled by Congress that so much of their efforts are misguided...not because of what they see as priorities, but because of earmarks. Sadly, on one of my projects, I had a Corps employee pull me aside and basically say that my project likely won't be started in time because the City didn't lobby it's Representatives in time to get the funds earmarked. I got a real quick lesson on how things actually work. - blah - 09-19-2005 11:09 AM MU ATO Wrote:Just wanted to point out that it really takes away from your main arguments when your obvious ignorance is blaring in the background. It really seems that you are big on using the :ownd: characterization. Maybe you should leave that to others who actually understand its use and are qualified to use it.blah Wrote:Oh great a grammar and spelling police officer.MU ATO Wrote:Que the jeapordy music please!!!!Why do you want to put the Jeopardy music in a line? :roflol: :roflol: :roflol: :roflol: I have another question for you. Why is it that everyone on the left has no problem throwing stones at Pres. Bush for his so-called ignorance and stupidity, yet now I am considered the spelling and grammar police for pointing out actual ignorance? At least Bush went to Yale & Harvard. <a href='http://www.ncaabbs.com/forums/ncaa/invision/index.php?act=ST&f=31&t=17389' target='_blank'>Spin Room thread on Bush ignorance</a> - MU ATO - 09-22-2005 08:09 AM blah Wrote:DELETED BY GRUEHLSMU ATO Wrote:Just wanted to point out that it really takes away from your main arguments when your obvious ignorance is blaring in the background. It really seems that you are big on using the :ownd: characterization. Maybe you should leave that to others who actually understand its use and are qualified to use it.blah Wrote:Oh great a grammar and spelling police officer.MU ATO Wrote:Que the jeapordy music please!!!!Why do you want to put the Jeopardy music in a line? :roflol: :roflol: :roflol: :roflol: Sorry for my spelling mistake. Sometimes when you're typing and you dont spell check mistakes happen. Big deal. Get over it. If not then keep on crying about it. Possibly you cna set up a help website for those people that spell words wrong online. Heck you might even make some money at the same time. I will give you an A+ for being a Grade A prick. So in closing. Go **** Yourself. Have a nice day ALSO DELETED BY GRUEHLS Clean up your language MU ATO - MU ATO - 09-22-2005 08:12 AM - GrayBeard - 09-22-2005 01:09 PM MU ATO Wrote:The level of your maturity is amazing. I mean it looks great when you use sights like buckfush.com. No, your not a liberal nutcase at all. Grow up just a little... - Ninerfan1 - 09-22-2005 01:58 PM GrayBeard Wrote:The level of your maturity is amazing. I mean it looks great when you use sights like buckfush.com. No, your not a liberal nutcase at all.It has less to do with maturity and more to do with an outright inability to think for yourself. Libs like MuMu begin with a premise "I hate Bush" and then visit these left wing, nut job websites to be told why. You can't reason with someone who starts from a position of hate instead of arriving there after research. There are some that arrive at hate for Bush after research, however it's only researching the same sites MuMu does and the seed was always there, planted by the same ignorance that is rampant in the Unamerican left. It's vicious cycle. :john: |