Street Fighting Man
 

3 ft. Sorry. I'm sizist.

Strict Construction
 

Who?

Street Fighting Man
 

This posts remind me, in early 2006 I have a nervous breakdown and have to go away for about 6 months. Nobody worry, okay? I do come back.

Strict Construction
 

Those were the days.

Mon Dieu!!! Trifecta!!! Everyone stop posting!!!

Street Fighting Man
 

Not Bob has my proxy.

Newer Orleans
 

Speaking of, since it's clear that New Orleans and much of the area is devastated to the point of starting over from scratch, is it unreasonable to expect that, as a condition of the massive federal aid that will no doubt be passed by Congress when it returns in a few days, New Orleans be rebuilt inland somewhere? As it is, we'll be spending $15billion just to buy the same problem all over again in the next 15-50 years. Basically give no aid for any sort of rebuilding, public or private, in a place that's below sea level.

Newer Orleans
 

2. The city is kept above water by a levee that is threatened every X years and breached every x + 10 years.

Also, I want to stop funding the was against terrorism since it really is only intended to protect NY or LA.

Street Fighting Man
 

Dennis Miller is more of just about less anything than an actor, but that's not for lack of trying.

Street Fighting Man
 

Ah, yes. We judge our policies by their unpopularity.

The ever-increasing hatred in the Muslim world of the US must truly warm the cockles of your heart.

Street Fighting Man
 

How long did it take you to compose this sentence and what does it mean?

Newer Orleans
 

Not to get all "network effects" on you, but I imagine that there is an awful lot of infrastructure that has survived which would be too expensive to move/replace.

Street Fighting Man
 

I think if you take the "of" and turn it into an "or" and remove the "just about", you have a statement saying that Dennis Miller is bad at acting. Or that he is full of shit. Open for interpretation.


I have really missed Sidd and am very glad he is back.

Street Fighting Man
 

That's a pretty fucking stupid thing to say. Are you suggesting that less prosperous countries have not developed thriving cultures?


Guess I'll have to chuck all my Latin American novels, African music, and Polynesian sculptures when I get home. Not to mention the jazz.


Apologies if I offended you by tuning out the rah-rah stuff, which I generally agree with.

Street Fighting Man
 

What about your Mojito Maker?

Street Fighting Man
 

I think we've finally found a point of agreement. Great CD's.

eta: I'll be seeing the Lawtalkers House Band on 10/20 at Metro in Chicago.

Street Fighting Man
 

Only thirty seconds. I saved some time by failing to delete the "less" that made it incomprehensible.

It's a gift.

Street Fighting Man
 

I've been gone for awhile. Is this a euphemism for something, or are you still recovering from another weekend at Bing's, waiting for Mr. Right Now to walk in?

PB players
 

I don't really follow this board and am not sure where everyone stands politically. I do know that Penske and Spanky are republicans, as is Slave (but I do not understand why he is, unless its part of his aspiration to join the elite classes as evidenced by his GreatestShits on classy red suits and Esquire on the End of Biz Casual at Cadwalader).

I am not sure who the dems are but would guess Ty, Booger and ltl are in that camp (thogh I would think ltl would be a republican based on her intricate knowledge of the cow slaughter system).

Whats the topic? THird world culture- oxymoron or fact? Is this preally a political subject?

Street Fighting Man
 

I went and reread your lessless senteence and I think that the modifications I imagined got us to the same place. Funny.

Street Fighting Man
 

Actually, I am a few more Bing nights and an overnight excursion to Vegas away from being Mrs. Bing. My plan is to inherit the cocktail lounge. Ty@50? Do I succeed in turning this cyberplace into a bricks and mortar institution?

Street Fighting Man
 

Not if I can help it. Sure, you're young, single and one of the Beautiful People, but for those of us with preschool kids, commutes and long-hour jobs, this is all we've got.

Street Fighting Man
 

I've found Ty@50 to be a bit unresponsive of late. Could I be on his ignore list?!?!

When the Levee Breaks
 

Those are sunk costs, not network effects. The question is, is it, overall, cheaper to rebuild elsewhere than to rebuild in the same place and continue the levee system that doesn't always work. And my premise is that a lot of that infrastructure has not, in fact, survived. How many telephone poles do you think are still standing? 3?

The network effect, if any, is that since some people already live there, and probably are not displaced, they won't want to move to the new place.

When the Levee Breaks
 

Couldn't they just direct the money into a casino/resort in Las Vegas called N'Oawlens, shaped in the shape of a giant plantation house and complete with the Bourbon Street Bar, Crawdaddy's Cajun Restaurant and Mardi Gras Nightclub and be done with it?

Street Fighting Man
 

Mihgt work. Las Vegas is already zoned for ladies to show their breasts in public.

Street Fighting Man
 

Yes you do buy it, but it costs you your two best frineds.

First Penske and you have a row over his tab when he disputes the vintage on a bottle of 4th growth Bordeau.

Then you have to ban shape shifter for life when certain of his bathroom habits cause 2 cleaning people to quit in the same week.

finally a Kennedy against people being dumped in water
 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert...e-_b_6396.html

Bobbie Jr. Sez it Bush's fault.

You all do understand that even if global warming had some basis in reality, 5 years can't change it, right? This is what i meant earlier today about just how despicable and desparate the whole Dem party has become.

• Well, the science is clear. This month, a study published in the journal Nature by a renowned MIT climatologist linked the increasing prevalence of destructive hurricanes to human-induced global warming.
  
  Now we are all learning what it’s like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged. Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and--now--Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.
  
  In 1998, Republican icon Pat Robertson warned that hurricanes were likely to hit communities that offended God. Perhaps it was Barbour’s memo that caused Katrina, at the last moment, to spare New Orleans and save its worst flailings for the Mississippi coast.

When the Levee Breaks
 

Sunk costs indeed.

Street Fighting Man
 

It is your lack of understandig what makes America great and your disdain for free markets that is sad. Do you think all these people having been trying to get to America for that past two hundred years because they want political freedom. Some yes, but most came here because of the economic opportunities. In most countrys economic success was more dependent on who you know than what you know or how hard you work. They came here to get away from economies where opressive governments stymied economic opportunity.

You don't understand why America is so successful and that is why you promote policies that would undermine her success.

When the Levee Breaks
 

Obviously the scope is very, very different but we're still recovering from the flooding in Tropical Storm Allison, which flooded a good part of Houston, especially the Medical Center and downtown. I know a good number of rebuilding projects are still not quite up and running and negotiating with FEMA and insurance companies was an amazing pain in the ass. I feel like I'm walking through a the Death Star with all sorts of blast doors that are supposed to close if it starts flooding again like that. I hope I never have to find out.

Street Fighting Man
 

I'm sure my younger self will argue with this point in the next few hours, but my current wiser self recognizes you were right.

Street Fighting Man
 

By your thinking, you should move to Hong Kong. It's even more American than America. I'll come visit sometime.

In your world, the words "great" and "succcessful" seem to mean the same thing, since you just switched from one to the other without apparently meaning to. If so, that's also sad.

I know what economic opportunity is. My father's family came to this country for it. I don't need you to remind me what that's about. But I'm not going to swallow a partisan economic agenda designed to benefit the rich at the expense of the rest of us just because it's wrapped in patriotic twaddle.

Street Fighting Man
 

str8. Surely there's a feel good self-help movie in this. Have your people call mine?

Fade to Black
 

For someone that purports to hate me so much, you sure spend an awful lot of time looking back at my old Infirm posts.

Rather than staring at old, meaningless posts in your remaining spare time - might I suggest going to a greenhouse, beach or museum? Or watch the sunset?

I'd hate to think the last thing you see are the words "Ping Pow".

Regards,

Slave

Street Fighting Man
 

What has made this country successful is the same thing that made this country great. A successful country is a great country. What is sad about that.

Clearly you don't. You constantly promote policies that would undermine our ecnomic success. Your are hostile to free enterprize and it was economic opporunity created by free enterprize that attracted your relatives. You have never lived in a country that has implemented the policies you promote. If you had you would not promote them.

QUOTE]Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop But I'm not going to swallow a partisan economic agenda designed to benefit the rich at the expense of the rest of us just because it's wrapped in patriotic twaddle. [/QUOTE]

You aren't just against Bush's economic agenda. You are hostile to free enterprize which even a significant portion of your party is not.

Street Fighting Man
 

OK, whatever. I'm just saying there is more to life than material success. If that seems odd to you, so be it.

Just because I disagree with you at the margin doesn't mean I'm hostile to free enterprise. Indeed, given what I do for a living, I find that suggestion a little bizarre.

Oh, and the policies I promote are pretty centrist, and I have been living in the United States for many years now, so guess again.

Meanwhile, you conveniently ignore all of the camels with their nose under the GOP big tent who keep sucking at the government trough. The GOP keeps carrying water for corporate interests that would rather take a government handout than compete, but I've never heard you say this is unamerican.

Wrapping partisanship in the flag -- a Republican gift to America.

Fade to Black
 

"Ping! Pow!

for BRC
 

str8- can you hook up tixs?
 

boot those Dead revivals scheduled for early fall- if you wanna be where the best acid is you need to get on the Peace Mom tour.

http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=119098

• 'Peace Mom' to protest Maine air show
  Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - Bangor Daily News
  
  By Eric Russell, Of the NEWS Staff
  
  Peace groups planning to protest a Blue Angels air show next month at the Brunswick Naval Air Station have enlisted a woman whose own demonstrations outside President Bush's Texas ranch have galvanized many against the war in Iraq.
  
  Cindy Sheehan of Vacaville, Calif., will be the featured guest at a protest on Saturday, Sept. 10, in Brunswick. Her son, Casey Sheehan, is one of more than 1,800 U.S. soldiers who have died in Iraq since March 2003.
  
  "She's definitely coming. She's already bought her [plane] ticket," Bruce Gagnon of Maine Veterans for Peace said Monday.
  
  Sheehan has earned the nickname "Peace Mom" after staging a monthlong demonstration outside Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, where the president was vacationing for most of August. She has said she will end her protest on Wednesday, and even though she hasn't achieved her goal of meeting with the president, Sheehan's resolve has roused considerable interest across the nation.
  
  "She has a lot of guts, and she's willing to stand up to Bush in a big way," Gagnon said of Sheehan.
  
  The Maine Veterans for Peace has been planning the event for months in collaboration with several other peace groups across the state. Gagnon said he expects a turnout of several hundred and said Sheehan's appearance likely will multiply those numbers.
  
  The air show itself is expected to draw as many as 100,000, according to BNAS Director of Public Affairs John James.
  
  It is the first time the Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy's elite team who fly F/A18 Hornets in synchronized formations, havebeen in Brunswick since 1999, and it could be the last time now that BNAS has been slated for closure by the Base Realignment and Closure commission.
  
  "This is the largest single event in the state," James said Monday. "It is an opportunity for the military to demonstrate its missions and capabilities to taxpayers of America and to entertain families and individuals."
  
  As for the protest, James said he isn't concerned that it will interfere with the show.
  
  "We respect the right of parties to protest," he said. "They have been working with [Brunswick] police, and they seem to have covered all their bases."
  
  Gagnon said the Blue Angels air show is a recruiting gimmick for the Navy, which has seen enlistment numbers decline steadily. He pointed out that the air station in Brunswick has played a significant role in the Iraq war.
  
  "We need to shine a light on BNAS' role in Iraq ... we need to talk about that," Gagnon said. "We have to start having some debate within Congress. I think, nationally, the [Democratic] party is starting to feel a lot of pressure."
  
  The Sept. 10 protest will begin at 9 a.m. at the Brunswick mall on Maine Street. From there, protesters will march to BNAS, a trek expected to take about an hour. Once the protesters reach the gate, they will hold a rally during which Sheehan and others, including an Orrs Island couple whose son is now in Iraq, will speak.
  
  "For a lot of us, it's personal," Gagnon said. "A lot of people try to make the impression that we don't care about the troops, but that's not true."
  
  For more information on the protest, visit the Veterans for Peace Web site at www.vfpmaine.org.
  
  For more information on the air show, visit its Web site at www.greatstateofmaineairshow.com.

str8- can you hook up tixs?
 

Oh, Lord, that's stupid. Protesting a Blue Angels show?