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Unnatural Disaster

How policy decisions doomed New Orleans

By Joel Bleifuss and Brian Cook

White House Press Spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters in response to questions about the devastating havoc wreaked by Hurricane Katrina, “This is not a time for politics.” But with New Orleans now underwater, hundreds—if not thousands—dead and tens of thousands in desperate need of food, shelter and water, the natural question is: What could the federal government have done to… return to article

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    Rhetoric question really Wwoods.

    But would the Dems not do the same, hit somebody at least with whatever they had to help establish the ....Agenda...^^…

    Oh no, Rabbit dropped a piece of bait, pick it up Rabbit, no, something will find it a tasty morsel upon which to gorge itself, or feed it’s young. Don’t go dropping AGENDAS round here, there are scavengers, starving mongrels and the like.

    There goes the neighborhood thinks Rabbit who was just getting comfortable again.

    Yes though Wwoods, Rabbit fears that these words, eminently respectable and probably right too will just draw flies. If you want to go there, but, Rabbit will need some help to keep forcing Dittoheads into the race we shall build for them. This will require constantly shuffling them back to the beggining of the thread when they begin their inevitable whining. You know the contrary nature of Dittoheads, and like sheep keeping them in a straight line is not as easy as getting one or ten or twenty to go the right way and the rest will follow. No my friend, such a hunt, may as well be called a cull. The game you rustle up is hardly worth your arrow. better then if you are to use beaters so to speak, by raising HAARP as an issue, then be prepared for an onslaught of game of all sizes and most of it just the usual Rubbish.

    Better then to be prepared and have a strategy in place to desal with the numbers. Then as we run them back through the thread, we can separate out the various species and box them, study them or Give them a few shots of truth and a bit of backbone, before sending them on their merry way.

    Australia Posted by GhostRabbit on Sep 9, 2005 at 5:40 PM

    Your question being the Rhetoric one meant Rabbit.

    Australia Posted by GhostRabbit on Sep 9, 2005 at 5:43 PM

    Rabbit quiz:
    Who said this:

    “Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?”

    A) Paris Hilton?
    B) Barbara Bush?
    C) Some other inhumane, stupid bitch, who’s good for nothing but mounting, one way or the other.

    The other way? On a nice piece of Oak or Jarrah burl, cut off at about the neck with the horns pointing upwards, of course, natural like.

    Australia Posted by GhostRabbit on Sep 9, 2005 at 8:59 PM

    Hint? did someone ask Rabbit for a hint? The same one who said this more recntly.

    “What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. 
    And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (chuckling slightly) is working very well for them.”

    Australia Posted by GhostRabbit on Sep 9, 2005 at 9:01 PM

    Quote Liz
    “$100 billion is going to be spent, according to the news media now - and a few days ago, Bushie wouldn’t even pledge them $10”

    And a thank You Liz for bringing that Fact to light again.
    For there in is the whole issue precisely, distilled and made simple, yet wonderfully elegant.  It is made to fit into the proverbial nutshell!

    The US Army Corps of Engineers quoted a price of 16 billion bucks for a plan and a program that would save New Orleans from a class 5 Hurricane.  A hurricane that this Administration was repeatedly warned << WAS >> going to happen.  The Warnings were ignored.

    Because the PNAC had their own plan.
    They saved the 16 Billion and gave it to defense contractors to prosecute their War.
    Their War had overriding priority because of the profit, and powerful hegemony that their war was designed to generate for them. 

    The thousands of lives lost in the Katrina event count so little in the equation that they are only now thinking about beginning to add that up.
    Its actually a bit of a windfall for them. “”Pun Intended””
    They no doubt get to scrub their welfare rolls somewhat.

    It use to be said that what was good for GM was good for America.
    Now in Neocon thinking it is the Carlyle Group, McDonald Douglas, General Dynamics Big Oil, Etc. Etc. that have priority, What is good for these Scofflaws determines to a large extent what is good for America in the mean sub human atavistic minds of those that run these insatiable monsters.

    And what is good for these SOB’s, is good of fashion, bullet in your face WAR>

    It is the “Military Industrial Complex” RUNNING AMOK! 
    They are first in line at the trough and dictate what is left for other social policy, and spending.  And they are very careful to develop policies that keep the monster well fed with the twin dynamos of HATE & FEAR!

    Therefore:

    A great American City is expendable, it is destroyed by a well documented, and precisely recorded act of gross Incompetence. A foul purpose has taken control and a skewed immoral sense of priorities, seals that cities fate.  It becomes far more important and PROFITABLE to kill Iraqi’s in the Hundreds of Thousands, than it does to build levees to protect Thousands of Americans.
    There just ain’t much profit in levees after there built.  They just sit there.

    But now the Piper, A.k.a Katrina has come to town and she demands payment!  She wants 1 or 2 Hundred Billion.  I wonder if it will be taken out of the Defense budget or whether we will see even more drastic cuts in social spending. 

    And as you we expected the Repugnantkins go on noisy smoke and mirror maneuvers trying to cover their JackASSets.

    16 Billion could have fit the Bill, Now it’s going to cost well over 100 Billion. Not to mention the effect on an already iffy economy!

    The Apologists do not seem to be able to perceive the implication of this simple bottom line FACT.
    And yet it is this very unavoidable fact, that when it is accepted, flushes all their apologetics for this Administration --- DOWN the old Porcelain Telephone – Kerfuushhh! —

    It seems that these guys would rather live with the stench and miasma of greed driven incompetence rather than entertain the rather frightening prospect that they may be wrong..

    It is a waste of time dancing with these “INCOMPLETES” They do not have the modalities, or perceptive tools to comprehend a Fact that might contradict there cherished beliefs. And so round and round they go.
    Like on a carosell.

    I can only conclude that this is because those beliefs rationalize, and justify, their own greed’s and lusts and prejudices.  I can think of no other reason.  It is called Sociopathic Behavior, it is considered by most Mental Health professionals as Incurable.

    I concur with Liz - Quote Liz
    “Impeach him”
    [ caput mortuum ] impeach the “worthless residue”

    Yoh!  Rabbit!  The indefatigable rabbit!  Great stuff

    Canada Posted by Eadora on Sep 10, 2005 at 12:09 AM

    Eadora

    Natalie turns out to be Roger’s own flesh and blood, How kinky eh?

    Sure was feeling that way by the time he got Nuclear Natalie’s,limbs unwrapped from their death grip about his ankles.

    But grim business is Rabbit’s Business if must be, Rabbit gave her every chance to repent, Rabbit likes Natalie and was clear about his entirely honourable intentions all along, but she would not relinquich pledge to the Vampires, so down came Rabbit’s sword. it was swif and merciful.

    When the sweet child comes seeking out her one true love, Rabbit, he will be waiting for her, eager for another dance perhaps a Tango next time for she is nice and shiny thinks Rabbit.

    She will eventually forgive Rabbit his cruelty and see it was for the greater good. She enjoyed the really rough bits most, but knows that can be nicer shared than done to each other.

    She will see Rabbit never cut as deep as he could, and the “First Cut is The Deepest, Baby, Rabbit knows, the first cut.

    Australia Posted by GhostRabbit on Sep 10, 2005 at 1:46 AM

    GhostRabbit,
    wwoods was being sarcastic.
    wwoods was trying to point out the absurdity of the idea of remote controlled hurricanes.
    Sharper Image does not have remote-controlled hurricanes.This was a joke.If they did have them
    Why?To try and dispel the conspiracy driven thin,I would still buy one.
    The function of that joke was to dispel conspiratorial theories and impel relatively rational minds toward more useful venues,to wit:that our irresponsible environmental policy is more of a catalyst for diasters such as Katrina than any Wile E. Coyote theory as to why the hurricane struck.
    The tinfoil-in their-hats crowd look for diversion.Let’s look at what is actual.Furthermore, let’s smack those who act as rodeo clown to divert attention from the real issue.An ignorant fool is almost as bad as a saboteur,especially if they’ve been bought buy a crook with an agenda.

    Would Dems kill people to put forth a political(read:economic)objective?I doubt it.Right-wingers will disagree.That is their function,to provide mindless opposition.Meanwhile,a city has been destroyed and thousands are dead.Also,the person who put forth the RIDICULOUS notion of HARRP has not stuck with the discussion to absorb their rightfully deserved arrows.That makes me think it some right-wing clown trying to derail discussion.

    Disaster with prior warning occurred.
    Republicans were slow in responding.
    Poor people are dead.
    A prominent city is in ruins.
    republicans are in control of the country.
    Republicans didn’t help until they were made to(for decency’s sake)
    Republicans refuse to accept responsibility(status quo)

    Here is the argument and its premises,despite how the right-wing wishes to distort the issue.

    No,GhostRabbit,I don’t believe Democrats would act the same way.
    Why?
    The right supports power.
    The left supports people.

    United States Posted by wwoods on Sep 10, 2005 at 3:17 AM

    Crap!
    Typo:"thin"should read"thinking"

    Typo:"If they did have them,Iwould still buy one.”

    Major syntax errors in my post.My apologies.It’s late.I hope I’m reasonably clear in my intent.

    Still,let’s not be fooled buy the smell of bullsh*t,which is masking the smell of the house burning down around us.

    United States Posted by wwoods on Sep 10, 2005 at 3:23 AM

    Wwoods
    Rabbit understands. Something happens to Rabbit words sometimes too, funny electrons.
    Cool you don’t go with the Weather mainupulations, yet. Rabbit mentions that until a few weeks ago, he had read much and even found the science of some of the weather stuff, interesting, but Rabbit not buying.

    Then recently some stuff came out from first several pilots(military) and then the German Governnment. The Cehemtrail angle of the theorires is out of the box, so to speak.

    The far more awesome Scalar stuff, based on Teslas work, is still not home and hosed to Rabbit who otherwise has an intuitive feeling the Science is solid. Gets much more understandable as the Electric Universe theory now begins to emerge from the wilderness. Thankyou nice comet Tempel.

    Want ref’s?

    Rabbit is just saying, cautious before saying no way. When one considers how much truth is not found, how much is being deliberately hidden, then how sensible is it to discard any possible theory just because it doesn’t make sense at first?

    Australia Posted by GhostRabbit on Sep 10, 2005 at 6:28 PM

    Wwoods, the Rabbit reads and re-reads you. You are very fine. To have found the fundamental rightness from within the program. There are many on this site, and very practical Rabbit is here to bring you together with many others good like you. You have more in common with many more people than you think. You know much but there is much to be learnt. Your scecticism is a useful tool but it is not a hammer. It should be used as a dust extractor.

    You want simple clue?

    LEFT...........................................RIGHT

    The two markers are the boundaries.
    Everybody lives in between, except those who work from without to keep re-positioning those boudaries over time. Move the left far enough to one ide, and the average goes that way. Move the Right fra enough to the other side and the average (public opinion) goes the other way.

    This is why forces which cause extreme reactions like, war, poverty, disaster etc alter public opinion.

    We mistakenly identify the ‘media’ as forming public opinion, when ‘despite’ their best efforts they merely ‘Affect’ public opinion.

    It is the mood of the day which is useful to those who change history.

    Exactly why the contented and happy souls who continue to check in with you monkeys usually wait so long before making an appearance. What’s the hurry?

    The work will be a hundred times easier and quicker if we wait until their reactions to ‘things’ make’s deliberate imbalance achieved by the Dark side untenable.

    Then along comes a Rabbit, if everybody else is too lazy, and gives the whole wonky tower a kick with his small foot.

    Couldn’t be easier.

    The biggest Dragon alive can be slain with one sword stroke if is is driven into the right point, hard enough, at the right time.

    Australia Posted by GhostRabbit on Sep 10, 2005 at 6:45 PM

    LEFT......................................................................... ..................RIGHT

    Everybody lives in between.  They spend their time arguing about how far they, are in relation to each other, between the two boundaries.

    VERY TWO DIMENSIONAL THINKING everybody.

    Those who recognise this only begin, to gain a third dimension. Time must be understood the same. That is a four dimensional personality. Most will never meet such a being, in a single lifetime.

    These are not gods, they are jokers. Pawns even but with no less versatility and by no means barred from comprehending their role.

    The pawn may not be much, his sword is short and his legs are too. But he can use all that is in his grasp as a man, learn well his small set of skills and sharpen his sword. If as in real life he can choose when to strike, then a fourth dimensional soul allows him boundless courage and the Power that goes with being in the right place at the right time for the right reasons…

    The Pawn who is a Hunter and Warrior with a fourth dimensional soul is the greatest threat any King or Dragon will ever face. It is his greatest fear, and he guards against it while knowing in his heart the more he understands of powers he misuses, that there is an other and what is worse, he fears, while he himself is highly visible, his other is somewhere out there closing in, whereas he the King knows he is visible for his darkness among the light, his other is in fact invisible because he is in the light.

    ----------Rabbit

    Australia Posted by GhostRabbit on Sep 10, 2005 at 8:37 PM

    Virtual hug and pat on the back for ALL the Lefties here.
    The rest of you are Freepers and should get the fire next time (Lefties will get this).

    Thanks.  Being surrounded by evilcons all the time makes me jumpy and cranky, and I come here to know the world is still filled with good people like you all (wwoods, Liz, Liberal, etcetera).
    Luvlee to see you.

    United States Posted by lbyland on Sep 11, 2005 at 5:34 AM

    The Blackwater mercenaries are now deployed in New Orleans. Why do you need 300 of these animals “HELPING” in New Orleans? Why not just release three hundred hungry Tigers?

    See the following video and tell Rabbit you wouldn’t skin these mongrels and hang them from a bridge if you caught them murdering your countrymen with such hideous banality.

    Notice that nobody is shooting back until very late in the game. Sounds like some lone soul finally had enough of being taken pot shots at.

    http://home.att.net/~texmextex/Blackwater_sniper_moveie.htm

    Australia Posted by GhostRabbit on Sep 11, 2005 at 6:25 PM

    As I figured, there would be the ‘hindsight is 20/20’ finger-pointing in an attempt to find someone to blame for all this: the mayor, governor, city fathers, civil engineers, policy wonks, the president, federal government, etc.  I agree that these forces could’ve responded quicker & with more organizational authority.  Of course, an ounce of prevention is always better than a pound of cure. 

    Nevertheless, these blamings only look at the physical and economic realities of the situation and not the deeper underlying problems indicative of our society.  The truth is, we Americans have spent the past 25 years since Reagan, living in a dream world of cockeyed optimism, market dominated economics & mutual fund investing. 

    When common people & the media question why the poor didn’t heed the weather warnings to vacate the city, not realizing that these ignored citizens (often referred to as losers), don’t have the means to do so or any place to go to, it makes you wonder about the prevailing American attitude.  On a recent PBS talk show, one University of Illinois sociologist noted: if you are poor,down and out and have been unable to avail yourself of the American bounty during these past years, you are completely off of everyone’s radar screen and no one even knows or cares that you exist! 

    The people left behind in New Orleans surfacing under bridges, viaducts & alleys is only the tip of the iceberg of the millions who live this way, in this the richest country on the planet.  You can find similar scenarios in Ford Heights,IL, Gary,IN & Flint, MI. Our major cities & small towns aren’t immune from squalor. If a good percentage of working poor Americans suddenly found themselves in peril, you’d have widespread misery on a scale that would make the Gulf Coast catastrophe look like a beach party.

    To say that Katrina is a horrible natural disaster laying the physical and economic fabric of a great southern city to ruins is like saying that the Los Angeles riots were merely a sad episode of lawlessness and thuggery erupting in a major metropolis.  Katrina has literally washed ashore the pollyanna of the past 20 years since Ronald Reagan turned his back on the poor,and has exposed to us the massive socio-economic failings of this nation and our lack of any sort of a social safety net.

    Katrina has clearly made it known that in our attempt to convert much of the world to our way of life, we’ve completely turned our back on the problems at home. In one fell swoop, a touristy party town has been consumed into a anarchic hell similar to Beirut, Baghdad and areas of SE Asia befallen by the recent tsunami. 

    Cleaning up Katrina’s devastation is going to take more than pointing fingers or bitching about all the things our politicians could’ve done.  It’s going to mean that government & policy makers begin to take a serious look at issues of full employment, health care, homelessness, the movement of capital abroad, greed, the environment and living vicariously with no plans for a sustainable future.  It’s going to mean we make things here instead of importing all our crap from slave labor nations.  It must involve a mature and informed citizenry as well as a president who doesn’t take five-week vacations and two-hour naps down at the ranch. It will take WPA style social & public works projects ala FDR to get many parts of this country back in shape.

    It requires the will and determination of a people who desire a ‘nation’, not an ‘empire.’ Whether or not America can muster enough courage and wherewithal to go down this path remains to be seen.  Though, given the present tenor of the times, it hardly seems likely!

    United States Posted by emmbee on Sep 12, 2005 at 11:43 AM

    lbyland,
    Good to see about.PEENCE FREENCE!

    United States Posted by wwoods on Sep 14, 2005 at 1:45 PM

    Rabbit - The Blackwater mercenaries are there to do more or less the same as they do in Iraq. Protecting the elite and corporate interests and probably a few black ops as well.

    Canada Posted by David in Canada on Sep 16, 2005 at 9:42 AM

    It is Sept 16 now. Brown is gone and 15 or so incompetents remain.

    We all know fema stunk, was inexcusable.

    As time passes however, I am finding it m o re and m o r e ....  impossible ... to accept that when you stop a wal-mart truck full of water you don’t K N O W you are doing wrong.

    Ditto on the deisel fuel delivery blocked.

    and those were only two examples the ER county guy gave on ted koppel before he broke down in tears.

    I am t i r e d of being asked over and over by my government to believe that the wrong they do over and over is just bumbling, mistakes, made by good but incompetent people

    Who do they think they are kidding???

    Do they think people will refrain forever from pointing this out because of the fear of being accused of conspiratorial delusions?

    Get REAL.

    What is HOmeland Security FOR? It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what they HAVEN’t been doing. And reductio adsurdum was good enough for Euclid, darn it.

    United States Posted by marge on Sep 16, 2005 at 4:39 PM

    Martha, take the kids and go to your mother’s house!

    United States Posted by marge on Sep 16, 2005 at 4:41 PM

    James Witt was founding board member or partner of IEM.

    United States Posted by marge on Sep 16, 2005 at 4:45 PM

    In fact the Junta and it’s satellites in Britain and Oz have reversed an old saying which usually held water.

    Never attribute to malevolence anything which could simply be explained by incompetence.

    There just isn’t that much incompetence in one country is there?

    David, you’re right no doubt. Have you seen the bit of video footage showing some in action in baghdad?  Who would not skin them and hang them from a bridge too if they murdered one’s own countrymen with such Banal brutality.

    Truly a study in the “Banality of Evil” (Thanks Eadora, the concept is a light of itself)

    Australia Posted by GhostRabbit on Sep 17, 2005 at 2:57 AM

    I think that is my point. I think there are subtle strands of evidence that suggest that it can’t just be attributed to incompetence.

    First, many of the same abilities are needed to respond to a terrorist attack and a natural disaster. One of Homeland Security’s excuses for failing to deal well with this disaster is that they have been focused on terrorism. But the reponse would virtually be the same - logistics, rescue etc. So they haven’t prepared for anything over the past few years.

    Next, Homeland Security has been repeatedly criticized for surveilling peaceful organizations such as the Ouakers. That is a positive statement about their motives activities, priorities.

    So, when this administration talks about security, they seem to have revealed that their sense of security is informed by a substratum of paranoid malaevolence and political agenda.

    I think the evidence is enough to maintain that statement.

    Their inompetence is tinged with malevolence and paranoia. Administration made a choice to institute this kind of organization and its preoccupations are the administration’s preoccupations. Those preoccupations pbviously haven’t been responding to attack or disasters.

    The choice of friends over competent proessionals in key positions belies the paranoid need for control and centralization. (And no, it hasn’t been the case that technicaly sensitive positions have gone to poltiical friends in the past)

    Lastly, the blocking of aid over and over, while county emergency management pleaded - these aren’t novices, these are ER coordinators pleading—they KNOW there is no reason not to move the goods along. They know the streets and resources and conditions and they can’t think of any need for so-called red tape.

    Given Homeland Security’s focus, there is nothing like simple incompetence here. It is rational and acceptable to propose that malevolence has been a distraction from primary roles and functions—namely, security and ER response.

    I think the evidence allows me to say this.

    United States Posted by marge on Sep 17, 2005 at 7:42 AM

    PS, in other words, we can confidently say what Homeland Security is NOT, or in other words, make a list of what is has NOT been doing.

    It is simple.

    United States Posted by marge on Sep 17, 2005 at 7:44 AM

    Sorry, one more quick post. So, I think therefore, that that is where journalists should start digging. Let’s have real evidence of their activities, philosophies and real examples. Let’s make an exhaustive investigation of Homeland Securiy. Let’s get off their press relase web page. Official answers never used to be enough for the press. The press used to test everything more.

    I tbink we all need to brush up on basic logic too. We are rediculiously confident we are being hoodwinked, we are so sure of it we say we know it, yet are afraid to collect the evidence that would prove it. That is a fact jack about the press today.

    United States Posted by marge on Sep 17, 2005 at 7:58 AM

    How long since you saw the emperor has no clothes, Marge?

    Rabbit detects that wide eyed shock which is common to the newly awakened. It is not Rabbit’s intention to be condescending, please excuse this worthless Rodent, but you have probably got some even more intense shocks coming, start looking more closely at what, has been said by a small minority once against all odds. once we sufferred and were labelled all manner of things, beggining with conspiracy theorists as if thinking was itself a disease. Now we are virtually the majority, but like we always warned it is going to be too late before you all wake up.

    Welcome to the good news. You will learn why this is by default the good news when you learn the bad news.

    Another thing. Journalists don’t dig?
    --------------

    DIG?

    Other than that you are on the ball about logic there and welcome. Rabbit would suggest that we have lost the distinction between facts and opinions. Argumnets get out of hand when one side at least substitutes facts with opinions without realising it. Impasse!

    Australia Posted by GhostRabbit on Sep 17, 2005 at 9:19 AM

    Rabbit paws too fast on the keys, sorry. Some mispels is better or OK but this got broken.

    Journalists don’t dig!

    -------

    DIG?

    Australia Posted by GhostRabbit on Sep 17, 2005 at 9:21 AM

    Rabbit, I don’t know what you are saying.

    I am saying the press is too shy to check its scariest hunches. In case you haven’t noticed, there aren’t a lot of really excellent, and I mean competent, muckrackers around.

    Hunches aren’t news.

    I want journalists who dig through the center of the earth.

    As far as being recently awakened, your hunch is wrong there.

    United States Posted by marge on Sep 18, 2005 at 7:56 PM

    Good Marge and please don’t take offense, Rabbit is abrupt and somewhat in your face but his heart is devoted to you and our mutual understanding. There is nothing wrong with having woken up to the nakedness of the emperor and this was only asked from the point of view of one who has fought these dirtbags for twenty years and has not ever been fooled by their lies and their trickery. The problem is far deeper than a single adminsitration in a single albeit large country.

    The “wide eyed shock” reference was due to the questioning of journalists desire for seeking the unpleasant truths. The thing is to Rabbit who once wished to be a journalist, the field has long since been prostituted,

    Hence Journalists don’t seek the hard truths. That is the fact Jack as you say. The concept of Journalism which naive folk like you and Rabbit believe in is nothing but a fairy tale.

    There are of course some but they have two things going against them. Nobody will print their stories and hard truth raking journalists have a surprisingly short life expectancy, note that Iraq total has now jumped to 55 dead journalists. What is the bet that most of those 55 were the sort you are looking for?

    Australia Posted by GhostRabbit on Sep 21, 2005 at 5:32 AM

    Oh and the bad news, you may then be aware of. Who is actually running things, why and how.

    If a bunch of power mad, homicidal maniacs in control of the White House was all there was to it, Rabbit would frankly just be ignoring the whole human race and getting on with trying to keep the grass from growing too high.

    Enough to worry about looking after little Rabbits and Mrs Rabbit, a few Turkeys in government in a faraway land aint’ no problem for any Rabbit.

    If that was all it was.

    Australia Posted by GhostRabbit on Sep 21, 2005 at 5:39 AM

    wheer the fuck is my post?have i been banned Cause I see the truth?!!!

    United States Posted by Kaw Valley Kid on Sep 22, 2005 at 1:47 AM

    Relax, Kaw Valley Kid. You are yet visible, while Rabbit is still a Ghost for no good reason.

    ........
    What Have you lost?

    Australia Posted by GhostRabbit on Sep 22, 2005 at 4:35 AM

    It seems some of my posts on OTHER articals are no longer avalible,even in the archives,I don’t see why an artical lists oh say 66posts but only the first page or the last page is avalible for viewing. I had wrote a post here complementing Rabbit and Sri on their vast knowledge and intelligence,somehow it didn’t get posted,it may have been a slip of my keyboard though.I shouldn’t have tried to post after having too many beers! I hope to add intelligently to the comments on present and futer articals here,time allowing,as I am often busy trying to scratch out a living,and researching news and websites myself.

    United States Posted by Kaw Valley Kid on Sep 24, 2005 at 11:51 PM

    sorry about the numerous typos! my keyboard skills are lacking,not to mention my spelling,and for some reason the preview button isn’t working for me!I’ll try to do better in the FUTURE!lol

    United States Posted by Kaw Valley Kid on Sep 24, 2005 at 11:54 PM

    Kaw Valley Kid - I have had this problem and notice it too… some of the “bestest” post-homes, namely the ones linked to the Industrial Injuries article, are not available…

    United Kingdom Posted by Liz on Sep 26, 2005 at 3:57 AM

    Ibyland - thanks for the virtual hug, reciprocated!! ;-)

    United Kingdom Posted by Liz on Sep 26, 2005 at 3:58 AM

    Kaw Valley Kid it alway warms Rabbit’s toes to see you about, and sometimes some hard work goes down the elctronic drain. Best to copy save before hitting the post, just in case.

    Time for socialising is never what it should be.

    Cheers

    Rabbit would appreciate any help going on the Radioactive wounds of war thread. The most determined yet outed shills are preaching death and evil and resort to complaints (False) to stifle opposition as well as every dirty shilling trick known to man.

    What is more it is an issue most any bodsy from any political persuasion around here can agree on thinks Rabbit. Thread is long but it has certain unique features as will be seen..

    Australia Posted by GhostRabbit on Sep 27, 2005 at 6:43 AM

    By the way Kaw Valley Kid, make sure that you don’t go from page 1 straight to 4 for example, because you will be unable to navigate back to the in between pages, does that maybe help?

    Australia Posted by GhostRabbit on Sep 27, 2005 at 6:46 AM

    Neah, Rab, some of the pages of threads HAVE been deleted, honest.... None of the “topic” articles have been deleted, but I believe some of the pages were, when the moderator decided to make changes in August…

    United Kingdom Posted by Liz on Sep 30, 2005 at 1:14 PM
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