Comments on: New Orleans Mainstream Media as Devastated as Everything Else

By: Insider

Insider — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 03:31:42 +0000

Sorry I missed the satirical tone in your first post but you were so convincing as a zealot. I only mentioned Bin Laden because a) I thought you were serious; and b) I’m tired of the we did something to deserve Katrina because we are bad and therefore bad things will happen to us. Terrorism feeds off of people beliving we deserve whatever bad is happening to us.

The only thing we did to deserve Katrina was allow cities to be built below the water level. That was dumb. I believe they’ll end up rebuilding all of New Orleans–that’ll be dumb as well. I live in Southern California and people love to build homes by the ocean. So close that every 20 years they get flooded out by an “unprecedented” storm. But they aren’t unprecedented, they happen every 20 years or so. But rebuild they do and that is dumb unless they (or their insurance companies) are okay with paying for it. At least FEMA doesn’t pick up the tab.

As for the other aspects of your comment, this tread was about Katrina. We can get into what you wrote at another time.

By: crhymethinc

crhymethinc — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 01:39:28 +0000

Actually, I was just kidding. I’m pretty much an atheist. As far as joining al Qaida, well, it could be worse - I could join the CIA and be teaching people like bin Laden how to commit acts of terrorism. Or I could become an American capitalist and support aggressive imperialist regimes, backed with the terror of weapons of mass destruction. Ask yourself why we are in Iraq, when almost every act of terrorism against this country has been committed by Saudis. The same people who bankrolled G Bush senior’s first oil company. The same people who were the ONLY ones allowed to fly, let alone leave this country directly after 9/11. I’ll bet if you look hard enough, you’ll find that they also give sizable donations to certain political campaigns.

By: Insider

Insider — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:14:47 +0000

crhymethinc: Without knowing it, you have joined al-Qaeda and the extreme left with the “we deserved this because we are bad” chorus.

For al-Qaeda and the Islamiofascists, it is because we are a nation of Infadels. This was God’s will. We are being punished because our women show their faces and we let them be educated!

For you and others like you (and let’s hope that their aren’t many more like you), it is a similar argument except that God took it out on a couple million people that had nothing to do with the things that you listed instead of just one well placed lighting bolt when W was out tooling around on his bike.

For the left, this was the result of global warming. We kwow this because the globe is getting warmer and the hurricane just hit. These are two uncontestable facts. We are seeing a real life version of “The Day After Tomorrow.” (This group conveniently ignores the differentiation between causation and correlation).

Of course, it’s just possible that since hurricanes have been around for millions of years this is just part of living on earth. If anything is learned it’s that people should indeed evacuate when told and that building cities below sea level is dangerous.

Oh yeah, there is one more lesson, that no matter what happens in life, people like you will distort events to fit their political point of view.

Now there is also the possibility that your posting is a joke in which case I just fell for it.

By: crhymethinc

crhymethinc — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:54:21 +0000

Hurricane Katrina is God’s punishment to the south for re-electing Bush, the anti-christ.
1) Show me anywhere in the Bible where Jesus advocates WAR or violence as an means of resolving anything. “Turn the other cheek.”
2) Show me in the Bible where Jesus blesses the wealthy
“Blessed are the meek and the poor, for they shall inherit the earth.”
3) Mr. Bush does not show any Christian values or qualities whatsoever. He may pay lipservice to God, but that is all he does. He has lied and deceived the American public and the United Nations. He has put his lust for wealth and power over the welfare of his own people, and in doing so, has caused acts of violence and hatred to be propagated against the God-fearing American people by his pals, the Muslim extremists. Remember, it was his father who armed the mujahadeen, which were the fore-runners of Al Qaida.
Mr. Bush is nothing more or less than an anti-christ and he is leading millions of Americans on the path to hell.

By: Insider

Insider — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:46:43 +0000

I read this on Michelle Malkin too. I’m going to give it a day and if it remains then start making an issue of it. Is it somehow not as cool to help the people in the south as it was to help those in Aceh?

By: Charles Bannerman

Charles Bannerman — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 23:10:21 +0000

If what I read earlier today is true, it really pisses me off and makes me wonder why the people of this country put up with it. What I heard was that Amazon, E Bay MSN Yahoo and others are not doing for the victims of Katrina what they did for the victims of the tsunami in December.
I for one refuse to use their for pay services.
I believe charity starts at home and the time has come to do for our fellow Americans what we did for the tsunami victims.
We need to provide skilled workers, food, water, clothing, medical and prescription assistance to these people and we need to do it now!
Chuck