I know, its Bush's fault, but I think NOW is the time for the "armchair quarterbacks" to make their calls on what should be done concerning Hurricane Rita and then we can see how their decisions would have played out.

Personally, I think its a little too far out to call for any particular city to evacuate. I do think it is time to start getting supplies together, securing your home and making arrangements TO evacuate.

So where do the evacuees in the Astrodome go? :S

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That's an easy question. Leave 'em where they are. They're poor - they are used to catching tough breaks.

I think Bush will probably blow it again. There is absolutely no way he can personally evacuate the hundreds of thousands of people that need to be evacuated before that storm hits....I don't care how many Halliburton limos he calls into service.

The good news is oil prices are going back up....so score another one for his oil industry cronies. Who knew that his ties to the religious right (you know - the guys that are close to THE Man) would pay off so handsomely?

Boy oh boy....it is a fantastic day to be a Republican. Maybe while Bush is back in Texas he'll agree to meet Cindy Sheehan once and for all....maybe in Port Lavaca at 7am on Monday?

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Last edited: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 4:58:09 PM

At least he's "hard at work."

^LOL

Oh yeah, one more thing.

Perhaps we should pray BEFORE the hurricane, that it goes away (or something). %)

My wife gave me the lowdown on the Astrodome residents (she has Red Cross connections). They've bused them to Arkansas.

Last edited: Thursday, September 22, 2005 at 4:52:22 PM

Pray for the people who will be in the path of Rita, now a Cat 5 hurricane. If you live near that area, get out of the way.

I hate to admit it, but this time the feds are trying to get on top of things. They seem to be taking this one seriously, which I'm relieved to see.

Evacuations are under way, emergency supplies are being staged, and it appears that much is being done to prepare. I don't think the administration wants to take another shot to the nads as far as public support goes. A little late for Katrina's victims, but better to learn late than not at all...

I also suggest you open a line of credit so you can drive to work. I saw predictions of $5/gallon for gas after this is over. Fill up on the cheap $3 gas while you can.

Over were running out of gas here in Ft Worth because of the people that are coming in from houston,and Galveston me and my mom went to get gas because there arnt any left. :S

UGH! Rita is awfull!!!

Possible Cat. 5...worse than katrina

click this to here how the stuff im about ot say sounds like

*says stuff like...*

"UNITS! MARCH!"

"ALL ARCHERS AIM AT RITA!!!"

*others guys say...*

"ARGH!OOF!NO NO N-ARRGHHH!! GARGH!!!"

*others guys body limbs do sounds like*

"SPLAT!"

"AH NO MY LEG!!!"

Now THATS what I call total war!!! %)

@ All,

I am curious to know if anyone in PTT land sees Rita as a cleansing process. Let me explain this a little more.

Some people truly believe that the world is populated, and thus believe that epidemics such as the bird flu, AIDS, and Rita are methods by which nature controls population. I know this is a extraodinary look at life. With people becoming more and more paranoid about govertment activities, and other miscellaneous bodies, one can hope as to what is the truth.

I am also curious to know if any of the catastrophic events which occured over the last 2 years were predicted by Nostradamus.

SSMe

The war with Iraq was and 9/11 was, he just had the date wrong on 9/11 he though it was going to be 7/04/01

And he also stoped suddenly around 2012... The same time the mayan callender stops... End o the world?

Back on topic- SSM could be kinda right. If new orleans floods again, it might clean it up a little bit. Newer water would flow in, and the bad stuff would go into ponchatrain. The only bad side it that if the chemicals get into the gulf, it will be polluted untill and estimated 2008. Either way, we are looking at genoside for fish everywhere :(

SSMe hits the theme we're afraid to discuss...

Those in the path of devastating hurricanes have been naturally selected for testing. Those most fit for survival do so while the weak are terminated. Tooth and nail does its job and the gene pool is purged.

So then the real question becomes...should we interfer with nature's course?

I reject that proposition! ^

If there is a test going on, it's a test of our humanity. Do we let them suffer and die, or do what we can to help them survive?

The world is a hideous place at times, and if we just let every bad thing go unchecked, what kind of people would we be?

Last edited: Friday, September 23, 2005 at 6:11:16 PM

It is the logical conclusion from an evolution based morality.

Last edited: Friday, September 23, 2005 at 5:51:26 PM

Fair enough, but when was evolution a good basis for morality?

Oops, some posts slid in.

^^^ That's because you're a man of faith. I'm considering it from a natural selection POV. Is it really logical to rebuild New Orleans when it currently sits? Not really. Do it make sense for us to give aid to people we don't even know, who will most likely have no impact on our lives? Nope. Now we do it for compassion, but I don't think that response would be Nature's response.

And evolution really has no basis for morality (in my opinion) other than what the group decides is best for its survival.

Last edited: Friday, September 23, 2005 at 6:09:57 PM

Now there are some valid questions you raise, Rabban.

Does it make sense to rebuild New Orleans where it sits? Probably not. Other communities have been moved away from the paths of likely flooding, but I don't think it has been done on the scale of a major city.

Does it make sense for us to aid people we don't know? Sure. We may be on the ugly side of an event in the future, and would likely hope for that treatment from others. Aiding also helps us feel less powerless in the face of terrible events. There is value in that.

I won't even bring up my faith biased reasons here, but they are many... Somewhat related to the previous paragraph.

I think compassion, as a part of the human condition (and therefore part of the argument as a whole), conflicts with evolution.

Were it so ----- we wouldn't have it. Humans would have dropped it a long time ago - along the survival of the fittest lines.

Nations have fallen due to it (or lack of it rather). Wars have been fought over it. You would think over the thousands of years we would have "gotten over it" via evolution as it defintely isn't survival friendly.

Nothing like it exists anywhere else in nature - at least to the extent that we have it.

Now this is something I have never understood. Why do people live in Japan? I mean why live in a country which each year has catatrophic earthquakes?? Why do people live in California?? Each year between bushfires, earthquakes, and everything else they suffer it makes you wonder as well.

Is someone testing us all the times??

SSMe

^ When I said "selected for tested", I meant that from a natural selection POV, that Nature had decided to see if certain folks were worthy of continuing in our gene pool.

Personally, I don't think God needs to test us for anything. He already knows what's inside our hearts. Any adversity that comes our way, whether natural or supernatural, reveals who we are to ourselves.

Let's get one dumb-ox fact strait. Rita was an act of God and was nobody's fauld. Ok mabye the construnction workers who built the levies. But the responsiility of Katrina fell on the retarded mayor who left buses to explode and drown and then he said the responsibility of evacuation fell on someone else. Yeah right.

^Well then! That settles it, we've got God's power, timing, and reasoning broken down to a science. Sounds real divine to me.

More like; science created God.