Comments on: The Big Set-up http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/ America's favorite blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:49:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: h.m rukeyser http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10704 Tue, 04 Oct 2005 06:09:42 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10704 hurricanes are not "unforeseeable" let alone "random." in fact, we can count on them every autumn. and your undocumented comment about scientists failing to show up for house appropriations meetings is non-sensical if not ludicrous. every time scientists have advised this administration with suggestions that threaten their corporate pocket books, they are accused of "bad science." is this blog "bait?" bait to catch righties with a full mouth of copenhagen and a sweaty hand on the bible? hurricanes are not “unforeseeable” let alone “random.” in fact, we can count on them every autumn. and your undocumented comment about scientists failing to show up for house appropriations meetings is non-sensical if not ludicrous. every time scientists have advised this administration with suggestions that threaten their corporate pocket books, they are accused of “bad science.”

is this blog “bait?” bait to catch righties with a full mouth of copenhagen and a sweaty hand on the bible?

]]> by: Baylink http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10522 Sat, 17 Sep 2005 20:05:12 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10522 Sure, Hannah; *beat* me to the damn joke. :-) Sure, Hannah; *beat* me to the damn joke. :-)

]]> by: pubfan http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10489 Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:07:32 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10489 I am always proud to be an American. I just happen to be ashamed and embarassed by what the rest of the world thinks of the leadership they believe we elected. Bush is an idiot in so many wonderful and terrible ways. I am always proud to be an American. I just happen to be ashamed and embarassed by what the rest of the world thinks of the leadership they believe we elected. Bush is an idiot in so many wonderful and terrible ways.

]]> by: hedera http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10486 Wed, 14 Sep 2005 04:20:01 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10486 "me" is correct (that's very hard to respond to) that the Shrub isn't solely responsible for the decay of the levees. Several administrations back to and including his father's have been culpable there. Shrub certainly didn't help, however, and several of his actions (not least, tucking FEMA into a side pocket of DHS where it wouldn't get in anyone's way) have made the situation worse than it would have been if the country weren't being led by people who didn't realize that when Frank Zappa wrote, "It can't happen HEEEEERE!", it was satire... “me” is correct (that’s very hard to respond to) that the Shrub isn’t solely responsible for the decay of the levees. Several administrations back to and including his father’s have been culpable there. Shrub certainly didn’t help, however, and several of his actions (not least, tucking FEMA into a side pocket of DHS where it wouldn’t get in anyone’s way) have made the situation worse than it would have been if the country weren’t being led by people who didn’t realize that when Frank Zappa wrote, “It can’t happen HEEEEERE!”, it was satire…

]]> by: Harold http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10478 Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:15:25 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10478 You missed a Bush there. You missed a Bush there.

]]> by: me http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10476 Tue, 13 Sep 2005 18:35:51 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10476 Just heard something on NPR yesterday about the dykes. Seems funding was cut from teh beginning and started to get bad as far back as the 70's. I don't think Bush is the only one responsible if the project was grossly underfunded through many administrations. Just as all the world's intelligence community was wrong about WMD, it seems many administrations felt the NO levees were a secondary priority. Not saying it is right, just saying I think it is wrong to point to Bush. Clinton, Carter, Reagan all seem to have had a hand in this problem. Just heard something on NPR yesterday about the dykes. Seems funding was cut from teh beginning and started to get bad as far back as the 70’s.

I don’t think Bush is the only one responsible if the project was grossly underfunded through many administrations.

Just as all the world’s intelligence community was wrong about WMD, it seems many administrations felt the NO levees were a secondary priority.

Not saying it is right, just saying I think it is wrong to point to Bush. Clinton, Carter, Reagan all seem to have had a hand in this problem.

]]> by: Pete IVDL http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10472 Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:19:09 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10472 Landis - is that the quote from 'The Princess Bride'? "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Ice Weasel : yeah, it's definitely a case of "Do not adjust your set. Normality will be returned as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience." (Or should that be, "We apologise for the incumbent"?) Hanna, you go, girl! If you don't get shored up by a bunch of engineers from the ACOE, you'd better be talking to your local representative. Unless they're conservative, in that case they'll just blame dykes and liberals for one more administration-induced problem. Hmm. Maybe better not say anything after all... Landis - is that the quote from ‘The Princess Bride’? “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

Ice Weasel : yeah, it’s definitely a case of “Do not adjust your set. Normality will be returned as soon as possible. We apologise for the inconvenience.” (Or should that be, “We apologise for the incumbent”?)

Hanna, you go, girl! If you don’t get shored up by a bunch of engineers from the ACOE, you’d better be talking to your local representative. Unless they’re conservative, in that case they’ll just blame dykes and liberals for one more administration-induced problem. Hmm. Maybe better not say anything after all…

]]> by: Murray http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10471 Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:19:43 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10471 nokangaroos I think that schadenfreude would be the word. Literally it means joy in the sorrow of others. I can see other countries taking pleasure in seeing us unable to take care of our own. Bush doesn’t believe in planning. He said so himself. This is what he said 9/6/00 in Scranton PA "We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans" So there you have it. nokangaroos

I think that schadenfreude would be the word. Literally it means joy in the sorrow of others. I can see other countries taking pleasure in seeing us unable to take care of our own.

Bush doesn’t believe in planning.
He said so himself.

This is what he said 9/6/00 in Scranton PA
“We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans”

So there you have it.

]]> by: Mary http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10470 Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:50:30 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10470 This would have been much funnier if my sister hadn't basically said the same thing last night. Except, she was serious and believes it. Thank you, Hanna, for bringing it back to laugh inducing. I'm out of humor about this myself. I'll have to rely on the rest of you to get me smiling again. So far, all y'all are batting 1000 ;-) This would have been much funnier if my sister hadn’t basically said the same thing last night. Except, she was serious and believes it.
Thank you, Hanna, for bringing it back to laugh inducing.

I’m out of humor about this myself. I’ll have to rely on the rest of you to get me smiling again. So far, all y’all are batting 1000 ;-)

]]> by: nokangaroos http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10469 Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:37:40 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/09/10/610/#comment-10469 Cooper, "Schadenfreude" is not the word (though Our Heroic Liberators are asserting themselves again these days). "Incredulity", I´d call it. Having served with the engineers, I have a reasonable grasp of what is doable with three days´ advance warning (in a shitty little Old European country, that is). So, I agree on the "humiliating"... but definitely not the Schadenfreude. Cooper, “Schadenfreude” is not the word (though Our Heroic Liberators are asserting themselves again these days). “Incredulity”, I´d call it. Having served with the engineers, I have a reasonable grasp of what is doable with three days´ advance warning (in a shitty little Old European country, that is).
So, I agree on the “humiliating”… but definitely not the Schadenfreude.

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