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Tide of Lies Swamps NY Times: Employees Riot and Steal Office Supplies
Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 1 September 2005 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

Posted on 09/01/2005 9:23:19 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob

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To: konaice

This is just a simple matter of cultural misunderstanding. Liberals are public scruel products, and therefore think that the word 'upgraded' means weakened.

It's just a simple cultural misunderstanding. ;-)


21 posted on 09/01/2005 10:24:15 PM PDT by GladesGuru ("In a society predicated upon liberty, it is essential to examine principles)
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To: quantim
She will be in her rightful place when we are all done with her!

Greetings from all of us at FlushHillary.com

22 posted on 09/01/2005 10:26:08 PM PDT by Stayfree (Greetings from all of us at FlushHillary.com!)
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To: Congressman Billybob
A little levity to break the funk??? Good job.

Some BACKGROUND.

FGS

23 posted on 09/01/2005 10:36:25 PM PDT by ForGod'sSake (ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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To: Congressman Billybob

It's a great article...love seeing a little sanity finally taking place amid all the other crap.


24 posted on 09/01/2005 10:37:36 PM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)
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To: Congressman Billybob
I just posted this on Newsbusters. Thought y'all would enjoy seeing it.

I did! Thanks Congressman.

25 posted on 09/01/2005 10:50:48 PM PDT by Diver Dave (Because He Lives, I CAN Face Tomorrow)
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To: upchuck
The "and" is a mistake. It should have been "An." However, the word "lede" is now accepted usage for the first paragraph of any story. The former word "lead" could be misread as the heavy dull metal. Hence the new usage (which I only decided to use after checking with a couple grammarians last week).

John / Billybob
26 posted on 09/01/2005 10:51:24 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob (My tagline is on vacation, lying in the hammock with a cold beer.)
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To: Congressman Billybob
Not until the ninth paragraph does the story imply (but fail to state) that budget cut – even if the intended work could have been done instantaneously, had nothing to do with the flooding.

Evidently the article wasn't very clear in explaining that the Band-Aid "upgrading" of levees wasn't the whole fix, and that the parts of the system that were not funded were also important. The drainage portions were not completed.

So yes, proper funding and preparation could have helped. But...the question is, why should the Feds be on the hook for this? What contribution did LA and NO make?

Interesting articles:
"THE CREEPING STORM"
(June 2003, Civil Engineering Magazine)

"Reengineering the Mississippi"
(July 2004, Civil Engineering Magazine)


ASCE Policy Statement 498: Louisiana Coastal Wetlands

On May 3, 2003, ASCE's Board of Direction adopted a policy statement declaring its support for the “ efforts to reduce coastal land loss in the Louisiana coastal area, an area that has been named America's Wetland because of its national importance.” The statement urged continued support of the existing program for Louisiana's coastal wetlands funded by the 1990 Coastal Wetland Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act. It also endorsed “ the ongoing effort to implement the comprehensive Louisiana Coastal Area (LCA) Program, which will further reduce land loss and provide additional preservation and restoration.” In support of this policy, the statement noted the following:


27 posted on 09/01/2005 10:54:54 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Congressman Billybob
Another good one.

If you like - try having a little fun with this P.C. take on looting & looters...see my tagline... :)
28 posted on 09/01/2005 10:56:01 PM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Looters: undocumented consumers || Looting: purchases with indefinite deferred payment plans)
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To: GladesGuru

If it is the scientist I suspect (a geomorphologist at New Orleans) then she's from the UK.


29 posted on 09/01/2005 10:56:28 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Congressman Billybob

Nice job. It must be repeatedly pointed out that the NY Times and certain other papers/TV stations repeat a tired pattern of seeing the news for each day and blaming President Bush for everything bad while claiming that everything good either isn't really good, isn't as good as it could be due to President Bush, or is due to someone else entirely.

For the NY Slimes, everything is politicized and viewed through ideological lenses. That's not news reporting, that's cheerleading for Socialists by rabid Leftists. Propriety is absent from the NY Times. It's gone.

The staff at the NY Times is so radicalized that they even ran off their own left-wing ombudsman (Daniel Okrent), a feat in and of itself (he couldn't take their overt non-objectivity).

Newspapers and TV networks should be accredited by a democratically elected national organization of term-limited citizens.

No doubt that the NY Times would fail to keep, if obtain in the first place, any fair-minded accreditation.

That shouldn't shut the paper down, but they should have to list their lack of accreditation on each front page every day.

30 posted on 09/01/2005 11:07:59 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Congressman Billybob

I'd be curious to see how much money has been sent to Lousiana the past decades for "hurricane protection" and where that money really went. Nice job.


31 posted on 09/01/2005 11:54:27 PM PDT by Troublemaker
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To: Congressman Billybob
I saw a clip on TV the other night; some chick interviewing one of the Engineers of that Levee. He said it had been designed to withstand a CAT 3. She immediately went after him: "Don't you think NOW that you should have made it stronger?" (Like it was his fault as coming from "Mother Dearest")

This guy was unflappable, he did very well, he responded by saying that in consideration of all known history of hurricane activity in LA and cost/benefit ratios -- designing the levee to withstand a CAT 3 was given unanimous approval.

Camera panned to her self-righteous mug. I turned the tv off.

32 posted on 09/02/2005 4:00:19 AM PDT by Alia
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33 posted on 09/02/2005 4:01:17 AM PDT by Alia
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To: Congressman Billybob

A thorough report on the danger to NO because of its inadequate levee system landed on the president's desk and was ignored. The year was 1998. The president was William Jefferson Clinton. The NYT must have failed to include that information in it's daily rant against Pres. Bush. Who would buy this rag except DUmmies?


34 posted on 09/02/2005 4:08:09 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: Congressman Billybob
However, the word "lede" is now accepted usage for the first paragraph of any story. The former word "lead" could be misread as the heavy dull metal. Hence the new usage (which I only decided to use after checking with a couple grammarians last week).

Then you should keep your affectations more consistent. Your lede graf says "lead"... :-)

35 posted on 09/02/2005 4:29:21 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Alia
From: Clinton's Rule on Levees

Quoted here:

To emphasize the correctness in saying that politics will make big decisions like this, recall this HISTORICAL FACT!

In 1998, the DoD and the US Army Corps of Engineers drafted a document detailing the fact that New Orleans was protected by levees which were designed to protect N.O. from a LEVEL 3 hurricane. These groups wanted to go into N.O. and assess what needed to be done to improve the levees to at least withstand a LEVEL 4 OR 5 hurricane.

This serious request and supporting information was deemed highly necessary to protect N.O. and was presented in full to the President of the United States for approval of this critical project.

THE REQUEST WAS DENIED BY WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON. For those interested in the details, they are available in the FEDERAL REGISTER as a matter of permanent record.

So, how many more deaths do we attribute to this horrid excuse for a criminal, negligent, incompetent excuse for a human being ???

In summary, politics in critical situations, usually costs lives, it always has.

----

Liberals live by the "blame game". It's what they do, in all situations.

36 posted on 09/02/2005 4:43:07 AM PDT by Alia
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To: Gondring
Yes, I know. As my uncle who was a publisher told me long ago, "The best time to find a typographical error is immediately after a book has gone to press." The same applies to the Internet, in the nanosecond right after you click the "Submit" button.

John / Billybob
37 posted on 09/02/2005 5:01:24 AM PDT by Congressman Billybob (My tagline is on vacation, lying in the hammock with a cold beer.)
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To: Congressman Billybob

Thanks for the education CBB. The use of "lead" in the first sentence confused me.


38 posted on 09/02/2005 5:39:02 AM PDT by upchuck ("If our nation be destroyed, it would be from the judiciary." ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Congressman Billybob

ping for later read


39 posted on 09/02/2005 6:28:59 AM PDT by Uncle Donuts (The sooner I can leave N. Va., the better.)
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bump for later read...


40 posted on 09/02/2005 7:32:30 AM PDT by eureka! (Hey Lefties: Only 3 and 1/3 more years of W. Hehehehe....)
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