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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sully- who wrote (49785)	8/5/2006 4:16:00 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

I'm sorry, I don't mean to laugh. LMAO! You are using Popular Mechanics to disprove FEMA's bad response to the poor people of New Orleans????! What? Do you use Playboy to rewire your house or replumb the sink? Please. You all need to change the heading of this thread to: A Compendium of Neo Fiction.........resource: Popular Mechanics! MYTH: "The aftermath of Katrina will go down as one of the worst abandonments of Americans on American soil ever in U.S. history."--Aaron Broussard, president, Jefferson Parish, La., Meet the Press, NBC, Sept. 4, 2005 REALITY: Bumbling by top disaster-management officials fueled a perception of general inaction, one that was compounded by impassioned news anchors. In fact, the response to Hurricane Katrina was by far the largest--and fastest-rescue effort in U.S. history, with nearly 100,000 emergency personnel arriving on the scene within three days of the storm's landfall. popularmechanics.com POPULAR MECHANICS editors and reporters spent more than four months interviewing officials, scientists, first responders and victims. Here is our report. popularmechanics.com;

To: Sully- who wrote (49785)	8/5/2006 4:20:35 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Could you please consult Popular Mechanics and see if the comments below are true......oh and ask if the 15th is a good time to get my wife pregant. TIA. "Right now the mainstream media are seriously trying to buy America's Christians' acceptance of Israel's aggressions with hints that these might be the end times, and that if we all support Israel that Jesus will come down and invite all his followers up to the big house. So, I figured it was time to post a list of all the other times in history that some nut case in a funny robe predicted the end of the world, the disasters that befell the gullible fools who believed in the predictions, as a reminder that the current crop of "Rapturists" are no more likely to be correct than any of their predecessors."