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Posted by rladew on 2005-11-28 18:46:56 +0000

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Posted by rladew on 2005-11-28 18:49:05 +0000

Rap Moves On to the year 3000!!!!!! (Still dont have a new handle name, though)



I personally like the one (which I saw Spike Lee and others claim legitimacy to the other wek on Bill Maher's political talk show on HBO)that Farrakhan started / voiced about the FED gov't being involved in physically blowing up / exploding the levees in New Orleans. That one was a real keeper. craz-O
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Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-11-28 19:10:01 +0000

Um, rladew, I love you dearly, but <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans%2C_Louisiana#20th_century">this too happened.</a>
"This warning was augmented by vestigial fears from Hurricane Betsy, and the lasting stories of the Army Corps of Engineers blasting the flooding levees, drowning the poorer neighborhoods of the lower ninth Ward."

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-11-28 19:12:56 +0000

I also saw it on the new PBS TV show on Katrina, not hurricane Betsy. They even had pictures of the Corps doing it. Scary shit.

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-11-28 19:25:01 +0000

So this bumper sticker is funny? I guess... Maybe I should get a "Proud Member - Vast Liberal Axe Murderers"

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-11-28 19:40:05 +0000

<a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/050912/12leadall.b.htm">On April 29, the levee at Caernarvon, 13 miles south of New Orleans, succumbed to 39 tons of dynamite.</a>

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-11-28 19:43:38 +0000

After some research, I'm realizing Betsy was 1965 and the levees were blown up after the 'Great Mississippi flood of 1927.'

Posted by rladew on 2005-11-28 20:00:32 +0000

I wasn't aware that Hurricane Betsy and Hurricane Katrina were the same thing. My mistake. Just for the record Farrakhan was talking about (and I cant believe Im actually posting this story) <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/14/201055.shtml">Katrina</a>...

"augmented by vestigial fears" :Not the clearest wording if one is trying to quickly understand info on Katrina IMHO.
I had to look the words augment and vestigial up in a dictionary to make sure I understood the sentence as it appeared in Wiki. The way I understood it, people in N. Orleans that made it through Hurricane Betsy had strengthened fears of the Corps destroying levees under a racial/economic premise rooted in Hurricane Betsy from the 1960's (long before Kayne could hip people in America into the 'George Bush Hates Black People' school of thought). .
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Posted by rladew on 2005-11-28 20:04:56 +0000

Your implication here is that the dynamite was used for racial reasons.

Many more areas of New Orleans besides the 9th ward were flooded, and hopefully even the most intelligent and fervent anti-Bushies will realize this idea of a racial conspiracy is pure <a href="http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/26126/">bunk</a>.
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Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-11-28 20:16:07 +0000

"I wasn't aware that Hurricane Betsy and Hurricane Katrina were the same thing."

They're not the same thing. Betsy was 1965, Katrina 2005, the Flood when the levees were blown up was in 1927.

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-11-28 20:18:35 +0000

'Your implication here is that the dynamite was used for racial reasons.'

When did I include race in this discussion?

Posted by rladew on 2005-11-28 20:21:55 +0000

not one inch below this post is the phrase "poorer neighborhoods of the lower ninth Ward". I 'spose we're talking of wealthy French aristocrats and not black people, eh?
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Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-11-28 20:29:45 +0000

Your words.

I'm sorry that it was not made clear the blown up levee conspriacy was <i>only</i> in relation to the aftermath of Katrina, and not in general, when it did actually happen.

Posted by dawnbixtler on 2005-11-28 22:42:59 +0000

...and the "Duke" <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/28/cunningham/">resigns.</a>