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Friday, August 31. 2007

Friday Morning Links

Chart on right borrowed from S,C & A. What's with that DC number?

Soros' ACT fined $775,000 by FEC. The organization doesn't seem to care. Pocket change for George. The NY Sun editorializes "Calling the Founders."

Accusations of corruption in pro tennis. Breibart

Anti-war demonstrators are being paid? Am Thinker

Making some money from Beer Pong. Betsy

Barney Frank speaks up for Larry Craig. h/t, Pajamas. I wondered what he would do.

1200 tigers remain in India. 24,000 in American zoos.

If Jesus makes a difference in your life, don't say it outloud in school.

Be careful about what you say about Islam: Libel Tourism, at Cinnamon. A libel suit can mess up your life, even if you are in the right.

Insty suggests bringing in Randy Barnett to fact-check the NYT. The "newspaper of record" is confused about what is in our Constitution.

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re: NYT editorial. The constitutional confusion that exists out there on the left is mind boggling. No surprise of course. The tri-state area is heavily populated by leftish folks who form their opinions through the op/ed pages of the NYT. What is said there is what they believe. If the NYT wishes to quote phrases from the Declaration regarding '...life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", they'd do well to be less selective and acknowledge the source of those rights and not confuse the Declaration with the constitution. Their most loyal readers are confused enough. Can't wait to read their 'clarification'.
#1 Tom C. on 2007-08-31 08:22 (Reply)
RE: The Anniversary of the Destruction of New Orleans....

I see Ms. Pie is on point about the failure of the levees in N.O. I have not studied it much but I read that some were not topped by the storm. They failed. They were underbuilt and folks knew that before they failed.

If I understand correctly, (big if). in a structure like that levee the ratio of the height of the retaining wall above the ground to the depth of the footing is usually somewhere around 2 to 1. So a 17 foot wall above ground would have about 34 feet of wall below ground to the footing and, again, if I understand correctly, that was the original recommendation for that levee, but then the specs changed a few times and it was actually built somewhere around a 1 to 1 ratio, or if there is 17 feet of concrete retaining wall above ground then there was only 17 feet below instead of 34 feet.

Now, IMHO, they can fill N.O. or float it since they can't build a levee worth a dam. Sad. BD, you are right about those who choose to live or work below sea level or in a flood plain. The Netherlands does show us it can be done but it takes constant vigilance and money and N.O. seems to lack the vigilance.

Here is a scan of another good old calendar print from The Travelers, Hartford Connecticut, March, 1949 featuring a Currier and Ives lithograph of a painting called The Levee-New Orleans by W.A. Walker.

http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/7991/theleveeneworleansey5.jpg
#2 Patina on 2007-08-31 10:55 (Reply)
Please take careful note of the poor circumstance in Montana..no money..they can't even make change for a twenty dollar bill.

I would recommend Arkansas where there are some excellent lakefront land deals of West Virginia where a man can join the Klan and still make it to the Senate.

Montana is a good place to stay away from. There's nothing there.
#3 Habu on 2007-08-31 10:58 (Reply)
Good points Patina. I have but one point, or rather question.

What rational thinking person builds a city that is six feet underwater and in the path of beaucoup hurricanes?

They do have alternatives. They could move the city up river to higher ground.

Can were get a three destructions and you're out law passed? I just love my tax dollars going for these types of projects...I think Buddy did some math yesterday..something like ten gazillion dollars spent per person so far, and few with an IQ over 80.
#4 Habu on 2007-08-31 11:06 (Reply)
Good Morning farmers.

Also, Montana is too cold. Winter starts right about now.

o/t

Here is an funny creepy thread from FreeRepublic with a spooky picture too.

Sprawling Spider Web Engulfs North Texas Park Trail
08/30/2007
WILLS POINT — Entomologists are debating the origin and rarity of a sprawling spider web that blankets several trees, shrubs and the ground along a 200-yard stretch of trail in a North Texas park.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889088/posts
#5 Patina on 2007-08-31 11:11 (Reply)
Let's face it on Senator Larry Criag.

Just who would be willing at this point to "get behind him?"
#6 Mr.Renee on 2007-08-31 11:20 (Reply)
What's up with DC? The same thing as with Luxembourg City and Brussels. The government siphons all its money there.
#7 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2007-08-31 11:45 (Reply)
Global warming, no doubt.
#8 BD on 2007-08-31 11:52 (Reply)
RE: They do have alternatives. They could move the city up river to higher ground.

I think that might be a viable plan Habu. One suggestion I read was, they can raze N.O. and then they can raise it, which is also a good homonym.
#9 Patina on 2007-08-31 12:41 (Reply)
I believe the remains should be left as a testmony to the Mayor, Borther Chitterlings.
#10 Reginald Smythe-Beckett on 2007-08-31 15:24 (Reply)
Pretty crafty on DC's part. It was the first town to say "everybody in the country has to send us half their money". Damn, I wish Dripping Springs woulda thought of that.
#11 buddy larsen on 2007-08-31 15:42 (Reply)

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