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was listening to air america last night. some caller was going on about fema now being a part of the department of homeland security. he wanted to warn blacks that any of them who evacuated new orleans would end up in a guantanamo style concentration camp. and the host just let him go.


this sort of crap could get people killed. luckily almost no one really listens.

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was listening to air america last night. some caller was going on about fema now being a part of the department of homeland security. he wanted to warn blacks that any of them who evacuated new orleans would end up in a guantanamo style concentration camp. and the host just let him go.


this sort of crap could get people killed. luckily almost no one really listens.
To the callers or to Air America itself?
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Does anyone have any good books that they could recommend on the area? I would love to read some factual history about this.

Steve
Yes, New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape by Peirce Lewis is a really outstanding history. He shows what you can do by applying physical science to history. He coined the phrase the inevitable city on the impossible site - or something close to that. I put it right up there with a great book on Chicago's history and how its growth drew on the midwest hinterland but cannot remember the name of that one now.

Here is a short intro history that sums up a bit of Lewis.
http://www.madere.com/history.html#003

It all related to a big river not being embayed. ...
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New Orleans and Galveston both have incredible history. New Orleans is one of my favorite cities - even if it is below sea level.
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Well CNN is reporting that the leves in NO have been breached again. Well this sounds cold hearted but it pisses me off that more of my tax dollars are going to sent down there to clean and rebuild a city that is BELOW SEA LEVEL. When is enough going to be enough. It is beyond time to just cut the losses and let it become the marsh is was before we dumb humans decided we could out do Mother Nature.
No levees breached. How about you stick your tax dollars up your "Edited - language removed, Z-man", & we just keep our oil & gas? We can put a toll gate on the Mississippi too!
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close down NO and all southern coastal cities! move all us redneck, cracker, racist, walmart shopping, trailer trash, welfare collecting, minimum wage earning lowlife nascar fans, our sister/wives and barefoot ignorant children up north of that imaginary line that seperates us from all the sophisticated, well educated, superior society that live anywhere not considered the south. build some govt subidized public housing, some new welfare/food stamp offices, and organize some remedial english, math and cooking classes that don't have roadkill recipes. or you can just let them rebuild the levees and keep us where we belong. sitting here sweating in my hurricane rain soaked room, watching ceiling tiles fall onto my bed, floor and desk I can't help wondering how nice an earthquake, mudslide, or forest fire would have been instead of a stupid hurricane
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close down NO and all southern coastal cities! move all us redneck, cracker, racist, walmart shopping, trailer trash, welfare collecting, minimum wage earning lowlife nascar fans, our sister/wives and barefoot ignorant children up north of that imaginary line that seperates us from all the sophisticated, well educated, superior society that live anywhere not considered the south. build some govt subidized public housing, some new welfare/food stamp offices, and organize some remedial english, math and cooking classes that don't have roadkill recipes. or you can just let them rebuild the levees and keep us where we belong. sitting here sweating in my hurricane rain soaked room, watching ceiling tiles fall onto my bed, floor and desk I can't help wondering how nice an earthquake, mudslide, or forest fire would have been instead of a stupid hurricane
You have several run-on sentences and punctuation errors in this paragraph.
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southern education. or maybe it's just my rain soaked keyboard. or maybe I just don't give a rats ass at the moment. nahhh.. southern education
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was listening to air america last night. some caller was going on about fema now being a part of the department of homeland security. he wanted to warn blacks that any of them who evacuated new orleans would end up in a guantanamo style concentration camp. and the host just let him go.
They're going to get a free prayer rug and Quran????

Where is the outrage?

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