JM>  The facts are on my side. Anthropologists will tell you
 JM>  that in any culture you are likely to have about 10% of
 JM>  the population that will only do what they absolutely have
 JM>  to do to survive. Nothing more. New Orleans, it seems, had
 JM>  more than their share.

 And just how many did New Orleans have? Did you actually look it
 up?

 Oh, what anthropologists said that? In the real world, people
 will do what benefits them. If it doesn't benefit them they
 won't do it. In the long run.

 JM> I made it very clear last week when I made my statements
 JM> about Katrina refuse that I was not talking about all
 JM> Katrina refugees. Media Morons and Thinkprogress aren't
 JM> bright enough to pick up that nuance.

 Yeah, just which ones, or race, were you talking about?

 JM> (note to ROSS)    See where he says "I was not talking
 JM> about all Katrina refugees?"

 He says that? Who was he?

 JM> The fact is that New Orleans had a higher percentage of
 JM> people on welfare - people living off the efforts of others
 JM> - than any other major city in this country. Those people

 Did they? Your source for that?

 JM> are leeches. They're parasites. And when the flood waters
 JM> came they did what they have always done throughout their
 JM> lives ... they sat on their asses and waited for someone
 JM> else to do something.

 Except for the ones who walked across the bridge, and were
 forced back to New Orleans at gunpoint.

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 JM> The anecdotal evidence is overwhelming. Look around the

 And a lie.

 ...

 JM> Perhaps the most telling anecdote was that of the luxury
 JM> cruise ship in Mobile harbor. FEMA chartered the ship to
 JM> house Katrina refuse. Here these people had everything ...
 JM> everything a cruise ship passenger would pay thousands of
 JM> dollars a week for. Three meals a day in the ship's

 Not true. The ships were chartered, but with limited services.
 Just another way to make the politically (republican) connected,
 richer.

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BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

... Give me ambiguity..., or give me something else.
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