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[easilyirritable]

Memetics at work:

Following days of internationally reported killings, rapes and gang violence inside the Dome, the doctor from FEMA - Beron doesn't remember his name - came prepared for a grisly scene: He brought a refrigerated 18-wheeler and three doctors to process bodies

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[albatrossity]

I've already read 44 of those controversial books! Wheee!

[chipnic]

Death, destruction, all that. . . it's the media's money maker. Lisa Lohan has her tits and ass and the media has death and destruction. The overstatement of numbers is no surprise, just as the initial numbers from 9/11 were initially exagerated.

I do, however, believe the savagery stories. Yes, this inner-city redneck has no doubt about the savagery. I've seen too much with my very own eyes that is consistent with those stories.

Media over-speculation and generationally impoverished inner city savagery. . . no big surprises.

[easilyirritable]

Put any group of people together and there will always be a couple of assholes, whether its inner city wannabe thugs or little old ladies in a sewing circle. It's absolutely disingenious (not to mention intellectually lazy) to assign attributes of the few to the many.

[chipnic]

Never said it was all of them that were thugs. Never. I'm also not going to act like I have wool over my eyes in the interest of political correctness. Inner city black culture has a huge problem. I see that fact every single day.

I also see the roses that grow out of concrete. Truly, I am trying to be honest.

As far as sewing circles. . . yeah, those lil old ladies can be friggin' vicious!

[easilyirritable]

Have you ever been to one? You'd be surprised. Those women can be catty and mean as all hell.

I'm not saying there isn't a problem with inner city crime, but I refuse to pretend like the concentration of scumbags is somehow higher among groups of black kids in urban areas than it is anywhere else. That's not political correctness; that's me being realistic about my personal experiences in this world. And my personal experiences tell me that the real monsters of this world aren't the gang-bangers in the streets of NOLA.

[chipnic]

ONE over-riding shocker to me is how dependent people have become on the federal government. Maybe it shouldn't be shocking, I don't know. But the cries for the federal government to step in and somehow wave a magic wand to make things better is criminally negligent on the part of the people in these areas. 40 years ago we didn't have any sort of federal plan to help areas devastated by very seasonally predictable natural disasters. It would now seem that we can't draw our next breath without some bureaucrat in DC taking care of it for us.

Americans have grown so so weak.

[easilyirritable]

Then why even bother with a federal government? Disaster relief and management isn't like welfare or any other 'nanny state' issues which normally seem to get conservative hackles up. It's a matter of national security. If anything, the economic havoc wrecked by such an event should be enough to get the federal government involved.

40 years ago we didn't have any sort of federal plan to help areas devastated by very seasonally predictable natural disasters.

Forty years ago we didn't have lots of things, such as civil rights voting acts, legalized abortion, etc. Just because things were a particular way in the past hardly makes it desirable to go back to that time. Are you seriously arguing that just because something wasn't in place forty years ago, that it shouldn't be in place today? I can't imagine taking such a regressive stance towards anythingI hardly consider people putting trust in their government to help them in a time of crisis (which, by the way, has been systematically undermined over the past several years by

[chipnic]

Disaster relief and management is not necessarily welfare, for sure. This reliance on a federal government that is out of touch for the simple fact that it is DC operated is a sure thing too

[easilyirritable]

I forgot to add that I'm not really down with this idea that government is this separate entity that is all evil and horrible and hence should be crushed at all costs. A government is made up of people, and it is only as good as the people it governs. So if the government failed this time, I'd say more than anything it's a failure on all of our part to ensure that we have a good, efficient, transparent government, rather than the failure of some mythical intangible Government Beast that stalks children at night and eats babies.