Spaceman Spiff Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Christ fellas, can we give it a break already? I understand everyones all fired up about the hurricane, but seriously. It's like every thread in here is about who to put the blame on. I've touched on it in a couple other threads, but whatever, it's really getting old now. So seriously, answer me guys, what good is this blame placing doing? Is it helping the people who have lost their homes? Is it saving lives? Rebuilding the city? Helping get rid of the water? Stopping looters? Is Bush running again in 2008? Well? I understand the want to place blame. A lot of people dropped the ball on this one, the president, the govenor, the mayor, everyone involved. But seriously guys, people are just arguing the same points over and over. Liberals want to blame Bush the most, conservatives want to blame the mayor and the govenor the most. But what good is it doing? Just chest thumping and fingerpointing from both sides is all I see. It's easy to criticize in hindsight, but it's not helping the people who need help. I'm just tired of it. Sorry if i pissed anyone off, but I needed to vent. :2cents: , HTTR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herrmag Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 What? Stop blaming others? Move along man, we're all stocked up on crazy here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Die Hard Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 What? Stop blaming others? Move along man, we're all stocked up on crazy here When posts get to you like that... take a break from the Tailgate. Trust me. And when you come back... pick your topics wiser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wskin44 Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Spaceboy you just started another blame game thread. Good work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
autographcollector Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 Christ fellas, can we give it a break already? I understand everyones all fired up about the hurricane, but seriously. It's like every thread in here is about who to put the blame on. I've touched on it in a couple other threads, but whatever, it's really getting old now.So seriously, answer me guys, what good is this blame placing doing? Is it helping the people who have lost their homes? Is it saving lives? Rebuilding the city? Helping get rid of the water? Stopping looters? Is Bush running again in 2008? Well? I understand the want to place blame. A lot of people dropped the ball on this one, the president, the govenor, the mayor, everyone involved. But seriously guys, people are just arguing the same points over and over. Liberals want to blame Bush the most, conservatives want to blame the mayor and the govenor the most. But what good is it doing? Just chest thumping and fingerpointing from both sides is all I see. It's easy to criticize in hindsight, but it's not helping the people who need help. I'm just tired of it. Sorry if i pissed anyone off, but I needed to vent. :2cents: , HTTR. :notworthy :notworthy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsNut73 Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 ....yea, so what do you expect us to do if we don't talk about the hurricane and whose fault it is...I mean, like, what else is going on in the world.... ...other than OPENING DAY being less than THREE DAYS AWAY NOW and we're about to open up the season by kicking the Bears' ass No fun in talking about that.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thiebear Posted September 8, 2005 Share Posted September 8, 2005 from me in another thread to Try and give a little perspective... Go to the basement of the Pentagon where the Army operations Center has been tracking the storm from before it hit Florida ( a storm on the coast of Africa) and ask the 15 officers and 2 Enlisted personnel that are keeping track what is going on? They are the ones on the phone with Fema the Gov and the Army Corp of Engineers doing 12 hour shifts everyday from the time it became a hurricane that "could" have hit Florida. go to the Joint Chiefs of staff that get the information from the above and ask them what is going on? 3 star Generals showing up at all times in the War Room going over what could be/should be/ is happening.. in Jeans and boots and an aura of authority that nobody misses... __________________ I will never watch the weather channel again.... ever.... it's on 24x7 for years.... In my lil opinion this was worse than Andrew in the ability to react... Edit: This is not a game, this is not something people don't stake their careers and lives on.. These are OUR people white/black/yellow/green doesnt matter: there are preset orders to folllow and every event/hour has a designated setup... There are tough hours that you get screamed at and there is nothing you can do... Give it time and you will see that There were things in the background waiting that may/maynot have gotten screwed up, but there were people PUSHING from all sides... None of them caring about race... As the Command and Control room that calls the shots and coordinates the communication as much as possible is Black/White/yellow/green also.... Run the rhetoric over and over and over and over again with this soundbite from this show and that interview from that person: (i have) but when it comes down to the live or die.... There are people that work day/night to try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ancalagon the Black Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Read other threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dah-Dee Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Beat Dallas! :dallasuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueTalon Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Good luck against the Bears! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkLadyRaven Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Thats good commentary Spaceman but I think a cartoon squirel says it best: ( Warning not Work Safe- swear words and such) http://foamy.libertech.net/kat.swf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 ....yea, so what do you expect us to do if we don't talk about the hurricane and whose fault it is...I mean, like, what else is going on in the world.... How about this?Fossils reveal flying prehistoric giants By Paul Hoskins Thu Sep 8,12:42 PM ET DUBLIN (Reuters) - The giant reptiles that flew above the earth until about 65 million years ago could have grown to twice the size originally thought with wingspans of at least 18 meters, a paleontologist said on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENT That would be almost the same width as the 64 foot fully extended wingspan of an F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft and roughly five times bigger than an albatross, which ranks among the birds with the largest wingspans in the modern world. Dr David Martill of the University of Portsmouth in southern England, said his research on pterosaur wings appeared to solve the problem of how such enormous creatures managed to take to the skies and stay there. Recent fossil finds in Mexico and Israel added weight to the theory that this prehistoric, flying reptile, which became extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs, could have been much bigger than many had realized. "We haven't officially announced this yet but it might have been two times bigger," he told journalists at the British Association for the Advancement of Science's annual festival in the Irish capital. "BIG FRAGMENTS" Martill said fellow academic and collaborator Dr Eberhard "Dino" Frey of the Natural History museum in Karlsruhe, Germany, had recently found distinctive fossilized footprints in Mexico pointing to a creature with a wingspan "in excess of 18 meters (60 ft)." "Even though they are just fragments they are bloody big fragments," he said of the fossils. "We also have finger bones with really rather magnificent diameters." Despite its size, Martill believes his studies of the bone structure and tissue of a pterosaur wing show it could have flown "really rather elegantly." "The wing membrane is really very, very thin," he said, adding that the samples were about half a millimeter thick. "One of the other things we found out that was excitingly new was a very different shoulder joint." The elaborate structure of the wing, more like that of a bat than a bird, combined with hollow bones and a body not much bigger than a human torso would have kept weight to a minimum. "One imagines that the take off problems were less ... particularly if you add the fact that they were very, very lightly constructed to this enormous wing membrane area." Martill said he had established that the wing was locked into the bottom of the body rather than the top, providing a greater surface area to benefit from the thermal air currents that give lift during flight. More cumbersome would have been the neck, stretching to three meters in length and attached to a skull that could have added an additional two meters. Although not very aerodynamic, it might have allowed the pterosaur to pick up prey from the sea without flying dangerously close, Martill suggested. As for why they grew so big, it could have been a function of age: "One of the reasons might be that they just kept on growing," rather than reaching an adult size when growth stops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavyDave Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 The hurricane junk was used conviently by Holland to get a murder suspect out of jail who then fled from Aruba Pteradactyls as big on the old johnny quest show huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkLadyRaven Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 The hurricane junk was used conviently by Holland to get a murder suspect out of jail who then fled from Aruba Saddam also confessed to killing a bunch of Kurds... and nobody seemed to care damn american short attention span Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted September 9, 2005 Author Share Posted September 9, 2005 ahhhh buncha haters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrazyZeb Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 ahhhh buncha haters We only keep you around for your sig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KDawg Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Spaceman, :notworthy Good thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xameil Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 I re-state...more threads with barely clad women..I get bored here at work!!! And all you with women at the bottom of your posts...woo hoo :gaintsuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dead Money Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 I concur. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 ahhhh buncha haters Hey man, Im with you, these threads are getting kinda crazy, like we got into a train wreck with a CNN message board. Where;s the Global warming thread? :doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted September 9, 2005 Author Share Posted September 9, 2005 Hey man, Im with you, these threads are getting kinda crazy, like we got into a train wreck with a CNN message board. Where;s the Global warming thread? :doh: Haha, true. Tailgate isn't as fun anymore. Maybe bring back the "ask a..." threads? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Why did everyone start posting garbage threads on a football message board? Its not even that bad during the offseason. And its the same people over and over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predicto Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Why did everyone start posting garbage threads on a football message board? Its not even that bad during the offseason. And its the same people over and over. Because this is the Tailgate. It's what it is for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Posted September 9, 2005 Share Posted September 9, 2005 Funny, I thought this was a football message board... my mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted September 9, 2005 Author Share Posted September 9, 2005 Funny, I thought this was a football message board... my mistake. haha, you have to go to the forum called "the stadium" for the football stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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