Re: OT: Response to Richard Corbett's comments about the destruction in the south

9/11 victims did not vote to put Osama Bin Ladin in the White House.
Most of them didn't vote for George W. either, if the polls don't lie.

The South did overwhelmingly choose to put the agents of religious
fanatics and greedy business people into the white house in the form of
George Bush Jr.

I don't think God is punishing those in Mississippi and Louisiana any
more than He is punishing AIDS victims, but I think Mr. Corbett's
comment was to the point and did not need extrapolation.

Had we not been so interested in George Jr. and his friends' ulterior
motives in the middle east involving oil and power, perhaps there'd be
enough in our own coffers to help the suffering in our own southern part
of the country at this point. Suffice it to say that voting for George
and his War was a strategic, diplomatic, economic, and humanitarian
mistake. The lack of funds available in our government to clean up New
Orleans should be a clear example of but one reason why it was a mistake.

Jon Lybrook
Boulder

Linda Briscoe Myers wrote:
> Thank you Harry Smart! I too am extremely offended by this statement,
> and am delurking to say so. This smacks of the remarks made by the
> so-called religious right about post 9/11 NYC--that those people
> somehow brought it on themselves because of their lifestyles. Both
> observations are_ most_ un-Christian. New Orleans has more spirit and
> soul than nearly any other city I've been to, and deserves nothing less
> than our most fervent prayers and/or best secular thoughts, and
> donations as each can afford.
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> Linda Briscoe Myers
> Austin
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>> Richard, I'm not sure quite what you mean by this, but it's a phrase with
>> biblical connotations, and many people would assume from such a stark
>> remark
>> that you are suggesting the disaster that has befallen New Orleans and the
>> area around it is some sort of judgment. If you are making that suggestion
>> in the belief that it has some biblical or Christian warrant, then you
>> should be aware that you are wrong; and not only wrong, but offensive. The
>> kind of crude historicism your (implied) view represents is quite
>> explicitly
>> rejected in the gospels by Christ himself .. look at Luke 13, for
>> instance,
>> and the reference to those killed by the tower at Siloam. 'Do you
>> think they
>> were any worse sinners than ..' No. Any normal human being, Christian or
>> otherwise, who looks at what has happened to New Orleans feels nothing
>> other
>> than immense sorrow, and sympathy for those who have lost their loved
>> ones,
>> their livelihoods, their homes. Shame on you for your remarks.
>>
>> Harry Smart
>> Scotland
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Richard Corbett
>> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:17 PM
>> Subject: Re: Just realized something about New Orleans...
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>> What you sow, so shall you reap.
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>> Richard
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Sandy King
>> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 12:35 AM
>> Subject: RE: Just realized something about New Orleans...
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>> The city of New Orleans is currently being flooded to the level of Lake
>> Ponchitrain, which is higher than about 80-90% of the city. The French
>> Quarter is in one of the highest areas of the city (but still barely above
>> sea level) and will not see flood waters as deep as in other parts of the
>> city, some of which are now under twenty feet of water.
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>> The mayor of New Orleans has described the city as in "total devastation."
>> At this moment water is still flooding the city, and most of the pumps are
>> out of operation. It seems likely that it will be many days, if not weeks,
>> before the water will be pumped out of the city.
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>> Sandy
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>> DEAR CHRIS,
>> Rumors abound in the news about the condition of the French Quarter.
>> Some
>> say flooded, some say only a few inches of water. Does anyone have
>> specific
>> info on how badly it was damaged or flooded?
>> My wife and I met the lovely people at A Gallery for Fine
>> Photography
>> when
>> we went to the New Orleans Jazz fest in, I think, 2003. As a result of my
>> posting, someone on this list (was it you) told me to go there.
>> CHEERS!
>> BOB
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>> Please check my website: http://www.bobkiss.com/
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christopher Lovenguth [mailto:chris@chrisportfolio.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:43 PM
>> To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>> Subject: Just realized something about New Orleans...
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>> Even though it doesn't compare to lives changing (I have 4 very close
>> friends who are all safe and out of the city, but don't know if they can
>> ever go back), lives lost or maybe soon to be lost and a whole city that
>> will change forever, I just realized today that A Gallery is in the French
>> Quarter. What a vital (and I would say the most accessible to the pubic)
>> collection! It sounds impersonal to worry about something like that,
>> but at
>> the same time, what a loss if anything happens to that collection.
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>> What a loss of a cultural and important city. I personally believe New
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>> Orleans is more important then I think most people know since most
>> Americans
>> really only think of drunken times in the tourist sections, but of the
>> many
>> many places I have visited in this country, New Orleans really was rare in
>> that it had kept so much of it's own identity in times like this. I will
>> miss Old New Orleans, it will be rebuilt and good might come from all
>> this,
>> but, it will never be the same.
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>> -Chris
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Received on Thu Sep 1 09:50:10 2005