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

I am extremely offended by comments made regarding tragedies and politics.
This is NOT NOT NOT the place for this.
I will probably be removing myself from this list.
~Brit

On 9/1/05, Jon Lybrook <jon@terabear.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
> >
> > Linda Briscoe Myers
> > Austin
> >
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- 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...
> >>
> >>
> >> What you sow, so shall you reap.
> >>
> >> Richard
> >>
> >> ----- 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...
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >> Sandy
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >> Please check my website: http://www.bobkiss.com/
> >>
> >> -----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...
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> What a loss of a cultural and important city. I personally believe New
> >
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> -Chris
> >
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Thu Sep 1 15:57:09 2005