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Skriven 2016-08-19 14:39:28 av Allen Prunty (1:2320/100)
Kommentar till en text av Lee Lofaso
Ärende: RE: Are you still high and dry???
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On Aug 18, 2016 06:45pm, Lee Lofaso posted to Allen Prunty:
LL> When fresh, and if cooked properly, can be good. But wait too
LL> long before cooking and then it tastes too - reptilian. Can
LL> taste like chicken, or pork, or steak, depending on how it is
LL> prepared and cooked. But only if it is fresh. Otherwise, it
LL> is just plain yucky.
I ate Alligator every chance I could when I was 13 and my parents were
stationed at Kiesler. It is delicious and to me it was in between pork and
steak. There are two places here in Louisville you can get alligator... one
states "when in season" the other has it all the time. You can gess which one
is good and which one is yucky.
LL> Alligators will take care of their own, thankyouverymuch.
LL> However, they can be hunted to extinction. And eggs are easy
LL> to poach. I am not against hunting, or trapping. But wildlife
LL> should be managed, otherwise that resource will not be renewable.
LL> And that would mean no more hunting or trapping for our posterity.
LL> Unless we want to start hunting and trapping each other.
Nothing is renewable... look how man has raped the ocean. There was a fish
called the Orange Roughy... it was a nasty looking slime fish but plain tasty.
We overfished them to the point they are scarce, now scientists are realizing
that it had an amazing lifespan... for an Orange Roughy to get big enough to
eat it can be 80-110 years old. They are almost gone... and because someone
figured out they had tasty white fish flesh they were fished to the point of
near extinction. They are probably too old to mate and reproduce now... we
may never see that species again.
LL> Louisiana had a great flood in 1927. Some historians claim this
LL> event is what caused the Great Depression. There is some merit in
LL> that claim, as every major natural disaster has meant a recession
LL> or depression to come afterwards. Do you think it was an accident
LL> or coincidence that the Great Recession occurred not long after
LL> the massive destruction caused by Katrina?
Come to think about it Louisville's great flood may have been 1927 not 1937...
I know that most of the water went down the Ohiop to the Mississippi we
probably both suffered that one.
LL> After Sandy destroyed the East Coast, President Obama knew what
LL> to do. Spend massive amounts of federal funds to help those in
LL> need. Even NJ Governor Chris Christie agreed, and went along
LL> with it, knowing what the alternative was.
If they didn't the "looters" would have kept going till nothing was left in
the state.
AP>> Sadly a lot of these homes are pre-civil war homes... the historic
AP>> value
LL> is
AP>> destroyed... all because the either the city chose not to include them
AP>> in
AP>> the
AP>> confines of the floodwall... or the property owner at the time
AP>> objected to
AP>> having their river view blocked by a big earthen damn wall.
LL> You cannot stop progress. But you can make it too expensive to
LL> continue. Stall, stall, stall for as long as possible. And then
LL> tell the politicians they can't do what they want to do because
LL> there is not enough money in the whole wide world for them to do
LL> it.
LL> Fortunately for all of us, FDR chose not to listen to those folks,
LL> and did it anyway, putting millions upon millions of Americans back
LL> to work again. Gotta spend money to make money. Preferably other
LL> people's money. That was the key to our success. Spend our way
LL> out of the Great Depression.
AP>> In 1937 Louisville flooded to the point where our city was destroyed.
LL> FDR had experience, knowing what to do. And what not to do.
LL> His predecessor had chosen to do nothing after the flood in 1927,
LL> which led to the Great Depression. FDR was not going to make
LL> the same mistake.
AP>> Seems that all manner of cities have had their disasters it's all about
LL> how
AP>> they rise from the ruin.
LL> You have to fund it in order to fix it. Talking about it is not
LL> going to do it. Makes you sound like Donald Trump. You think
LL> anybody believes anything he says? The man is so full of it his
LL> eyes have turned a permanent shade of brown that most people find
LL> truly disgusting.
Ever watch Dr. House... from episode one the theme was "everybody lies." It
is sad that things have gotten where they are in politics today. But who is
to blame? When we stopped voting for Mr. Smith to go to washington and
started looking at who has experience and who has education we lost our
spirit. We need old farmer smith, baker jones, and teacher Ms. Sally to go to
washington. We need people who are living the struggle to go to washington
and fix it. Not professional politicians, not educated crooked lawyers, not
people who have been groomed by a party for it and definately not those with a
one sided agenda. We need every day common Joe Plumbers of this world to go
to washington. Our founding fathers had much wisdom in how they set it up.
And we need TERM LIMITS no more than two ever.
LL> We did. Thanks to FDR. And we are so fortunate as a result.
LL> His predecessor chose to do nothing after the Louisiana flood
LL> of 1927. And as a result, all Americans suffered. OTOH, we
LL> did get Huey P. Long. And FDR ...
My Grandfather was an economics professor at the Universtiy of Sewanee...
(still have an uncle there) he said even pre-Reagan that we ahve been set up
for failure since the great depression. He would say that the worst thing
that ever was invented was socal security. He did like the WPA because he
believed that if you eat then you work. He did also believe in taking care of
our old, sick and infirmed... not by social security, but by making the family
do their part to take care of them.
In the case where someone didn't have family, or resources then and only then
would the state pitch in. He would be rolling in his grave to know that
someone could cross the border have a baby and then get a check for both them
and the baby.
AP>> This Rain storm was a 1000 year rain...
LL> The events that are occuring now have happened before, roughly
LL> about 500-600 years ago in this part of the world. How long they
LL> will continue is anybody's guess. However, as global temperatures
LL> continue to rise, these events are likely to occur on a much more
LL> frequent basis.
The news si saying 2 feet of rain fell in less than a day... that's unheard of
over a teritory as big as Louisiana and Mississippi (don't forget a good chunk
of another state got it too.)
AP>> more evidence our earth is suffering.
LL> And what is the main cause? Mankind's activities.
Absolutely... and I don't care what people think... the Earth is a symbiotic
life form within itself... it could shake Mankind off of it like a dog would
shake fleas off of itself. We are nothing special... just another organism in
the symbiosis although we have long stopped being a symbiant and now we are a
parasite... or worse cancer.
LL> Only a small part of Mississippi was affected. Mostly cow pasture.
My cousin in Gulf Shores got flooded... don't think that territory is cow
pasture but if farmers lost crops and animals they will take an economic
hit... there goes the price of beef, milk and grains... if it wasn't already
high enough expect more increases.
LL> Where you gonna go? Canadians won't welcome us, Mexicans would
LL> probably shoot us ...
My guess is we will split into five or more distinct factions. Personally the
place to go is Alaska. My Cousin retired from the airforce as a 2 star up
there. She has been trying to get Mom and I both to go and live there.
States better medical care there and she swears their winters are milder than
ours.
Might have to look further into it.
Allen
... The greatest enemy of creatitivy is staying inside your comfort zone
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