Re: OT: Katrina and New Orleans

The pic IS funny. My skin is thick, (the stuff I get at work would probably
make most people quit. I wear hearing aids, and VERY often I get some
<insert profanity or racial ephitet of your choice, whatever kinda guy you
are> Yelling/screaming in my ear, "Can you hear me!" Drunks, etc... (I
analyze prints, but from time to time I have to TAKE 'em.) I boss prisoners
around 1-2 hours a day, and spend the other 6-7 doing quality control work.
I've been swung at, spat at, kicked, someone tried to bite me, and I've seen
about 30 tazings, and am completely immune to it.

However, if someone does piss me off, with a good level of detest, I remove
'em from my sight with a click forevermore. It's like the firing squad for
me.

I'm over it now, by the way, but wanted to try and give you a more precise
idea of where I was coming from.

73, djm
"Juan" <jjtelecaster@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> Daniel J. Morlan wrote:
>> "Juan" <jjtelecaster@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1125326389.918087.239660@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >
>> > Daniel J. Morlan wrote:
>> >> "Jari T" <tiainen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> >> news:dev2ov$hp4$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >> > Ian Rastall wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> I don't know if this is appropriate to mention or not, but St.
>> >> >> James
>> >> >> Parish is also in the path of the storm.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Ian
>> >> >
>> >> > Morning Ian,
>> >> >
>> >> > I ashamedly admit, that this was my first thought as well.
>> >> >
>> >> > J.
>> >>
>> >> The way my thought process rolls, with regard to that kind of thing,
>> >> is
>> >> essentially that something so large as a hurricane, isn't likely
>> >> deliberately targeting a single building, or even a group of people.
>> >>
>> >> The folks there at least had warning...
>> >>
>> >> The only reason I was made so disgusted by a previous comment posted
>> >> on
>> >> this
>> >> thread was because it trivializes the potential for mass death, and
>> >> trivializes 250 years of history being destroyed...
>> >>
>> >> Politics pale in comparison to that disaster, I think...
>> >>
>> >> DJM
>> >
>> > I emailed Doug (Douglas Augustine) yesterday, but no answers yet. I
>> > suppose he's better things to do, like staying safe.
>> >
>> > As you said, those people are lucky enough to have been warned.
>> >
>> > As for the pic posted... well, the pic is nice; the comment...let's say
>> > it's an unfortunate comment (in another context, it would have been
>> > funny, right?) considering this thread.
>> >
>> > Last weekend I spent some time talking to some friends of mine about
>> > all this, the tsunami, the drought in Spain, all the tornados in
>> > Florida, etc. It seems that the ammount of *** is so big that even
>> > governments are starting to admit it (well, some of them, at least).
>> >
>> > Juan
>> >
>>
>> I apologize if I sound dense, but what exactly are you implying? That
>> because George W. Bush is in office, a nasty hurricane is hitting the
>> country?
>>
>> I'm not saying/typing this in anger, frustration, or anything like that.
>> Just wondering what you're saying.
>>
>> The only reason I'm not laughing is because people will be killed, and a
>> historic part of the country is going to be annihillated.
>>
>> To make a joke about that either shows callousness, or a lack of
>> understanding of the magnitude of what is going on. That picture, I'd
>> imagine, is a pixel-people-production, and if it were real, it's funny,
>> of
>> course, but to make a political statement like that, along with a
>> smartass
>> remark directed at a whole group of people (Texans), while making light
>> of
>> what for all intents and purposes could have been a veritable holocaust,
>> will have no attempt at understanding from me.
>>
>> I deal with the pure slime of humanity 7 days in a row while I'm at work.
>> I
>> have very little patience, or inclination to SEE anything from anyone who
>> remotely pisses me off. I can handle political differences. What I
>> REFUSE
>> to deal with, are any people who post something that far past the pale.
>>
>> I'm quite sure he doesn't give a rats arse what I think, and that's
>> wonderful, and perfect. But he's put himself (whoever the hell he is) on
>> my
>> shitlist, and that's that.
>>
>> It would be like me saying "too bad they didn't make concentration camps
>> for
>> commie libs..." <which, the terminology I don't subscribe to, as I'm
>> quite
>> middle-of-the-road politically with some right leanings. I am by no
>> means a
>> "party man" or a Bush supporter.
>>
>> It was the callousness of the joke that disgusted me, and I'm not about
>> to
>> accept the "coping mechanism" argument for a comment delivered that way.
>>
>> Not that it matters at all...
>>
>> DJM
>
> Daniel, I agree with what you say, but perhaps I got a thicker skin or
> something. I think that anything that's not related to the lifes
> threatened is secondary, and obviously, a joke is going to be marginal,
> but all I'm going to do about it is ignore the post or poster.
>
> I only said that *the pic* was nice. It could be used in many different
> contexts and for many different purposes.
>
> Juan
>


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