A real puzzle...

Only roughly - it seems to have been said when Simon Cameron was a senator for Pennsylvania

which is to say, sometine between 1844 and 1877

There is one claim that he is only reputed to have said it.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

I bought copies of both books, and read them. I really didn't like "The Bell Curve" and greatly enjoyed "Inequality by Design" - "The Bell Curve" inspired quite a lot of critical comment from people I know and respect, but "Inequality by Design" was far and away the most thorough demolition.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

part of it is good construction, and part of it is luck. The winds are swirling and dancing, and sometimes the flames just go around a house here and there for no apparent reason. Chaos theory! ;-)

Charlie

About like a tornado. I went through that really bad tornado that hit North Scottsdale in the early '70's. It took down all the houses around me, but left me relatively intact. All I lost was some fencing and a steel storage building that was bolted down to a concrete foundation... zoom... half a block then flattened into the ground.

...Jim Thompson

N.O. was the site of some of the first housing projects in the '30s. People were told the projects were the answer to their problems, so they were shoved into them and abandoned. Until Katrina, at least, they were still living there.

Did you notice the parallel?

War fighting is their primary purpose.

The Coast Guard is a "first responder" and they were there conducting rescues on day one.

People who hand out sandwiches are not "first responders".

The M in FEMA is for management, which is also not a job for "first responders".

Tom Del Rosso td snipped-for-privacy@att.net.invalid posted to sci.electronics.design:

I disagree. The full name is Federal Emergency Management Agency. The inclusion of the word emergency implies responsiveness. Just because we got lethargy and disorganization with Katrina does not mean that the purpose is not not clear. But typical of old bureaucracies it failed fabulously.

Unlike a so-called IQ test that pretends to measure general intelligence, a political qualification examination could be more specific with more precise measurement of knowledge about government, political theories, our government in particular, basic history, and maybe even some basic principles. The character in office now couldn't even pass a driver's license exam in BFE from what I can tell. At any rate, the politicians are not the problem, they are merely a symptom. The real problem is the unintelligent, uneducated, mass of common, brainless trash who elect and support these people. The typical American is a pathetically materialistic morally bankrupt illiterate without character or reasoning ability; you can expect the situation to get worse.

They never arrive anywhere on the first day, but the locals are usually competent so you don't notice that FEMA isn't there yet. On 9-11 they were in Manhattan the first day because they had permanent offices at 7 World Trade. When the building was demolished they got replacement offices right away because the local authorities set them up.

Work. Vote intelligently. Teach their children to do better. Move out of federal housing and start paying local taxes so the municipal government would be a little more responsive.

And this was the perfect opportunity to bring national attention to change it, but the dems preferred to use it as a tool against Bush. Even bin Laden picked up on the Katrina buzz in his next taped speech, but dems never mind encouraging the enemy.

Or just leave, as responsible people have been doing for a couple of hundred years: brain drain. The resulting gummy distillate remains. And the cops don't even go into the Desire housing project.

John

Is that the main ingredient in gumbo?

It's even more basic than that.

"How Not to Be Poor"

Getting married (i.e. having a partner) helps.

Cheers, James Arthur

Only if it comes between 2 and 3.

As a Ukranian friend likes to say: "woman can make you millionaire, if you start off as billionaire".

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Or:

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