Houston

glatt · 08-31-2017, 08:41 AM

Yeah. Those guys will be rebuilding the city shortly. Perfect time for them to cross that river. Couldn't have planned it better. The epitome of a windfall.

sexobon · 08-31-2017, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by glatt

Yeah. Those guys will be rebuilding the city shortly. Perfect time for them to cross that river. Couldn't have planned it better. The epitome of a windfall.

They'll be celebrating with a round of Harvey Wallbangers.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-31-2017, 11:45 PM

Everyone including the cat was rescued form the assisted living home, but many lost their old photos and papers.

I don't understand why people evacuating would leave these vehicles behind.

When Fire Ants are rafting they become more aggressive and their venom more potent. The best defense is Dawn dish soap to break surface tension making them sink and drown.

henry quirk · 09-01-2017, 09:56 AM

"I just have a real hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that they built a neighborhood inside a reservoir."

"Could we have less foresight?"

"Developers should pay for flood insurance for 20 years."

"There was an entire band of idiots involved there."

"All that capitalism, the wise and all-knowing system, and you'd figure they wouldn't build neighborhoods inside a reservoir. Unless.. capitalism.. doesn't.. give a shit about people??"

Capitalism (more accurately, an unrestricted market) works only if the folks involved are self-responsible (buyer, beware, do your own research!). Any one building or buying there obviously isn't. The failure, then, is not capitalism but the short-sighted irresponsibles who figured Murphy's Law only happens to the other guy, and when it does happen some one else will clean up the mess and set things right.

Capitalism (an unrestricted market) and libertarianism (self-reliance) can't work on the large scale if the bulk of people won't self-direct or -restrain.

And since it appears most folks nowadays won't self-direct or -restrain ('Stop me! I'm walkin' offa cliff!') is it any surprise when folks put down roots in a reservoir?

Bred the wildness out of a bloodline, domesticate it, train it to trust and rely and you get stupidity (that there's the result not of libertarian pragmatism, but of communitarian idealism...libertarians don't want 'utopia', but communitarians do).

Happy Monkey · 09-01-2017, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by henry quirk

Capitalism (more accurately, an unrestricted market) works only if the folks involved are self-responsible (buyer, beware, do your own research!). Any one building or buying there obviously isn't. The failure, then, is not capitalism but the short-sighted irresponsibles who figured Murphy's Law only happens to the other guy, and when it does happen some one else will clean up the mess and set things right.

There are so many lovely systems that would work so well if only people behaved properly.

henry quirk · 09-01-2017, 10:57 AM

Yeah, but only a practical libertarianism takes people as they are, and holds 'em to it.

All these other 'systems' work to revise man...which ain't cool if you aren't lookin' to be revised.

08-31-2017, 11:45 PM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Everyone including the cat was rescued form the assisted living home, but many lost their old photos and papers. I don't understand why people evacuating would leave these vehicles behind. When Fire Ants are rafting they become more aggressive and their venom more potent. The best defense is Dawn dish soap to break surface tension making them sink and drown. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

08-31-2017, 08:41 AM	#1
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Yeah. Those guys will be rebuilding the city shortly. Perfect time for them to cross that river. Couldn't have planned it better. The epitome of a windfall.

09-01-2017, 09:56 AM	#4
henry quirk maskless: yesterday, today, tomorrow Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 2,162	"I just have a real hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that they built a neighborhood inside a reservoir." "Could we have less foresight?" "Developers should pay for flood insurance for 20 years." "There was an entire band of idiots involved there." "All that capitalism, the wise and all-knowing system, and you'd figure they wouldn't build neighborhoods inside a reservoir. Unless.. capitalism.. doesn't.. give a shit about people??" Capitalism (more accurately, an unrestricted market) works only if the folks involved are self-responsible (buyer, beware, do your own research!). Any one building or buying there obviously isn't. The failure, then, is not capitalism but the short-sighted irresponsibles who figured Murphy's Law only happens to the other guy, and when it does happen some one else will clean up the mess and set things right. Capitalism (an unrestricted market) and libertarianism (self-reliance) can't work on the large scale if the bulk of people won't self-direct or -restrain. And since it appears most folks nowadays won't self-direct or -restrain ('Stop me! I'm walkin' offa cliff!') is it any surprise when folks put down roots in a reservoir? Bred the wildness out of a bloodline, domesticate it, train it to trust and rely and you get stupidity (that there's the result not of libertarian pragmatism, but of communitarian idealism...libertarians don't want 'utopia', but communitarians do).

09-01-2017, 10:57 AM	#6
henry quirk maskless: yesterday, today, tomorrow Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 2,162	Yeah, but only a practical libertarianism takes people as they are, and holds 'em to it. All these other 'systems' work to revise man...which ain't cool if you aren't lookin' to be revised.

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