Comments by My Readers
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last names / cities, when present, were omitted -- screen names have been modified
America Online included a link to my special report on their
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Thanks, guys.
In a message dated 5/9/05 09:31:20, dorn@yahoo.com writes:
nicely done...
ted
Ted, you always were a peep of few words!
In a message dated 5/9/05 14:04:43, Gath@aol.com writes:
Thank you very much for your summary of Katrina.
I, at first, was apprehensive about reading it, given your twisted sort of humor. I'm not in the mood for that right now.
But you showed once again that there is a finely honed intellect behind your irreverence. I recognized Bill's and my posts, and couldn't help but notice that, with the exception of your friend in Baton Rouge, you didn't quote anybody from the political left spectrum.
Be that as it may, you did a wonderful job and I congratulate you.
Hey, old pal, I am neither right nor left! I just try to use common sense and logic with everything -- unfortunately, sometimes there isn't any to be seen, and we are left with the resources we all have been programmed with [or lack thereof]
In a message dated 6/9/05 12:19:27, Madm@aol.com writes:
Well done Sonny. I read your
whole storm thang and found it very interesting and informative.
Have a great day and thanks.
Charlie
Charlie, thanks, but that was way before my upteen updates!
In a message dated 9/9/05 23:37:00, Ange@aol.com writes:
Actually, there were many important questions
raised on your website but one thing that caught my eye was the
school buses, flooded and useless, that could have been used to
transport people out of that city.
Well, thank you for your website. I will be using it as a teaching
tool, and appreciate the work that you put into it.
Lena - OK
Lena, although the school busses did really strike me as significantly curious, it was the whole enchilada, the complex mix of things which apparently happened that made, and continues to make, this such an unusually newsworthy event -- and I imagine that it will be commented on for months, if not years, to come.
Thank you for your kind comments.
In a message dated 10/9/05 08:26:05, More@aol.com writes:
Your website contains a lot of great information. The background, however, makes it very difficult on the eyes. You might want to change it to a more professional, plain background to match the very professional information it contains.
BJ
BJ, it shows up great on my eMac screen and is easy to read, but they tell me that PC screens see everything darker -- sometimes how a web page appears on a particular computer screen has to do with the screen settings in the preferences panel -- in order to eliminate this potential individual glitch I have removed the background from the page -- thanks for bringing it to my attention.
In a message dated 10/9/05 11:35:08, ALIC@aol.com writes:
This is one of the very best write ups
I have seen on this topic. Well done and thank you.
Dave
Thanks, Dave, I really did put a lot of effort into it.
In a message dated 10/9/05 15:11:50, numa@yahoo.com writes:
Hi I loved this report. I agree with
most all you stated...Although, being a fellow Texan, I feel the
need to stand up for our President. The man can't win for losing
in this country and I'm sick of it...whether anyone likes it our
not, he IS our president and leader of our country...and it was
AMERICANS who decided that in November of last year. So, to answer
part of number 12...George Bush is not a moron...for all anyone
knows, he could have proposed relief, money, etc. 1 or 2 days
after Katrina....but, it needs to be approved by congress, right?
Isn't the whole reason for FEMA to take the action needed
in these situations? what are they there for if not? How was he
to know FEMA wasn't going to respond properly? Yes,
this is a disaster and I am truly heartbroken about it...but,
what does it say to the rest of the world if we keep bashing our
own leader...blame him for all that goes wrong, and not praising
the many things he does to benefit America? As for what would
the other party do in this situation? I believe they would find
a reason to blame this on Republicans.....run and hide with their
tails between their legs. Bush at least has owned up to it...though
he doesn't deserve the criticism.
Tia - Texas
Tia, I attempted to be as factual and unbiased as possible, simply reporting what I had run across in the terrible self-serving media -- I also believe that GWB is not entirely at fault and that he at least deserves the respect of his elected office -- NO politician is above reproach, and the higher the office they occupy, apparently the more criticism they get, be it valid or not -- politics, and now Katrina, has polarized this country so much that nobody seems to be able to separate real truth (if it exists) from pure bad fiction
In a message dated 11/9/05 01:44:36, show@aol.com writes:
DISCUSSION..I AM GETTING SLAMMED PERSONALLY FOR HELPING AND ALSO FOR MY THOUGHTS OF THE COSTS TO REBUILD THE LOW AREAS...PEOPLE ARE HORRIBLE.. I AM A VOLUNTEER HELPING A STATE I DON'T EVEN LIVE IN FOR FREE? WHAT YOU HAVE ON THIS PAGE IS TERRIFIC! THIS HELPS THE ONES THAT DON'T KNOW TO UNDERSTAND SO MUCH MORE
GREAT STUFF ON YOUR EBAY TOO
Hey, girl, posting boards now with any provider are all like that -- years ago when the InterNUT first became popular, the chat rooms and message boards were less insane, more interpersonal on a one-to-one basis -- there weren't hundreds of members in the same room and one could follow the discussions easily -- there were still some few who always got TOS violations and such, but the posters were all a tad more homey and family like somehow -- just as today, there were tight cliques, and those who have nothing meaningful to reply started in on spelling errors (like who cares -- they still figured out what the peep was writing about, which is the purpose of communication!) -- I was in the same chat rooms and boards for hours each and every day, interacting with the same peeps -- now I only look at 3 boards / message groups on a daily basis, two have to do with computers, and the third is a bunch of gals in a Beanie group (been on that one for at least 7 years already, and since the olde tyme beanie craze has all but died out, they post on just about everything and anything, which is kewl) -- I happened to wander into the Spice Girls message board simply as a workaround to get back to the OLD more intuitive posting format rather than the new shitty html format that some dorks at AOL decided they wanted to force down our gullets instead -- in many cases the gals also seem to know one another, and like in any family, there appear to be a few black sheep and bullies -- I didn't see more than a couple comments on my few posts, but didn't lose any sleep over it. People really aren't horrible -- they just have perhaps very limited exposure to some things, a pre-programming of one sort of another in their general outlook on life, and, yes, some of them just seem to be bitches -- a dude on the computer board also helped deliver meals at a refugee center, and some in the group always had something negative to say about him (most probably the ones who didn't lift a finger to help with a donation or anything else) -- so cheer up and let it slide already. As a retired science teacher and being a research oriented dude all my life, what I have on my special report is simply sorta like writing a paper to present at an international symposium, but I hope it isn't written as obscurely as, for example, Einstein might have lectured about quantum physics -- I always tried to present stuff for the students and not only for the specialist.
Thanks, my eBay / Yahoo items are as varied as my eclectic interests, and the descriptions are like shaggy dog stories many times -- due to my analytical background and attempts to explain things as well as I can? Sales have been painfully slow for many months, and I usually pay eBay more than I actually take in/month -- that's why I started listing on yahoo, where it is totally FREE -- and slow! We both are doing something that is important to each of us -- I have loads of treasures collected after many years, think it is about time to share them with other like minded peeps at an extremely reasonable price, which helps pay bills that my premature retirement pension does NOT -- you as a rational, thoughtful human being, care for those in need and spend your time, energies and money to that end. GOD BLESS YOU!
God Bless !
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