lest we forget

[Kent Page]

 

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:  provided by The Free Dictionary 

 

The Teton Dam Failure (1976)

On June 3, 1976, engineers noticed two small leaks in the earthen Teton Dam, built on Idaho's Teton River. Two days later, the newly created reservoir was filled for the first time, holding a large amount of runoff. Water began seeping out, and the major leak that followed caused the dam—which had been constructed on permeable and fissured rock—to collapse. The reservoir drained in less than six hours, flooding nearby towns and farmland. How many deaths are attributed to the Teton Dam failure?

ANSWER: 11 people, 13,000 cattle.

 

More... http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Teton+Dam

 

What does all this have to do w/ politics? The Feds built the dam and it failed just 3 days after its reservoir started filling up. It was designed to hold 240 feet of water, it failed with less than 12 feet backed up behind it. “Hi, I’m from the government and I’m here to help you,” is still the most terrifying sentence in America.

 

 

Kent

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests". - Patrick Henry

 

[Mormon...@aol.com]

Remember the unsinkable Titanic. How many dead? A private enterprise endeavor.

Uuuuh, let me see. I remember something called the Hindenburg. Hmm Care to

continue? Stuff happens. Oh, and the Bangladesh building that recently collapsed

after cracks were discovered,,,,,,,,killing 1100 people and injuring scores more.

Owners jailed and chaged with murder. Supervisors refused to allow the garment

workers to go home.

 

deborah

 

We have no more thought of using our own powers to escape the arm of authorities than had the Apostles of old. No more are we ready to keep silent at man's behest when God commands us to speak. For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man. (Last sermon before being imprisoned by the Nazi regime of Germany (27 June 1937) --Martin Niemollers

 

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[Kent Page]

I was merely pointing out that the gubmint is not the be all end all you keep promoting for us. J It’s just as fallible as any other human enterprise (more so I maintain) and I’m continually mystified why you put so much faith in it. Did some commissar promise you a portfolio when a socialist regime takes over?

 

kent

 

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[Mormon...@aol.com]

You need to go back and read a couple of past posts. The government programs are the only

things keeping the people throughout the world from all out revolution. Capitalists love those

government programs. It pacifies  the workers and causes them to be dependent on the

current system. Either the system needs to "evolve" into a socialist worker/citizen owned

economy (the best way) and we need to not let folks starve and be homeless during the

transition ,,,,,,or there needs to be an uprising of the people to correct things. JFK said

"Those who make peaceful evolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable".

 

deborah

 

We have no more thought of using our own powers to escape the arm of authorities than had the Apostles of old. No more are we ready to keep silent at man's behest when God commands us to speak. For it is, and must remain, the case that we must obey God rather than man. (Last sermon before being imprisoned by the Nazi regime of Germany (27 June 1937) --Martin Niemollers

 

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