03-03-2006, 09:46 PM
Artega,Mar 3 2006, 03:30 PM Wrote:Because we can all just tell Mother Nature to go wreck some less-important coastal city.Yep, a critical gateway to international shipping for anyone producing anything in the Mississippi-Missouri river system.
I would mention something about the location of the city being somewhat less-than-intelligent, but something tells me that location is a bit too economically important to not have at least SOMETHING there :)
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That has no relation to the hue and cry over why Mardi Gras somehow has to happen: it doesn't. No one is obliged to party in New Orleans in February. It is a quaint habit. Throw the party elsewhere and it is still Fat Tuesday.
Occhi
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete