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  •  i still like my analogy (none / 0)

    even if i didn't have smoke alarms and plugged 85 appliances into one outlet and thus cause many of my own problems, that does not mean the fire dept. should show up and, BEFORE putting out the fire, ask me to sign over whatever possessions are left within my still burning house.

    i'll commend her for saying, per this analogy "if we had 85 appliances plugged into one outlet, the buck stops here and we have to do better and make sure that never happens again.  i am accountable to that."

    but i'd also like to see her go just a bit more on the offensive as far this is concerned:  if the fire dept. shows up to your burning house and they start asking you to fill out paperword instead of putting out the fire, then THEY take on the RESPONSIBILITY of the outcome.

    I want Lamont to win, but I won't cry when he doesn't.

    by BiminiCat on Wed Sep 14, 2005 at 11:07:47 PM PDT

    •  what if the fire dept is stealing pumpkins ... (none / 0)

      down the road from your burning house ???

      I've seen a photograph of that happening

      I think george's accounting is "In The Mail"

      soon the deaths are gonna add up, and we'll have two catagories

      deaths due to katrina

      and deaths due to george

      by knowthings on Wed Sep 14, 2005 at 11:38:33 PM PDT

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      •  legally speaking (none / 0)

        there's enough precedent to say if a "fire department" as in the analogy above was negligent then all subsequent deaths are due to that negligence no matter how many appliances were plugged into a single outlet.

        I want Lamont to win, but I won't cry when he doesn't.

        by BiminiCat on Wed Sep 14, 2005 at 11:41:05 PM PDT

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