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I love it down south  :oops:

Lmao. Why? So he can tell you how John Kerry and the liberal media destroyed New Orleans?

he's biased, but it's truthful bias. Nice to hear some sympathy. You guys are a bunch of assholes.

Bias is an instringuous matter not to be taken lightly.

Id say bias is more like, a preference/tendency towards some thing or point of view. Which CAN (but does not neccesarily) lead to unfairly favoring something. (Basically something which tends to prevent you from being neutral/impartial I guess)

Ah well =p

I guess truthful bias isnt really very sensible (they might mean bias that did not disturb the conclusion reached by evaluation since evaluation by any (or specifically that) person without bias should lead to the exact same conclusion... then again, mebbe not? ) , but I guess something like 'justified bias' or 'sensible/understandable bias' is more meaningful already.

As Einstein once said: "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18."

I bet I could find a typo in there, therefore rendering your point of view worthless.

I don't think some of you will realize until you're older what a catastrphy this was.  This is going to be in history books a hundred years from now with events like the Chicago fire. An entire city is ruined and will remain ruined and unliveable for a very long time.  Not to mention all the losses.....This is about this equivalent  to ten 9-11's.That being said, I hope some of you donated to some worthwhile charities or donated to a family in need of help in the area. 

Oh, and I hope you also check out some unbiased media as well as Rush Limbaugh to get your news, Oman.    Rush Limbaugh is definately one of the most biased media people in history....at least Bill O'Reilly makes attempts to veil his bias.

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Anyhow, the death toll doesn't seem to be all that high after all though it's still huge obviously. As for comparing Katrina to 9/11. I think something both disasters have in common is, that the reaction following them made things much worse than they were/should've been.

I mean, Katrina was awful and all, but if 1. The catastrophe had been better realized in an earlier stage, and 2. The people of New Orleans had reacted in a better way (obviously one cannot generalize an entire city, but nevertheless all the looting, shooting and 100x more disgusting stuff like rape is shocking in a city that is part of the supposedly 'civilized West'. Same for 9/11, it was horrible by itself obviously. But Bush' reaction did not really make matters any better; Afghanistan was somewhat justified but I dun think we need to start a discussion on Iraq all over again. (And yes 9/11 did give Bush the momentum to start that, and he has used it as a reason for the war on more than one occasion. And that's not even considering all the indirect implications/images invoked.) Suffice to say that whilst the reaction following 9/11 did so much more damage, materially, in massive loss of life in Iraq (mostly Iraqis but a lot of US and British troops as well), and obviously the image of the US and the entire West for that matter. Ah well, I'm not really looking to start yet another discussion on that, this thread was originally about Katrina after all.

My fraternity is going to be housing some of the students from Tulane University who are being temporarily transferred to UW.  Fortunately for us, our bylaws say that we can't house MEN who are not in our fraternity, which means only women will be moving in.  Sweet.