And here we have the Japanese, an industrious little people ...

I keed, I keed ... this is truly astounding O_O

Walker: Meanwhile in New Orleans, 6 YEARS after Hurricane Katrina.....

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Too damned true

BKITU: simsite9: I was looking at the comparison photos, and thinking, "How in the hell have they managed to make so much progress so quickly?" because I couldn't imagine that kind of speed and concerted effort taking place here.

Then I realized how embarrassing that fact is.

Walker: Meanwhile in New Orleans, 6 YEARS after Hurricane Katrina.....

A national movement to rebuild an area destroyed by natural disaster is un-American. Not allowing the residents to bootstrap themselves back into good houses encourages laziness. Anyway, volunteers are enough to do all the good deeds necessary, praise Jesus!

I get that you're poking fun that the whole boot-strappy thing tends to be a conservative Christian hallmark, but I'll point out that my church sends a team of 15-20 people every 8-12 months down to NO to help get stuff done.

Wow. It looks like someone dropped an atomic bomb

I see there's still a shortage of boat removal professionals.

Walker: Meanwhile in New Orleans, 6 YEARS after Hurricane Katrina.....

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Good to know I'm not the only one to realize what a joke New Orleans is

We get it Japan. You're better than us.

Well.. US, not us.

/Canadian.

simsite9: I was looking at the comparison photos, and thinking, "How in the hell have they managed to make so much progress so quickly?" because I couldn't imagine that kind of speed and concerted effort taking place here.

Then I realized how embarrassing that fact is.

When you consider national projects like the highway system or the moon landing, I truly wonder whether the US is even capable of envisioning such grandiose schemes, let alone making them a reality.

The US is absolutely capable of such things, providing that someone makes a f*ckton of money in the process. Otherwise you can just take your socialist ideas elsewhere.

Like Japan maybe.

If I remember correctly, a good number of Japanese people demanded that taxes be raised momentarily to help with the reconstruction efforts. Don't know if that ever actually happened and don't bother asking for a citation, but it highlights if they want to get it done they get it done.

cretinbob: That's because the Japanese aren't egocentric greedy pigfarkers

Or I can say 'This' and be done with it.

Walker: Meanwhile in New Orleans, 6 YEARS after Hurricane Katrina.....

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Slight difference ... Japan isn't filled with attractive and successful "you know who"s.

That stunned silence you hear is from the folks in Joplin, MO.

OK...where did they take all the debris?

/DNRTFA - looked at pictures
//much like Playboy
///without the fapping
//OK....a little fapping

They MUST keep the boat for a monument. That's fn awesome.

They cleaned up some trash and rebuilt nothing... yea for Japan.....

New Orleans is all trash, so how the hell is it going to be cleaned up?

Give it back to nature, instead of trying to control nature!

Before

After

INeedAName:

I get that you're poking fun that the whole boot-strappy thing tends to be a conservative Christian hallmark, but I'll point out that my church sends a team of 15-20 people every 8-12 months down to NO to help get stuff done.

Sooo, what are they doing down there? Praying, holding prayer groups or actually doing something?

Damn they cleaned the hell outta that hope the rebuilding goes as quick. What did they do with all the garbage though?

Headline last month: "Photos show Japan's recovery five months after earthquake/tsunami"
Headline in a month: "Photos show Japan's recovery seven months after earthquake/tsunami"
Headline in two months: Photos show Japan's recovery eight months after earthquake/tsunami"

geez...we do this same stuff each month.

bidness: Walker: Meanwhile in New Orleans, 6 YEARS after Hurricane Katrina.....

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Slight difference ... Japan isn't filled with attractive and successful "you know who"s.

Southerners? Republicans? God-a-fearin' folk?

/Give me a hint.

That's a hell of a van.

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Ok that's wholly appropriate and funny. Made me chuckle, thanks

ProfessorOhki: That's a hell of a van.

that van obviously just covers a hatch to a secret lair.

simsite9: I was looking at the comparison photos, and thinking, "How in the hell have they managed to make so much progress so quickly?" because I couldn't imagine that kind of speed and concerted effort taking place here.

Then I realized how embarrassing that fact is.

When you consider national projects like the highway system or the moon landing, I truly wonder whether the US is even capable of envisioning such grandiose schemes, let alone making them a reality.

Come to Tuscaloosa and look at the clean up done down here. It is pretty amazing to see what has been done. 5 months ago, we had a scar of destruction split the city. Now we have a really flat, spacious corridor that confuses the hell out of me when I drive through it.

This vessel is secretly being converted to a starship

Walker: Meanwhile in New Orleans, 6 YEARS after Hurricane Katrina.....

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Meh, fark New Orleans. Cute Japanese girls are more important than a bunch of swamp dwellers.

loonatic112358: This vessel is secretly being converted to a starship

frogdammit

Link (new window)

Seriously....what is up with that van?

blather_wince_repeat: Seriously....what is up with that van?

The photographer probably parked it there as a point reference when taking the pictures.

simsite9: I was looking at the comparison photos, and thinking, "How in the hell have they managed to make so much progress so quickly?" because I couldn't imagine that kind of speed and concerted effort taking place here.

Then I realized how embarrassing that fact is.

When you consider national projects like the highway system or the moon landing, I truly wonder whether the US is even capable of envisioning such grandiose schemes, let alone making them a reality.

That's what makes them such great achievements. No just becasue they are great, but becasue they were done from the depths of chaos. Our (US) society is not at all this organized -- now imagine how much more we could do if we were.

lucksi: INeedAName:

I get that you're poking fun that the whole boot-strappy thing tends to be a conservative Christian hallmark, but I'll point out that my church sends a team of 15-20 people every 8-12 months down to NO to help get stuff done.

Sooo, what are they doing down there? Praying, holding prayer groups or actually doing something?

I know its not really common knowledge but the majority of people that went down to NO to really help them clean up after Katrina were church and religious groups. I have been down twice with my mom's church (I am not all that religious) and we have worked our asses off both times helping tear apart houses and rebuild what we could. I know the religious-right gets a bad wrap (for good reason sometimes) but there are a lot of them that really do a lot of good things. If fact the only people that were down there to help the first time I went (about 4 months after the storm) were church groups, and it was really backbreaking work. Getting rid of furniture and drywall as well as dead pets and just muck was incredibly disgusting. Funny, the whole time I was down there I did not any of the big groups that had spent so much time criticizing the government, trying to help out. It seems like a lot of people spent more time complaining then really doing anything really helpful.

Walker: Meanwhile in New Orleans, 6 YEARS after Hurricane Katrina.....

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That looks like an improvement.

Walker: Meanwhile in New Orleans, 6 YEARS after Hurricane Katrina.....

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Not a fair comparison. On the on hand you have a bunch of Japanese on the other a bunch of Louisianians, the majority of which were welfare recipients.

The people whom it was made to support are really grateful. However, it thinks that in fact it takes long time from this.

ご支援頂きました方々、本当に有難う。でも本当はこれからが長い時間がかかると思います。

My sentiments exactry.

hasty ambush: Walker: Meanwhile in New Orleans, 6 YEARS after Hurricane Katrina.....

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Not a fair comparison. On the on hand you have a bunch of Japanese on the other a bunch of Louisianians, the majority of which were welfare recipients.

Yea, no shiat. It would've gone against ALL of their ideals to actually help out rather than complain and hold their hands out.

simsite9: I was looking at the comparison photos, and thinking, "How in the hell have they managed to make so much progress so quickly?" because I couldn't imagine that kind of speed and concerted effort taking place here.

Then I realized how embarrassing that fact is.

When you consider national projects like the highway system or the moon landing, I truly wonder whether the US is even capable of envisioning such grandiose schemes, let alone making them a reality.

Envision? Yes.

Making them a reality once we got around all the regulations , permitting, uion contracting and insurance issues along with the inevitable environmentalists and NIMBY army of lawyers to prevent it?

Maybe

Peninsula Towns Sue To Stop High-Speed Rail Project (new window)

California environmentalist sue to block Solar Farm, $1.8 billion 399MW project (new window)


You will note in one picture the caption stated that "student volunteers getting rid of smaller rubble in a cleared field."

Can you imagine that happening in the US? In the USA parents cannot even volunteer t their kid's school without a union getting its panties in a collective wad"

Even if we did allow for student volunteers the OSHA and child labor laws woudl probably not make it worth having them.


Union squelches Tacoma school volunteers at weekend work party (new window)


Petaluma school union tries to stop parent volunteer (new window)

Why is it that a so called "act of god" is never a good thing?

Clean up after a combo earthquake/tsunami in 6 months?

INeedAName: BKITU: simsite9: I was looking at the comparison photos, and thinking, "How in the hell have they managed to make so much progress so quickly?" because I couldn't imagine that kind of speed and concerted effort taking place here.

Then I realized how embarrassing that fact is.

Walker: Meanwhile in New Orleans, 6 YEARS after Hurricane Katrina.....

A national movement to rebuild an area destroyed by natural disaster is un-American. Not allowing the residents to bootstrap themselves back into good houses encourages laziness. Anyway, volunteers are enough to do all the good deeds necessary, praise Jesus!

I get that you're poking fun that the whole boot-strappy thing tends to be a conservative Christian hallmark, but I'll point out that my church sends a team of 15-20 people every 8-12 months down to NO to help get stuff done.

Your church sends down people to help but how much work are the residents of N.O. actually doing for themselves?

Tendancy to over-dew it: Joplin

I started volunteering in Joplin a few weeks after the tornado and spent about 40 hours there over a month. In the beginning there was little progress. Debris was piling up at the streets and many areas looked like they hadn't been touched. Soon afterwards FEMA contractors clearing debris from the curb became commonplace, often being done the day the debris had been piled there. Joplin had a weird system that left debris removal and demolition up to the homeowner with volunteers, private contractors, insurance, and government contractors all playing a role. A building moratorium was put in place in some areas to speed debris removal and that upset quite a few people that wanted things to move faster. I believe this moratorium was lifted soon after and now Extreme Home Makeover is building 7 houses in 7 days.

I haven't been to Joplin since July but the progress you're going to see in Joplin is similar to what the Japan photos show (though of course the area affected was much smaller). Adults were put in charge of FEMA between New Orleans and Joplin and the difference is night and day. Some politicians, like Eric Cantor, tried to make political hay out of the situation. Instead of using a disaster to hold the federal budget hostage he should have put on some gloves, grabbed a shovel, and done something useful.

impaler: cretinbob: That's because the Japanese aren't egocentric greedy pigfarkers easily frightened by pundits indiscriminately screaming "socialism!" filled with ambulance chasing lawyers and union bosses looking for a quick buck, nor corrupt mayors and other "community leaders" placing blame on everyone but themselves.


Further fixed for reality.

The japanese are farking amazing.... My local grocery store had a partial roof collapse like four months ago and that motherfarker is STILL closed, yet, in Sendai Zeuss laid waste the the entire city and those industrious motherfarkers have businesses open and things marginally functional already.

/Mentioning New Orleans is like calling the retarded kid for double-dribbling at the basketball court.