Re: Some Katrina observations from the scene


<rdean3REMOVE@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> You guys have been watching your CNN, right?

CNN......CNN......that's got a familiar ring to it. Hm.....isn't that the
group that posted this story?:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/06/brazile.rescue/index.html

So, they finally got CNN in northeastern Iowa, huh? Well, good for you (and
them, I guess). :)

> And so, you should realize
> that almost everyone in charge in NO elected, hired, or appointed, and
> before, during, and after the storm, is black, right?

And almost everyone who didn't do anything about relief for several days as
well.......right? Despite the ubiquitous (and liberal biased) media, very
few Murricans even today realize that bush is black. I suppose that most
know by now that the Under Secretary of Emergency Preparedness and Response
is brown......but that's really not the same thing at all, is it?

> This has nothing
> to do with racism because it simply wouldn't be possible

Well, of course not. Why the very thought......

> - there are
> simply too many black leaders involved, including in the Guard,
> military, etc.

And, as everyone knows, as goes the guard, so goes the nation.

> Not rushing to help the few people who didn't help themselves,

SLACKERS! This is what comes of not swimming to Wal Mart to buy a skyhook
at the first sign of water-filled lungs! :(

> and
> before helping those who tried to help themselves, or worse, rushing to
> help those who are trying to hurt the helper isn't racism, it's simply
> emergency management in a disaster for which no one could have been
> _totally_ prepped.

Yeah! Who could possibly have known a mere few days after a natural
disaster of this magnitude that a couple of thousand people stranded in the
hot sun without water might get thirsty? (anybody want to take a stab at
guessing how long it would have taken to evacute say....oh.....a couple
thousand U. S. Marines from the Superdome at the first polite request for
assistance if they were stranded without water?.......a couple of U.S
Senators?.....Bill Gates?.....a Lutheran convention from Minneapolis?)

> And notice there's no similar charges/rants regarding MS, which had much
> more "instant" physical destruction and a lot more displaced people vs
> those who in NO who were told to leave.

Not your first suggestion that those who stayed in New Orleans got what they
deserved. Nor, if memory serves (and it does) are you the only person "on
the ground" who has suggested that those who stayed in New Orleans got what
they deserved. Actually, they got better than they deserved, didn't they?
They SHOULD have been sold down the river......hey, that's how their great
granparents got there in the first place, ainna? :)

As a matter of fact, these things have a way of working themselves out.
Watch. In the next few months they are most certainly going to be sold down
the river. The first land grab has not only started, but is already pretty
much finished in Baton Rouge, with the real estate brokers and speculators
garnering a prodigious windfall profit while simultaneously painting
themselves as victims.....hey, there's almost nothing left to sell! Poor
bastards. :(

> Given the magnitude of the situation, I don't know of a single person
> _directly_ involved, regardless of race, political party or leaning,
> that hasn't given at least 110% (and that includes Nagin, who I don't
> like and Compass, who I do).

Given the colossal love and compassion exemplified by your own humble self,
we have a hard time imagining that a single person _directly_ involved is
giving much less than about 227% (roughly).

> To those, a very large group of people,
> myself included, say thanks and you did and are doing your best.

You are MUCH too modest.

> I also know, however, about a whole bunch of outsiders of just about
> every political persuasion, sitting in air-conditioned space watching
> CNN and reading the NYT with a cold drink and a hot meal, that haven't
> even given 1%, yet seem to have all the answers.

Names, man.......we need NAMES! Less than 1%! Scandalous! Absolutely
scandalous! I hereby officially point the finger of shame at all of you.
And when I find out who you are (and I am confident that dicklet has a list
in his pocket [looks like a really BIG one, too :)] and will soon make
it available) I shall add further select words and phrases of opprobrium.
You may rely upon it!

> To those, that same
> large group, again myself included, says *** you, we will get this mess
> cleaned up, and when we do, why don't you go to Atlantic City...or
> hell...

And, the distinction is......? Well, never mind that for now. We'll sort
it out later. We have more important considerations to deal with at the
moment. What sort of mess have you made up there in Decorah and, more
importantly, what can we do to help you clean it up?

Wolfgang
who is simply appalled that so much attention is being diverted from the
needy in the heartland and lavished on those scalawags down in NO who, after
all, only got what they deserved.


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