Posted on 09/08/2005 2:35:50 AM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
We offered to take in a family - heard 300 evacuees were coming to Pittsburgh. Plane touched down yesterday - but no one was on it. Guess it's too cold here???
Read on FR yesterday as well that 10 busses went from DC and came back with one evacuee.
It just irritated me. I looked at the level of commitment folks here in Tooele valley put in, just to be slapped in the face, and it bothered me.
As for future donations, and if called on for this one, I'll be there......Bob
They won't know real racism until they actually DO get to Boston...
I don't think Ed Brooke was ever called an "African-American". Thankfully he never had to hear that silly made-up foolishness. I refuse to use the term.
That's what I hear, Paisan. And I've heard it just about all my life.
Of course those open-minded, enlightened folks (Mike Barnicle comes to mind) also don't confine their prejudice to just race. Have you ever read one of Barnicle's screeds about New Hampshire?
Massachusetts is the best thing to happen to New Hampshire. The people come there in droves to take advantage of NO SALES TAX, better roads, cleaner air...
But, the enlightened MASSholes still refer to it as Cow Hampshire.
Sad...
No truer words were ever spoken.
Amen, brother.
''Boston? Isn't it cold up there?" said a woman listening nearby.
How does that explain all the migrants from Puerto Rico, Guatamala, etc? They don't seem to mind the cold. NY has enough of NO type welfare; we don't need more. If they don't want to come, that's fine by me. As for food, all I can say is: BUFFALO WINGS!
I don't mind it being called Cow Hampshire. I call it that myself. And the MASSholes get called MASSholes, and worse, by us! My wife was from Mass. Her father was a died-in-the-wool union man. Carried their water all the way from the well. He always called me either a "hay shaker" or a "Sh!tkicker from New Hampshre".
It was because he was jealous. ":^)
Thankfully, his oldest daughter has long ago seen the light!
'People want to feel as normal as possible, and going up North won't give you the same feeling the South will give you."
She's so right. We'd like to take in every last one of them here in Nebraska, but they just wouldn't be happy here. In fact, I'm really, truly and sincerely bummed out by this article in today's local paper:
At least for now, Nebraska shelters will not be called upon to house evacuees from areas hard hit by Hurricane Katrina. Nebraska and other secondary relocation spots were put on standby Wednesday by the federal government, meaning they may be called upon later or they may never be used.
“I suspect the situation is going to change hour by hour, day by day,” said Gov. Dave Heineman, shortly after informing the mayors of Omaha and Lincoln and other state emergency officials of the decision.
The Omaha Civic Auditorium had been prepared with cots, phones, showers and other necessities to handle 500 evacuees and St. Mark’s United Methodist Church in Lincoln was ready to handle 200.
Both of those shelters — the two primary ones prepared in Nebraska for hurricane evacuees — should keep everything ready for the next week or two as the situation is evaluated, Heineman said.
Other possible shelters can be identified, but it is not necessary to prepare them for evacuees, the governor said.
“We’re very early in the stage of recovery,” Heineman said. “We all need to be prepared to be flexible.”
The standby order, delivered to governors Wednesday morning over a conference call directed by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Michael Brown, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will last at least a week, Heineman said.
“It is our understanding that many evacuees prefer to stay closer to home as they resolve issues regarding property, employment, finances and the safety and status of family members,” Heineman said.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t hurricane victims in Nebraska.
It is estimated by the Nebraska chapter of the American Red Cross that between 200 and 300 people from the Gulf Coast region have relocated to Nebraska, at least temporarily, on their own, said Heineman’s spokesman Aaron Sanderford. Many of those people have relatives in the state or other ties to the area that brought them to Nebraska.
If any evacuees are brought en masse to the state, they are expected to be processed through Omaha. Thousands of people who lost their homes in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama because of Hurricane Katrina already have been relocated to a number of states, most of them in the South.
While Nebraska continues to await official word from FEMA about housing evacuees, other organizations are reaching out. The People’s City Mission in Lincoln planned to take a bus to Louisiana and Mississippi to bring back up to 200 people.
For now, any Nebraskan who wants to help should donate money to help the ongoing relief efforts, Heineman said.
Oh hush, you're making me homesick for my momma. :o) Maybe if some enterprising evacuees opened restaurants up there with this menu............
No one with a welfare mentality will want to go where there's a threat of having to get a job and actually WORK for a living. Oh! The HORRORS!
*snicker* You got that one right, sister!
Some folks in my homeschooler network were all ready to gather items they thought the evacuees could use and take the stuff up to Otis AFB, when it was announced the folks didn't want to come up here. They were a little surprised. I had to remind them that these folks were coming from a semi-tropical environment, and that the winters might be a TAD hard on them! Heck, I've been up here 18 yrs. now and I STILL don't like the winters!
I'm praying hard for this!! Anything to get them away from the poverty pimps and race baiters!
And the only place they'd get a decent bowl of gumbo would be MY house in the western 'burbs'! ;o)
The doctors will love that diet lol
You are 100% correct. I vote to put you in charge, a good dose of common sense is what is needed!!
I saw on the news that Pittsburgh was ready for some 300 families. The housing was quite nice, they got private bathrooms, kids had toys and backpacks, they were lining up schools for them. There were goody bags, people were waiting to counsel them and help them find jobs. They are still waiting. I can't imagine why someone would turn that down, and the icing on the cake would be to spend the football season in the Burgh!! Come on people, we are talking about the Steelers!!
There's a whole lot of black people in Boston who probably disagree.
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