Posted on 09/08/2005 8:43:06 AM PDT by yankeedame
SPARSE NOTES TODAY
-The Boortz Show is a bit short-staffed, and Nealz Nuze is taking the hit ... but I do have some random thoughts to share
-We're now about 10 days out from the seawall break in New Orleans. There are tens of thousands of people from New Orleans and Mississippi who are in desperate straights ... but the most pathetic people out there are those who have been working so earnestly over the last week to blame this situation on George Bush. Funny how hate can make you so irrational.
-Speaking of irrational ... how many fools do we still have running around unsupervised spouting that absurd "war for oil" line ... other than Cindy Sheehan of course.
-The feds are handing out $2000 debit cards to hurricane victims. Question: Why is a victim of Hurricane Katrina more entitled to a $2000 debit card from the American taxpayers than would be a woman in Sepulveda who's home was destroyed by fire last week? Just what is the role of private insurance here?
- Did you hear about the St. Rita's nursing home near New Orleans? The staff abandoned the nursing home, leaving the patients behind. The patients tried to barricade the doors using anything they could get their hands on, including wheelchairs. Rescuers found 30 bodies in that nursing home yesterday. Bush's fault, wasn't it?
--There are some wealthy residents of certain high-end neighborhoods in New Orleans who have hired private security guards to protect their properties. They are having bottled water and food helicoptered in to their homes. This, according to some television news anchors, is a bad thing. I guess the rule is that no wealthy person should be allowed to use their resources to obtain food and water if there is one pour family out there that doesn't have the supplies they need.
- Howard Dean was screaming yesterday about the fact that [* See note at bottom] so many of the hurricane victims were poor and black. First of all, Howard, two-thirds of New Orleans is black. Big "duh" there. Secondly; it should be no surprise that the "poor" are disproportionately affected by disasters such as this. Survival often depends on resourcefulness, self-reliance and the ability (or willingness) to make tough decisions -- traits that aren't exactly evident in those we call poor.
-Now listen to this ... Democrat Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid is now questioning whether or not George Bush's so-called "vacation" at his Crawford ranch contributed to the ineffective response to Hurricane Katrina. Yeah -- that's it. People died because Bush was in Texas and not in Washington DC.
-More unimaginable violence in New Orleans. While authorities were trying to evacuate patients from a New Orleans hospital yesterday they had a bit of a problem. They were being shot at. That's right ... predators were shooting at patients as they were being evacuated from a hospital. And what would Sean Penn, Pierce Brosnan, Celine Dion, Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy, Michael Moore and the rest of the angry left have to say about this? Bush's fault, of course.
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I couldn't get this quote to hotlink to the site, so here it is:
Dean: Race played role in Katrina death toll
Democratic Party chairman calls for nation to confront ‘ugly truth’
The Associated Press
Updated: 8:20 a.m. ET Sept. 8, 2005
MIAMI - Race was a factor in the death toll from Hurricane Katrina, Howard Dean told members of the National Baptist Convention of America on Wednesday at the group’s annual meeting.
Dean, chairman of the Democratic Party, made the comments to the Baptists’ Political and Social Justice Commission. The National Baptist Convention, with an estimated 3.5 million members, is one of the largest black religious groups in the country.
“We must ... come to terms with the ugly truth that skin color, age and economics played a deadly role in who survived and who did not,” Dean said.
Dean said Americans have a moral responsibility to not ignore the devastating damage caused by Hurricane Katrina when it struck the Gulf Coast.
The former presidential candidate said the government will be judged by how it treats the old, the young and the poor.
‘They are not refugees’
“People are poor in different parts of the country. They are not refugees. They are Americans,” he said.
Dean said that instead of considering proposed estate tax breaks, the Senate should channel the money into disaster relief.
“Shall we give that to the wealthiest people in the country, or should we rebuild New Orleans?” Dean said.
Dean also urged the government to exempt victims of Hurricane Katrina from a stricter new bankruptcy law for one year.
Ken Mehlman, Dean’s counterpart at the Republican National Committee, said he hoped Dean “will match his rhetoric with his support for reforms that replace bureaucracy and entitlement with hope and opportunity.”
Stephen J. Thurston, president of the National Baptist Convention, said there was a lack of response and sensitivity by the government following the Gulf Coast disaster.
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© 2005 MSNBC.com
URL: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9247380/
"Pathetic" is not quite the term I would use. How about "intentionally dishonest", which can be shortened to "liars".
Clearly, Howard Dean doesn't care about white people.
Up until 1994, Democrats controlled both houses of the US congress. For 40 years. Not that long ago, they had the Seanate too.
For as long as I can recall, the Mayor of NO and Gov. of LA have been (liberal) democrats.
In the 5 1/2 years Mr Bush has been in office, he has NOT vetoed one (count them: 1) legislative bill. This includes budgets written by the two houses which could/would have included money for light rail and levy maintenance.
Democrats purport to have the answer for a better society. In all those years they have been in power locally and federally, there was no mass transit, e.g light rail, that could be used to extract their citizens in the face of disaster. The job and living conditions in many NO neighborhoods is deplorable and has been for decades.
If Dims think that Bush's "slow" response of 1 or so days would make up for years of their gross ineptitude, they are (should I say it?) NUTS.
And to Dr. Howard Dean, who has not volunteered his medical expertise in the hurricane area because he is afraid of touching black people, bite me.
The hatemongers on the left are getting more delusional than they already were. This will backfire bigtime. The majority of white americans are getting sick and tired of being called racists every time something bad happens to a minority.
When it comes out what role these factors played, Dean will wish he had not brought it up.
A future opportunity. Some of these upscale malls would pay a pretty penny.
100 years ago today, Galveston Texas lost 6000 citizens in a Cat-5 hurricane. They happen about the same time each year huh.
Survival often depends on resourcefulness, self-reliance and the ability (or willingness) to make tough decisions -- traits that aren't exactly evident in those we call poor.Absolutely. If they had resourcefulness, self-reliance and the ability to make tough decisions, traits that can be learned rather easily, they would not be poor.
And for those of you who are now screaming, "upchuck is a RACIST," y'all knock yerselves out.
Those qualities are independent of skin color. (Thomas Sowell is black ... no more need be said.) So I can't imagine why anyone would consider your comments racist.
"The majority of white americans are getting sick and tired of being called racists every time something bad happens to a minority."
If I could think that I'd cheer. If it becomes even evident to many that only whites can be racist then perhaps we have a chance at survival of a remnant of white people.
It's perfectly okay to fight for the survival of blacks, browns, yellows or pinks. It is acceptable for Jews to publicly speak about the need to only marry Jews (I agree); or Islamics to only marry Islamics (I agree) but try thinking that about whites and one will be placed on the typical lists for extinction fielded particularly by blacks and Jews and Islamics.
There is no white race, black race, yellow race. There is a human race. When a species can mate and produce offspring (Bio major), there is no difference. When people stop standing up for one 'race' or the other, Society will be better off. My Uncle who died in 1971 often said...someday we will all be sort of cream colored. I long for that day.
Give it to the wealthist, of course! They'll do a whole lot more to lifting the economy than rebuilding NOLA.
At the suggestion of writer Michelle Malkin last Friday, I have cobbled together a blogsite called Texas Clearinghouse for Katrina Aid to serve as a clearinghouse for refugee efforts in Texas.
Texas is getting more refugees than any other state -- that's fine, we'll take them all -- but we need help providing them with food, clothing, medicine, and shelter. We need help taking care of their pets, too.
If you are a refugee, you can information that will help you find relief. If you want to donate or volunteer, you can find someone who needs you. Believe me, there are a lot of organizations who need your help.
Right now the site mostly covers Houston, San Antonio, and Dallas but I'm adding more every night. My wife was down at Reunion Arena in Dallas Tuesday handing out care packages and spiritually ministering to the refugees as a representative of her employer. She says that the situation is tragic and that there's a lot of work to be done. There are so many children who don't know where their parents are or even if their parents are still alive.
There are a lot of churches and other organizations in Texas that need help in dealing with the problem and I would appreciate it if you would get the word out.
Many thanks,
Michael McCullough
Stingray blogsite
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