Posted on 09/06/2005 3:06:35 PM PDT by wildbill
I take it the Trump Tower is full?
Some moron on CNN was talking about how this disaster has been particularly hard on the homeless. I had to think that one through-they had no homes before Katrina, they have no homes after Katrina. I'm so confused.
Hell no - we won't go !
Sure they do. What could be better than sharing your bedroom and bathroom with 10,000 of your closest friends? </sarcasm>
Did you read the whole article? Some don't want to go back and live over water. Do you blame them? The sight of water is traumatic for some. Some want to go on with their lives. They're still looking for family members. Do you have any compassion? They have lost everything, including family members. Can we give them any control of their lives? do they get a say in any of this? My God.
Deep psychological scars from unconscious memories of ancestors coming over in slave ships.
To live on a CRUISE SHIP?? Yes I would consider it. :)
There is a good reason they will not go to the cruise ships. It's the same reason so many of them stayed on their roofs. For those of you that aren't familiar with blacks, and I'm not being racist here, swimming is not their forte. Many are deathly afraid of water. Many will not get on a boat to save their lives. I'm not being facetious, but just telling you the way it is.
Seems like once a month or so passengers on a cruise ship are getting sick from the food or water. It would be a shame if some trouble-makers from NOLA start trouble on a boat.
And the forced limbo contests are even worse.<
Stay in the Dome - Houston has its annual two weeks of nice weather coming up in October.
hehe..me too..almost spit up some beer on this rather expensive laptop..I'd have done the only thing I possibly could if that would have happened...I'D HAVE BLAMED BUSH...:)
Um, are y'all a little surprised that people who lived their whole lives between a giant lake and a giant river don't know how to swim and are afraid of water? It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry at this.
Everybody to Detroit. No exceptions.
Gee. What a surprise.
We are, by and large, talking about people for whom every single major life decision (other than to become pregnant) has been made for them by a social worker.
So now they balk. Is anybody surprised by this?
Yea, when I lived there we always used to say that Houston definitely DOES have 4 seasons...Early Summer, Summer, Late Summer and Next Summer..:)
I was talking to my husband this week end and just think about how hard their life is in the Dome.
The Cruise Ship would be so much better. There, they could have a private conversation, private "intimate" time. I just don't get their thinking pattern...
Imagine the frustrations of living in one heck of a big campground! I hate camping.
The Superdome will be ready for them again as soon as all the blood and poop is hosed out and the Febreze is sprayed.
I wouldn't want to go, either. They are safe in the Astrodome, all those cabins and narrow hallways are potentially much, much more difficult to police.
Not that reason and logic will get in the way of the knee-jerk political self-righteousness. Honestly, I see little difference between what Jesse Jackson said and much of the filth posted here by the same handful of spammers, different sides of the same coin. Amazing how each post a swarm shows up to kick the refugees for the smallest of things.
I guess some things never change. The same types bashed Jesus for dining with tax collectors and healing on the Sabbath.
I did see a story recently about all those empty houses up there in D-troit.
One of the cables just played a clip of two people in the Astrodome regarding going out to the ship.
One woman said she didn't want anything to do with water.
The man said he didn't like the Port of Galveston, would prefer the Port of Houston and if they changed the ports, he might reconsider.
I actually think that these people believe they will be sailing away and not remaining in port.
And maybe they don't realize they will have a private room and bath on the cruise ship.
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