I got this in an email, thought it was purdy good. FireStrut
Iowa floods
A couple questions from The National Review: Where are all of the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa and helping the folks affected by the floods? Where is all the media asking the tough questions about why the federal government hasn't solved the problem? Asking where the FEMA trucks (and trailers) are? Why isn't the Federal Government relocating Iowa people to free hotels in Chicago? When will Spike Lee say that the Federal Government blew up the levees that failed in Des Moines? Where are Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks? Where are all the looters stealing high-end tennis shoes and big screen television sets? When will we hear Governor Chet Culver say that he wants to rebuild a 'vanilla' Iowa, because that's the way God wants it? Where is the hysterical 24/7 media coverage complete with reports of cannibalism? Where are the people declaring that George Bush hates white, rural people? How come in 2 weeks, you will never hear about the Iowa flooding ever again?
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RE: Iowa Floods.
There is no "real" money in Iowa, the constituants have already been won, nothing to be made politically or financially there, and alot of people in the midwest don't own a TV. So nah I don't think manny will show up or remember it.
Those that think a Cat V hurricane in a poor, urban area is anything like water rising against levees along a river are sadly mistaken. But folks will race bait.
B.O., if you are referring to N.O. you are misinformed. Katrina hit/destroyed the MS Gulf Coast, not N.O. N.O. was destroyed due to corrupt state and local government officials ignoring years of warnings and doing "something" with money appropriated to repair the faulty levee system other than what it was appropriated for.
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Those that think a Cat V hurricane in a poor, urban area is anything like water rising against levees along a river are sadly mistaken. But folks will race bait.
Please tell me where exactly a Cat V huricane hit. It sure wasn't here in the US.
FYI, the water rose very slowly in NO.
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All I can think is that transportation was a lot more iffy in the middle of that hurricane in a big city than it is on country roads by the riverside. There is a good article on the failure of coordination of levee construction and maintenance out in the country. Check it out:
All I can think is that transportation was a lot more iffy in the middle of that hurricane in a big city than it is on country roads by the riverside. There is a good article on the failure of coordination of levee construction and maintenance out in the country. Check it out:
No matter. Po' blacks in New Orleans were much more important of a political football than poor whites
in Iowa. Can't finger-point or race-bait like 'usual'. Strangely tho', I've not heard of those po' white folks
looting DesMoines stores, they're not demanding prepaid credit-cards or free hotel stays. Makes me sick.
All I can think is that transportation was a lot more iffy in the middle of that hurricane in a big city than it is on country roads by the riverside. There is a good article on the failure of coordination of levee construction and maintenance out in the country. Check it out:
Honestly Beau, if the situation was turned around, you think all the folks of NO would be out there working to save thier town? You think all the people would be out there with sandbags toiling night and day doing everything they could to save thier community? Why in poor urban NO was the rescue boats being shot at? Why are unruly poor Iowaians not out causing trouble shooting at people for meaness? I mean, I have been to NO numerious times, and been to Iowa numerous times. There are some poor people in Iowa. Poor people in NO. I come from one of the most poverty stricken counties in the US. The tug river valley in Eastern Ky has faced severe floods, and my mother and I have lost litterly everything. But we had community members left and right giving us a place to stay, feeding us. Why does the community members of NO no practice this?
You dodge questions. You refuse to answer the real tough ones.
Those that think a Cat V hurricane in a poor, urban area is anything like water rising against levees along a river are sadly mistaken. But folks will race bait.
Laughable, you know it didn't happen
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All I can think is that transportation was a lot more iffy in the middle of that hurricane in a big city than it is on country roads by the riverside. There is a good article on the failure of coordination of levee construction and maintenance out in the country. Check it out:
Those that think a Cat V hurricane in a poor, urban area is anything like water rising against levees along a river are sadly mistaken. But folks will race bait.
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All I can think is that transportation was a lot more iffy in the middle of that hurricane in a big city than it is on country roads by the riverside.
Interesting. First of all, it was a Cat III hurricane. Second, the direct hit was in Mississippi. The flooding in N.O. was due to "water rising against levees along a river" and the levees failed, just like in Des Moines. Third, how is N.O. somehow more of an "urban area" than Des Moines? Both are roughly the same size.
Finally, how exactly is there any "race baiting" going on? Or, do you imagine that there are no blacks in Des Moines? Why is it somehow "racist" to point out the fact that folks were wading through the streets carrying looted televisions in N.O., but not in Des Moines?
Iowa Floods.
