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Old September 7th, 2005, 10:23 AM
PJ O'Donovan
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Default Katrina: A response to the vultures of the left

The vultures of the venomous left are attacking on two fronts, first
that the president didn't do what the incompetent mayor of New Orleans
and the pouty governor of Louisiana should have done, and didn't, in
the early hours after Katrina loosed the deluge on the city that care
and good judgment forgot. Ray Nagin, the mayor, ordered a "mandatory"
evacuation a day late, but kept the city's 2,000 school buses parked
and locked in neat rows when there was still time to take the refugees
to higher ground. The bright-yellow buses sit ruined now in four feet
of dirty water. Then the governor, Kathleen Blanco, resisted early
pleas to declare martial law, and her dithering opened the way for
looters, rapists and killers to make New Orleans an unholy hell. Gov.
Haley Barbour did not hesitate in neighboring Mississippi, and looters,
rapists and killers have not turned the streets of Gulfport and Biloxi
into killing fields.
The drumbeat of partisan ingratitude continues even after the
president flooded the city with National Guardsmen from a dozen states,
paratroopers from Fort Bragg and Marines from the Atlantic and the
Pacific. The flutter and chatter of the helicopters above the ghostly
abandoned city, some of them from as far away as Singapore and
averaging 240 missions a day, is eerily reminiscent of the last days of
Saigon. Nevertheless, Sen. Mary Landrieu, who seems to think she's cute
when she's mad, even threatened on national television to punch out the
president -- a felony, by the way, even as a threat. Mayor Nagin, who
you might think would be looking for a place to hide, and Gov. Blanco,
nursing a bigtime snit, can't find the right word of thanks to a nation
pouring out its heart and emptying its pockets. Maybe the senator
should consider punching out the governor, only a misdemeanor.
The race hustlers waited for three days to inflame a tense
situation, but then set to work with their usual dedication. The Revs.
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, our self-appointed twin ambassadors of
ill will, made the scene as soon as they could, taking up the coded cry
that Katrina was the work of white folks, that a shortage of white
looters and snipers made looting and sniping look like black crime,
that calling the refugees "refugees" was an act of linguistic racism. A
"civil rights activist" on Arianna Huffington's celebrity blog even
floated the rumor that the starving folks abandoned in New Orleans had
been forced to eat their dead -- after only four days. New Orleans has
a reputation for its unusual cuisine, but this tale was so tall that
nobody paid it much attention. Neither did anyone tell the tale-bearer
to put a dirty sock in it.
Condi Rice went to the scene to say what everyone can see for
himself, that no one but the race hustlers imagine Americans of any hue
attaching strings to the humanitarian aid pouring into the broken and
bruised cities of the Gulf. Most of the suffering faces in the
flickering television images are black, true enough, and most of the
helping hands are white.
Black and white churches of all denominations across a wide swath
of the South stretching from Texas across Arkansas and Louisiana into
Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and Georgia turned their
Sunday schools into kitchens and dormitories. In Memphis, Junior
Leaguers turned out for baby-sitting duty at the city's largest, most
fashionable and nearly all white Baptist church, cradling tiny black
infants in compassionate arms so their mothers could finally sleep. The
owner of a honky-tonk showed up to ask whether the church would "accept
money from a bar." A pastor took $1,400, some of it in quarters, dimes
and nickels, with grateful thanks and a promise to see that it is spent
wisely on the deserving -- most of whom are black.
The first polls, no surprise, show the libels are not working. A
Washington Post-ABC survey found that the president is not seen as the
villain the nutcake left is trying to make him out to be. Americans,
skeptical as ever, are believing their own eyes.

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Old September 7th, 2005, 11:18 AM
Euro
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PJ O'Donovan wrote:

The drumbeat of partisan ingratitude continues even after the
president flooded the city


I guess that's what the "vultures from the left" have always said: the
President "flooded the city"!

Euro

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Old September 7th, 2005, 11:33 AM
PJ O'Donovan
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PJ O'Donovan wrote:
The drumbeat of partisan ingratitude continues even after the
president flooded the city

I guess that's what the "vultures from the left" have always said: the
President "flooded the city"!

Euro

That conspiracy theory has already been hatched by you nutcakes on the
left. The following exchange took place yesterday or was it the day
before?

At the tail end of the press conference with Clinton & Bush 41, I
thought I
heard some idiot ask about the levee purposely being damaged...
Mike

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200 50905/us_nm/katrina_race_dc

Conspiracy theories also sprouted among Hurricane Katrina evacuees
camping out at Houston's Astrodome. Several told Reuters they suspected
black residential areas were flooded purposely in an effort to divert
water from white housing..."

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Old September 7th, 2005, 11:37 AM
Euro
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PJ O'Donovan wrote:
PJ O'Donovan wrote:
The drumbeat of partisan ingratitude continues even after the
president flooded the city

I guess that's what the "vultures from the left" have always said: the
President "flooded the city"!

Euro

That conspiracy theory has already been hatched by you nutcakes on the
left.


Now, either you are a "nutcake on the left", or you are a "nitcake on
the right" using that conspiracy theory: I never said anything like
"the President flooded the city", while it appears (right above) that
you did.

Euro

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Old September 7th, 2005, 11:44 AM
PJ O'Donovan
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I guess that's what the "vultures from the left" have always said:
the
President "flooded the city"!
Euro

I never said anything like
"the President flooded the city", while it appears (right above) that
you did.

Euro

You didn't say it. You just snipped the relevant part:

""..."the president flooded the city" with National Guardsmen from a
dozen states, paratroopers from Fort Bragg and Marines from the
Atlantic and the
Pacific..""

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to point that out again.

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Old September 7th, 2005, 12:05 PM
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From: "PJ O'Donovan"
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Newsgroups: alt.activism.death-penalty,rec.travel.europe,talk.politics.misc
Date: 7 Sep 2005 02:23:41 -0700
Subject: Katrina: A response to the vultures of the left

The vultures of the venomous left are attacking on two fronts, first
that the president didn't do what the incompetent mayor of New Orleans
and the pouty governor of Louisiana should have done, and didn't, in
the early hours after Katrina loosed the deluge on the city that care
and good judgment forgot. Ray Nagin, the mayor, ordered a "mandatory"
evacuation a day late, but kept the city's 2,000 school buses parked
and locked in neat rows when there was still time to take the refugees
to higher ground. The bright-yellow buses sit ruined now in four feet
of dirty water. Then the governor, Kathleen Blanco, resisted early
pleas to declare martial law, and her dithering opened the way for
looters, rapists and killers to make New Orleans an unholy hell. Gov.
Haley Barbour did not hesitate in neighboring Mississippi, and looters,
rapists and killers have not turned the streets of Gulfport and Biloxi
into killing fields.
The drumbeat of partisan ingratitude continues even after the
president flooded the city with National Guardsmen from a dozen states,
paratroopers from Fort Bragg and Marines from the Atlantic and the
Pacific. The flutter and chatter of the helicopters above the ghostly
abandoned city, some of them from as far away as Singapore and
averaging 240 missions a day, is eerily reminiscent of the last days of
Saigon. Nevertheless, Sen. Mary Landrieu, who seems to think she's cute
when she's mad, even threatened on national television to punch out the
president -- a felony, by the way, even as a threat. Mayor Nagin, who
you might think would be looking for a place to hide, and Gov. Blanco,
nursing a bigtime snit, can't find the right word of thanks to a nation
pouring out its heart and emptying its pockets. Maybe the senator
should consider punching out the governor, only a misdemeanor.
The race hustlers waited for three days to inflame a tense
situation, but then set to work with their usual dedication. The Revs.
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, our self-appointed twin ambassadors of
ill will, made the scene as soon as they could, taking up the coded cry
that Katrina was the work of white folks, that a shortage of white
looters and snipers made looting and sniping look like black crime,
that calling the refugees "refugees" was an act of linguistic racism. A
"civil rights activist" on Arianna Huffington's celebrity blog even
floated the rumor that the starving folks abandoned in New Orleans had
been forced to eat their dead -- after only four days. New Orleans has
a reputation for its unusual cuisine, but this tale was so tall that
nobody paid it much attention. Neither did anyone tell the tale-bearer
to put a dirty sock in it.
Condi Rice went to the scene to say what everyone can see for
himself, that no one but the race hustlers imagine Americans of any hue
attaching strings to the humanitarian aid pouring into the broken and
bruised cities of the Gulf. Most of the suffering faces in the
flickering television images are black, true enough, and most of the
helping hands are white.
Black and white churches of all denominations across a wide swath
of the South stretching from Texas across Arkansas and Louisiana into
Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama and Georgia turned their
Sunday schools into kitchens and dormitories. In Memphis, Junior
Leaguers turned out for baby-sitting duty at the city's largest, most
fashionable and nearly all white Baptist church, cradling tiny black
infants in compassionate arms so their mothers could finally sleep. The
owner of a honky-tonk showed up to ask whether the church would "accept
money from a bar." A pastor took $1,400, some of it in quarters, dimes
and nickels, with grateful thanks and a promise to see that it is spent
wisely on the deserving -- most of whom are black.
The first polls, no surprise, show the libels are not working. A
Washington Post-ABC survey found that the president is not seen as the
villain the nutcake left is trying to make him out to be. Americans,
skeptical as ever, are believing their own eyes.


What is your source for the above? It is hard for me to believe that you
wrote it yourself. It is more literate and articulate than your usual
style. The name-calling is less crude.

Donna Evleth


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Old September 7th, 2005, 01:42 PM
Mr Q. Z. Diablo
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In article .com,
"Euro" wrote:

PJ O'Donovan wrote:
PJ O'Donovan wrote:
The drumbeat of partisan ingratitude continues even after the
president flooded the city

I guess that's what the "vultures from the left" have always said: the
President "flooded the city"!

Euro

That conspiracy theory has already been hatched by you nutcakes on the
left.


Now, either you are a "nutcake on the left", or you are a "nitcake on
the right" using that conspiracy theory: I never said anything like
"the President flooded the city", while it appears (right above) that
you did.


http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html

They seem to be a favourite of the ascendant right.

Hope this helps.

--
Mr Q. Z. D.
Remove luncheonmeat (truncheon) to reply.
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Old September 7th, 2005, 02:16 PM
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"Donna Evleth" wrote in message
...


From: "PJ O'Donovan"
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Newsgroups:
alt.activism.death-penalty,rec.travel.europe,talk.politics.misc
Date: 7 Sep 2005 02:23:41 -0700
Subject: Katrina: A response to the vultures of the left



The vultures of the venomous left are attacking on two fronts


snip


What is your source for the above? It is hard for me to believe that you
wrote it yourself. It is more literate and articulate than your usual
style. The name-calling is less crude.

Donna Evleth



I googled above, Donna, and found a source. Liberty Post.
I say a source because you never know - the anon. PJ may
have posted the article to them. I doubt it but one can never be
certain.

BTW do snip a little more often.


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Old September 7th, 2005, 03:32 PM
Tom Peel
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PJ O'Donovan wrote:
The vultures of the venomous left are attacking on two fronts, first
that the president didn't do what the incompetent mayor of New Orleans
and the pouty governor of Louisiana should have done, and didn't, in
the early hours after Katrina loosed the deluge on the city that care
and good judgment forgot.


I don't usually respond to x-posts in R.T.E, but seeing as I just
dragged out and reread the December 2001 issue of Scientific American,
the article "Drowning New Orleans", pg 68, I thought some quotes from
the last paragraph may be relevant:

"If Congress and President George W. Bush hear a unified call for
action, authorizing it would seem to be prudent. Restoring coastal
Louisiana would protect the country's seafood and shipping industries
and its oil and natural-gas supply. .. without action, the million
people outside New Orleans would have to locate. The other million
inside the bowl would live at the bottom of a sinking crater ,
surrounded by ever higher walls, trapped in a terminally ill city
dependent on nonstop pumping to keep it alive."

T.
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Old September 7th, 2005, 04:41 PM
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PJ O'Donovan wrote:

The first polls, no surprise, show the libels are not working. A
Washington Post-ABC survey found that the president is not seen as the
villain the nutcake left is trying to make him out to be.


No, most of us believe he is incompetent. He's too dumb to be a
nutcase; that requires some modicum of understanding.

As always in these things, the people on the ground know what they're
doing. It's management that is all screwed up, all the way to the White
House. Where was Bush for 2 days after the disaster? Where was Condi
Rice? Where was Cheney? On vacation. Not one saw fit to interrupt his
vacation even as the US lost one of its crown jewels. That's leadership
for you.

Compare that to the Guardsmen you tout so greatly; I bet most of them
were calling to volunteer. Bush did as always - hid behind advisors and
blamed the Democrats. Blech... What a failure.
 




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