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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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