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To: WestTexasWend
AHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
Grim thanksgivings are 13 pound turkeys instead of 20? Driving 45 minutes to a store to get all the food you can buy? 18 friends and family coming over for a gathering?
effing AP.
2 posted on
11/23/2005 6:39:43 AM PST by
tfecw
(It's for the children)
To: WestTexasWend
I won't be having turkey either...I have to work. But I paid my Insurance bill...
3 posted on
11/23/2005 6:40:44 AM PST by
Dallas59
(“You love life, while we love death.” - Al-Qaeda / Democratic Party)
To: WestTexasWend
The trailer the government bought me is too small to cook a 20 lb. turkey.
Just Dang!! An American tragedy.
Bush's fault.
4 posted on
11/23/2005 6:42:07 AM PST by
NaughtiusMaximus
(My exit strategy is Victory.)
To: WestTexasWend
Sorry...I have to take care of my home state first..
5 posted on
11/23/2005 6:42:15 AM PST by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: WestTexasWend
Peole in America not only have very little to cry over, they will complain about the bounty. Only a 13 LB turkey? Have to use a TV tray as a cutting board? A 45 minute drive? My wife brought home a 13 lb'r, I will use the cutting board on the coffee table so I won't miss any TV, and I drive 1 hour each way to work every day.....Oh YEAH, I go to work every day and do not need charity to survive.
If these people have to start over, why don't they move to a new city and get back to work?
There are a certain amount of people that will get caught without insurance because of a mixup, but dropping insurance with a hurricane always possible is pure stupidity.
The govt needs to quit subsidizing those that won't take care of themselves, and let them be pruned from the tree of citizenship.
6 posted on
11/23/2005 6:44:04 AM PST by
jeremiah
(People wake up, the water is getting hot)
To: WestTexasWend
the recent arrest of 125 illegals working on a construction site in PA, tells me there is a possible 125 LEGAL citizen families who would have been having a better thanksgiving IF THEY HAD THOSE JOBS
I can stretch too AP
7 posted on
11/23/2005 6:46:11 AM PST by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: WestTexasWend
"Despite the fact so many people have lost so much, there's a sense we have so much to be thankful for." Amen.
8 posted on
11/23/2005 6:47:34 AM PST by
Klatuu
To: WestTexasWend
Whaaaaa, the AP didn't write about the Thanksgiving we had out at the old farm place. Drove 150 miles with the car full of groceries. There wasn't a stove so I had to cook the bird and everything else in a microwave. We had to chop veggies on the drain board and the jello mold melted. Ha, best Turkey Day we ever had!
9 posted on
11/23/2005 6:51:34 AM PST by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: WestTexasWend
There's really something very wrong with a person who can write a story like this, unless it is meant as satire.
10 posted on
11/23/2005 6:54:49 AM PST by
isrul
To: WestTexasWend
Every year, the media bombards us with sob stories about how the homeless won't have any kind of Thanksgiving and how this is such a horrible, rotten country because we're sitting all warm and stuffed full of food in our homes watching football and we just don't care. The message, of course, is "How dare you be so uncaring as to not be deliberately miserable like us!"
Looks like the Katrina "victims" are this year's homeless. Funny how the survivors of Rita and Wilma don't seem to count.
11 posted on
11/23/2005 7:00:03 AM PST by
CFC__VRWC
("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
To: WestTexasWend; NautiNurse; Howlin
I wish the AP had written this story about my relatives who will be spending Thanksgiving in Florida, shacked up with friends. Their house- fully insured- in Slidell is caught in a legal battle between Fema and the insurance company. The insurance company won't pay for repairs to the house because they say it is uninhabitable. FEMA won't pay to have it torn down and declare it a disaster because they say it is habitable. Meanwhile my 70+ year old relatives are left with nothing. 5 feet of storm surge damage left everything but the roof itself destroyed. No windows, doors or electricity. By now the mold will have taken over. All personal possessions not in the attic are gone.
For many from the Gulf Coast this will indeed be a stark and lean Thanksgiving, far from home and feeling very much alone.
14 posted on
11/23/2005 7:06:19 AM PST by
brothers4thID
(Do you stand with us, or are you going to just stand in the way?)
To: WestTexasWend
Surely, there are Americans far worse off than this bunch...
15 posted on
11/23/2005 7:10:18 AM PST by
Iscool
(Start your own revolution by voting for the candidates the media (and gov't) tells you cannot win.)
To: WestTexasWend
Hurricane Katrina survivors face grim Thanksgiving Leave it to the AP to make having perished in Katrina sound better than surviving.
19 posted on
11/23/2005 7:24:35 AM PST by
IamConservative
(Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times will pick himself up and carry on.)
To: WestTexasWend
kick himself for dropping insurance on his rental property before Katrina struckWhy not? If FEMA is going to meet our every need, insurance seems foolish.
Oh, and the next time disaster strikes, don't be surprised if we wait and see how much the benevolent (if constitutionally ignorant) politicians Democrats? Republicans? Does it matter? are giving on our behalf instead of rushing to make donations on our own. Live and learn!
20 posted on
11/23/2005 7:40:34 AM PST by
newgeezer
(Sarcasm content: 50.00%)
To: WestTexasWend
"Shifter, who lives in Bay St. Louis, Miss., had to drive 45 minutes to find a Wal-Mart that survived Hurricane Katrina."
When I read this I knew the story was fabricated. Take an element of truth and then blow it totally out of proportion.
23 posted on
11/23/2005 8:16:12 AM PST by
Kirkwood
To: WestTexasWend
Guests will eat outside at a plastic table on her lawn, or in shifts at the kitchen table. Dinner will be served on paper plates with plastic utensils.This isn't unusual. This has been my family's Thanksgiving routine for years. Saves lots of time for the host family.
25 posted on
11/23/2005 9:06:03 AM PST by
randita
To: WestTexasWend
----There are plenty of homeless people on the street who have been that way for a long time who do not even have a small trailer to live in. They stand in lines at missions for food on Thanksgiving day and I am sure each and every one of them have hard luck stories as well , you just never hear their stories about how they came to live on the streets. A tragedy or misfortune put them there and laziness keeps them there.
26 posted on
11/23/2005 9:49:11 AM PST by
WasDougsLamb
(I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.)
To: WestTexasWend
Boo hoo on that first story. If they're not going to be thankful that they have even that, why bother celebrating the holiday at all?
To: WestTexasWend
It's Thanksgiving day. They should be thanking God that they survived the storm. They should be thanking the government and the American taxpayers for the thousands of dollars they have received.
29 posted on
11/24/2005 8:06:18 PM PST by
ladyjane
To: WestTexasWend
Downsizing the ingredients to fit her compact oven, she will serve a 13-pound turkey instead of the usual 20-pounder. Wow, I never imagined anyone could suffer like this in America.
32 posted on
11/24/2005 8:56:06 PM PST by
Jorge
(Q)
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