Posted on 02/01/2009 5:58:00 AM PST by Bulldawg Fan
Governor calls up record number of Guard troops
Some 4,600 Kentucky National Guard troops are part of a record-setting effort to dig out from a paralyzing winter storm that continues to leave hundreds of thousands Kentuckians in the dark and is being blamed on a growing number of deaths.
"We're in for a long haul here," said Gov. Steve Beshear at a Saturday night press conference at the Boone Guard Center in Frankfort. Kentucky "is in the middle of the biggest natural disaster this state has ever experienced in modern history."
Beshear said state officials have confirmed seven deaths as storm related. But, he said, a total of 21 deaths are under investigation for being caused by the fierce weather conditions.
Updated numbers of Ky. customers without power Two nursing homes and six shelters in Western Kentucky, the hardest hit area of the state, have no power.
(Excerpt) Read more at kentucky.com ...
Yeh, you’re a racist, Mr. O. “Let them eat cake” is it, then? Don’t bother with the Red States, and go ahead and have that Super Bowl Party. Gonna have that fancy steak, too? Never mind the ‘little folks.’
Barry, Barry, quite contrary,
How do your orchids grow?...
Doesn’t a govenor have to ask for FEMA help? Has he done so?
Yea, where the HELL is Obama...? Did he say anything about it...? Did he at least do a fly over...? Is he gonna at least talk with the families...?
AND-—————— WHERE THE HELL IS THE MEDIA...???
WHY ARE THEY NOT SLAMMING OBAMA...???
They raised holy hell because Bush and Rove ate a piece of a birthday cake for someone durring Katrina.
yes, they have
Yes. A fact often overlooked by the msm during Katrina.
Obama hates white people (scratch that, all people).
Oh wait, DU has all the answers. He declared a Fed emer. Thurs, hence he can party (nevermind a visit or the economy, hey, the superbowl party’s only once a year... can’t let work get in the way).
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8157231#8157395
I still don’t get how they expected the National Guard to bring chainsaws. (shakes head)
I believe, in this circumstance,seeing how it is Kentucky, Arkansas and the lower part of Missouri suffering, the phrase should be: “Let ‘em eat Moonpies.”
I guess we’re suppose to be able to handle “a little bit” of ice. He did scold the citizens of D.C. about just that recently.
How many parties, luncheons and private lil’ get-togethers has he hosted so far?
Thats not the point. He should offer help. At least he should acknowledge them. President Bush was on TV 2 days before Katrina hit begging Blanco to ask for help so he could send in Fema to help evacuate the people. He even drafted a formal letter and asked her to ask him for help, yet he was demonized for not being fast enough. Obama hasn’t even ackmowledged these suffering people and the media hasn’t said jack squat about it. Its a disgrace.
Change we can believe in.
...and ‘O’ has activated FEMA, right?
crickets.
Zer0 and his fellow racists hate white Americans and hope all of us/them freeze to death.
I especially got a kick out of this dimwit:
“31. What are Obama and FEMA going to do?
They can’t cut limbs and then put utility polls and power wires back up.”
and I suppose GWB WAS able to make New Orleans flood waters recede, personally rescue people from rooftops and fix all the houses?
If this had happened with Bush still in office, the MSM, regardless of his response, would be slamming him 24/7..bet on it..
As I understand it, the governor definitely has to ask for FEMA help. He needs to do that if he hasn't already.
However--the Obammy could certainly visit the area, survey the damage and the lingering bad conditions, and offer the governor his support--and he might even say a word or two to the suffering people of the state.
Actually, I'm sort of surprised Obammy hasn't made a big deal photo op our of this---showing up, talking to victims, telling them he feels their pain!
Of course the Obammy doesn't like the temperature to be below about 76, I hear. Maybe that's what's keeping him away.
Well, the election is over the fools have installed him and his goons in office. Now they are of no more use to him. Next election cycle he will have a new bunch of fools.
Just as an afterthought, while going from here to threr around the house I have seen a good number of vehicles with either obama 08 or obama Biden bumper stickers on them. Most of them were occupied and driven by White pepole.
How many parties, luncheons and private lil’ get-togethers has he hosted so far?”
I suspect that the “private lil get togethers are far more numerous and incidious that any of us will ever realize.
Have to keep all those meetings with Ayers and Wright hidden well, dontcha know???
Obomba's Fault...
Obomba's Fault...
(Keep repeating until you die. That's what the 'Rats did with Bush. It's only fair to play by the same "rules".)
(sarcasm if you didn't get it)
If FEMA wantd to be there at the nursing homes without power, they’d be there.
We’re 5 days and counting.
The hypocracy of the left is just mindboggling. One poster thinks they should just pull themselves up by the bootstraps and quit whining. Liberal twit would probably cry if his/her mommy asked him/her to take out the garbage in 50 degree weather.
Hah, wait till the NBA finals. When the president gets a “basseball jones” look out.
In today's world, if the MSM does not acknowledge the problem, then it does not exist. There is no ice storm. There are no dead.
Too improbable? The MSM has already proven it controls perception of events and history with its non-reporting of the starvation of millions in Ukraine by Stalin in the 1930's.
Not to mention they would be saying global warming caused the storm and Bush caused global warming therefore, Bushs’ fault. Amd God help him if there was one black person affected.
Obama controls the waters... remember?
He could’ve given them a message of hope and perserverance before leaving for the superbowl party.
My fervent prayers for all those states affected.
That's protest sign worthy...
were occupied and driven by White people....
Let me guess,in order of the most stickers
(Obama 08 or 1-20-09 or ObamaBiden)...the vehicles were:
1- Prius
2- Subaru
3- Volvo
4- Junker
Well we know Bammi would have been able to “part the waters”.
I have lived in this area for over 50 years and this is the worst disaster I have seen.
It was surreal to listen the first night of the limbs crashing down and what we thought was lightening but instead was transformers blowing up.
There are 150 people where I work and about 80% of them still are without electricity. Yesterday they were finally able to open up most of the city streets, stacking piles of limbs and trees on the side of the roads.
There are people waiting in lines just for the next tanker to arrive with fuel.
Utilities companies have not only been hampered with the debris getting to the lines but also communication. One of the companies finally went to satellite phones after trying to use cell phones from three different providers and still losing service.
Here we are five days afterwards and about 2/3 of my area is still without electricity and it’s the third largest city in Kentucky.
The other day people were talking about how things were going to change when Zero sent in FEMA, which hasn’t shown up yet.
Well I can see today is going to be another fun day when I get to work and ask how all the Zero voters are going to enjoy the Superbowl today. Oops, they probably won’t be able to see it as they don’t have any electricity.
Even though I can’t feel sorry for the people that voted for Zero, I have taken in several animals to care for as they can’t be blamed for the stupidity of their owners.
Doesn’t he have distain for “bitter white folks clinging to their guns and bibles”?
Change we can believe in.
Pound that line. Turn it into an indictment on 0bama’s ineptitude.
I suggest that once a kind FReeper posts the number that we all call the switchboard leaving a message such as: There are taxpayers in Kentucky, the Ozarks, Arkansas, and Oklahoma who are freezing to death because FEMA hasn't been called out to help them. I request that the President cancel his Super Bowl party and do his job by getting aid to them!
Isn't Governor Beshear a Democrat?
Leni
Hardihar, Moonpies, of course. What WAS I thinking?
WASHINGTON - D.C. has been the recipient of some ‘chilly’ comments from the new president who implied that the area is full of ‘weather wimps’ for calling off school in the area’s latest bout of wintry weather.
The busses were parked and the building locked at Sidwell Friends School in NW Wednesday. This left Mr. Obama, father of two Sidwell students, asking why?
“Because of what, some ice? Obama heckled.
Barry hates white people ..... just ask his grandma.
“Barry, Barry, quite contrary,
How do your orchids grow?...”
How do his poppies grow...might be more appropiate.
What good is FEMA here? I doubt very many need a FEMA trailer & it is not likely that they own a chainsaw.
Obama hates White people especially White male construction workers...he wants to deny them jobs, etc.
How about portable generators? How about helping pay for rebuilding the power system? How about paying for people's forced hotel stays while their homes are uninhabitable due to loss of power? How about those $1000 gift cards like all the downtrodden "victims" from New Orleans got.
The federal government through FEMA should spend no less, per capita, then they did in New Orleans. To do otherwise is discrimination and racist.
Ah, who cares - right, Barry?
I mean, these are just inbred white folk who didn’t vote for you anyway.
Screw ‘em.
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This would be the daily double!
Hey Algore, what’s up with Kentucky, can they get some of that global warming? (I’d pay for some in Ohio right about now too!)
And my favorite, paraphrase Kanye West:
Barack Obama hates white people!
FEMA could drop off water and food and medicine. Help get gasoline for those with generators. Some may need portable heaters altho I fine that mountain folks are prepared for cold. Maybe even help the elderly get to public shelter. Some won’t leave home because of pets. Help those families with needs. Perhaps the national guard can do all this, perhaps NG could use help esp since this is going to last for quite a while. Oh I bet some folks are running out of toilet paper, kitty litter, pet food. There is much need.
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