Posted on 11/03/2012 1:00:10 PM PDT by Kartographer
As lights have begun flickering on in Lower Manhattan, residents of the Rockaways in Queens continued struggling without power, heat or food for a sixth day as their neighborhood slowly descended into chaos. With little police presence on the storm-ravaged streets, many residents of the peninsula have been forced to take their protection into their own hands, arming themselves with guns, baseball bats and even bows and arrows to ward off thugs seeking to loot their homes. It has been reported that crooks have been disguising themselves as Long Island Power Authority workers and coming by homes on the peninsula in the middle of the night while real utility workers were nowhere to be found.
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1. Gibsmedat
Gibs-Me-Dat (n.) Annuities, in the form of goods, services, or material (usually welfare checks) given predominately to minorities, in exchange for their tacit agreement to reciprocate by not burning down Americas cities.
Yo Tyrone, who you be votin foe in 2012?
I gots to go wit Obama baby. The democrats be givin out moe betta gibsmedat.
Once you pay the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane.
That is an excellent post. God go with that fella.
Unfortunately, the “Gibsmedats” have wheels, and can travel to places outside their patch. We saw that happen in London in August 2011; the thugs were using cars, trucks, even public transport when the flash-mob alerts came over Blackberry.
We’re surrounded by them. We need to be ultra-careful.
I should have made myself more clear - Oops! I copied that piece from another forum; I myself live more than a tank of gas away from any large population center.
Boots on the ground reports are always edifying.
I’ve done boots-on-ground reporting myself. Storm sites, deep inside Iraq, even from my honeymoon...
Sounds like an interesting life...
Nothing happens where I live that would interest anyone, that is.
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