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Posted on 05/03/2008 8:48:06 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Ignorance abounds even amongst the “educated conservatives.” This flood is bigger than Cedar Rapids. Katrina was bigger than the 9th Ward.
But really, the only comparisons need to be “how does America respond?”
That was ultimately what I learned from New Orleans. Not who f’ed up. But that there were still people hurting who needed help.
I’m with 2J. I’d come if I could. But let us know how we can help (and spread the word) from here.
Kate and I have not really done anything to help because most of it is tightly controlled stuff and strangers are not allowed down there. We were good and did not even drive through downtown (the free way goes right through (over on an overpass) all the areas that flooded to see it. Kind of a shame. We now wish we had been bad and made at least one pass while the water was high to get picts or just make it seem more real. This side of town is so normal it does not seem real. Except the water restrictions and all the semis. Plus I just noticed one of the large parking lots my company owns a block from here has been made into a national guard depot. It is full of military trucks.
The thread I referred to was a vanity wondering sarcastically where the stories of looting were. I chimed in to tell a bit about the looting that has happened and then *bam* pulled thread with no explanation. I don't need a place to whine or sympathy because we are doing just fine. I just want to see people watching what is going on here and giving a damn. So far it seems like unless we have whiny grandstanding officials or mobs of idiot looters our disaster is hardly worth noticing. I guess that would not bother me much if the whiny incompetents did not get fawned over.
Sorry to vent. Part of this all is that things look so different in the local area when a disaster is approaching and then here and now starting to recover. Like when my dad comment on the phone that this must be hard when the state was already reeling over the deaths of those boyscouts. When viewed locally the statement makes no sense because the flooding started days before that and that same storm system caused flash flooding all over the place as it slowly ground across the state. It was kind of odd to see news coverage about that tornado and then a foot note that oh by the way Iowa is underwater too.
Sorry to vent. Been a little keyed up lately.
Unfortunately, whiny grandstanding officials and mobs of idiot looters make better TV.
As for the venting, Jen can tell you I'm the last one to be judgmental about that...
Sorry if it sounds grumpy. I have been really stressed lately and it sucks. The flood is only a part and everything that contributes is small. Just a lot of little things leaving me with not much to vent over.
I'm not allowed to talk about it.
Between this forum and one other I have been on three threads taht got pulled in the last day and a half. Maybe I should just stop posting for a while :P
Never mind. The wife came up with a better idea. We will go see the Hulk movie tonight.
Been there. Done that.
How do you think...
Corin is a 
got started?
Get a room.
We will go see the Hulk movie tonight.
Sheesh...youth is wasted on the young...
No, the young just have energy for more than one fun activity per day.
;-)
You mean we are going to play World of Warcraft too?
I have energy but no time or money, what does that make me?
I admit I haven’t been paying attention... but what kind of threads are getting pulled? Certainly not those that are trying to talk about the level of damage? Are people making comparisons between Katrina and Iowa (and the assumed lack of rioting there) or ????
Yeah, it was a vanity comparing the level of looting or lack there of. I had just pointed out there had been some but not much when the thread went away. I don’t know why. I did not see anything all that objectionable on it. Are they really against vanity threads these days? I had just thought ‘hey, a place to say a few things about what it is like here’ and then *poof*.
Well, I think it might have stayed if it wasn’t a vanity, and/or if it were fairly artfully stated. It depends. I haven’t been spending a lot of time here, on the news side especially, so I guess I’m not in touch with the mood.
Hey... I presume you’ve heard the news about Lt.Col Chessani... But in case not: His case has been dismissed. More follows:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032335/posts?q=1&;page=101
Most excellent.
Too bad the reasons they dismissed it don’t keep him off the hook. Or they might. It remains to be seen.
Good news. Can we tell Murtha and Durbin to go to Hell now?
They’ve been told, they just aren’t listening.
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