Posted on 08/14/2004 2:02:37 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
It is with a heavy heart that I write this. I have no idea what is wrong with people today in this society and this country. My example I am going to use is a really really sad one.
I was in Plant City as of Thursday night which for those who do not know is just north east of Tampa/St.Pete. I went down there to help a friend of mine who owns a house who happens to be a single mother of a 2 yr old girl. She needed help boarding up her house and sandbags etc.
All finished by 2 am there and I decided I was going to go over to a portion of Tampa called locally "New Tampa", where another friend of mine was readying her home up with her brothers. It was only 30 mins away from Plant City and definitely in the "expected"path of Charley.
I wound up falling asleep there around 4 am and woke up around 6:30 am to see that everything was still a go and a green light for Tampa. We had a few more things to move outside and the sandbags because it is a low lying area that floods from regular storms.
We went out to grab something to eat at a local Wendy's where the wait in the drive thru was about 45 mins long considering everything local had closed already by 11 am. When we got back to the house we were watching storm coverage and then about 20 mins later noticed the shift in the storm. We saw that the storm itself was more than likely going to move into the Cape Coral area.
I decided it was time for me to make my decision and it was quick. 10 seconds. I got into my car and drove over to my friends home in Lakeland. Unfortunately by the time I got over there he had hauled it over to a friends house in Arcadia.
I knew I was racing against time on I-4 and that Charley was breathing down my neck. But was more than confident I would make it back to Melbourne in time before Charlie hit Central Florida...and I did.
With about 60 mph winds everything was ok here and we even managed to keep power the entire time. So we were spared and were lucky...our friends 30 miles to the west of us couldn't say the same.
So all of my phone calls were put into friends in Naples where I used to live up til March of this year,Fort Myers,Cape Coral,and Bonita Springs. All had no power and were trying to save cell batteries but were alive. But here is where the BARF ALERT comes in.
3 of them managed to in the span of 60 seconds say "this is Jeb Bush's storm...he really screwed this one up","your boy Jeb is going to have a lot of explaining to do with this one","I am sure Jeb and George will come play the healer for their own injuries they caused."
I was sicken to my stomach. Just not that these people were my friends and usually very educated and well spoken...BUT THEY MEANT IT!
I said listen...this storm was all over the news for a week. The hurricane warning had been issued within 36 hrs...evacuation orders were given...this is mother nature...science..you can't predict this kind of thing and we all saw it with our own eyes..the storm turned right...not Jeb Bush forcing it to the coast.
Every single person bought into the entire "the Bush's never know what to do when something is going on ala the morning of 9-11",obviously a Michael Moore style of brainwashing that people have sickingly adopted from his film.
If it was not bad enough to hear it was when I turned on local talk radio and listened to my fellow Floridians bash the national hurricane center,the national weather service,jeb bush,and the media for causing such huge errors in the state and ignoring other possible tracks. That Jeb Bush spoke with arrogance and cockiness that the storm was definitely going to hit Tampa.
Last I checked the NHC saved millions of lives by posting updates every 3 hrs...the national weather service saved millions of lives by posting tornado warnings and flood watches and warnings,and Jeb Bush was up for 3 straight days and still is down south trying to do whatever a HUMAN BEING can do.
The nerve of a reporter to ask him "you are down here and the cameras are here...but do you really mean it when you say you are going to make sure people get help? Do you mean it?"
Or CNN saying "well the president's trip with his brother will be more about not wanting to lose Florida and the 27 electoral votes than showing compassion", I have absolutely had it with this kind of crap. I really pray for humanity to come along one day and to stop blaming everyone else for their problems and for things out of all of our control...like category 4 hurricanes.
You assume far too much. As regards sense of humour you don't possess one iota. Amazing how totally six little words can upset you - particularly as they have "no substance".
Courtesy flush please!
It's really too bad that Lawton Chiles' reaction to Hurricane Andrew cost the first President Bush Florida's electoral votes in 1992...oh, wait..it didn't!
So then explain yourself please...or forever be a tool.
I'd look for new "friends."
See how much crap is spewed on the tube by those lying SOB aka pressWHORES?!! I heard a report yesterday that the last hurricane with a category 3 or 4 with winds of over 145 to 165 was closed to a 100 years ago! This is why I am so skeptical of all the mediaWHORES! Sorry for the misinformation regarding the time line of the last powerful hurricane that devastated Florida. I should know better...I have a better chance of getting reliable info from google than from the mediaWHORES!
I wouldn't let this worry me. Lots of people will gripe until they get the federal aid they need. People going around and blaming Bush for a hurricane probably weren't going to vote for him in the first place. Remember, a Cat 4 storm is a hugely traumatic event.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Its hard to make friends with people with little core values. You can't develop much trust. Then you have question their motives.
I had flipped the channels and heard Jeb Bush anguishing over the mess down there.
He said he was going to make sure everyone was taken care of.
I though I heard the cnn reporter say, "Do you think they believe you"?
I came out of my closet and stared at the TV. Did I mis-hear that?
WE SHOULD ALL expect the cable newsies and the Alphabets to spin this that "Bush should have directed his waether people....". I heard one broad (and I use the term in the Sinatrian sense) on ABC radio this morning say "They didn't tell us it was going to hit Polk county". Anyone that clueless, senseless and victimised is not going to listen to reason or common sense.
"No matter how cynical you get, you can't keep up."
Anybody know who said this?
I didn't know myself, but Google says Lily Tomlin. Sounds like her. I may not agree with much of her public political posturing, but she is a very sharp observer.
Nope...you did not mis-hear that..he asked him twice because I think even Jeb did a double take on it as well.
Hmmmmm...wouldn't this create jobs instead?
Haven't you ever heard of the broken window effect ? In short, it's a double loss.
I quote Frederic Bastiat:
"It's an ill wind that blows nobody some good. Such accidents keep industry going. Everybody has to make a living. What would become of the glaziers if no one ever broke a window?"
1.6
Now, this formula of condolence contains a whole theory that it is a good idea for us to expose, flagrante delicto, in this very simple case, since it is exactly the same as that which, unfortunately, underlies most of our economic institutions.
1.7
Suppose that it will cost six francs to repair the damage. If you mean that the accident gives six francs' worth of encouragement to the aforesaid industry, I agree. I do not contest it in any way; your reasoning is correct. The glazier will come, do his job, receive six francs, congratulate himself, and bless in his heart the careless child. That is what is seen.
1.8
But if, by way of deduction, you conclude, as happens only too often, that it is good to break windows, that it helps to circulate money, that it results in encouraging industry in general, I am obliged to cry out: That will never do! Your theory stops at what is seen. It does not take account of what is not seen.
1.9
It is not seen that, since our citizen has spent six francs for one thing, he will not be able to spend them for another. It is not seen that if he had not had a windowpane to replace, he would have replaced, for example, his worn-out shoes or added another book to his library. In brief, he would have put his six francs to some use or other for which he will not now have them.
What can I say?
I spend half the year with dark chestnut brown hair, and the other half of the year with crimson red hair.
I take it as an incentive to stay out of the sun.
Never know when I may start molting..
I believe almost nothing "interpreted" or "explained" on television, even on Fox. I consider myself better educated and better informed than 99% of the television reporters and 80% of the newspaper guys. Most are stupid, lazy, and maliciously motivated.
I am absolutely not going to listen to spin about a hurricane without writing and calling all news outlets and their sponsors. Period.
Charley looked deep into himself for his inner truth, found out he was gay, and VEERED.
Dems don't have talking points, those jackasses have prating points.
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