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.
"Just not that these people were my friends and usually very educated and well spoken...BUT THEY MEANT IT!"
What does "very educated" have to do with it? They are usually the most useful idiots. Liberals believe education is the panacea to an ailing society. Conservatives know better. Myself, I don't have any liberal friends and wouldn't have exactly because of the reason you described. I just can't see wanting to be friends with people who spew such hatred.
Now, I'm not saying I wouldn't be friendly to such people, but they certainly wouldn't be in my intimate circle of friends.
That's why I call them the pressWHORES! :)
Jeb on FNC now.
I made the mistake of watching Olberman on MSNBC last night. He claimed that polls showing Bush with a lead are invalid then went on to promote a conspiracy theory that terror alerts are a political ploy.
The roofers and other construction workers will hit the road causing a decline in the skilled workers in other sectors. Building materials will be redirected to Florida, pissing off people in state X who are awaiting their new deck.
You get the picture.
exactly what i said at the closing of my original post...
LOL!!!
Those who blame either Bush for the hurricane are irrational Bush haters to begin with. They are lost and are blinded by their hate.
What are they going to say if (God forbid) Kerry is president and we get hit again?
LOL! gotcha! ;)
You need to to find a better class of friend! You're hanging out with some real dumbasses.
Yet they screamed after hurricane Andrew came through when the elder Bush didn't immediately arrive.
if you know anyone in the construction business - they are already complaining about this, because of construction material going to iraq (I am serious).
Please explain yourself...or be permanently considered yet another DUmbass that just said you believe Governor Jeb Bush believes he is God.
I don't know how many people are like me but I don't pay much attention to GDP numbers.. Maybe I should but I just go by, if I've got a job and am able to pay my bills. How well I'm doing depends on how much I have left over after I do so:') I don't know of anyone around me that talks about this stuff. However when the media tells them things are bad they believe it, if democrats.
that was engineered by the Dems - particularly in Dade. they were screaming about having no federal supplies, water, medical teams - 5 minutes after the storm passed through.
I was tellin Howlin last night that I can't bring myself to watch the lying propagandist bastards, particularly the arrested-adolescent communist tool KOlberman...what's really funny is the projection, because what they project are things THEY REALLY DO as DumbocRATs...they are the bipolar-neurotic-psycopath-perversion-death Party...that refuses to take their meds.
Enjoy your short stay here. Comment smacks of DU rhetoric, empty of substance. You probably don't even believe in God (at least not the True One), so you really wouldn't know if Gov. Bush was a god or not, as you have nothing to compare him to.
Cool! I was a Red for some many years until I decided to surrender to my greys. Those growing out bangs are my major gripe right now.
If I have to show my ID at the supermarket, so should all. Elitists Unite!
The Day After Tomorrow...(snicker)
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