[My Favorite Headache]

Tell Hugh thanks for the exposure. This story needs to be told as I have spoken to people in NY and NJ who tell me that they don't consider Mississippi and Louisiana to be a real part of the U.S., only major cities really deserve attention in situations like this.

I hate to say it but I have heard this from people in Los Angeles to New York over the last 48 hours who could care less.

Saying things like "It didn't even lead off our local news...it was like the 4th story in..." or "I have a business to run and my own life to live...I don't have time to worry about a 3rd world state like Mississippi...who goes there anyway?"

Outrageous...but whatelse do you expect from the liberal cities of NY and Los Angeles?

[Trampled by Lambs]

I can't understand people who could think that way. I know it's true though. I've been glued to FR since Saturday and everytime I express shock over the situation, my co-worker just shrugs as if I were talking about some minor inconvenience.

[conservativebabe]

Dispicable, pathetic, loathsome people!

Liberals really are mentally ill.

[geopyg]

Want happens in 3rd world countries can affect us. What happens in "3rd world states" affects us too. From another thread:


Shell said its Mars platform, which can pump 15 percent of the U.S. Gulf's crude oil, was damaged by Katrina on Aug. 29. At least seven oil drilling rigs were adrift in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday and two companies said they couldn't find their rigs and platforms after Katrina plowed through the area. ``Almost all the refiners are now putting marketers on allocation east of the Rocky Mountains,'' said Dan Gilligan, president of the Petroleum Marketers Association of America. ``Some terminals in Ohio, Tennessee, Arkansas and South Carolina are completely out of product. It's just a very precarious situation we're in.''
*** source Bloomberg news


That said, my earlier post regarding paying more for gas pales in comparison to what these poor people are going through.

[papertyger]

This story needs to be told as I have spoken to people in NY and NJ who tell me that they don't consider Mississippi and Louisiana to be a real part of the U.S., only major cities really deserve attention in situations like this.

I can vouch for the mentality. I dated a girl from just outside NYC when I was in college low those many years ago. The one thing her entire family was agreed upon was she had gone to "the sticks" to go to school. IT WAS DELAWARE FOR PETE SAKE!

They seemed to think they lived near the summit of the mountain and everything rolled downhill as it got futher away from them.

[Publius6961]

Please accept my late thank you for posting this early (for me) this morning. It has been a fascinating story and I wish you hadn't responded to attacks. Why bother?

Hugh Hewitt is a dork; and an idiot.