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The misery is spread Equally (these liberals are absolutely sick)
New York Times ^ | August 31, 2005 | JAMES DAO

Posted on 09/07/2005 5:28:27 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing

In Mississippi, Hurricane Katrina was nothing if not equal opportunity in its misery, destroying modest bungalows and $500,000 houses.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: classenvy; katrina; miseryeven; sickliberals; socialism
I am completely incapable of fathoming why something like this exists.(I guess liberals really are capable of anything?) An equal opportunity storm? Is Mr Dao smoking crack?

If you have a NYT login feel free to post the full article.

1 posted on 09/07/2005 5:28:28 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

We can post entire NY Times articles, I believe. Here it is....

WAVELAND, Miss., Aug. 30 - The storm was nothing if not equal opportunity in its misery.

In Waveland and Bay St. Louis, modest bungalows and working-class apartment buildings were thrashed, torn open like cellophane bags and filled to their first-floor ceilings with muddy Gulf of Mexico water by Hurricane Katrina's howling winds and powerful tidal surge.

Mary Rae Schmidt, 64, lost two houses. One was a new house in that Diamondhead subdivision. The second was her old house across the Jordan River, which she was to have sold two days before the hurricane arrived.

"I guess the sale is off," Ms. Schmidt muttered.

Under her feet was an old Johnny Mathis "Greatest Hits" vinyl record, one of the few identifiable objects left from her house. She also lost two cats in the storm, which she rode out in a friend's house in Picayune, La..

Now Ms. Schmidt and her husband plan to move to Atlanta to stay with their daughter.

"All I've got are these shoes," she said, looking down at her white, mud-splattered sneakers.

A neighbor, Lynn Terry, picked through pieces of shattered dinnerware in what used to be her yard.

"It's amazing the things that survive," she said, examining a small Pyrex dish. "Stupid things, like this. But the pictures, the art, the collectibles. All gone."

She paused and added, "But we're still here."

Ms. Terry, an accountant, said she and her husband owned another house in Houston.

The damage to their subdivision was so extensive that it looked like the work of a tornado, though it was more likely a result of the storm's 150-mile-an-hour winds.

A stand of pine trees snapped in half like matchsticks. Plastic bags, clothing and chunks of cottony insulation clung to branches of the trees as if a clothing store had exploded. Acre upon acre was covered with furniture, bikes, porcelain sinks, air-conditioning ductwork, wicker fans and cooking pots.

At a gasoline station off Interstate 10 near Diamondhead, Kristy Verdin, her mother and her brother's family set up camp while they awaited help from government agencies. Their homes in Waveland and Bay St. Louis had been damaged beyond repair. The 10 people planned to stay in an eight-person tent, sustained by luncheon meat and canned food until they found more permanent shelter.

Ms. Verdin and her family fled the area on Sunday, taking refuge with friends in Panama City, Fla. But they returned on Monday night, hoping to beat the traffic. They had not heard anything about Waveland on the news, and they said they thought that meant it had been spared. They were wrong.

"We were able to get back to our house," Ms. Verdin said. "But there was nothing there."


2 posted on 09/07/2005 5:31:10 AM PDT by jdm (Tagline on Labor Day holiday.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Here it is:

The Misery Is Spread Equally

By JAMES DAO
Published: August 31, 2005
WAVELAND, Miss., Aug. 30 - The storm was nothing if not equal opportunity in its misery.

In Waveland and Bay St. Louis, modest bungalows and working-class apartment buildings were thrashed, torn open like cellophane bags and filled to their first-floor ceilings with muddy Gulf of Mexico water by Hurricane Katrina's howling winds and powerful tidal surge.

Mary Rae Schmidt, 64, lost two houses. One was a new house in that Diamondhead subdivision. The second was her old house across the Jordan River, which she was to have sold two days before the hurricane arrived.

"I guess the sale is off," Ms. Schmidt muttered.

Under her feet was an old Johnny Mathis "Greatest Hits" vinyl record, one of the few identifiable objects left from her house. She also lost two cats in the storm, which she rode out in a friend's house in Picayune, La..

Now Ms. Schmidt and her husband plan to move to Atlanta to stay with their daughter.

"All I've got are these shoes," she said, looking down at her white, mud-splattered sneakers.

A neighbor, Lynn Terry, picked through pieces of shattered dinnerware in what used to be her yard.

"It's amazing the things that survive," she said, examining a small Pyrex dish. "Stupid things, like this. But the pictures, the art, the collectibles. All gone."

She paused and added, "But we're still here."

Ms. Terry, an accountant, said she and her husband owned another house in Houston.

The damage to their subdivision was so extensive that it looked like the work of a tornado, though it was more likely a result of the storm's 150-mile-an-hour winds.

A stand of pine trees snapped in half like matchsticks. Plastic bags, clothing and chunks of cottony insulation clung to branches of the trees as if a clothing store had exploded. Acre upon acre was covered with furniture, bikes, porcelain sinks, air-conditioning ductwork, wicker fans and cooking pots.

At a gasoline station off Interstate 10 near Diamondhead, Kristy Verdin, her mother and her brother's family set up camp while they awaited help from government agencies. Their homes in Waveland and Bay St. Louis had been damaged beyond repair. The 10 people planned to stay in an eight-person tent, sustained by luncheon meat and canned food until they found more permanent shelter.

Ms. Verdin and her family fled the area on Sunday, taking refuge with friends in Panama City, Fla. But they returned on Monday night, hoping to beat the traffic. They had not heard anything about Waveland on the news, and they said they thought that meant it had been spared. They were wrong.

"We were able to get back to our house," Ms. Verdin said. "But there was nothing there."


3 posted on 09/07/2005 5:32:20 AM PDT by Havok
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To: jdm

*shakes head* Amazing that someone could see a silver lining in all of this.


4 posted on 09/07/2005 5:33:12 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (You upgraded to Linux? No, I'm not surprised your computer works properly now. Amazing, no?)
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To: jdm
We can post entire NY Times articles, I believe. Here it is....

Uh...no we cannot. Only excerpts.

...there it goes. ;^)

5 posted on 09/07/2005 5:35:03 AM PDT by DCPatriot
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To: jdm
Dueling New York Times Articles, Redux.
A professor at the University of Massachusetts, Martin Espada, told The New York Times: "We tend to think of natural disasters as somehow evenhanded, as somehow random. Yet it has always been thus: Poor people are in danger. It's dangerous to be poor. It's dangerous to be black. It's dangerous to be Latino."
from: Race and the flood
6 posted on 09/07/2005 5:45:30 AM PDT by syriacus (Bush called, but Blanco and Nagin stalled. The result was the Great New Orleans LACK-vacuation.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

"Misery spread equally" should be the democrats campaign slogan.


7 posted on 09/07/2005 5:50:53 AM PDT by WestTexasWend
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To: syriacus
It's dangerous to be poor. It's dangerous to be black. It's dangerous to be Latino.

From eyewitness reports from those trapped in the Superdome, it was pretty dangerous to be white.

8 posted on 09/07/2005 5:53:18 AM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: WestTexasWend

It is. Just in different words. They want to socialize healthcare. That won't fix it, it'll just spread the misery equally. Look at what has happened to social security. Misery spread evenly. Look at what the left has done to the black community with socialized housing. They don't deserve that.


9 posted on 09/07/2005 5:55:31 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (You upgraded to Linux? No, I'm not surprised your computer works properly now. Amazing, no?)
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority

The RATS are so amazingly sick in the head it hurts.

Michael Savage truly has them pinned: Mentally Disordered!


10 posted on 09/07/2005 5:56:08 AM PDT by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton, Jr.)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Their 'tax the rich' argument is essentially an argument for equality of misery. They'd tax the 'rich' until all are equally miserable.


11 posted on 09/07/2005 6:35:06 AM PDT by dhuffman@awod.com (The conspiracy of ignorance masquerades as common sense.)
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