Posted on 09/07/2005 11:17:07 AM PDT by Millee
I see two Americas. The America that works, mounts the rescues, evacuates their brothers and sisters to safety, feeds them, sees to their needs, builds and rebuilds, and another America that lets them do it, and criticizes the way they do it, and sues them when they are done doing it.
I see two Americas, too. The America that does things, that saves people, that contributes to relief funds, that does what it can to help people in dire need. And the America that whines, complains, postures, and accuses.
Actually, there are two Americas, but not the ones Silky Pony sees. There are Americans, rich, poor and in the middle, who pitched in to help others and themselves (and I don't mean to other peoples property), and those who sat back and waited for things to be done for them. Class and race are irrelevant to the two Americas.
Rather than "Two Americas", what I bet you he sees are dollar signs.
Heh. I know which one Edwards is from.
oh gawd not this sh*t again. edwards using his marxist rhetoric....
how do they get away with this everyday? why arent conservative politicians out there exposing this communist propaganda?
Me too. And what happened in the aftermath of Katrina, should have made it plain for anybody to see that the vision of Blue America is a formula for disaster.
Americans will never be safe as long as a single Democrat holds elected public office.
"And we see the ambulance-chasing, money-grubbing pirates called "attorneys" like Edwards getting ready for another series of suits to rob the taxpayers over Katrina and its aftermath."
Got that right, Zulu! They are probably setting up shop as we speak.
16 There are six things which the Lord hates,
Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: ...
19 A false witness who utters lies, And one who spreads strife among brothers.
Senator Edwards would do well to attend to the good book.
Didn't this guy see two Americas before Katrina?
Say Edwards, how many fingers do you see here? Two? Get your eyes checked. Heh heh heh...
Photographs by Robert Caputo and Tyrone Turner
The Louisiana bayou, hardest working marsh in America, is in big trouble—with dire consequences for residents, the nearby city of New Orleans, and seafood lovers everywhere.
It was a broiling August afternoon in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Big Easy, the City That Care Forgot. Those who ventured outside moved as if they were swimming in tupelo honey. Those inside paid silent homage to the man who invented air-conditioning as they watched TV "storm teams" warn of a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Nothing surprising there: Hurricanes in August are as much a part of life in this town as hangovers on Ash Wednesday.
But the next day the storm gathered steam and drew a bead on the city. As the whirling maelstrom approached the coast, more than a million people evacuated to higher ground. Some 200,000 remained, however—the car-less, the homeless, the aged and infirm, and those die-hard New Orleanians who look for any excuse to throw a party.
The storm hit Breton Sound with the fury of a nuclear warhead, pushing a deadly storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain. The water crept to the top of the massive berm that holds back the lake and then spilled over. Nearly 80 percent of New Orleans lies below sea level—more than eight feet below in places—so the water poured in. A liquid brown wall washed over the brick ranch homes of Gentilly, over the clapboard houses of the Ninth Ward, over the white-columned porches of the Garden District, until it raced through the bars and strip joints on Bourbon Street like the pale rider of the Apocalypse. As it reached 25 feet (eight meters) over parts of the city, people climbed onto roofs to escape it.
Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.
When did this calamity happen? It hasn't—yet. But the doomsday scenario is not far-fetched. The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire threats to the nation, up there with a large earthquake in California or a terrorist attack on New York City. Even the Red Cross no longer opens hurricane shelters in the city, claiming the risk to its workers is too great.
Rest of the story and Pictures
The corrupt democrat machine in La. all knew what could happen and failed to protect their citizens..
They should all be going to jail for murder and maleficence in office
imo
Most people who stand behind the Democrat Jackass... end up seeing double.
Well, America sees two John Edwardses: the one that hears babies with birth defects from the womb, and the other that supports tearing others in the womb (that can't raise any money for him) limb from limb.
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