If only this were required reading and listening to all students in school, but the teacher's unions would never allow it.
His shows this past week have been some of the best I've heard so far.
Just a reminder, How many of us were Liberals until we listened to Rush?
Politics was the last thing on my mind, I heard Rush during the Clarence Thomas Hearings and thought hey heres a guy that thinks the same way I do, I didn't even know I was a Conservative, (I had been voting Democrat).
God Bless Rush Limbaugh
Wonderful!
Good follow-up questions.
Guess some of those former democrats will now be voting Republican!
YES! I heard this caller, she was great
The Democrats don't care about black people.
All they care about is retaining and regaining power. Their black supporters have been sold a bill of goods.
I thought that was a great call, along with the earlier one from the black student from Washington U. Unfortunately, reasonable voices like theirs are drowned out by the rantings of Jesse Jackson and the pandering of Howard Dean and his ilk.
DITTOS to that.
I heard that call, she said it exactly right.
Rush on a roll, take that Jesse, LOL.
Here's an e-mail I got today. Supricingly a Canadian newapaper article is critical to the NOLA officials:
I wholeheatedly agree with this and it is what I have been saying. Local and State Officials are to blame. In Southwest Florida before Hurrican Charlie last year, people were ordered to evacuate and if they did not they were told there would not be any emergency services, no police services or any help at all - they woule be on their own if they chose to stay in their homes. Why New Orleans did you not do the same and use the busses to evacuate those who had no way to leave and keep them out for three or four days. This would have saved millions and millions of dollars in thed rescue efforts that were necessary to save the poor prople. We are ultimatey going to pay for it as taxpayers. I might note that I am glad for each life saved no matter how costly, however let's not let the Mayor of New Orleans blame anyone but himself for this disaster.
This from Canada's National Post.
National Post Tue 06 Sep 2005A
Byline: Lorne Gunter
Last September, as Hurricane Ivan bore down on the U.S. Gulf Coast, New Orleans residents were ordered to evacuate. Those who could, did. But an estimated 60,000 had no means to flee, or simply refused to go. So the city's Mayor, Ray Nagin, suggested they conduct a "vertical evacuation" -- go up in tall buildings and ride out the storm.
Ivan was a monster. Seldom before had a 'cane reached Category 4 strength at such low latitudes (10.6 N). Its lowest recorded pressure -- 910 mb -- made it the sixth most powerful Atlantic storm on record. (The lower the pressure in a hurricane the greater its ability to suck in heat and water to fuel its tempest.) At one point, in open waters, Ivan thrust up a wave nearly 30 metres high, hit Category 5 and even accelerated the current on the floor -- the floor, not the surface -- of the Gulf of Mexico by 2.5 k.p.h.
In the face of such a hydrological beast, experts labelled Nagin's advice "naive." At a height of 20 or 30 floors above ground, hurricane winds can be even stronger than at ground level. In his apparent ignorance of storms and his ill-preparedness for Ivan, Nagin had quite possibly suggested his city's poorest and least-mobile residents put themselves even further in harm's way.
Ivan missed N'Orlins, making landfall instead near Gulf Shores, Ala. But for weeks after that near-miss, Nagin took heat for his reaction, or lack of it.
The city had 350 transit buses, it was pointed out. If Nagin was so concerned about the safety of those who had no cars to leave, why didn't he authorize the buses' use to ferry the poor to higher ground? There were perhaps 500 school buses in New Orleans, too: Why weren't they pressed into humanitarian duty?
So many of those fleeing Katrina last week were huddled in the Superdome as a direct result of Nagin's initial refusal to open the cavernous, covered football stadium during the Ivan evacuation. Following Ivan, Nagin was chastised for having kept the dome locked until the very last minute. At the time he claimed he was reluctant to swing open the doors because, during the 1998 Hurricane Georges evacuation, 14,000 had poured in and the place deteriorated into a criminal cesspool with muggings, thefts, fights and vandalism.
He made sure the Superdome was open this time to avoid a similar political fallout, but he made no provision for bottled water or water purification equipment, no emergency food stuffs, no portable toilets or diesel generators. No city-employed doctors or nurses were assigned to evacuation duty there.
This time, too, Nagin neglected to use city transit and school buses to get out those without their own means to leave. Before Ivan, the Mayor claimed he couldn't use city buses because they lacked toilets; this time, he acted as though he was unaware he had buses. In his often-replayed (and unhinged) late-night interview on talk radio station WWL -- the one in which he blamed the relief foul-up entirely on the Bush administration -- he exclaimed "I need reinforcements. I need troops, man. I need 500 buses, man ... This is a national disaster. Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses moving to New Orleans."
True, by the time he made this plea, New Orleans' buses were under water.
But before the crisis, when the buses could have done the most good, Nagin failed to act.
The Bush-hating, politically correct American media isn't interested in any of Nagin's mistakes, though. If they can find any way to make President George W. Bush look bad, they'll take it.
And criticize Nagin? No way, he's African-American. Blaming might make them look insensitive. Besides, if the blame can be shared by someone else, then it can't be all made to fall on Bush.
Yet, if the Superdome deteriorated into the same kind of chaos the last time it was used as a shelter from a storm, isn't it at least partly the city's fault that it wasn't ready for the same thing this time? Perhaps, too, it says something about the city's culture and infrastructure that this keeps happening.
Moreover, if Bush is a racist for failing to help New Orleans' black residents fast enough -- the prevailing charge in the American media at week's end -- isn't Nagin one, too, for not being ready enough to shelter them safely?
There will likely be plenty of blame to go around -- justifiable blame -- for federal, state and local officials alike when the response to New Orleans' flooding is assessed. But if it were wholly the fault of the Bush administration, how to explain Biloxi, Mobile and other storm ravaged communities that didn't descend into madness, and where federal reaction is being praised?
(Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide.)
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A remarkable statement. He should have let her expound on it a little more.
Good post. For more info:
http://www.neoperspectives.com/sweatshopsandwelfare.htm
You're going to have to tell me why the loyalty between those people and the Democratic Party survives. I only have one theory, and when I learned yesterday, Janet, that some of the people in New Orleans refused to evacuate because their welfare checks were coming on the 1st of September, and they didn't want to miss those checks, that tells me all I need to know.
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Anyone have more info on this? Never heard it before.
OK, read later.
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I don't think any schools actually have AM radios anymore.
Why would they?
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Thank you Rush. Once again, there when we need you most. Ronald Reagan is looking down and smiling on this. He always knew you can trust the American people.
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If only this were required reading and listening to all students in school, but the teacher's unions would never allow it.
Thomas Sowell I could understand, but not Rush.
"That party -- because I left the plantation years ago -- that party was supposed to be the best buddy of the African-American and I guarantee you, Rush, it's not just in Louisiana. There's pockets of people like that all over this country that the Democrats -- I bet you those busses was running on election day. I guarantee you that."
An excellent point that was virtually ignored..
The same Mayor and Governor that used those buses to get people to the polls, to get themselves elected, failed to use that same effort to evacuate the victims of Katrina..
The phrase, "Useful Idiots" comes to mind..
Also "Disposable", and "Expendable"..