Posted on 09/15/2005 4:52:29 PM PDT by Howlin
Edited on 09/15/2005 5:05:17 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
9 P.M. EDT.
...And countless air drops by Chinook helicopter just days after the hurricane.
This is the text of the state initiative that I worked extremely hard for...and that passed with 59% of the vote:
The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.
No there won't. There will be months and months of delays and obfuscations, political spin and politicians flapping their gums. Then, a couple years from now, a 3-inch-think report (Taxpayer cost to prepare: $400 Million) full of government gibberish will appear, to land with a thud on the desk of the NY Times late on a Friday night.
Nobody will notice, but that's no matter, because the report will be unintelligible and will affix blame to nobody, certainly no politicians.
"My prayers for your family...."
I say the same to you and your step daughter and to other Freepers who have family and friends just waking from the stunning shock this devastating hurricane has cast upon them.
It's not just about helping disaster victims with or without flood insurance, (people who lost homes they owned), it's about the rest, that percentage of the population doomed to poverty. This is their chance to climb out of that mud and live a normal life, and some will take it, some won't. Just think, generations of people with low self esteem, no belief in themselves except what little democrats, Liberals, Jesse Jackson, Maxine Waters, and Al Sharpton allow.
An interview just before Katrina hit,(I'll never forget it), with two black women in a deserted playground outside their apartment house. Their children playing on the swings, and the reporter said, "Why aren't you leaving?" The women replied that they had no transportation, no money, so they were staying. No look of fear on their faces. No anger, simple acceptance. They lived from govt. check to govt. check and waited for the govt. to tell them what to do and when to do it. They literally had no concept of any other way to live. That is scarier than Katrina, and that's what GW is attempting to change. (I don't know. Maybe we need a human genome upgrade, and wouldn't that be nice!) It's going to take years to see how this pans out.
Most of those tractor trailers you speak of (most of them FEMA), were turned back by Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin. Even Wal-Mart and Red Cross trucks were told to turn around.
Big D got nuttin to say, thassa fact. Even jessie on greta tonight was changed "step in the right direction"
Heh.
I am so up. He really came around here. I get the frustration with spending, but this?
90,000 square miles of southern merrikin peeples smushed up stuff. yikes. If ever the central gov't is called for, its Military and here. I feel a connection to you folks there, united with you like I have not in some time. This is somethin for a flinty vermont yankee, i say.
Git er done.
By 2008, gawd, The Big D will be achin.."Oh no not more films of beautiful prosperous N'Oleens."
Not to mention Mrs Sippi. She's a mess too.
Gonna get it fixed, i hope you folks down there are feelin hopeful, it is a very hopeful, great day. The man gets it, and you gettin help, and i could not be happier.
Big D protests will really ring sour over this...what you agin heppin those folks theah?
Heh.
Got to get some sleep now.
At least lie down with my eyes closed, anyway.
Heh.
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Text of Speech (NOLA 9-15-05)
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=1485376%2C2480
Nah....I'm just having my say.
I don't expect everyone to agree with me.....and a good thing cause they rarely do.
I am all for rebuilding NOLA prudently and restoring the historical districts if possible....and they better federalize that....or it will be stolen largely
Of course, the same goes for the Gulf coast.
I do however take issue with the race blame game tone (in a black run city) and the mention of minority set asides.....that simply blew me away.
That can get in line with CFR, Education Bill, Immigration and a few other W endeavors I don't cotton to.
W is just a bit more PC on this stuff than I am....sorry that's a lie.....he is way more PC...or I'm way more un-PC...oh well, I am not constrained like he is admittedly
Anybody wishes to question my pragmatic support for W can start looking up threads here that demonstrate such....there are a number....activism...recorded
they can start with my homepage
but I am not crazy about this speech
nor am I crazy about his silence over the gun confiscations down there.
there are some here who never disagree with W....and consider any dissent to be blasphemy....that's just silly...one can dissent without losing the baby is said bathwater
Gnite my friend, And yes, This thread could be a hit over at DU
Who's going to operate the (very important) port? (And where are we going to get such good jazz and shrimp? ;)
I agree that NO should not be rebuilt as it was. It should be rebuilt better than it was.
And knowing the great American spirit and how we rise to any challenge set before us, I'm betting it will all happen before any of us expect it.
No, some got through from the National Guard without her permission. I have all the pictures on a previous Free republic Post. I will search for it and post a link here.
I'm sure it is.......and the 'pure' conservatives around here are the belles of the DU ball. Pathetic.
Good thing there are so few of them.
What's scary is the demand of the feds/Bush for greater power in case of national emergency. States' rights will be buried, but in the face of Blanco and Nigan's monumental incompetence, there's nothing else but for the feds to step in early and with big feet.
I was talking about Bush's speech, not some state initiative you worked hard to pass. While all well and good, but the Constitution and federal laws already allow for the exact thing you worked hard to pass. I swear, I'd think this was pre-1964, just by looking at the Democrats.
"Have you ever had a storm come through and take away everything you ever worked for in a 12 hour period? ....................."
He has never Worked for a twelve hour period.
Heh. Just kiddin 888. Couldnt resist.
Your post reminded me of a post a freeper made...SHe was helping out at the Astrodome...SOrry don't remember her name....
IIR the story correctly: SHe was counseling students to get them into school. One teen age boy she spoke with had dropped out because the gangs in his school had made attendance unsafe.....WHen she encouraged him, he smiled and said maybe he could go to college too....He was a good student. Hope that what "W" has given them "HOPE"!
LOL Meanwhile, we had the figures in TX revised today and we have 324,900 evacuees. That is a bunch and we are pitching in. So many of them are beautiful people and my heart goes out to them. So my hope is the homesteading goes thru because many of them will go back if they can live in decent places.
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