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Hurricane Katrina survivors face grim Thanksgiving
Associated Press ^
| Wednesday, November 23, 2005
Posted on 11/23/2005 6:34:54 AM PST by WestTexasWend
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To: WestTexasWend
AHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!
Grim thanksgivings are 13 pound turkeys instead of 20? Driving 45 minutes to a store to get all the food you can buy? 18 friends and family coming over for a gathering?
effing AP.
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posted on
11/23/2005 6:39:43 AM PST
by
tfecw
(It's for the children)
To: WestTexasWend
I won't be having turkey either...I have to work. But I paid my Insurance bill...
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posted on
11/23/2005 6:40:44 AM PST
by
Dallas59
(“You love life, while we love death.” - Al-Qaeda / Democratic Party)
To: WestTexasWend
The trailer the government bought me is too small to cook a 20 lb. turkey.
Just Dang!! An American tragedy.
Bush's fault.
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posted on
11/23/2005 6:42:07 AM PST
by
NaughtiusMaximus
(My exit strategy is Victory.)
To: WestTexasWend
Sorry...I have to take care of my home state first..
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posted on
11/23/2005 6:42:15 AM PST
by
darkwing104
(Let's get dangerous)
To: WestTexasWend
Peole in America not only have very little to cry over, they will complain about the bounty. Only a 13 LB turkey? Have to use a TV tray as a cutting board? A 45 minute drive? My wife brought home a 13 lb'r, I will use the cutting board on the coffee table so I won't miss any TV, and I drive 1 hour each way to work every day.....Oh YEAH, I go to work every day and do not need charity to survive.
If these people have to start over, why don't they move to a new city and get back to work?
There are a certain amount of people that will get caught without insurance because of a mixup, but dropping insurance with a hurricane always possible is pure stupidity.
The govt needs to quit subsidizing those that won't take care of themselves, and let them be pruned from the tree of citizenship.
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posted on
11/23/2005 6:44:04 AM PST
by
jeremiah
(People wake up, the water is getting hot)
To: WestTexasWend
the recent arrest of 125 illegals working on a construction site in PA, tells me there is a possible 125 LEGAL citizen families who would have been having a better thanksgiving IF THEY HAD THOSE JOBS
I can stretch too AP
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posted on
11/23/2005 6:46:11 AM PST
by
sure_fine
(*not one to over kill the thought process*)
To: WestTexasWend
"Despite the fact so many people have lost so much, there's a sense we have so much to be thankful for." Amen.
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posted on
11/23/2005 6:47:34 AM PST
by
Klatuu
To: WestTexasWend
Whaaaaa, the AP didn't write about the Thanksgiving we had out at the old farm place. Drove 150 miles with the car full of groceries. There wasn't a stove so I had to cook the bird and everything else in a microwave. We had to chop veggies on the drain board and the jello mold melted. Ha, best Turkey Day we ever had!
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posted on
11/23/2005 6:51:34 AM PST
by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: WestTexasWend
There's really something very wrong with a person who can write a story like this, unless it is meant as satire.
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posted on
11/23/2005 6:54:49 AM PST
by
isrul
To: WestTexasWend
Every year, the media bombards us with sob stories about how the homeless won't have any kind of Thanksgiving and how this is such a horrible, rotten country because we're sitting all warm and stuffed full of food in our homes watching football and we just don't care. The message, of course, is "How dare you be so uncaring as to not be deliberately miserable like us!"
Looks like the Katrina "victims" are this year's homeless. Funny how the survivors of Rita and Wilma don't seem to count.
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posted on
11/23/2005 7:00:03 AM PST
by
CFC__VRWC
("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
To: isrul
It's an annual Thanksgiving tradition. Trotting out sad sack stories to point out how "evil" Republicans are.
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posted on
11/23/2005 7:00:39 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: sure_fine
the recent arrest of 125 illegals working on a construction site in PA, tells me there is a possible 125 LEGAL citizen families who would have been having a better thanksgiving IF THEY HAD THOSE JOBS You're assuming that those people would actually want to be trained for those 125 jobs instead of staying on the government dole. That's a big assumption.
To: WestTexasWend; NautiNurse; Howlin
I wish the AP had written this story about my relatives who will be spending Thanksgiving in Florida, shacked up with friends. Their house- fully insured- in Slidell is caught in a legal battle between Fema and the insurance company. The insurance company won't pay for repairs to the house because they say it is uninhabitable. FEMA won't pay to have it torn down and declare it a disaster because they say it is habitable. Meanwhile my 70+ year old relatives are left with nothing. 5 feet of storm surge damage left everything but the roof itself destroyed. No windows, doors or electricity. By now the mold will have taken over. All personal possessions not in the attic are gone.
For many from the Gulf Coast this will indeed be a stark and lean Thanksgiving, far from home and feeling very much alone.
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posted on
11/23/2005 7:06:19 AM PST
by
brothers4thID
(Do you stand with us, or are you going to just stand in the way?)
To: WestTexasWend
Surely, there are Americans far worse off than this bunch...
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posted on
11/23/2005 7:10:18 AM PST
by
Iscool
(Start your own revolution by voting for the candidates the media (and gov't) tells you cannot win.)
To: All
Perhaps I've become to cynical. "I'll be eating no turkey," , what is cheaper than turkey? When I heard on the news that the feds were going to stop paying the motel bills (that, of course was postponed) I realized that we have been paying these peoples rent since long before Katrina, and will continue to do so ad nauseum. It's called a job. Get one. Or two like me.
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posted on
11/23/2005 7:10:51 AM PST
by
pnut22
To: tfecw
Inconvenient maybe, but all the more reason to give thanks - she could be in a tent like so many of them are. My house is marginally livable after 12 weeks of labor to get basic facilities together, but we will be giving thanks by having 12-15 folks to fellowship and share in the feast amongst the studs and insulation. It's about praising God for sustaining us, not carping about not having all the unnecessary luxuries.
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posted on
11/23/2005 7:15:37 AM PST
by
trebb
("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
To: trebb
God Bless you this Thanksgiving.
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posted on
11/23/2005 7:19:20 AM PST
by
tioga
To: WestTexasWend
Hurricane Katrina survivors face grim Thanksgiving Leave it to the AP to make having perished in Katrina sound better than surviving.
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posted on
11/23/2005 7:24:35 AM PST
by
IamConservative
(Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times will pick himself up and carry on.)
To: WestTexasWend
kick himself for dropping insurance on his rental property before Katrina struckWhy not? If FEMA is going to meet our every need, insurance seems foolish.
Oh, and the next time disaster strikes, don't be surprised if we wait and see how much the benevolent (if constitutionally ignorant) politicians Democrats? Republicans? Does it matter? are giving on our behalf instead of rushing to make donations on our own. Live and learn!
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posted on
11/23/2005 7:40:34 AM PST
by
newgeezer
(Sarcasm content: 50.00%)
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