Posted on 06/25/2008 8:11:27 AM PDT by stillafreemind
I'm an Iowan. My feet are dry.. all Praise to God. So, I will say what is on the minds of a lot of Iowans that are busy trying to hold their families together right now. These flood victims are no less worthy of help than New Orleans residents. To totally ignore them is like an elephant in the room. Why are you ignoring us? Are we too humble? Are we too unworthy because we help ourselves and each other? Are we the wrong class? The wrong color? The wrong location? Are we too quiet? Or are we not something that you can exploit politically and monetarily? Hmmm.
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Got that yesterday. So true too.
LOL..have a great shopping experience at the grocery store in the next year or five.
Hollywood doesn’t care about white people in flyover country.
Doesn’t surprise me the HSUS is using the floods to raise money, they’re pathetic.
I got that email yesterday too, it’s right on the mark.
Iowa went to Bush by a slim margin last election. Perhaps the Left wants some Republican voters out of the pool.
You’re talking about the Mississippi though. You simply couldn’t do here what your talking about, it’s a mile wide in some places here in SE Iowa. They do keep a channel dredged in the middle of it though for the barges.
They used to dredge many of the smaller rivers for steamboat and barge travel in the 1800’s. Problem is it has to be constantly done - all those rivers are filled in and went back to their undredged state decades ago.
BTW, the Hawkeye out of Burlington has good flood coverage of SE Iowa. Lots of pics:
A very good and piquant post. Just hope enough people in this country are really paying attention.
How about these folks,
From the Times-Pic. N.O. today:
N.O. church on flood mission
Episcopalians return kindness after storm Wednesday, June 25, 2008From staff reports
A team of New Orleans Episcopal volunteers is scheduled to leave New Orleans this morning to help flood victims in Quincy, Ill., a community that reached out to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
The four-day trip by the Rev. Jerry Kramer and seven companions from the Free Church of the Annunciation will deliver money and personal cleaning supplies into the Midwestern flood zone, said Duane Nettles, pastoral associate at the church.
It’s also a reconnaissance mission to see what further help the New Orleans church might provide, he said.
The Episcopal Diocese of Quincy, although one of the poorest in the area, sent more than 20 teams of relief workers to help homeowners in the Church of the Annunciation’s Broadmoor neighborhood, Nettles said.
“They’ve been tremendous in support of us,” he said.
He said the New Orleanians will sleep on the floor of an Episcopal church “just like their people did for us.”
Hollywood = Hypocrites
I have been asking myself the same question and I guess the answer is unfortunately pretty obvious. That said, there are plenty of Americans that are very concerned about what our citizens in the Midwest have endured.
I don’t think I understand you.
I wondered about the same thing. Where are all those Hollywood types who went into a frenzy over problems overseas? Has anyone seen those evangelists who solicit funds for alleged overseas aid become concerned about Iowa? At the least, the government should divert some of the foreign aid to Iowa.
“But spare us the crybaby complaints.”
I don’t care who you are, that thar is just funny. For someone from NOLA to talk about crybaby complaints is friggin hilarious. Seems just last week I saw a crybaby story about some NOLA resident complaining about getting kicked out of her FEMA provided trailor.
It was a massive undertaking to find somewhere that would take them all. But farmers up to 200 miles away were taking them in.
Did they use school buses?
Obviously you know nothing of the facts and have no wish to.
On the plus side, the dredge matter can be used to build increasingly large levees. Preferably used with wired rock barriers to increase volume and strength.
At that point, the biggest problem would man made restrictions on the river, which unless raised to match the levees would be submerged.
Romulus, most here only know what the MSM fed them for weeks. Unfortunate, but true. They don’t know that all of NOLA doesn’t consist of whiners, or that most did indeed evacuate prior to the hurricane. (As a resident of Baton Rouge, I can attest to that as our roads were blocked with evacuees’ cars for days). Nor are they aware that most likely most Iowans have access to working transportation, which those caught in the levee catastrophe in NOLA did not. (Witness the unused school buses, which could have carried these same people to safety - but did not and were left to flood.) It’s rather difficult to evacuate when you have no transportation and your own local government is sitting around wringing its’ hands. The situation makes ripe targets for the race-baiters like Sharpton and Jackson as people are frightened, desperate and, yes, largely uneducated. No, this was not NOLA, but only a portion - but it’s all most here know or wish to know about the situation. Sad, but true.
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