Posted on 09/11/2008 8:19:50 AM PDT by TSchmereL
The tax breaks issue is utter rubish.
as for children, your aunt does not pick up the pieces in criminal court after the damage was done. Is your aunt a social worker or a case worker and in which state?
homosexuals have always been able to go down to the local staples/office depot/office max and buy a form cohabitation agreement. (if you look, also obtain online for free)
The federal 11th DCA summed it up best when they upheld FL’s ban on homosexual adoption. (six states ban or restrict such adoptions)
Society rewards the institution not the sexual behavior.
The tax breaks issue is utter rubish.
as for children, your aunt does not pick up the pieces in criminal court after the damage was done. Is your aunt a social worker or a case worker and in which state?
homosexuals have always been able to go down to the local staples/office depot/office max and buy a form cohabitation agreement. (if you look, also obtain online for free)
The federal 11th DCA summed it up best when they upheld FL’s ban on homosexual adoption. (six states ban or restrict such adoptions)
Society rewards the institution not the sexual behavior.
Pontius Pilate “I hereby vote present”
I think McCain needs to stand up and take note.
If he was running as a conservative in 2000, he might have been a younger president.
Seriously, the media is dancing past the graveyard by ignoring the fact this is a CONSERVATIVE candidate who has electrified not only the base, but has freed up the republicans to fight on the down ticket.
The only way to get rid of the Pelosi left wing lunatic congress is to get rid of the democrats.
This was hilarious today... It was better listening to this...read slowly and laugh, laugh, laugh.
Story #1: AP: We Have Much to Learn from Communist Cuba
RUSH: You will not believe this. We just had a hurricane roar through Cuba. In fact, they’ve been hit twice, but this one, Hurricane Ike went in there and just devastated the place. Cuba doesn’t have any money. Cuba doesn’t have much of anything. Their buildings in Havana downtown cannot be restored, refurbished, because they don’t have any money, and they have not been. But listen to this from the Associated Press by Anita Snow.
“When Hurricane Ike struck Cuba, Ronald Matos didn’t think twice about fleeing his one-room wooden house for a government shelter. The 34-year-old construction worker and his wife, Emma Jean, got soft beds, free meals, the attention of a doctor and solicitous social workers — and the companionship of other friendly Cubans. ‘We passed the night talking and telling stories, because Cubans never lose their smiles or their sense of humor,’ he said. ‘There is no electricity, but we are better protected than in our homes.’” Now, get this next paragraph. “With an inefficient centralized economy and a U.S. embargo that has stifled trade, Cuba doesn’t have resources to build new, hurricane-proof buildings. It doesn’t have fleets of Humvees to charge through the floodwaters. Few of its people have cars to flee in, and fewer still can check on loved ones by cell phone. But if there’s one thing the communist island does right, it’s evacuations.” (laughing) Damn! “And in the end, that saves more lives than anything else.”
So we have a lot to learn. The point of this story, folks, if you read it all, is we’ve got lots to learn from Cuba. They’ve got the best health care system, and they know how to evacuate people. To where? From where, to where? And all these Cubans, the story says, they’re all out there shouting for Fidel. Fidel! Fidel! They’re shouting for Raul — Raul! Raul! — and they have not seen any of them. Fidel hasn’t been seen in months. Raul hasn’t been seen in three or four weeks. They probably got the hell off the island! They’re probably not even there. Boy, but we have a lot to learn, folks, from Cuba. “The death toll from Hurricane Ike this week was shockingly high by Cuban standards: five. This, for a giant storm that tore across the length of the island, flattening houses in its path.
“Compare that with Haiti, which took glancing blows from Hanna and Ike and saw hundreds die.” Yeah, I guess so, between Haiti and Cuba, you choose Cuba. But then it says this: “The secret is the evacuations system. A quarter-million Cubans evacuated during Gustav, and the number for Ike was a staggering 2.6 million — nearly a quarter of the island’s population. Most of the evacuees found family or friends to stay with, but nearly 400,000 were housed in 2,300 government shelters.” Wow, at least they’re better than Ray Nagin was. They’re better than Kathleen Blanco was. But then this:
“Most Cubans work for the government and don’t have to worry about losing wages if they take off from work. And because police keep a close eye on evacuated areas — and because most Cubans have few possessions of value anyway — looting isn’t a major concern.” So there’s the answer to looting! Nobody has anything! Oh, my gosh, what have I learned here? We’re singing the praises in the Associated Press of Cuba: 2300 government shelters, mass evacuations. They show us how to do it right, and there’s no looting. There’s no looting, because, as the AP says here, Anita Snow, “because most Cubans have few possessions of value anyway, looting isn’t a major concern. Cubans are taught from an early age to move quickly in the event of a natural disaster.” Gag me with a spoon, ladies and gentlemen. We’re supposed to learn from Cuba. The AP, the Drive-Bys, are out to lunch, too.
Everybody is zeroing in now on Hurricane Ike and where it will make landfall in Texas. The hurricane track right now, it’s going to be very, very close to Houston and Galveston area, a little southwest of that on the Texas coast. They’re already evacuating people. Hundreds of thousands of people are being evacuated from the area where it is to hit. I’d like to offer a public service for those of you in Texas who are being evacuated and that is to throw away all of your possessions, throw away everything have. Throw away your car; throw away your laundry, whatever it is, throw it away, because I read a story from the AP today talking about how much we could learn from Cuba in dealing with hurricanes.
Cuba apparently is better than anybody in the world at evacuating people, and I also learned this from the Associated Press. Anita Snow was the info babe. There was no looting. There is no looting ever in Cuba during hurricanes. That’s ‘cause nobody has anything, and this was said by the AP to be a really monumental achievement. I mean this was something we should all emulate. We should be more like Cuba. So to avoid looting and losing your possessions to theft, just throw them away if you are in Texas. And that way, you won’t be looted. I’m just trying to help here by spreading the word from the Associated Press today as they credited Cuba for being able to show the world how to deal with natural disasters.
Absolutely.
The sooner the better.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.