Posted on 10/02/2005 4:14:47 AM PDT by Deacon_m
Things I have noticed while watching media coverage of the recent hurricanes. 1. Texas: Productive industrious state run by Republicans.
Louisiana: Government dependent welfare state run by Democrats.
2. Texas: Residents take responsibility to protect and evacuate themselves.
Louisiana: Residents wait for government to protect and evacuate them.
3. Texas: Local and state officials take responsibility for protecting their citizens and property.
Louisiana: Local and state officials blame federal government for not protecting their citizens and property.
4. Texas: Command and control remains in place to preserve order.
Louisiana: Command and control collapses allowing lawlessness.
5. Texas: Law enforcement officers remain on duty to protect city.
Louisiana: Law enforcement officers desert their posts to protect themselves.
6. Texas: Local police watch for looting.
Louisiana: Local police participate in looting.
7. Texas: Law and order remains in control, 8 looters tried it, 8 looters arrested.
Louisiana: Anarchy and lawlessness breaks out, looters take over city, no arrests, criminals with guns have to be shot by federal troops.
8. Texas: Considerable damage caused by hurricane.
Louisiana: Considerable damage caused by looters.
9. Texas: Flood barriers hold preventing cities from flooding.
Louisiana: Flood barriers fail due to lack of maintenance allowing city to flood.
10. Texas: Orderly evacuation away from threatened areas, few remain.
Louisiana: 25,000 fail to evacuate, are relocated to another flooded area.
11. Texas: Citizens evacuate with personal 3 day supply of food and water.
Louisiana: Citizens fail to evacuate with 3 day supply of food and water, do without it for the next 4 days.
12. Texas: FEMA brings in tons of food and water for evacuees. State officials provide accessible distribution points.
Louisiana: FEMA brings in tons of food and water for evacuees. State officials prevent citizens from reaching distribution points and vice versa.
13. Louisiana: Media focuses on poor blacks in need of assistance, blames Bush.
Texas: Media can't find poor blacks in need of assistance, looking for something else to blame on Bush.
14. Texas: Coastal cities suffer some infrastructure damage, Mayors tell residents to stay away until ready for repopulation, no interference from federal officials.
Louisiana: New Orleans is destroyed, Mayor asks residents to return home as another hurricane approaches, has to be overruled by federal officials.
15. Louisiana: Over 400 killed by storm, flooding and crime.
Texas: 24 killed in bus accident on highway during evacuation, no storm related deaths.
16. Texas: Jailed prisoners are relocated to other detention facilities outside the storm area.
Louisiana: Jailed prisoners are set free to prey on city shops, residents, and homes.
17. Texas: Local and state officials work with FEMA and Red Cross in recovery operations.
Louisiana: Local and state officials obstruct FEMA and Red Cross from aiding in recovery operations.
18. Texas: Local and state officials demonstrate leadership in managing disaster areas.
Louisiana: Local and state officials fail to demonstrate leadership, require federal government to manage disaster areas.
19. Texas: Fuel deliveries can't keep up with demand, some run out of gas on highway, need help from fuel tankers before storm arrives.
Louisiana: Motorists wait till storm hits and electrical power fails. Cars run out of gas at gas stations that cant pump gas. Gas in underground tanks mixes with flood waters.
20. Texas: Mayors move citizens out of danger.
Louisiana: Mayor moves himself and family to Dallas.
21. Texas: Mayors continue public service announcements and updates on television with Governor's backing and support.
Louisiana: Mayor cusses, governor cries, senator threatens president with violence on television, none of them have a clue what went wrong or whos responsible.
22. Louisiana: Democratic Senator says FEMA was slow in responding to 911 calls from Louisiana citizens.
Texas: Republican Senator says "when you call 911, the phone doesn't ring in Washington, it rings here at the local responders".
What if state and local elected officials were forced to depend on themselves and their own resources instead of calling for help from the federal government? Texas cities would be back up and running in a few days. Louisiana cities would still be under water next month. Republicans call for action, Democrats call for help. What party will you be voting for in the next election?
The Democrats are already self-destructing because of their negative hate toward Bush. Also, Hillary and Billary have created a lot of hatred within their own party. The hatred will grow like a cancer and destroy the pary. Watch the poison at work day after day in the news, until the party destroys itself. The Hollywood crowd will continue to fuel the hate.
You can read can't you?
Nonsense...............and it's not a matter of "severity" of hurricane impact; it's about the responsibility of the citizenry and their local governments. Now go tell the coastal Texas citizens how "unscathed" they were, slick.
Two thumbs up for Texas
Coincidence?
I don't think so.
I wrote: Those who were wiped out by Andrew and Ivan might not share your view.
My point is that the "gender" of a hurricane doesn't matter. If I misunderstood your point, which seems to indicate monster hurricanes are coincidentally "female", I'll take my lumps. If you thought I was insulting you, then I understand why you insulted me and am sorry that my reply came across that way because it wasn't meant to. As soon as I get my Solsuite upgrade taken care of, I'll work on my humor detection software. : )
No, Figment, though apparently plenty of people in this evac effort we're supposed to admire are. My friends (who live out in the Houston area) didn't go out on the freeway to sit on their butts precisely because things were such a mess. As it turned out there wasn't much need to, but boy what panic and disorder.
Now that's just nonsense. Rita was not as bad as Katrina, and when we talk about responsibility the bottom line is that nobody really took any when a lot of lives could have been saved. I'm responding to somebody trying to peddle votes out of this mess.
Yeah, what a tool George W. Bush was when he acknowledged federal failures and took responsibility for them. I guess that's probably why he's the president and not you.
And the same can be said for Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle (San Juan de Fuca fault), Memphis (New Madrid fault), and quite a number of other places. The argument won't fly.
First, it was meant as obvious humor. Second, for those who are humor deprived it was limited to describing "these two" hurricanes.
The author of this thread commited a logical fallacy. So instead of pointing it out and making a boring comment I used humor to highlight the absurdity of his logic.
Believe it or not, although I often post few line comments most have more thought to them than they first appear.
Morning Reverend (T)
"So Shall It Be Written and So Shall It Be Done."
I would call the demorats the party of hatred and death.
They have no moral or ethical platform, but that of the communist party usa. Follywood (the majority)have embraced the bane of satan in their daily lives.
You have spoken the "Words of Traditional Wisdom" which will come to pass for those vessel(s) of evil.
Or the wheel broken at the cistern,
NSNR-CSAOTL
Bump!
Governor Blanco, is that you?
If it was I would left you to drown in your own idiocy rather than saving your helpless ass by clueing you in on what's really happening.
. "New Orleans is FAR less "well equipped"
No, New Orleans was far less populated and had only one lane feeding into the contraflow. Houston evacuated 5 times the population of New Orleans and had traffic jams of people who are unaware of roads other than freeways and interstates. Maps are your friend. The state can't take each and every person by the hand and lead them to their destination. Texas started earlier and the people who wanted to , got out. Some much easier than others
God Bless those brave men and women of the American Meterological Society who have to do the actual gender-check. ;^)
Mayor Nagin, is that you?
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