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Telamon · July 17th 08, 01:59 AM posted to rec.radio.shortwave

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dxAce wrote:

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On Jul 15, 1:11 pm, dxAce wrote:
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On Jul 14, 11:50 pm, Tex wrote:
On Jul 14, 1:37 pm, dxAce wrote:

A few pointed questions about the Iowa floods:

Where are all of the Hollywood celebrities holding
telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa and helping the
folks affected by the floods? Where is all the media asking
the tough questions about why the federal government hasn't
solved the problem? Asking where the FEMA trucks (and
trailers) are? Why isn't the Federal Government relocating
Iowa people to free hotels in Chicago ? When will Spike Lee
say that the Federal Government blew up the levees that
failed in Des Moines ? Where are Sean Penn and the Dixie
Chicks? Where are all the looters stealing high-end tennis
shoes and big screen television sets? When will we hear
Governor Chet Culver say that he wants to rebuild a
"vanilla" Iowa , because that's the way God wants it? Where
is the hysterical 24/7 media coverage complete with reports
of cannibalism? Where are the people declaring that George
Bush hates white, rural people? How come in 2 weeks, you
will never hear about the Iowa flooding ever again? (via a
friend)

Where is Rush Limbaugh? Where is Sean Hannity? Where is Glen
Beck? Where is Bill O'Reilly? Where is Lars Larsen? Where is
Mike Gallagher? Where is every local yokel talk radio on
every friggin station in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota,
Minnesota, Illinois, et.al. (all of whom are CONservatives)?

I heard the Drug Addled Gasbag bloviating about this,
(correctly) praising the heroic response of Iowans, and
(incorrectly) darkly implying that the problem in Katrina was
the stupid and lazy dark- skinned people in Louisiana rather
than the stupid and lazy leaders at the very top who sat back
and did nothing as a city full of people drowned because they
didn't own cars or were hospitalized or infirm. Disgusting.

Actually it was the leaders at the bottom who sat back and did
nothing, Including the totally idiotic Mayor of New Orleans, who
personifies 'dumbass'.

The ultimate responsibility for response to a major disaster is
FEMA's. This is by necessity, because few if any states have the
resources necessary to cope with a disaster of this magnitude, and
it would be ridiculous (and grossly inefficient) to expect each of
the 50 states to duplicate all the equipment and infrastructure to
cope with a massive disaster.

Sorry, but you're passing the buck. The blame is squarely on Bush
and the Republican congress, which created DHS and made FEMA a
subordinate organization. Then when a disaster hit, the President,
Vice President, Chertoff as the head of DHS, were DERELICT in their
duty to oversee a coordinated response with local and regional
resources.

It's RIDICULOUS to blame the mayor of New Orleans for something
that's Bush's fault.

Not ridiculous at all. The dumbass mayor and the dumbass governor
were derelict in their duty.

They sure did not act as leaders. It was their moment to rise to the
occasion and they failed miserably.

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Telamon
Ventura, California