Here we are, another year has passed, the thread on "G.W. Bush hates Blacks" was interesting, and now is locked, and yet I feel we neglected to get this resolved.
We are at war gentlemen. It's not a movie, or a video game, but real war, and real people are dying while defending our way of life.
I hear some say it's a bad idea, and that we are wrong, and that France, Germany and Russia are looking down their noses at the USA for such petulant behaviour.
I see many college students believing the lies excreted by bitter socialist ex-hippie Professors making one last-ditch effort to change the world into the peacenik nirvana they debated while sharing a joint when they were in school.
I watched the good, the bad and the outright ugly come out in our own citizens when confronted with the poor choices they have made in life. Let me list them out.
1) Choose not to educate yourself.
2) Choose to get pregnant and have a child out of wedlock.
3) Choose not to support that child if your the dad. (It pays less that way.)
4) Choose to let someone else pay your way. (Welfare.)
I could go on and on, but why twist the dagger of truth? We all watched and were injured in seeing our own countrymen reduced to petty acts of terror and self preservation. The strong preying on the weak. The choice to stay and plunder soon turned to fear of death and the realization that they may have to pay for their actions.
Then a not so amazing CYA propaganda blitz started with the Mayor of NO, spread to the Gov. and then up the chain to many politicians the world over. "Where is the President, and where is the military?" Where is my next hand out since I've totally made an ass of myself on national/global television, now I'm going to whine like a hungry child, and smear my loaded diaper on the wall in protest of your lack of caring for me... (Get the picture?)
After years of choices 1 through 4, many of these people were/are incapable of independant thought.
Interview after interview of people standing/sitting around on freeway overpasses, and other places while waiting for someone to come and save them, hands upturned, and eyes begging for sustinence.
What the media does not need to point out is that food, water and shelter was just a hike down the freeway to areas not flooded. Media trucks and others were using these freeways to get in and out of NO and the affected areas. Yet NONE of those so eager to now point fingers, and say you failed me, you did not care because I was poor, or Black, or White Trash. You failed me because we are too busy in Iraq. NONE of these people simply got off their asses and walked out of the city? WHY NOT? I've looked, and there are some areas where water might have been crossed to make it out on the freeway system alone. On foot. At night, or early in the morning, or afternoon, when it's cooler. Would the media trucks not have helped these people?
Why they were not telling these people to start walking is amazing to me. Clearly to get a good story, they let people suffer in the sun, on concrete overpasses for days and days while these people waited for someone to come save them.
I think we can all learn much from this horrible storm. We can learn from the horrible actions of those that were trapped by their own choices in areas that flooded.
1) Get an education, and make something of yourself. (This is not easy, but it's worth it.)
2) Don't get pregnant as a teenager.
3) Don't ignore your kids, and let them grow up in single parent homes. GUYS and GALS, take care of your kids, raise them, and teach them right. It takes two hardworking parents to raise a child up right. It does not take a fucking village like Billary Clinton would like to think.
4) Make your own living and fortune in life. This gives you pride in a job well done, and the respect of your kids and spouse. It makes you a successful part of society, and an excellent citizen of the world.
I don't blame this President for anything except passing up the opportunity to call it like it is, and to start the change for a real energy program that will remove the money from the middle eastern cartel's that control the worlds developed oil fields. (Another subject, for another time.)
It's tragic that many died in this storm, and the resulting floods when the walls came down. (Amazing thing about gravity, it does not care what color you are, or how much you make, it just causes water to go from high to low places till it's all equal.) I feel sorry for the families and loved ones who lost those close to them. I'm dealing with it every day now from 7:30am to 7:00pm, with a 20min lunch break in the middle of the day. People yell and curse me on the phone, and in other CAT's I've worked, they have threatened me in person, and cursed me to my face. The anger and dispair they are venting is difficult for me to deal with, so I'm writing it down here, and you can choose to read it, or not. That's fine with me. It's off my chest now, and I'm ready to get up at 5am and start the whole deal all over again.
I make less money on CAT duty for the hours worked than I normally make. I'm not here for the money by any means. It's just part of my job, and I'll make the most of it while I'm here. Just yesterday, I resolved a claim for a lady who lives in a travel trailer with her two kids. She paid her insurance, and had the coverage, she is attending nursing school, and has already bought her Christmas gifts early so she would be able to spread out the cost over time, and still buy what her kids would need. These presents were under here bed when it flooded due to water driven in my the storm. The trailer is batterd and wind worn, but with a few reapairs, will give them shelter untill she can buy a new one. It was nice to send her 9,600.00 for the trailer, and help her list the items lost in the storm so I could send her the full 3000.00 in personal effects coverage she had on the policy. Never in our conversations did she blame anyone for the losses and hardships. She was simply gratefull to be with her kids. And to be alive. She was weeping when I told her the amounts would be in the mail, and it made it worth it for me to be away from my own family these long weeks while I'm on CAT duty.
We are at war gentlemen. It's not a movie, or a video game, but real war, and real people are dying while defending our way of life.
I hear some say it's a bad idea, and that we are wrong, and that France, Germany and Russia are looking down their noses at the USA for such petulant behaviour.
I see many college students believing the lies excreted by bitter socialist ex-hippie Professors making one last-ditch effort to change the world into the peacenik nirvana they debated while sharing a joint when they were in school.
I watched the good, the bad and the outright ugly come out in our own citizens when confronted with the poor choices they have made in life. Let me list them out.
1) Choose not to educate yourself.
2) Choose to get pregnant and have a child out of wedlock.
3) Choose not to support that child if your the dad. (It pays less that way.)
4) Choose to let someone else pay your way. (Welfare.)
I could go on and on, but why twist the dagger of truth? We all watched and were injured in seeing our own countrymen reduced to petty acts of terror and self preservation. The strong preying on the weak. The choice to stay and plunder soon turned to fear of death and the realization that they may have to pay for their actions.
Then a not so amazing CYA propaganda blitz started with the Mayor of NO, spread to the Gov. and then up the chain to many politicians the world over. "Where is the President, and where is the military?" Where is my next hand out since I've totally made an ass of myself on national/global television, now I'm going to whine like a hungry child, and smear my loaded diaper on the wall in protest of your lack of caring for me... (Get the picture?)
After years of choices 1 through 4, many of these people were/are incapable of independant thought.
Interview after interview of people standing/sitting around on freeway overpasses, and other places while waiting for someone to come and save them, hands upturned, and eyes begging for sustinence.
What the media does not need to point out is that food, water and shelter was just a hike down the freeway to areas not flooded. Media trucks and others were using these freeways to get in and out of NO and the affected areas. Yet NONE of those so eager to now point fingers, and say you failed me, you did not care because I was poor, or Black, or White Trash. You failed me because we are too busy in Iraq. NONE of these people simply got off their asses and walked out of the city? WHY NOT? I've looked, and there are some areas where water might have been crossed to make it out on the freeway system alone. On foot. At night, or early in the morning, or afternoon, when it's cooler. Would the media trucks not have helped these people?
Why they were not telling these people to start walking is amazing to me. Clearly to get a good story, they let people suffer in the sun, on concrete overpasses for days and days while these people waited for someone to come save them.
I think we can all learn much from this horrible storm. We can learn from the horrible actions of those that were trapped by their own choices in areas that flooded.
1) Get an education, and make something of yourself. (This is not easy, but it's worth it.)
2) Don't get pregnant as a teenager.
3) Don't ignore your kids, and let them grow up in single parent homes. GUYS and GALS, take care of your kids, raise them, and teach them right. It takes two hardworking parents to raise a child up right. It does not take a fucking village like Billary Clinton would like to think.
4) Make your own living and fortune in life. This gives you pride in a job well done, and the respect of your kids and spouse. It makes you a successful part of society, and an excellent citizen of the world.
I don't blame this President for anything except passing up the opportunity to call it like it is, and to start the change for a real energy program that will remove the money from the middle eastern cartel's that control the worlds developed oil fields. (Another subject, for another time.)
It's tragic that many died in this storm, and the resulting floods when the walls came down. (Amazing thing about gravity, it does not care what color you are, or how much you make, it just causes water to go from high to low places till it's all equal.) I feel sorry for the families and loved ones who lost those close to them. I'm dealing with it every day now from 7:30am to 7:00pm, with a 20min lunch break in the middle of the day. People yell and curse me on the phone, and in other CAT's I've worked, they have threatened me in person, and cursed me to my face. The anger and dispair they are venting is difficult for me to deal with, so I'm writing it down here, and you can choose to read it, or not. That's fine with me. It's off my chest now, and I'm ready to get up at 5am and start the whole deal all over again.
I make less money on CAT duty for the hours worked than I normally make. I'm not here for the money by any means. It's just part of my job, and I'll make the most of it while I'm here. Just yesterday, I resolved a claim for a lady who lives in a travel trailer with her two kids. She paid her insurance, and had the coverage, she is attending nursing school, and has already bought her Christmas gifts early so she would be able to spread out the cost over time, and still buy what her kids would need. These presents were under here bed when it flooded due to water driven in my the storm. The trailer is batterd and wind worn, but with a few reapairs, will give them shelter untill she can buy a new one. It was nice to send her 9,600.00 for the trailer, and help her list the items lost in the storm so I could send her the full 3000.00 in personal effects coverage she had on the policy. Never in our conversations did she blame anyone for the losses and hardships. She was simply gratefull to be with her kids. And to be alive. She was weeping when I told her the amounts would be in the mail, and it made it worth it for me to be away from my own family these long weeks while I'm on CAT duty.
