I'll say this, I'm neither a republican or democrat (you should have seen my last ballot, it must have looked like a christmas tree was drawn on it...but, then, in Georgia, the differences aren't as big) but i saw a picture a couple days ago of all the school buses in nola sitting in 3 feet of water and the caption read "Democratic Leadership" and then a picture of all the school buses ont he way out of Galveston and the caption read "Republican Leadership" and ain't it the truth.
This is whyt he founders said that during peacetime (which technically, this isn't but whatever) 80-90% of gov't should be at the local level. It was their job to make sure everyone got out of nola. No the presidents. The president, IMO, was following a primary leadership trait: delegation. It just turned out that he had people under him who were utterly incompetent, and voters in La. who voted for incredibly incompetent people. Not to mention the IDIOTS that stayed in NOLA, a city mostly sitting below sea level, when everyone on earth knew a massive hurricane was about to strike. I mean really, yeah they get a lot of false alarms, but when your LIFE is at stake, I think I'll listen to the mother $%^#@! that's crying wolf ont he off chance that he is right. Know what I mean?
Me? I feel no pity for anyone who does that, and then shoots at rescue choppers (my unit was helping the rescue efforts, so don't ANYONE deny that it happened) and also goes into the local store to loot, no, not food but 52 inch tvs to sell at a later date. Pardon me while I don't shed a tear.
The people who took what they could and ran their butts out of town and cam home to find they didn't really have a home anymore: I feel sorry for them, they did wat was in their best interest and still got screwed. That sucks.
Oh, and did anyone catch the part about how the stories of rape and murder at the superdome turned out to be lies. God, I wish I could find that story again to post for all to see. Turns out the local officials were lying about all that.
Or how about the parish administrator who was stealing food parcels? Yeah, another person whose life was destroyed to feel pity for.
White/Black thing? Hell no. It's a stupid and not stupid thing. The stupid people stayed behind and died, the smart people left and survived.
StangDreamin' said:
First time I heard that joke, I was about 10; and I must have repeated it about 10,000 times in the last 3 weeks - every time I heard Mayor Ray Nagin, Senator Mary Landrew, and {whatever the Louisiana Governor's name is} crying into a TV camera about "The governemnt didn't take care of us!!!"
I also was praying that somebody would take each of those individuals aside; slap the snot out of them remind them that (as mayor, senator and governor)
they are "the Government" and
what the H*** did they do to help the situation??? 
As for Daylight Savings Time; I heard a similar story. Seems somebody was trying to explain to an old Apache Indian how DST worked and why it was a good thing for him. He asked, "So, if I cut four inches off the bottom of my blanket and stitch it to the top of my blanket, will that make my blanket four inches longer?" Think about it. I've got work lights and flashlights and a really cool pair of mil surplus NVG's. I still gotta sleep sometime.
) from Yuma; and you drive through some forested mountains to get there! Population (in the city limits) is around 170K estimated, but there's lots of county land around. You could even live 20 miles away in Wellton - population 3,000 people and a junkyard with several Maverick and Granada donors for suspension projects!
Every auto dealership except Hummer and the Italian and British exports; and three FBO shops if your Dad wants to get back into aircraft work.
