Unbelievable.

SDAI-Tech1 — 9/4/2005 5:27:49 AM (archived)

You twist my comments like a weather vane during a gale.

I'm saying I have seen folks who have it tough. Very tough. They manage to survive. I'm saying walking away from a house or apartment before a hurricane strikes isn't as easy as driving away but people can do amazing & difficult things when life is on the line.

I've helped many folks who've been down and out. You can't save everyone. You can't stop all suffering. There are folks who know nothing of how some folks live, they live in their communities and never get around to the tough parts of town where survival is a daily proposition, much less have friends among this group.

I'm no more conscience-less than you are. However, from my frame of reference, I don't see any benefit from creating a new "victimized" group which will only be exploited by partisans for their OWN benefit.

I want to help these folks and avoid a repeat performance somewhere else in another time of crisis.

Donating money, goods and blankets goes only so far - after doing this - the best way you can help someone and prevent future tragedies is by teaching them how to help themselves.

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New Orleans- Bagdad Redux - Buck Galaxy - 9/2/2005 6:02:17 AM
- re: New Orleans- Bagdad Redux - Tom Brosz - 9/17/2005 5:55:12 PM
  - re: New Orleans- Bagdad Redux - SteveS - 9/18/2005 2:48:06 AM
    - Buses and overkill - Tom Brosz - 9/18/2005 3:23:10 AM
      - re: Buses and overkill - SteveS - 9/18/2005 12:29:23 PM
- re: New Orleans- Bagdad Redux - Tom Brosz - 9/17/2005 5:55:06 PM
- Gee I don't know...Why don't we hear about their failed efforts in South Florida? - Scott Evil - 9/2/2005 12:21:06 PM
  - re: Gee I don't know...Why don't we hear about their failed efforts in South Florida? - Brian Wads. - 9/16/2005 5:40:01 AM
    - So Plano Texas is in Iraq? - R.L. - 9/18/2005 1:57:18 AM
    - (sniff) God bless the U.S. Morines!!! - Richard L. wad - 9/18/2005 1:50:39 AM
    - Warning! SDAI Tech2 alert! - Lindy - 9/17/2005 4:55:29 AM
    - The poor people of New Orleans have sore feet. They Couldn't walk to safety. - Scott Evil - 9/16/2005 6:35:26 PM
  - re: Gee I don't know...Why don't we hear about their failed efforts in South Florida? - Mitch - 9/6/2005 7:12:23 PM
  - Dead on.... - FrankC - 9/2/2005 9:26:43 PM
- re: New Orleans- Bagdad Redux - Robert - 9/2/2005 6:26:32 AM
  - I guess we will never know.... - FrankC - 9/2/2005 9:36:20 PM
    - re: I guess we will never know.... - Robert - 9/3/2005 1:06:23 AM
      - Before the storm - Tom Brosz - 9/3/2005 2:30:32 AM
      - A few things being talked about around the Super Dome water cooler - FrankC - 9/3/2005 1:59:13 AM
        
        A new word: "Nagin" - Robert - 9/3/2005 2:36:48 AM
        
        re: A new word: "Nagin" - Tom Brosz - 9/3/2005 2:41:52 AM
        
        radio interview? - Robert - 9/3/2005 2:56:13 AM
        
        re: radio interview - Tom Brosz - 9/3/2005 6:58:43 AM
  - I completely share your frustration. - Scott Evil - 9/2/2005 12:38:09 PM
    - re: I completely share your frustration. - Robert - 9/3/2005 2:16:20 AM
      - Additional factoid - Robert - 9/3/2005 2:20:29 AM
        
        Buses - FrankC - 9/3/2005 2:58:47 AM
        
        re: Buses - Robert - 9/3/2005 5:13:31 AM
        
        re: Buses - Tom Brosz - 9/3/2005 5:47:15 AM
        
        "20/20 hindsight" - Robert - 9/3/2005 4:49:56 PM
        
        Personal Responsibility - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/3/2005 9:49:23 PM
        
        "All the whining, demanding victims of the hurricane put themselves in the situation they are in." - Lindy - 9/4/2005 6:05:39 AM
        
        This Is Really Beautiful - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/4/2005 7:16:01 AM
        
        Wiggle, quibble, invoke Van Gogh... - Mary Anne - 9/4/2005 2:40:22 PM
        
        Many levels - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/4/2005 7:37:56 PM
        
        And for you they all come back to blaming the Left. - Mary Anne - 9/5/2005 5:35:42 PM
        
        A correction to my post of a moment ago - Robert - 9/4/2005 6:48:17 AM
        
        re: Social Responsibility - Mary Anne - 9/4/2005 3:39:42 AM
        
        Survival means tough decisions. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/4/2005 4:48:20 AM
        
        re: Survival - Mary Anne - 9/4/2005 5:07:29 AM
        
        Unbelievable. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/4/2005 5:27:49 AM
        
        I read what you first wrote. - Mary Anne - 9/4/2005 5:49:45 AM
        
        Yes. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/4/2005 6:25:30 AM
        
        Clueless - Mary Anne - 9/4/2005 2:55:20 PM
        
        "I'm tired of the blame game." - Robert - 9/4/2005 12:09:57 AM
        
        re: "I'm tired of the blame game." - J Ba - 9/19/2005 5:25:20 AM
        
        PS. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/4/2005 1:36:18 AM
        
        You're steeped in just as much self-righteousness Robert... - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/4/2005 1:25:15 AM
        
        re: You're steeped in your own ego. - Mary Anne - 9/4/2005 3:48:53 AM
        
        The only difference between you and Lee... - Robert - 9/4/2005 1:53:31 AM
        
        You see...it's like magic! - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/4/2005 2:09:28 AM
        
        and a dark magic indeed - Robert - 9/4/2005 3:29:21 AM
        
        Well it is New Orleans after all, so voodoo would be a better term to use. - Lee - 9/4/2005 8:35:35 AM
        
        My goodness man... where did I say that?! - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/4/2005 4:10:27 AM
        
        What Mary Anne said - Robert - 9/4/2005 6:46:54 AM
        
        Here: - Mary Anne - 9/4/2005 4:46:33 AM
        
        He DID claim to have a 'photographic memory', didn't he? (n/t) - R.L. - 9/7/2005 12:59:29 AM
        
        Boot camp - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/4/2005 5:09:17 AM
        
        The finger being pointed at you... - Mary Anne - 9/4/2005 5:26:26 AM
        
        I'm surprised. - SDAI-Tech1 - 9/4/2005 5:41:41 AM
        
        Excerpt from Techie Tired Rhetorical Technique manual - DL - 9/6/2005 1:59:57 PM
    - Notice all of the cars in the streets, driveways, and parking lots. - Lee - 9/2/2005 11:45:53 PM
      - Who did the cars belong to? - Mary Anne - 9/3/2005 12:04:57 AM
  - For God's sake, stop getting your news from the TV set. - Tom Brosz - 9/2/2005 7:11:20 AM
    - Earthquakes, Mayor Ray Nagin, and other disasters - Robert - 9/3/2005 1:50:35 AM
    - The reason the Superdome was opened. - Mary Anne - 9/2/2005 1:18:20 PM
- Relief - Tom Brosz - 9/2/2005 6:23:21 AM
- So why is the main Democratic voting block acting like savages? - Lee - 9/2/2005 6:22:25 AM
  - Anyone else disgusted by this bigoted piece of slime? - R.L. - 9/2/2005 10:44:12 PM
    - I guess reality is bigoted by your standards. - Lee - 9/2/2005 11:41:28 PM
  - Stop this at once. - Mary Anne - 9/2/2005 1:05:46 PM
    - "Stop this at once." Tell that to the savages. - Lee - 9/2/2005 11:30:42 PM
      - How many hundreds of people are you talking about? - Mary Anne - 9/2/2005 11:59:42 PM
        
        Compassion must be handed out in measured doses. - Lee - 9/3/2005 12:06:29 AM
        
        A reminder: the victims of these crimes are the people you are calling savages and animals. - Mary Anne - 9/3/2005 12:22:29 AM
        
        Lee is a human tragedy. - DL - 9/3/2005 4:32:17 AM
        
        Let the New Age begin. (n/t) - Lee - 9/3/2005 5:36:29 AM
        
        yes, and remember: when civilization returns, they shoot the wolves - DL - 9/3/2005 4:45:38 PM
        
        OK, Davin, you're right and I'm wrong. - Mary Anne - 9/3/2005 1:22:24 PM
    - Empathy is good - FrankC - 9/2/2005 10:48:48 PM
  - "What the hell would you be saying had federal troops gone in and restored order?" - Buck Galaxy - 9/2/2005 7:36:59 AM
    - So where's the New Orleans' PD? - Lee - 9/2/2005 11:25:15 PM

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