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No shit, I'm tired of all the bullshit. No one cared 10 years ago, nobody cares now.
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before Katrina it was Andrew Andrew Andrew, expect to hear about this one until the next big one strikes.
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It is just a reflection of the culture in question (that shall not be named out loud). Same sorta victim mentality.
Sit and wait on a .gov handout. |
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Although the place is a disease ridden shithole, laiden with fuckbag criminals and much eclectic vibrancy. I hope the best to the hard workers and people trying to make a difference.
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If I hear "I'm a Katrina victim" one more time...
I do medical insurance, mostly Medicare, in Fort Worth and I have run into several transplants from NO who told me that they were victims. That is their mentality. |
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I keep seeing the, "Bush screwed up, Obama made it all better" stories. Not a lot of talk about the crooked politicians down there that pocketed all the levee money for 30+ years without improving the system.
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I shared in MC'ing the Bellevue picnic the year of the flood. We are a very resilient community. We had no big problems with looting or crime during the flood. We hung out, helped each other out (such as the retirees that did regular boat trips to ferry medicine and diapers to communities that were cut off by flood waters), and when the waters receded we rebuilt.
We're almost done rebuilding. The old Regal Cinemas has reopened as a gun shop and the ranges are almost done. |
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We had a few of the victims placed with our company shortly after Katrina. All they could do was bitch and moan about being " up North". After a few months of being expected to actually come to work and do a job, they all left to go back to the comfort of welfare.
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Quoted: I keep seeing the, "Bush screwed up, Obama made it all better" stories. Not a lot of talk about the crooked politicians down there that pocketed all the levee money for 30+ years without improving the system. View Quote THANK YOU! I've been hearing since the 80's that the levee system there was a disaster waiting to happen and could collapse at any time. I think of New Orleans like this; if Katrina had been a Cat 2 storm and actually hit New Orleans, there could have been tens of thousands dead because no one would have evacuated for a lesser storm. The strength of the storm was enough to make people leave and lives were saved because of that. |
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A city filled with refuse relying on a democratic Mayor and democratic Governor. What could possibly go wrong?
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I remember watching NBC News and Brian Williams responded to all the viewer feedback about "It's 3 months after the storm. Why is half the newscast every day devoted to Katrina?"
And Brian Williams basically said "tough shit, we're not going to change". Rush Limbaugh said the media is is the only business where the customer is always wrong. |
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Try living here with all the nonsense. All those fuckers knew damn good and well there was a storm coming and didn't give a fuck. They wanted to be victims and will continue to play that part for many more years. The Mississippi gulf coast got wiped out. Almost completely washed away and hardly anything is said about that aspect of this "tragedy". They rebuilt and moved on. My wife is a transplant of Katrina, and never a word about it. Her parents sold their home in Laplace to some folks that lost all their shit in St. Bernard Parish. The ones you keep hearing about want as much free shit as possible.
I remember one guy told me he stayed behind because he couldn't afford the gas to get out before. When asked how he eventually got out- he stole a car and drove up here to Baton Rouge. Another couple of girls that worked with me had lived in St. Bernard and lost most of their stuff. Their road home came in and the FIRST thing they bought was a friggin big ass plasma tv! Those two were white by the way! So it's not a color issue or race or whatever bullshit the msm wants to spout, it's a free shit victim mentality. |
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A sense of collective perseverance, forged in the experiences of fleeing North Vietnam in 1954 and South Vietnam in 1975; an insular outlook of self-sufficiency, rooted in experience with an untrustworthy government; and a comfort with hierarchy, drawn from Confucian ideals (as well as from the Roman Catholic Church, to which many Vietnamese in New Orleans belong) — all these things contributed to the community’s ability to rebuild with grit, self-reliance and efficiency. View Quote Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/opinion/sunday/post-katrina-vietnamese-success.html?_r=0 The article contains some jabs and excuses for the failure of other social demographic groups within New Orleans; but the above quote goes to the core of why the Viet population was able to rebuild/recover despite being deliberately ignored by the city government regarding aid or assistance. |
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2 minutes to late
The Vietnamese community in New Orleans rebuilt their neighborhood in a few months. The media never mentions them, only the poor blacks |
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Quoted: No shit, I'm tired of all the bullshit. No one cared 10 years ago, nobody cares now. View Quote Katrina is only important when it's time to bash people with (r) behind their name. |
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Knock it off.
We never had a Popeye's around here until Katrina. |
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Thank god I was on my second tour in Iraq during that bullshit
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Quoted: Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/opinion/sunday/post-katrina-vietnamese-success.html?_r=0 The article contains some jabs and excuses for the failure of other social demographic groups within New Orleans; but the above quote goes to the core of why the Viet population was able to rebuild/recover despite being deliberately ignored by the city government regarding aid or assistance. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: A sense of collective perseverance, forged in the experiences of fleeing North Vietnam in 1954 and South Vietnam in 1975; an insular outlook of self-sufficiency, rooted in experience with an untrustworthy government; and a comfort with hierarchy, drawn from Confucian ideals (as well as from the Roman Catholic Church, to which many Vietnamese in New Orleans belong) — all these things contributed to the community’s ability to rebuild with grit, self-reliance and efficiency. Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/opinion/sunday/post-katrina-vietnamese-success.html?_r=0 The article contains some jabs and excuses for the failure of other social demographic groups within New Orleans; but the above quote goes to the core of why the Viet population was able to rebuild/recover despite being deliberately ignored by the city government regarding aid or assistance. I`ve posted articles about them in Katrina threads before. IIRC they actually had to petition the local .gov to get out of their way and let them get power back etc. That spirit is what the American experiment is designed for. Resilient, brave people who want to have the opportunity to succeed or fail. |
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Because you are blinded by the media
http://www.ar15.com/forums/t_1_5/1782567_.html&page=1&anc=55351753#i55351753 |
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Quoted: Try living here with all the nonsense. All those fuckers knew damn good and well there was a storm coming and didn't give a fuck. They wanted to be victims and will continue to play that part for many more years. The Mississippi gulf coast got wiped out. Almost completely washed away and hardly anything is said about that aspect of this "tragedy". They rebuilt and moved on. My wife is a transplant of Katrina, and never a word about it. Her parents sold their home in Laplace to some folks that lost all their shit in St. Bernard Parish. The ones you keep hearing about want as much free shit as possible. I remember one guy told me he stayed behind because he couldn't afford the gas to get out before. When asked how he eventually got out- he stole a car and drove up here to Baton Rouge. Another couple of girls that worked with me had lived in St. Bernard and lost most of their stuff. Their road home came in and the FIRST thing they bought was a friggin big ass plasma tv! Those two were white by the way! So it's not a color issue or race or whatever bullshit the msm wants to spout, it's a free shit victim mentality. View Quote Yep, like no street signs, or houses, just foundations. Insurance adjusters walking around asking where addresses used to be. |
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All the richness and vibrance went to Houston and Mobile.
The crime rate has skyrocketed. |
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Not so much the government, but whitey in general. If you like at the satellite images of the hurricane, it's clearly white. Fucking racist hurricane! BUSH'S FAULT! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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And a act of God, was somehow the fault of government. Not so much the government, but whitey in general. If you like at the satellite images of the hurricane, it's clearly white. Fucking racist hurricane! BUSH'S FAULT! THIS......^^^^^^ |
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Not so much the government, but whitey in general. If you like at the satellite images of the hurricane, it's clearly white. Fucking racist hurricane! BUSH'S FAULT! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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And a act of God, was somehow the fault of government. Not so much the government, but whitey in general. If you like at the satellite images of the hurricane, it's clearly white. Fucking racist hurricane! BUSH'S FAULT! no no, it was cheney that made him do it |
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In Nashville everyone got their muck boots and rubber gloves and started cleaning up. They learned how to do sheetrock and change out light switches and plugs.
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Gotta remember the inhabitants of Lower Louisiana were victims before the hurricane even happened. Victims of white oppression, cop abuse, and Bush. Then they gots theyselves whooped by dat Katrina and woooo-we.
Mr. Mayor Ray Nagan didn't want to use those school buses for evacuation and Gov. Blanco ran the other way. Then they fouled the stadium so bad most people thought they'd have to demolish it. All while waiting for someone (mainly the government) to come help them out. Then when the government DID help out, they looted and trashed the trailers and got all pissed off because they didn't have new houses. Then some movie star guy came down and cried and built a couple houses, but that just pissed the others off more. Where's MY new house? Eh ... meh. My entire year's allotment of shits was already given before this even happened. And ten years later, I'm still out of shits. |
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Look on the bright side, when the natives get restless they will have less to burn down.
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Try living here with all the nonsense. All those fuckers knew damn good and well there was a storm coming and didn't give a fuck. They wanted to be victims and will continue to play that part for many more years. The Mississippi gulf coast got wiped out. Almost completely washed away and hardly anything is said about that aspect of this "tragedy". They rebuilt and moved on. My wife is a transplant of Katrina, and never a word about it. Her parents sold their home in Laplace to some folks that lost all their shit in St. Bernard Parish. The ones you keep hearing about want as much free shit as possible. I remember one guy told me he stayed behind because he couldn't afford the gas to get out before. When asked how he eventually got out- he stole a car and drove up here to Baton Rouge. Another couple of girls that worked with me had lived in St. Bernard and lost most of their stuff. Their road home came in and the FIRST thing they bought was a friggin big ass plasma tv! Those two were white by the way! So it's not a color issue or race or whatever bullshit the msm wants to spout, it's a free shit victim mentality. View Quote I know a guy who, when he and his wife got their road home money, they went to DisneyWorld, and she got a new Dodge Durango. |
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Lots of liberals just using it as a reason to bash Bush again.
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