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Posted: 9/6/2005 12:30:48 PM EDT
Rush makes some good points here.
Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005 1:01 p.m. EDT Rush Limbaugh: Katrina's Lessons America's top talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday that the Hurricane Katrina disaster and the fingerpointing that has ensued offers the nation some profound lessons. "What we've seen in New Orleans is first and foremost the utter failure of generation after generation after generation of the entitlement mentality," Limbaugh began at the top of his show. Flood victims had been doubly victimized by the perception that government would somehow save them from nature's rage, he said. "They had no idea what to do because they've been told somebody else was going to fix it." After fostering dependency among the citizens of New Orleans, Limbaugh said state and local officials failed to respond to the dependency they helped create. "You've all seen the pictures of the school buses and the municipal buses that are flooded and ruined," he noted, referring to widely circulated photos of buses that sat idle throughout the storm just a mile away from the Superdome. "We know there was an utter failure to execute an evacuation plan that was long in place," he said, before charging: "We're looking here at utter incompetence - total incompetence from the mayor of New Orleans and the Gov. of Louisiana." "[The flood victims] were told to go to the Superdome but even then they had to walk to the Superdome" as the storm battered the city. "And they had to bring their own food and water to the Superdome," he noted The top talker didn't spare federal officials, saying that another lesson of Katrina is that "large bureaucracies that grow ever larger by the year cannot handle circumstances like this." "We have also learned that the utter failure of large bureaucracies only begets hearings by those bureaucracies which will serve really one purpose: And that is to give themselves excuses and reasons to further enlarge those bureaucracies - which will only compound our problem." Only one government bureaucracy functioned well under the stress of the Katrina crisis, Limbaugh said: the U.S. military.  |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 12:32:58 PM EDT
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Naturally, Rush is right. 'nuff said.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 12:41:55 PM EDT
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wonder if this gets turned into a Rush-Bashing frenzy by the left?
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Posted: 9/6/2005 12:47:13 PM EDT
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SITYS
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Posted: 9/6/2005 12:49:23 PM EDT
[#4]
Well said. Especially that last line.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 1:13:13 PM EDT
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The military is designed to function under stress and does so very well. Once so engaged, the military returned New Orleans from the third world to the first.
But why the heck did it take days to deploy the military when the 82nd Airborne can be anywhere in the world in 18 hours? |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 1:16:50 PM EDT
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Awesome
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Posted: 9/6/2005 1:16:51 PM EDT
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www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=386767 |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 1:20:00 PM EDT
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If they had expected to need to send the military in there at the onset it would have happened a lot earlier. Who could have predicted what happened? Well, I could have but they ain't going to make me director of FEMA anytime soon. 
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Posted: 9/6/2005 1:25:53 PM EDT
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"What we've seen in New Orleans is first and foremost the utter failure of generation after generation after generation of the entitlement mentality," Limbaugh began at the top of his show.
Fixing this is half the battle. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 1:28:02 PM EDT
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Damn,
I'm gonna have to start listening to Rush again. Hell yeah, he couldn't be more right. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 1:30:53 PM EDT
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I'm glad the bus story is making the rounds.
Rush always goes on the offensive against liberals. I love it. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 1:31:47 PM EDT
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+1x10^6
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Posted: 9/6/2005 1:34:52 PM EDT
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He's been much better the last year. I stopped listening to him for a long time, now I'm back. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 7:01:19 PM EDT
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If you wanted them to drop on 'Nawlins and kill everyone and destroy the buildings, they can do that in 18 hours.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 7:24:20 PM EDT
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Hey, not a bad idea. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 7:48:10 PM EDT
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Someone at work mentioned that Rush got ahold of the actual New Orleans Disaster plan for a Cat 3 storm and was reading through it on air, picking it apart. Anyone else hear this, and if so has it been published anywhere?.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 8:02:49 PM EDT
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Rush tells it like it is, this is why the lefties are always after him.
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Posted: 9/6/2005 8:08:27 PM EDT
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Because as you well know, to put the greatest military on the planet to work, a civillian has to grow a pair of balls and pull the trigger. Wiminz governors have NO balls 
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Posted: 9/6/2005 8:18:52 PM EDT
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Oddly enough huricane winds can knock even military helos and aircraft from the air - it's a fact! Once the winds dropped below 45 mph the helo's started flying. It took a bit of time to clear the runways of the airports. Rather than flying around the media trucks and rather than drop food to those who hadn't eaten in almost 24 hours  ... they were making rescues of people drowning. About five thousand rescues took place in the 24 hours following the passing of the huricane. That's five thousand people alive that might not have been if they had diverted their missions to drop a cheeseburger MRE on the dome. Communications was also down so I'm willing to bet that if the military had known that the dumbshit mayor hadn't stocked the superdome with food and water that missions might have been sent there too. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 8:19:43 PM EDT
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Links were posted here - saw them yesterday if that helps. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 8:20:16 PM EDT
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 There is a big difference in dropping in to an area to destroy things and kill people only needing to support the people you bring. OR Going on a relief mission where you not only have to support the people you bring WITHOUT stressing the area any further and causing more problems AND also be ready to provide relief support to thousands of others. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 8:33:08 PM EDT
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Rush is a druggie...
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Posted: 9/6/2005 8:38:48 PM EDT
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True enough. But he's a druggie with spot-on observations concerning events in New Orleans... |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 8:47:32 PM EDT
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Was. And even then he made more sense than most of the people we have running this country. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 8:48:14 PM EDT
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I think the 18 hours or whatever is a paradrop, you can't parachute into a hurricane...imagine how many soldiers would die (from drowning even if the winds had stopped)...they were trucked, and there were thousands of trees to cut from the roads...not to mention who knows when they were told to get ready (few days after the 'cane?) |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 8:53:42 PM EDT
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Boy that is relevant.  You should be proud of yourself for being so smart and clever.  |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 9:07:54 PM EDT
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There are a multitude of laws in place that restrict the federal government from going into American cities and taking over.
There is a huge labyrinth of checks and balances that prevent the President from sending in troops, without signatures from everybody down the line. This was a failure of the laws that limit the power of the president. The same laws that prevent the President from moving in troops to quell riots, prevented him from moving FEMA personnel and troops into NOLA. GW Bush tried to move into New Orleans with federal manpower before the storm hit. The Governor of LA refused to sign off on the paperwork. That is the ONLY reason FEMA wasn't there before the storm hit. |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 10:07:11 PM EDT
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Bush would have gone to jail.
The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 June 18, 1878 CHAP. 263 - An act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes. SEC. 15. From and after the passage of this act it shall not be lawful to employ any part of the Army of the United States, as a posse comitatus, or otherwise, for the purpose of executing the laws, except in such cases and under such circumstances as such employment of said force may be expressly authorized by the Constitution or by act of Congress; and no money appropriated by this act shall be used to pay any of the expenses incurred in the employment of any troops in violation of this section And any person willfully violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding two years or by both such fine and imprisonment. 10 U.S.C. (United States Code) 375 Sec. 375. Restriction on direct participation by military personnel: The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to ensure that any activity (including the provision of any equipment or facility or the assignment or detail of any personnel) under this chapter does not include or permit direct participation by a member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps in a search, seizure, arrest, or other similar activity unless participation in such activity by such member is otherwise authorized by law. 18 U.S.C. 1385 Sec. 1385. Use of Army and Air Force as posse comitatus Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. Editor's Note: The only exemption has to do with nuclear materials (18 U.S.C. 831 (e) |
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Posted: 9/6/2005 10:37:38 PM EDT
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I think he was giving the board the liberal remark that automaticaly discounts everything Rush says regardless of whether he's right or wrong.. "It doesn't matter what he says because he's a drug addict!" .. They tried the same thing with Bush and his openly admitting his alcohol problem and alleged cocaine use..Heck, we did it to Clinton with the "I didn't inhale" and we still do it to "hiccup" Kennedy... It's a game we all play..Enjoy it 
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Posted: 9/6/2005 10:40:16 PM EDT
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But...but...its true about them....isnt it? 
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Posted: 9/6/2005 10:41:04 PM EDT
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Where's that dipshit Smegmahead? I'm sure he has something trollish to say about this.
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