Personal Observation

Just a personal observation...as I watched the news coverage of the massive flooding in the Midwest with over 100 blocks of the city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa under water, levees breaking, and the attention now turned downstream for when this massive amount of water hits the Mississippi, what amazed me is not what we saw, but what we didn't see...



1. We don't see looting.

2. We don't see street violence.

3. We don't see people sitting on their rooftops waiting for the government to come and save them.

4. We don't see people waiting on the government to do anything.

5. We don't see Hollywood organizing benefits to raise money for people to rebuild.

6. We don't see people blaming President Bush.

7. We don't see people ignoring evacuation orders.

8. We don't see people blaming a government conspiracy to blow up the levees as the reason some have not held.

9. We don't see the US Senators or the Governor of Iowa crying on TV.

10. We don't see the Mayors of any of these cities complaining about the lack of state or federal response.

11. We don't see or hear reports of the police going around confiscating personal firearms so only the criminal will be armed.

12. We don't see gangs of people going around and randomly shooting at the rescue workers.

13. You don't see some leaders in this country blaming the bad behavior of the Iowa flood victims on "society" (of course there is no wide spread reports of lawlessness to require excuses).

Re: Iowa vs. Louisiana:



Where are all of the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for

help in restoring Iowa and helping the folks affected by the floods?



Where is all the media asking the tough questions about why the federal

government hasn't solved the problem? Asking where the FEMA trucks (and

trailers) are?



Why isn't the Federal Government relocating Iowa people to free hotels

in Chicago?



When will Spike Lee say that the Federal Government blew up the levees

that failed in Des Moines?



Where are Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks?



Where are all the looters stealing high-end tennis shoes and big screen

television sets?



When will we hear Governor Chet Culver say that he wants to rebuild a

"vanilla" Iowa, because that's the way God wants it?



Where is the hysterical 24/7 media coverage complete with reports of

cannibalism?



Where are the people declaring that George Bush hates white, rural

people?



How come in 2 weeks, you will never hear about the Iowa flooding ever

again?

I think your on to something there Dawg.

Its all pretty much black and white to me as to why...

Well boys.......I was there in LA for Hurricane Katrina relief when I was in the 82nd Airborne. We were there for a month cleaning up that shithole of a town, and I can count on one hand (2 times) the number of people that got off their asses and even bothered to offer us a cold drink. Most just sat on their porches drinking and watching us work. Oh, and then there were the ones who were sitting on their asses on their porches drinking but wanting us to come into their yard and clean up leaves and limbs. Oh and then there were the ones who rode by on bikes and threw beer cans in the street at our feet while we were cleaning up leaves and limbs off their sidewalks. Do you really want me to go on........?
I will never forget two-three days before we started convoying down from NC I was watching those people walking in water almost to their waists with TVs and tennis shoes in their hands. Never mind about medical supplies or food for their kids or elderly parents. Hell yes, let's get downtown and steal us some shit.............WTF?

You forgot about what some official said.... God just flushed the toilet.
Yep, and the caddy dealer was one of the first places too get looted, escaldes went fast

IMO only stupid people would choose to live in a area surrounded by walls holding the water out, it was only a matter of time till it flooded by katrina or something else.

All in black and white..... :afro:

GODAWGS wrote:

All in black and white..... :afro:

That pretty much sums up alot of things going on in this country. :afro:

hell guys i was born and raised in Lafayette ,la and we wont even go to norlins, to dark for us coonasses, we learned a long time ago help yourself first then help your neighbors. i got kin that went to help got shot at and tried to steal there air boat . they left and said all that trash can drown ,who gives a

Well said Cajuncoot! I talked to guys in Hammond, and they said the folks in NO were freakin animals. They only re-affirmed that with the way they handled all that..........raping women in the Superdome, looting, etc.

The problem is the country is run by a bunch of sissy girls who wont stand up for what is right.
I say yes to the death penalty and not after 30 years on death row
I say stop sueing for stupid stuff like hot coffee
I say if you rape a kid, we kill you
I say if you shoot up a school then we shot you
I say if you terrorize our country we turn your into a parking lot
I say if your pants are hanging below your butt then we put a foot in it
I say if your not qualified for the job then you dont get the job
I say you dont get a bigger check for every kid you have
I think yall see where i stand

Man I knew I liked you guys !!!!! With out even meeting any of ya!!

Dreth wrote:

The problem is the country is run by a bunch of sissy girls who wont stand up for what is right.
I say yes to the death penalty and not after 30 years on death row
I say stop sueing for stupid stuff like hot coffee
I say if you rape a kid, we kill you
I say if you shoot up a school then we shot you
I say if you terrorize our country we turn your into a parking lot
I say if your pants are hanging below your butt then we put a foot in it
I say if your not qualified for the job then you dont get the job
I say you dont get a bigger check for every kid you have
I think yall see where i stand

:arrow: To Add to This:

Dont take our guns or the Scum will take over the country
Dont tax the oil companies because they will just pass it on to us.
Dont elect a president with ties to muslim extremists and anti-american preachers.
Build the damn fence and put everyone who hires illegle aliens in jail for 1 year.
Get the hell out of all the countries who hate us.
Stop funding the countries that hate us and spend that money on americans in need.
Stop watching movies with actors that bash america.
Hope that when the big one hits , San Francisco breaks off and falls in the ocean

GunRunner wrote:

Dreth wrote:

The problem is the country is run by a bunch of sissy girls who wont stand up for what is right.
I say yes to the death penalty and not after 30 years on death row
I say stop sueing for stupid stuff like hot coffee
I say if you rape a kid, we kill you
I say if you shoot up a school then we shot you
I say if you terrorize our country we turn your into a parking lot
I say if your pants are hanging below your butt then we put a foot in it
I say if your not qualified for the job then you dont get the job
I say you dont get a bigger check for every kid you have
I think yall see where i stand

:arrow: To Add to This:

Dont take our guns or the Scum will take over the country
Dont tax the oil companies because they will just pass it on to us.
Dont elect a president with ties to muslim extremists and anti-american preachers.
Build the damn fence and put everyone who hires illegle aliens in jail for 1 year.
Get the hell out of all the countries who hate us.
Stop funding the countries that hate us and spend that money on americans in need.
Stop watching movies with actors that bash america.
Hope that when the big one hits , San Francisco breaks off and falls in the ocean

HELL YEAH !!! Your Hired Gunny

THats what im talking about Gunny. If you dont speak fluent english then you can leave too.
If you are caught jumping the fence we shoot to kill.
If your in prison you dont have rights.

Looks like we have the president and all the congress we need to turn this country around right here on little ole sxs riders

I work with some Cajuns from New Orleans, Metery, and Port Sulfer. Every thing you guys have metioned would be nice talk to those guys. They use words probably not appropriate for this forum, if you know what I mean.