Teach Me to Fish and,...
Gentle readers, is it just me?
As we witness the daily travails of those in the Midwest suffering horrendous flooding, several things come to mind:
We've seen the obligatory and ubiquitous visit by the C-in-C, with promises of federal aid in the offing.
I'm sure when the waters recede, we'll be witness to devastation on par with New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward.
And that's where the commonalities stop, ladies and gentlemen!
Where are the scenes of people scrambling to leave the damaged areas?
Where are the scenes of bodies floating in fetid waters?
Where are the irate people alternately pleading for help and blaming others for their misfortunes?
Why are we seeing the locals standing their ground and filling sandbag after sandbag to save their communities?
Could it truly be that there is a difference between those who have been raised to help themselves and those raised to expect the government to help?
Could this explain why the MSM hasn't cast its distorted eye on this tragedy and used it as another vector to embarrass the Bush administration? (Many of those help others/less government values in the Midwest are the backbone of the Republican Party)
The phones lines are open,...
Comments welcome!
Cross-posted at MaddMedic!
Labels: America F**k Yeah, Family Values, The MSM
posted by TheBitterAmerican @ 1:26 PM
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5 Comments:
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Trek you need to stop by my place and get on the Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less Bandwagon and sign the petition.
Newt Gingrich started this, then Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh started pushing it and it has over a million signatures that will be presented to Congress.
It's time we drill in our own backyard!
and where is Jesse Jackson...
I'll be blunt and to the point...the "midwest" is too lily white for the "special interest" personalities like Sharpton and Jackson to pay any attention to. Now, if only one little teenage (insert preferred minority here) girl had been the victim of a (insert favorite indiscretion here) by an (insert your favorite non-minority here), it'd be all over the news, 24-7.
Feh!, Give me a break. It's because the good people who lived here aren't going to complain, they're going to pull up their collective bootstraps and help each other get things back to normal. And, they are not going to rely on the nanny state to do it for them or pay for it. yes, they will accept aid form the government, but will not abuse the gesture and go on spending sprees, benders, and buy porn with it.
Just my 2 cents, but who's askin'?
By the way, I'm proud th be the 13 t your 12...Keep on pounding away!
We'll get the conservative blogs to fill the top 5 "fo' sho"!
Yes the situation in the midwest is JUST LIKE Katrina, right down to the locals wading through hip-high water carrying heavy burdens on their shoulders.
Oh wait. Those are sandbags, not flat screen TV's looted from the local electronics store.
Nevermind.
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