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Today show this morning
Published on September 23, 2005 By Rightwinger In Politics
From what I was able to gather (my wife turned the TV on in the middle of the story) from a report on the "Today" Show, there is an island of the coast of Galveston where quite a few of the poorer residents are having to sit out the storm.
Seems they have little money to get away, or no vehicles. Sound familiar?
The people interviewed there were white, though. I wonder...will this cause the same great wailing and gnashing of teeth and chest-thumping that the poor blacks in New Orleans did? We'll see, but I somehow doubt it.

Comments
on Sep 23, 2005
Odd, is the mayor of Galveston the lady I saw this morning being interviewed? According to her representitives have been sent door to door, neighborhood to neighborood asking who needs transportation. They've also put all the independant school buss drivers and city bus drivers to work evacuating.

I would have sworn it was Galveston, but maybe I am wrong. She said it was estimated that out of the 60,000+ that only a couple thousand had opted to stay behind. Given that electricity hadn't gone out, and that they were informing people that there were ways out, I can't believe anyone is stuck there.

That is IF I'm not a moron and talking about a different city...
on Sep 23, 2005
WAILLLLLLLLLL TEETH GNASHINGGGGGGG... CRYYYYYYYYYY OH MY GOD!!!!!! HOW CAN WE JUST let all the poor white people die???obvious to me is bush after targeting blacks with Katrina has decided to even things out some and kill some white people and Hispanics.. that's my prezan equal opportunity murderer..,
on Sep 24, 2005
Odd, is the mayor of Galveston the lady I saw this morning being interviewed? According to her representitives have been sent door to door, neighborhood to neighborood asking who needs transportation. They've also put all the independant school buss drivers and city bus drivers to work evacuating.
---Baker

I don't know....the guy they talked to sai he was saying because he had no money to leave and no vehicle. Older guy, glasses and a ballcap, I think. Ring any bells?

WAILLLLLLLLLL TEETH GNASHINGGGGGGG... CRYYYYYYYYYY OH MY GOD!!!!!! HOW CAN WE JUST let all the poor white people die???
---Modman



You forgot the chest-thumping. Yeah, let's just face it...he's out to do in all the poor, so he and his rich buddies can have the country all to themselves.

I was listening to "Coast-to-Coast" on the way home from work, and some guy has a theory that Katrina and Rita are being caused by the Yakuza (Japanese mafia) and/or the Russian mafia, who each posses the ability to manipulate the weather. But of course, there's no way to know which one it is, because the technology leaves no fingerprints.
on Sep 24, 2005
You know what I found really remarkable, though? These people weren't complaining and yelling because the government hadn't come to help them or bail them out of the situation. That was their reality, and they had to deal, that's it. Very admirable.