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Bush Screws Up Again

Juan

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Bush Administration fails to stop Denver blizzard



As President Bush and his staff sit comfortably in the White House, the snow continued to pile up on the many poor and African American victims in the Denver, CO area who could not afford to get out of town or to safety in Florida. Crucial supplies of blankets, hot cocoa, popcorn, gold, jewelry, Plasma TVs, Colt 45 and dark rum - so essential to surviving the stress of any major snowstorm - lay in stores undelivered.



"Where is the government? I need my sidewalk shoveled so I can get out to buy my lottery tickets!" said one Denver resident from his living room. "Why are we wasting money in Iraq when we could be spending it here on me?" Progressive blogs blasted the President for his inaction. "We find the timing terribly suspicious - just as the North Korean sanctions kick into high gear, what happens? A major northeast blizzard. Why now?" wrote one Blogger. Hearings into the blizzards' effect on hearings are almost a certainty. Howard Dean has suggested he will call for an investigation once his new medications kick in and John Kerry took a break from his vacation in Aspen to call for new legislation outlawing snowstorms. "The Republican Congress has dropped the ball once again. I have always been a staunch supporter of anti-snow legislation, except for certain locations where I ski. Snow has no business on our roads and the President and Congress know that." Calls for impeachment over "SnowGate" as some are calling it already, are mounting as deeply as the snow itself, and what will be discovered underneath will prove to have a truly chilling effect on the Republicans as the inevitable thaw proceeds.



This just in.----.. More breaking news...Jesse Jackson demands an investigation as to why snow is ALWAYS white. It is reported that Dick Cheney has stock in Tru-Value Hardware. Do you have any idea how many SNOW SHOVELS they sold today to the unsuspecting consumer? The American people will demand to know why FEMA has been so late in reacting to this storm. THEY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN IT WAS COMING! And yet they failed to have crews in place to fix the electricity as soon as it went off. It just shows that Bush and the Republicans just don't care about the people in the Northeast. The Senate needs to investigate this with administration personnel under oath. We speculate that the great junior senator from N.Y. Has opened the doors of her Long Island mansion to all of the heatless poor of her neighborhood and is busy baking cookies for them while her husband applies body heat to the nearly frozen teen-aged girls
 

kolanuraven

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Several counties have been declared a disaster zone by the gov't and the Nat'l Guard is flying those blackhawks dropping hay to cattle.

So if it's not the govt involved, then who is it??

The gov't gets involved in ANY and ALL big disasters. Now they may make it worse but they'll be there!
 

passin thru

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AS of now it is not a "federal" disaster designated area...........state declared yes but not federal.
A side note on the helicopters dropping feed, they drop feed but the rancher is billed for the feed.
 

aplusmnt

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kolanuraven said:
Several counties have been declared a disaster zone by the gov't and the Nat'l Guard is flying those blackhawks dropping hay to cattle.

So if it's not the govt involved, then who is it??

The gov't gets involved in ANY and ALL big disasters. Now they may make it worse but they'll be there!

You do realize it was a Joke? Such as serious reply to a tongue and cheek post. :D

Good one Juan! :lol:
 

schnurrbart

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passin thru said:
AS of now it is not a "federal" disaster designated area...........state declared yes but not federal.
A side note on the helicopters dropping feed, they drop feed but the rancher is billed for the feed.

I'm just wondering how many people died, how many houses were lost, how many cars and trucks were destroyed, how many businesses were lost, when was the last time they had a major blizzard and most of all, why are you making fun of bush and his "brownie, you're doin' a heckava job" FEMA boss?

P.S. Who do you think paid the wages of the flight crews and the fuel and maintenance of the choppers?
 

aplusmnt

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schnurrbart said:
passin thru said:
AS of now it is not a "federal" disaster designated area...........state declared yes but not federal.
A side note on the helicopters dropping feed, they drop feed but the rancher is billed for the feed.

I'm just wondering how many people died, how many houses were lost, how many cars and trucks were destroyed, how many businesses were lost, when was the last time they had a major blizzard and most of all, why are you making fun of bush and his "brownie, you're doin' a heckava job" FEMA boss?

P.S. Who do you think paid the wages of the flight crews and the fuel and maintenance of the choppers?

Colorado is not New Orleans (LA) when things get bad they take care of themselves. Send out their National Guard, make plans individually. Might be some cows needing hay (and even then it is National Guard solving it) but you will not see them sitting on roof tops in the masses starving because they can not feed themselves with out welfare checks.

Catastrophes like this should barely ever need federal help, a strong state can handle most stuff like this on their own.
 

passin thru

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It was a joke, but no we have to get all defensive. Wouldn't want anything to get in our way of Bashing Bush now would we. If you notice these ranchers are paying for the feed and donations are helping with the other costs. Sure the gov is helping, but it wouldn't make a blip on the radar screen compard to other disasters. Instead of neighbors robbing neighbors, you have neighbors helping neighbors.

Keep your Bush Bashing to yourself on this one or you lose



http://www.chieftain.com/metro/1168090513/2

By ANTHONY A. MESTAS
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
LA JUNTA - Still reeling from a blizzard that buried the region last week, Lower Arkansas Valley residents looked to the sky Friday morning and saw something they really don't need right now.

More falling snow.

While crews across the region continued cleanup efforts in the wake of the winter storm that blasted through Southeastern Colorado last week, another storm hit Friday.

Officials said this one wasn't even close to being as bad, though.

Snow flurries fell throughout the day in several of the towns hit by last week's storm, but the amount of snowfall was only a dusting by comparison.

In Lamar and La Junta, snow fell off and on throughout the day with none sticking to the ground.

According to the National Weather Service, small snow flurries sprinkled the valley but the storm quickly moved on into Kansas.

Emergency management officials said that Friday's snowfall did not disrupt their cleanup efforts or the cattle rescue missions that continued across the region.

In Kim, isolated on U.S. 160 between Trinidad and Springfield and approximately 60 miles south of La Junta, residents and volunteers worked to dig out the small town and its estimated 70 citizens.

Staff Sgt. Scott Sheldon of the Colorado National Guard said that 15 members of his unit were deployed to Kim earlier this week.

Sheldon said the relief work did not get off to a good start earlier, but got better Thursday when bulldozer equipment arrived.

"Early on, our Hemmits (military-style trucks) were getting stuck out here and we could do little to get to the several ranchers in the area," Sheldon said. On Thursday, the National Guard brought in three bulldozers to clear paths for the Hemmits, which are eight-wheel-drive military vehicles. Each wheel is six feet high.

"The bulldozer cut paths to ranchers' farms and we were able to get to them, so that's a good thing," Sheldon said.

Sheldon said the Air National Guard also began dropping hay to area ranchers on Thursday.

"They dropped hay from a C-130 (cargo plane) in places we have been unable to reach near the canyons," he said.

The National Guard suspended air operations Friday because of the latest snowfall in Pueblo, where a C-130 had been taking off, and due to windy conditions in other areas.

But hay deliveries continued on the ground, said Rick Bell, a National Guard spokesman.

Sheldon said the National Guard was using the Hemmit vehicles to deliver eight tons of hay each trip in areas near Kim. "We stacked eight hay bales on the Hemmits with a crane," Sheldon said.

State emergency management officials say that close to 3,000 bales of hay had been dropped across eight counties since Tuesday.

Snow is blamed for the deaths of an estimated 3,500 cattle stranded on rangeland in southeastern parts of the state. State emergency management officials said it will take weeks before an official death toll is calculated.

Sheldon said Jefferson County officials also sent a Snow Cat tractor to help assist workers in Kim.

Sheldon, who is stationed in Colorado Springs, said propane dealers were delivering the home fuel to people Friday and will continue today.

"Everyone seems to be on propane out here so we finally cleared enough paths for the much-needed fuel to be delivered," Sheldon said.

"It's been a good operation. We also have been trying to clean out people's driveways," he said.

National Guard officials said they won't be leaving the area in the foreseeable future.

Anita Robertson, who runs the Kim Outpost, said the week has been crazy.

Robertson, who lives 20 miles west of Kim, said she went to town Tuesday.

"The first morning I came in they had just plowed down the middle of the highway (U.S. 160) and it was just one lane and then Wednesday they cleared the highway. It's completely dry now," she said.

Robertson said Kim High School has been set up as a shelter for the National Guard.

"Some of our local women are cooking meals for volunteer workers, CDOT crews, and National Guard soldiers. No one is stranded here, this is just set up for the workers," she said.

Robert Shannon, who ranches 15,000 acres in Kim, said most of his 250 head of cattle are safe. He said he was able to get most of the herd rounded up between storms.

"Some of them have scattered. But, most of them are fending pretty good," he said.

Abel Benavidez, who runs a cow-calf operation in the town of Model, said private contractors were in his area on Thursday opening pathways to hay stacks and pastures.

"Thank God the county was able to hire contractors to open up those trails," he said. While hay drops helped, he said, ranchers really needed the ground support to be able to reach their cattle.

Because ranchers are being asked to pay for the hay bales dropped to their herds, a fund has been set up to help pay for the animal and livestock feeding operations. Dr. Kevin Dennison, with the Colorado Veterinary Medical Association, will administer the funds. Checks, cash and credit card donations will be accepted.

Financial donations can be mailed to CVMF, 789 Sherman St., Suite 200, Denver 80203.

For more information call 303-318-0447.

Workers in Rocky Ford, La Junta, Lamar and towns in between were busy Friday cleaning side streets. Some of the main streets in the three larger towns have been cleared.

La Junta city crews cleared a portion of Third Street on Friday. One by one, a convoy of five city and local company dump trucks hauled snow to a pile located far from traffic. That portion of the street was closed for most of the day.

Jack Wolfe, chief operating officer with Southeast Colorado Power Association, said electricity had been restored throughout the valley.

"We are in pretty good shape right now; all my crews were out repairing lines all day Friday," Wolfe said.

Wolfe said people who still do not have power should call the utility at 719-384-2551.

Emergency crews in Baca County fought blowing snow in the late afternoon.

"We are still moving forward with our operations. There is some blowing snow on county roads that we already have opened, so the snow is hindering us a little," said Riley Frazee, director of emergency management in Baca County.

Las Animas County road crews had cleared 95 percent of the roads to one lane by Friday morning and had begun to clear roads in the more remote private developments around the county.

Las Animas County Manager William Cordova, who is in charge of emergency response efforts, said crews would begin to go back and cut a wider swath to allow traffic to move more easily in both directions.

Sunnier weather has helped to melt some of the snow from the two year-end storms. However more than 2 feet remained in most places with as many as 8 inches additional snow possible by this morning.

The Colorado National Guard continued to deliver care packages and medicine to those in remote locations and will likely stay in Las Animas County through Sunday.

City Manager Jim Soltis said crews continued to clear city streets on Friday, focusing on emergency and school bus routes.

"We’ve had private contractors and city crews in service for several days," he said, adding that most of the downtown streets had been cleared.

"Most residential streets have at least one lane clear," he said.

The city is still asking residents to look in on their neighbors, particularly the elderly. Meals on Wheels has been able to deliver meals to many, he said.

Chieftain correspondent Tammy Alhadef contributed to this report.
 

aplusmnt

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kolanuraven said:
Colorado is not New Orleans !!! DUH!!


And please tell us what makes CO a " mensa" state as opposed to LA??


Not sure about Mensa standards but I would put my money on them for common sense and survival techniques. I can not see Midwestern agriculture states sitting on roof tops crying because someone from 'Washington did not come save them.

We live in tornado alley here in Kansas and Oklahoma, when disasters hit us and cities are leveled we come together as a community help each other, we use our National Guard and our Governors take care of the situations. We do not run over to Bobs TV store and loot it. We help him board up the windows.
 

Cowpuncher

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Kola wrote:
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Colorado is not New Orleans !!! DUH!!


And please tell us what makes CO a " mensa" state as opposed to LA??



I couldn't let this go Kola. Following are some statistics;

Murder Rate(Per 100,000)-----------Louisiana 9.9------Colorado 3.7

Education
Population with HS education--------------------78.7----------------- 88.3
Population with bachelor's degree---------------22.4-----------------35.5

Average Life Expectancy ---------------------------74.2-----------------78.2

Latest Unemployment Rate-------------------------4.5-------------------4.1

Per Capita Income-------------------------------24,820 --------------37,946


Louisiana definitely surpasses Colorado in well-fed folks

Louisiana is the 4th most obese state, Colorado is dead last in overweight.
 

jigs

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aplusmnt said:
kolanuraven said:
Colorado is not New Orleans !!! DUH!!


And please tell us what makes CO a " mensa" state as opposed to LA??


Not sure about Mensa standards but I would put my money on them for common sense and survival techniques. I can not see Midwestern agriculture states sitting on roof tops crying because someone from 'Washington did not come save them.

We live in tornado alley here in Kansas and Oklahoma, when disasters hit us and cities are leveled we come together as a community help each other, we use our National Guard and our Governors take care of the situations. We do not run over to Bobs TV store and loot it. We help him board up the windows.
know the similarities between a divorce in Arkansas and a tornado in Oklahoma?

both cases, some old boy is about to lose his double wide!
 

aplusmnt

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jigs said:
aplusmnt said:
kolanuraven said:
Colorado is not New Orleans !!! DUH!!


And please tell us what makes CO a " mensa" state as opposed to LA??


Not sure about Mensa standards but I would put my money on them for common sense and survival techniques. I can not see Midwestern agriculture states sitting on roof tops crying because someone from 'Washington did not come save them.

We live in tornado alley here in Kansas and Oklahoma, when disasters hit us and cities are leveled we come together as a community help each other, we use our National Guard and our Governors take care of the situations. We do not run over to Bobs TV store and loot it. We help him board up the windows.
know the similarities between a divorce in Arkansas and a tornado in Oklahoma?

both cases, some old boy is about to lose his double wide!


How true! them hicks, they should get rid of them trailers and get a Modular home like us in Kansas have :lol:
 

jigs

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modular??? you southern Kansas boys have it made. up here we still live in the soddies our great grandpa built when homesteading!
 

kolanuraven

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I can not see Midwestern agriculture states sitting on roof tops crying because someone from 'Washington did not come save them.

If Midwestern folks are having to sit on their roof tops due to a flood.....you're probably gonna be major screwed buddy boy!!!

Cause if the mid west get flooded by a hurricane/hurricane induced floods 90% of the US will be beach front!
 

Red Robin

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jigs said:
aplusmnt said:
kolanuraven said:
Colorado is not New Orleans !!! DUH!!


And please tell us what makes CO a " mensa" state as opposed to LA??


Not sure about Mensa standards but I would put my money on them for common sense and survival techniques. I can not see Midwestern agriculture states sitting on roof tops crying because someone from 'Washington did not come save them.

We live in tornado alley here in Kansas and Oklahoma, when disasters hit us and cities are leveled we come together as a community help each other, we use our National Guard and our Governors take care of the situations. We do not run over to Bobs TV store and loot it. We help him board up the windows.
know the similarities between a divorce in Arkansas and a tornado in Oklahoma?

both cases, some old boy is about to lose his double wide!
You elitist! Picking on your poor neighbor.
 

aplusmnt

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kolanuraven said:
I can not see Midwestern agriculture states sitting on roof tops crying because someone from 'Washington did not come save them.

If Midwestern folks are having to sit on their roof tops due to a flood.....you're probably gonna be major screwed buddy boy!!!

Cause if the mid west get flooded by a hurricane/hurricane induced floods 90% of the US will be beach front!

We do have floods though, might not be hurricanes but the Midwest can have towns that flood.

Hurricanes are not the only thing that causes floods.

Plus snow is just frozen water, no one on roof tops begging for FEMA to save them there. :wink:
 

jigs

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Red Robin said:
jigs said:
aplusmnt said:
Not sure about Mensa standards but I would put my money on them for common sense and survival techniques. I can not see Midwestern agriculture states sitting on roof tops crying because someone from 'Washington did not come save them.

We live in tornado alley here in Kansas and Oklahoma, when disasters hit us and cities are leveled we come together as a community help each other, we use our National Guard and our Governors take care of the situations. We do not run over to Bobs TV store and loot it. We help him board up the windows.
know the similarities between a divorce in Arkansas and a tornado in Oklahoma?

both cases, some old boy is about to lose his double wide!
You elitist! Picking on your poor neighbor.

damned right I am better than him!!!! just look at my place! it has a front porch and everything!
hillbillyshack.jpg
 

Red Robin

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jigs said:
Red Robin said:
jigs said:
know the similarities between a divorce in Arkansas and a tornado in Oklahoma?

both cases, some old boy is about to lose his double wide!
You elitist! Picking on your poor neighbor.

damned right I am better than him!!!! just look at my place! it has a front porch and everything!
hillbillyshack.jpg
...and just like Kolan, if someone offered you 7million for it, you'd sell the old home place. :lol:
 
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