Stupid, stupid email....... [View All]

Seen this one yet?
My SO got this from a friend at work. I thought her response was worthy of sharing.

Subject:

THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A MOMENT
North Dakota News
This text is from a county emergency manager out in the
western part of North Dakota state after the recent snow storm.
WEATHER BULLETIN

Up here in the Northern Plains we just recovered from a
Historic event --- may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical
Proportions" --- with a historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow
and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of
motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and
cut power to 10's of thousands.
FYI:
· George Bush did not come....
· FEMA did nothing....
· No one howled for the government...
· No one blamed the government
· No one even uttered an expletive on TV...
· Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit
· Our Mayor's did not blame Bush or anyone else
· Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else either
· CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5 snow storm
· Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.....
· No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House....
· No one looted....
· Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something
· Nobody expected the government to do anything either
· No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera
· No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found
And
· Nope, we just melted the snow for water
· Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars
· The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny
· Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snow bound families
· Families took in the stranded people - total strangers
· We Fired up wood stoves
· Broke out coal oil lanterns or coleman lanterns
· We put on an extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die"
· We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a
welfare program that trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks.
· Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early...we know it can happen and how to deal with it
ourselves.
"In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48 degrees North Latitude, 90% most of the world's social problems evaporate."

Her response-

I will note that these people’s cars and woodstoves and restaurants and banks and tires and food and clothing and loved ones are still on the continent whereas most of everything in New Orleans is now out to sea or in Lake Ponchatrain.

Snow is drinkable; PCB’s and god knows what all else that sits in Ponchatrain courtesy of the ranchers and farmers from the Rockies to the Appalachians is not…snow evaporates leaving wetness…the lake and the ocean recede in time leaving debris, filth, sewage, dead animals, tons of mud and who knows what else (like dead relatives in the attic) throughout the ruined areas. Snow rarely ruins fundamental infrastructure like bridges, highways, sky scrapers, subways, sewer systems, water systems….hurricanes and flooding do.

Did this person object to the huge government efforts above the Mason/Dixon line to save people and areas devastated by the worst Mississippi flooding in centuries a few years back? No? Why? How about the ice storm that froze most of the Eastern United States back in the early 90’s? This person probably doesn’t object to the farm/ranch/mineral subsidies I help pay for that keep the upper Midwest from bankruptcy because there is not adequate resource or water to graze huge numbers of prairie destroying livestock. Or the welfare benefits some of this person’s neighbors get in order to subsist when the commodities market deals a blow or a plant closes or there is a drought, so that the neighbor has enough resource not to starve, or climb through this person’s window and steal stuff or worse. How ‘bout that aquifer the upper midwest contaminates and is draining at an alarming rate per year? I guess we’ll be bailing them out sooner than this person suspects.

When was the last time North Dakotans had to rebuild after Sherman made a call on its most important cultural and trade cities or an army burned through most of its farm lands and families? What would North Dakota do if suddenly it had no fair representation in the houses of Congress? Thank God for a senate based on the existence of the state rather than population, huh? How about hefty tariffs on everything leaving its borders to go overseas…kinda cut into the profits on beef tongue to Japan, huh?

I do not have a lot of patience for people in expensive “vacation” or “retirement” homes on the beachfront who cannot get private insurance and then ask taxpayers to rebuild their “dream homes” after the ocean takes them away. On the other hand, no one told the citizens of Manhattan to just deal with it when the towers came down and I am sure insurance claims will be filed as a result of this blizzard and states and localities will collect their “fair share” of what ever is available to “give away” from the deficit riddled government which is writing checks our children’s children will be paying for with more than money to cash for us.

Let us also not forget that approximately one fifth of the Nation’s GDP is tied directly to the city of New Orleans in the form of heavy industry, agriculture, and the shipping its port provides, particularly with regard to the movement of huge quantities of oil and product into the US. Those coal oil lanterns were probably moved up the Mississippi from a big freighter anchored in the port at New Orleans that had come from China…the diesel/gasoline to run those life saving 4 wheel drive vehicles in the snow was made from oil brought to New Orleans from the Middle East in tankers so big that only the port at New Orleans is big enough and deep enough to receive them. I don’t think the nation would lose much but a few missile silos if North Dakota were buried under a glacier. And some really nice people who, I think, are poorly represented by this jerk.

The fact that there are fewer residents in the whole state of North Dakota than residents in the greater New Orleans metropolitan area also means that North Dakotans have the luxury of isolation from any who are not “just the same as us”. It is easy to condemn “others” when everyone goes to the same churches, works in similar fields of endeavor, and their families go back several generations in the same place. From this note, this person seems to show a population in North Dakota that is as insular and intolerant as any holler in old Appalachia. This person might want to “wash up good”; they may have helped a “Hollywood type” out of a stranded automobile. (Tolerance can be contagious.)

This administration is mortgaging the nation in a useless crusade overseas to finance the reorganization and revitalization of the doomed industry that has as one of its primary functions the burning of fossil fuels in extravagant and wasteful ways. For the 3,979 plus dollars per minute the administration is wasting in Iraq on an unwinnable fiasco that they lied about in order to promote, this nation could put completely energy self sufficient houses around every family South and North of the Manson/Nixon line. But being a good red stater, I am sure it never occurred to the author of this stupid scree to question the real problem which is a nation intent on focusing only on the specks in the eyes of others, and making laws about it for personal and political gain, and spending no mental capital on staying truly informed and forcing its “leaders” to rational, defensible, action based on a long term vision of sustainability in a global marketplace where, soon, the US will not be the richest, strongest, meanest kid on the block.

This kind of poorly thought out, regionalist, racist, “flash back to the civil war” inspired bullshit just pisses me off.

Please, spare me next time you think I might “enjoy” something of this poor quality of rational thinking and loaded with such smug, sanctimonious, self-righteousness.
What tripe; and it ruined my lunch.