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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 10:37 PM
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Military recruiters going after Katrina victims already
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/090905dnbuskateco.7623285.html

Texas absorbing part of wiped-out economy

As thousands of Hurricane Katrina evacuees settle into North Texas, underwear, bedding and other necessities fly off Dallas store shelves into relief centers.

The Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce attempts to match displaced New Orleans companies with office space. Housing officials and charity groups seek homes for evacuees. snip

The Texas Workforce Commission said it has received calls from companies as far away as Wyoming and California willing to hire evacuees. Even military recruiters have been talking with them.
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yorkiemommie1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 10:42 PM
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1.  piling obscenity upon obscenity

this is so sickening.
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 10:42 PM
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2. Have you no decency, sirs? Have you none?
People have just survived a near-brush with death and now they want to send them off to Iraq? Un-fucking-believable!

:argh: :argh: :argh:
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Pacifist Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 10:42 PM
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3. *sigh*
If we can't drown them, let's turn them into cannon fodder.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-08-05 10:43 PM
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4. The vultures are circling already... unbelievable
Next thing you know, Halliburton will be harvesting the corpses for usable organs.
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