YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS!

Look at this email the repukes and freepers are mailing out.


Texas versus Louisiana

… noticed while watching media coverage of the recent hurricanes.

1. Texas: Productive industrious state run by Republicans.
Louisiana: Government dependent welfare state run by Democrats.

2. Texas: Residents take responsibility to protect and evacuate themselves.
Louisiana: Residents wait for government to protect and evacuate them.

3. Texas: Local and state officials take responsibility for protecting their citizens and property.
Louisiana: Local and state officials blame federal government for not protecting their citizens and property.

4. Texas: Command and control remains in place to preserve order.
Louisiana: Command and control collapses allowing lawlessness.

5. Texas: Law enforcement officers remain on duty to protect city.
Louisiana: Law enforcement officers desert their posts to protect themselves.

6. Texas: Local police watch for looting.
Louisiana: Local police participate in looting.

7. Texas: Law and order remains in control, 8 looters tried it, 8 looters arrested.
Louisiana: Anarchy and lawlessness breaks out, looters take over city, no arrests, criminals with guns have to be shot by federal troops.

8. Texas: Considerable damage caused by hurricane.
Louisiana: Considerable damage caused by looters.

9. Texas: Flood barriers hold preventing cities from flooding.
Louisiana: Flood barriers fail due to lack of maintenance allowing city to flood.

10. Texas: Orderly evacuation away from threatened areas, few remain.
Louisiana: 25,000 fail to evacuate, are relocated to another flooded area.

11. Texas: Citizens evacuate with personal 3 day supply of food and water.
Louisiana: Citizens fail to evacuate with 3 day supply of food and water, do without it for the next 4 days.

12. Texas: FEMA brings in tons of food and water for evacuees. State officials provide accessible distribution points.
Louisiana: FEMA brings in tons of food and water for evacuees. State officials prevent citizens from reaching distribution points and vice versa.

13. Louisiana: Media focuses on poor in need of assistance, blames Bush.
Texas: Media can't find poor in need of assistance, looking for something else to blame on Bush.

14. Texas: Coastal cities suffer some infrastructure damage, Mayors tell residents to stay away until ready for repopulation, no interference from federal officials.
Louisiana: New Orleans is destroyed, Mayor asks residents to return home as another hurricane approaches, has to be overruled by federal officials.

15. Louisiana: Over 400 killed by storm, flooding and crime.
Texas: 24 killed in bus accident on highway during evacuation, 5 died due to carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator used in-doors in East Texas.

16. Texas: Jailed prisoners are relocated to other detention facilities outside the storm area.
Louisiana: Jailed prisoners are set free to prey on city shops, residents, and homes.

17. Texas: Local and state officials work with FEMA and Red Cross in recovery operations.
Louisiana: Local and state officials obstruct FEMA and Red Cross from aiding in recovery operations.

18. Texas: Local and state officials demonstrate leadership in managing disaster areas.
Louisiana: Local and state officials fail to demonstrate leadership, require federal government to manage disaster areas.

19. Texas: Fuel deliveries can't keep up with demand, some run out of gas on highway, need help from fuel tankers before storm arrives.
Louisiana: Motorists wait till storm hits and electrical power fails. Cars run out of gas at gas stations that can't pump gas. Gas in underground tanks mixes with flood waters.

20. Texas: Mayors move citizens out of danger.
Louisiana: Mayor moves himself and family to Dallas.

21. Texas: Mayors continue public service announcements and updates on television with Governor's backing and support.
Louisiana: Mayor cusses, governor cries, senator threatens president with violence on television, none of them have a clue what went wrong or who's responsible.

22. Louisiana: Democratic Senator says FEMA was slow in responding to 911 calls from Louisiana citizens.
Texas: Republican Senator says "when you call 911, the phone doesn't ring in Washington, it rings here at the local responders".

It's like the litle boy who got a bandaid for his knee scrape. Do these people live anywhere close to reality?

They don't compare in SO many ways. The email is a joke.

:puke:

What a load of crap. :eyes:

vile...

Why even try to respond to something like that?

it annoyed me to read this shit.fuck the freepers may they rot in hell
with the rest of the scumbags from the reichwing.

Texas: barely scraped by a category 3 hurricane.
Louisiana: Biggest city a direct hit by category 4 hurricane.

speaking off... we need to develop the same kind of astroturf. The pugs are effective, we are not.

Now I don't mean catapulting the propaganda, but astroturf is needed

We NEED NEED NEED a place on here for our own mass emails. And we NEED to start sending them around.

We really do not need to lie but we need to start playing their same tactics as much as I hate them.

Before Bush: We had a balanced budget

After Bush: We have a 400-billion-dollar deficit

That's just one example. There are dozens of others for those who have the time to list them.

Now our generations great, great, great grandchildren will be paying off the deficit of this ignoble administration. :cry:

to remind them how the Repukes disrespect them.

It wouldn't surprise me one bit.

Katrina is the same reaction that they hed to the flu shot shortage last year,for our eldely. They just don't care.

enough..

Oh says my brother...

The first time it was posted, it wasn't Texas vs. Louisiana but black vs. white. It was deleted by the admins, thankfully, but then changed to the same BS as was quoted above.

I could find about every damn screwup with Rita in Texas....That shutup those Repukes that send crap like this to me for almost a week. Man I think I found a bazillion stories.

That's a horror story I can't get out of my mind.

It is just BS. It is comparing apples and oranges. Just one quick example, #19: Texas didn't flood the way New Orleans did, so of course gas in underground tanks mixed in the latter but not the former.

Not only are the situations not comparable, but Louisiana came first.

Texas is Bush's "home" state, so of course they got more help.

24 elderly died in the bus fire in Texas because of cronyism and relaxed regulations.

Just propaganda. Don't try to refute it point by point. That is just playing their game. Tell them that it doesn't matter who is to blame in both places, the shame is the nation's shame or there is no point to having a nation.

Just divisive propaganda. Republicans divide to conquer and then BS that they are "uniters".

I've seen a lot of these from righties--no source of info is the big tip off that it's rumorware or something like that.

or did they forget that part?

Oh, and what about those empty busses? I'm sure the poor people they left behind would appreciate this picture.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1800076&mesg_id=1802006Many Poor Residents Stuck in Houston posted by dweeb

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050923033309990001

Wonder if they all were?

To BLOW the hurricanes away like so many underprivileged, black victims-- for whom the whole thing really "worked out quite well!"

our societies have become. Anyone with any intelligence at all can see that it's empty bullshit. Unfortunately, we live in societies that have developed out of the fantasy world of television (Big Brother is the new Roman Games), cheap titillation/obsession with celebrity trivia, the unbelievable drivel that characterises much of the output of the "straight to video" movie industry, sensationalist tabloid journalism and so on. Much of what I've just said was said by someone else in 1948...think his name was Orwell or something like that.

The sort of society we have is easy to fool into believing such shallow bullshit because they are not equipped psychologically to look at information critically. Just the sort of society that I'd want were I to want to keep it amused and distracted/under control so I could do what I wanted without fear of real democracy kicking in.

Just think of all the creative human potential that must have been expended on developing the whitest washing powder of all and then creating silly little advertisements to convince the sheeple that Brand X washes whiter than Brand Y...sigh... No wonder people are easily conned when we look at the sort of society we have created.

in the BushCo/neocon era, don'tcha think? . . . I mean, is there ANYTHING they're not capable of? . . .