I wish I could get my Hurricane Katrina donation back!

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The citizens of New Orleans have voted for mayor, and Ray Nagin has ended up as the front runner. Since he got less than 50 percent of the vote, he will face a runoff next month against the second place candidate.

I am stupified by this. I can't imagine how anyone could vote for him after his performance after Hurricane Katrina. Not only was he generally incompetent, but also profane and racist. He authorized the police force to violate the US Constitution.

Do the citizens of New Orleans care no more about the Constitution than to re-elect this man?

Maybe we would have been better off if New Orleans had been completely destroyed.

No matter what happens now, no one in New Orleans will get a donation from me as long as Nagin is in office.
 
Nawlins got what they wanted, a corrupt, swindling, racist government more interested in money and power, than anything else. Even now, that is what they want, corrupt racism. To paraphrase Cool Hand Luke, "Well, he wants it. And he gets it!"
I never donated anyway - donations have a sneaky way of ending up in a politician's pocket, and after hearing how the "evacuees" treated thier donations, I wouldn't loan them the time of day.
 
I didnt donate except to the NRA and GOA. I have been saying since day one that we missed a perfectly good opportunity to walk away from NOLA.

Instead we are demonstrating how much money we are willing to spend in proving we can avoid learning from our mistakes.
 
They lived in NO pre-Katrina because they liked it that way.
Now they're doing everything they can to restore it to previous conditions.
Go figure.
 
Donate to those you trust to do the right thing.

I never donated to "Katrina relief" funds -- don't trust anonymous organizations.

I donated to Preacherman instead.

Never had any regrets.

Fud
 
Hey, but Katrina has been WONDERFUL to the Texas economy. The sales of stereos and big screen TVs were out the roof when the first FEMA cards were given out. I know of one person who's lived in Houston for 10 years, but never updated his Louisiana Driver's license or the address on it. He got a FEMA card...:rolleyes: $2500, but you couldn't buy guns with it, of course. :rolleyes: Wonder if reloading equipment would pass?

The down side is the crime rates in Houston. When the Astrodome was full, drug sales in that part of town were booming as were shootings and stabbings. Then you get city councilmen in New Orleans saying they're not welcome back if they don't intend to work, and WOOOOOAH, boy, what a bad thing to say! If he hadn't been black, they'd have hung him as a racist! He actually had to apologize for suggesting someone would have to get off their fat, lazy behind and WORK. :banghead:

That's the kind of city Katrina broke up. Now, I feel sorry for honest citizens there and those along the Mississippi coast and such. It was a terrible hurricane. But, I've never been a big fan of the "Big Sleezy". It's always been just a step away from a banana republic where corruption in concerned. The cops there are the worst for corruption anywhere north of the Rio Grande. Reminds me of the Mexican Federalis.

My wife has folks in that part of Louisiana. She's part cajun. I love the cajun culture and the people of the bayous, but they can let NO sink for all I care. Dig a 10 foot hole in hurricane country and put a dike around it and build a city in it? Wow, that makes sense!:rolleyes: I was really hopin' no one would move back. I don't think it'll be quite the place it was before Katrina. In most cases, that can only be a good thing I reckon.

I've been through hurricanes. We had no FEMA after Carla in 61. We seemed to make it, somehow, without the government. I wonder how we did that? Hmm, seems impossible to comprehend, don't it? Carla was really, really bad, as bad as Katrina. It didn't happen to hit where people built houses under water, but this county was pretty well laid waste to. Wasn't much left standing after that storm from here all the way up the coast to the Freeport area where I grew up and up to lower areas of Galveston bay around Baytown/Channelview. It hit dead on at Port O'Connor, though, and it was flattened and there was much damage in Port Lavaca, where I live now, shrimp boats crushing houses and that sort of thing. I'm not heartless when it comes to disasters, have lived through 'em, but hey, I could see the waste comin' from miles away after Katrina and it hasn't stopped, yet!
 
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Not Me.

The types of donations I and some others did, were for We The People, and the fact some of these types of donations also gave Tyranny the Farkle...

Not only to victims, those assisting the victims. Waders, Firearm cleaning kits, batteries, for example for LEOS in MS and other places whom lost equipment when staition houses hit, and needed gear to do their jobs.

Fireman, EMTs and others, lost gear, equipment from MS.

Don't tell me sending / taking comic books, movies, crayons , toys to kids, kids of rescue workers are not donations. Rescue worker knowing his kid has something to play with, a new pair of Garfield tennis shoes ...well the Rescue folks are human, eases mind, allow a wee bit of comfort about their own family or kids, so he/ she can continue on with long hard hours, and the constant exposure to bad.

Preacherman, Xavier Breath and others also examples of "donated" to We the People as well...not organizations or political posturing.

Like I told Preacherman, "I was never there, you can check my online class and verify I was in class..." ;)
 
Lone_Gunman said,
No matter what happens now, no one in New Orleans will get a donation from me as long as Nagin is in office.
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Great. Another boycott. I am sure it will be effective. So you will only donate to help the people if the right mayor is in office? So if an idiot is in office, the people don't deserve your help?
 
So if an idiot is in office, the people don't deserve your help?
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Basically yes.

They had the opportunity to remove him, but I guess incompetence is what they want. If so, then they will need to get along without any voluntary help from me. I do not intend to support people who are willing to so easily forget that their mayor violated the Constitution.

Nagin should not have had the opportunity to run for re-election. He should have been thrown out of office, impeached, tarred and feathered, and then thrown in prison for civil rights violation.

Maybe he will lose in the run-off.
 
Not only was he generally incompetent, but also profane and racist.
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Well, maybe they are electing a guy who reflects their own views & attitudes.

So if an idiot is in office, the people don't deserve your help?
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People get the leadership they deserve.
 
I am not surprised that there will be a run-off between Nagin and Landrieu.

I will be surprised if Nagin wins the run-off.
 
Not surprised at the election results. Not disappointed either.

I sent my donations to someone I 'know' from another list who lives in Waveland, MS. For months and years before the storm, he had been discussing on the list how he was shifting to diesel vehicles for his family, storing diesel fuel, and buying an old diesel school bus and slowly converting it to a hurricane bug-out vehicle for his family. He made the front part of the bus into a camper and left the back empty so they could pack it with household goods when they left. He got it all done just in time.

When Katrina hit, his family was safe and relatively comfortable in a state park in north Mississippi, with a lot of their important things intact. They lost their house but didn't lose everything the way some people did, because he was prepared. I told Doc if he didn't need the money to give it to someone who did, and forgot about it.

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I sent my donations to someone I 'know' from another list who lives in Waveland, MS. For months and years before the storm, he had been discussing on the list how he was shifting to diesel vehicles for his family, storing diesel fuel, and buying an old diesel school bus and slowly converting it to a hurricane bug-out vehicle for his family. He made the front part of the bus into a camper and left the back empty so they could pack it with household goods when they left. He got it all done just in time.
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Now there's a man who has his stuff together!;) We took the van from Rita when it looked like it was coming our way and it was a cat 5 that made Katrina look like a dust devil. We've run before and I can tell you, it's a bad feeling when you know you might lose your home. A diesel school bus is a great idea, but the van'll have to do. I don't really have that much I worry about loosing other than some guns, papers, pictures, and such. It's all insured. The generator and van will give us a cool place to sleep and give us mobility, heaven forbid I ever have to live in it for a while.

I couldn't help but wonder of the stupidity of New Orleans residents, though, at not leaving. Their combined IQs wouldn't make a two digit binary number. :rolleyes: I'd be on the way outta there if I had to do it on a Honda Ruckus! If you stayed, you got what you asked for, I'm sorry, sad but true. You also put some brave Coast Guard guys in jepardy saving your sorry butt. But, I'll bet a good number of 'em jumped all over the helo crews wanting to know why it took so long...:rolleyes:
 
Yes, they did.

Seeing that makes me pissed that me and my crew risked our necks for multiple days rescuing their dumb behinds.

If Nagin ordered evacuation 24 hours earlier, it would have been a lot easier.
 
america voted bush in office again........i see no difference
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would you rather have kerry and AWB 2.0?

or is this another libertarian moonbat rant?

libertarian candidate had me interested till he opened his mouth and told me how stupid he was. cut n run from iraq with tail firmly between legs, open the border wide and amnesty for illegals. legalise drugs.
 
The government already uses violent extortionism to forcefully extract my wealth to pay for these dirtbags in New Orleans.


Now, in the small capacity in which I can act totally voluntarily (in the form of charity) I did not give these scumbags one red cent. They got what they deserved.


By giving any money, you are rewarding stupidity and sloth above and beyond what the government does with your money.


We need more natural selection.


Now, I feel for the people of Mississippi who are the FORGOTTEN real victims of hurricane Katrina.
 
I'm not surprised. They want a chocholate city. Chrissty Matthews had the Mayors debate on MSNBC a few days ago. No question was asked to Nagin about his confiscation of firearms and the resultant Court Case and Ruling. Imagine that. I be most of the people did not know. Not that it would have made any difference.
 
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