From: "Mark" 

That's to my point exactly Rich, thanks, that you do your "Bush's
folly" thing, you're in tune with the Governor and ignore my point in
almost harmonic perfection 

If a wave comes over the street during a hurricane, I calcualate how deep
and windy it might get and whether it's prudent to stay or evacuate; I
don't call the White House and whine about how they should direct my
Governor to get sand bags delivered by the National Guard, and toot sweet,
chop chop and all that jazz 


"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
message news:463fc71e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Typical neo-con response. It the Governor's fault that the Kansas National
> Guard has had their heavy equipment sent to Iraq for Bush's folly and
> can't respond to a national emergency?
>
>
>
> Mark wrote:
>> Why is the Governor of Kansas dissing Bush in the face of a terrible
>> disaster? The National Guard is there, FEMA is there, the Red Cross is
>> there, the neighboring towns EMS are there, the police are there...
>>
>> The entire town has been wiped out -- *all* of it -- it's going to be
>> years before it's made right again, regardless of how many National Guard
>> bulldozers are there tomorrow, the next day, or the next week.
>>
>> In fact they were interviewing a John Deere dealer owner, he's going to
>> keep all 35 employees on the payroll (via his insurance it sounds like)
>> and I'd bet my bottom dollar that John Deere will be donating equipment
>> for use in the clean up -- what the fuck ever happened to taking care of
>> yourselves vs. the whine fest?
>>
>> Why doesn't the governor leave her lame politics out of it? Why, suddenly
>> does every politician in the country suddenly seem to stand frozen in the
>> headlights like a soon to be dead deer, demanding that the Feds drop
>> everything and save them? The people there, the real sufferers, were not
>> whining, they were planning on how to overcome and rebuild before the
>> winds died down.
>>
>> The valid point is this Bob: because the Iraq war is currently unpopular
>> in national polls, the governor chooses a disaster for her citizens to
>> get a cheap shot in at their expense -- a really dumb cheap shot, because
>> odds are most of those Kansans in that wiped out town support our troops
>> and their National Guard members over there.
>>
>> That said if the Iraq war was popular in the national polls she'd never
>> have made such a dumb statement -- though it's still crass regardless.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
>> news:463fbf21{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> And a Republican once again makes fun of death and destruction instead
>>> of raising ANY valid points.
>>>
>>> Why are the National Guard and Reserve units short on equipment ? Why
>>> have the Republicans failed to replaced damaged and destroyed equipment
>>> ?
>>>
>>>
>>> "Mark"  wrote in message
>>> news:463fbb1a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> Meanwhile that Chimp Bush is attending a white tie dinner with a
>>>> ceremonial head of state -- why doesn't he cancel that
dinner and fly
>>>> on out to Kansas immediately? These f'ing neocons don't
care about Joe
>>>> and Jane Citizen, let them eat wood chips >>> immediately in Iraq and bring that equipment home tomorrow
-- call up
>>>> the C130s right now!!!>
>>>>
>>>> "Rich Gauszka"
 wrote in message
>>>> news:463faaeb$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>>> Can't help victims if yiur equipment is in Iraq
>>>>>
>>>>>
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=10
03581816
>>>>>
>>>>> Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said Sunday evening that
the state's
>>>>> response will likely be hampered because much of the
equipment usually
>>>>> positioned around the state to respond to emergencies
- including
>>>>> tents, trucks and semitrailers - is now in Iraq.
>>>>>
>>>>> "Not having the National Guard equipment, which
used to be positioned
>>>>> in various parts of the state, to bring in immediately
is really going
>>>>> to handicap this effort to rebuild," said Sebelius.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=6481093&nav=menu188_2
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem exists nationwide, according to a Government
>>>>> Accountability Report from January.  It said the
"National Guard may
>>>>> not be prepared to respond to domestic events, particularly
>>>>> large-scale, multi-state events...as efficiently and
effectively as
>>>>> possible."
>>>>
>>>
>>

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