Why is This? An Observation On The Floods…No Robbery, Looting, Or Asking For Trailers - With Video
There’s been something I have been noticing within the last week or so during all of this “500 Year Flooding” going on in the Midwest and that is that these people from America’s Heartland are not afraid to roll up their sleeves and work their asses off to help their neighbors, protect their communities, and deal with what could arguably be the worst natural disaster to hit us since Hurricane Katrina.
Just about every news reporter that has covered both these floods and Katrina mentions how much like Katrina this whole siuation is…
But you know what I’m not seeing in this flood disaster that I saw down in ‘Nawlins after Katrina?
Not seeing Rape.
Not seeing Robbery.
Not seeing Looting.
Not seeing Murder.
Not seeing Cops so afraid that they shirk their duties.
Not seeing an atmosphere of fear, loathing, tension, violence, or despair.
What I am seeing is people in the Heartland rolling up their sleeves and getting to work.
I’m seeing people working to shore up levees to help prevent further damage.
I’m seeing people working to help little old ladies clean out the remnants of their lives.
I’m seeing people helping their neighbors.
I’m seeing people despite such tragic loss, maintaining a spirit of hope.
I’m seeing people coming together instead of dividing.
I’m seeing people helping out with neighborhood watch programs to maintain security.
I’m seeing people donating blood, money, time, effort, clothing, and food.
Why is that? I’m asking. How is this aftermath any different from what happened after Katrina?
I want to hear what you have to say.
And if you want to help out, here’s some thing you can consider doing…The Red Cross has run short of funds trying to help out. A donation to them, or to the United Way is a good start.
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A little something called America’s heartland/the Midwest has that something called pride, class and dignity. Red state values vs. Blue state values is what it all boils down to.
That is my take and I am sticking by it.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:56 amThe culture of victimhood has not permeated the midwest.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:13 pmSomebody oughta alert them that doing the right thing ain’t the right thing to do anymore.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:13 pmWe can HOPE this will all CHANGE when the Dhimmis sweep the Congress and POTUS elections.
Not seeing fifty years straight under a democrat mayor and governor, either.
Go figure.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:19 pmim from the midwest have been hit by flooding and tornadoes. one time 2 F-4s hit my town, caused between 50-100 million dollars worth of damage. no looting, no complaining, none of the other shit listed above. we all just pulled together and helped each other. all we got was the red cross delivering us pizza for lunch every day.
we broke out the chainsaws, trucks and the good old American ‘can do’ attitude.
June 19th, 2008 at 12:22 pmThat’s one reason it’s called the “heartland”, not just a geographic term. These folks are the heart and soul…..which makes New Orleans the rectum?…..
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The values of honor, sacrifice, and helping others - values that used to be evident from coast to coast,before big gov’t liberalism infected the populace - still easily seen in the “heartland”
June 19th, 2008 at 12:29 pmI’m surprised that Bash’s question isn’t on the Obama List of things we can’t talk about!
June 19th, 2008 at 12:41 pmThis country was primarily built with self reliance. It seems the people affected by this flood have a lot of that still. They are not waiting for the Government to “Do Something” they are doing it themselves…
June 19th, 2008 at 12:44 pmNo blacks.
June 19th, 2008 at 1:12 pmI just returned from vacation in Fl. Drove on I-10 Through Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Lousiana, back to
June 19th, 2008 at 1:22 pmTexas. I was struck by the difference between Bay St Louis and NO. Miss Residents (Which had more actual Katrina storm damage)have pretty much completely rebuilt every bit of it. Most of NO still looks like Katrina could have rolled through Yesterday.
You know… I absolutely LOVE this site. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have made the size of donation that I did during the fundraising drive.
But… this thread is pathetic. For a site that prides itself on not buying into the MSM propaganda HOOK - LINE - and - SINKER, this is disheartening. Most importantly, the rape and murder aspects are a myth, Bash. I live here (north of Lake Pontchartrain in St. Tammany Parish) in one of the hardest hit areas. Nobody flew in here and helped us out… they only helped the city. And anyone can check out the report that Popular Mechanics “debunking the myths of Hurricane Katrina”… which were promoted by our useless media.
And to the other ignorant comments posted, please get a clue. Over the last 28 years we’ve had four Republican governors for a total of 16 years (Roemer was always a Republican at heart and switched in the middle of his term).
Look at the way Louisiana has voted since Ronald Reagan… and get more clues.
This is a strong Republican state these days with one (okay maybe two) buckets of shit that drag it down.
I’m not pissed off at any of my Dollardite brethren… I’m saddened.
I wish the best for all of you and also pray that God blesses each and every one of you!
Now… on to more important business… GO TIGERS!!!!
June 19th, 2008 at 1:23 pmIt’s really a head scratcher.
June 19th, 2008 at 1:23 pmmonkeysdad,
You must have been asleep at the wheel as you drove I-12 from Slidell to Baton Rouge??
June 19th, 2008 at 1:25 pmeveryone knows the answer why the 2 situations are different!!
June 19th, 2008 at 1:55 pmLouisiana is a strong Republican state. It’s hard to confront the truth without sounding like racism…but is the truth racist? Really–Yes, people in Iowa roll up their sleeves and get to work, like Mississippi did, and likely like the people up in St. Tammanay. When Rita rolled through my heartland and jacked up everything, putting most of LA West of 90 and south of LA 14 underwater the Cajuns came out in Jo’boats and helped themselves first. A reporter tried putting words in the Abbeville Sheriff’s mouth, hunting for the “I’m pissed at FEMA and Bush” but all they got were, “we’re the first responders, not the government”. As Gen. Honore put it, he (reporter) was stuck on stupid. The majority of those POS’ stuck in NO were there because they expected the gub’munt to ‘hep ‘em. Are they victims? Definitely victims of the Democrats wellfare state and African American leaders who’ve convinced them they can never be anything better than what they are and that they are owed.
Meanwhile; Katrina kicked the roach nest and they scurried to New Iberia where maintainence workers need security guards (in daylight) to repair the free FEMA trailers they’ve defiled. The crime rate’s through the roof there and the murders this year alone are nearing 20. Guess who’s responsible? It ain’t the locals.
I don’t claim NO as part of La., it’s the asshole of the state, Katrina underscored it. Great place to visit, shitty place to live and for anyone not in the know….IT AIN’T FRIGGIN CAJUN COUNTRY!!! AND THE FOOD AIN’T CAJUN!
We helped each other out in Rita, black&white and I’m proud of ‘em. I’m proud of those Iowans too, got a few that work for me. They’re showing this country what sufficiency is.
Nagin–kiss my ass and lastly…
Geax-tah-hell-elle-ess-youx
Go Rebels.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:00 pmi agree with steve
June 19th, 2008 at 2:12 pmI don’t see any big fat ass people taking a shit on the bridge
June 19th, 2008 at 2:36 pmand waiting for someone to bring them their check. Just pure old wasted fat ass lazy good for nothing pieces of jumbo lard shit. Don’t have nothing, never worked for nothing, never cared for nothing , never planned on nothing, ain’t going to get nothing unless they steal it, inherit it, or someone gives it.
Yeah, Steve had the best 2 word answer. Sad and unfortunate, but true.
June 19th, 2008 at 2:37 pmThanks to the locals there for weighing in. Clarity is good.
Perhaps its the perception of the thing that we should talk about instead of the reality - the media certainly has.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:03 pmHahahaha, cllucas.
Now… Go put on ESPN and ROOT for the Tigahs!!
June 19th, 2008 at 3:06 pmI saw President Bush and Senator McCain were in the Midwest today. Where was Barack Hussein Obama?
June 19th, 2008 at 3:35 pmI’ve lived in Iowa for forty years, and now you know why.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:38 pmI guess that’s the difference between communities centered on God….and “Chocolate” cities.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:39 pmVery good point, John H.
I agree.
Probably more to do with it than any skin color.
June 19th, 2008 at 3:52 pmWhen the going gets tough, the tough( mid westerners) get going! Thugs loot and complain!
June 19th, 2008 at 5:36 pmFar less germs in dirt on your hands from honest hard work than there is germs on dirty government hand-out money.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:41 pmIt’s obvious Bush hates white people too.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
June 19th, 2008 at 5:44 pmyou are comparing apples to racist people.
You are comparing apples, to racist people
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Not sure what that means …
Just this, however, when told it was time to leave and get the hell out of the way … the folks in the Midwest had more than enough brains to do so … knowing you shouldn’t ‘assume’ the government is going to save the day against nature.
It is obvious the government teat-clenching population of New Orleans, after years and years of coddling, made that exact assumption … and lost.
June 19th, 2008 at 5:50 pm“Hey mister, if you’re gonna walk on water, could you drop a line my way?”
My Grandma was born in Omaha, raised in Laramie, Wyo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX6EvXTIOAg
June 19th, 2008 at 5:51 pmDude, just a little heads-up here…you might want to carefully read the text in the yellow box below.
June 19th, 2008 at 6:10 pm_________________________________________________
I do, in a back-handed way he’s calling us a bunch of racists!
drillanwr, I’m pretty sure you’re being polite…however,I’m a left-handed Sagittarius, I have a tendency to just blurt out the truth as I immediately see it to be.
And yes, my idiot, liberal, blood relatives rarely discuss politics with me
June 19th, 2008 at 6:24 pmdrillanwr, I’m pretty sure you’re being polite…however,I’m a left-handed Sagittarius, I have a tendency to just blurt out the truth as I immediately see it to be.
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Aries/Taurus Cusp … I got double the fucking horns, man … And born in The Year Of The Dog on the Chinese Zodiac …
June 19th, 2008 at 6:56 pmNew Orleans = The best demonstration of the failure of Johnson’s “Great Society”
June 19th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Steve, pure and simple truth
June 20th, 2008 at 1:45 am“It’s obvious Bush hates white people too.”
perfect 
June 20th, 2008 at 3:55 am…………..
seriously, Steve has it right, stop looking for other answers, the reason is there are no blacks in the mid west because it is a tough place to live and noone is getting by on handouts. They will not wait a year for insurance companies to come before they touch the trash in their front yard, these awesome Americans will clean up their own stuff and help anyone else they can along the way.
June 20th, 2008 at 4:23 amTo quote Chris Rock: “I love black people, but I hate niggers.”
June 20th, 2008 at 4:35 am^
Ding we have hit the nail on the head
These people are hard working American Farmers with respect for each others neighbors. I would guess that if there is any looting that would have taken place it would have been by ghetto trach trying to sneak their way in from Chicago or another major city relatively close.
June 20th, 2008 at 6:11 amSince a good majority wants to back-pat Steve’s “no blacks” analysis as some sort of monumental, heretofore unspoken, grand revelation, I can’t help but be drawn by another steve’s (m) comment.
What some of you think is “easily seen in the heartland” is also “easily seen” in a lot of other places. It is also “easily seen” that some amount of satisfaction is derived by certain posters in having pointed out these specific differences.
I certainly don’t expect that Dollard or Bash expected to have a thread at this awesome place so closely resembling garbage that one could find on Stormfort, but… you know… here it is.
June 20th, 2008 at 7:32 amsteve m . . . New Orleans, the rectum . . . Exactly !
June 20th, 2008 at 7:36 amThis is not a ‘race’ issue … It is an issue of ‘life expectancy’ of people/population. No matter what the ‘color’ the people in the Midwest are ‘expected’ to do what they are doing … However, we had better not expect such a level of personal responsibility out of the people in New Orleans?!?!?
I would bet there ARE ‘blacks’ in the Midwest that have been hit by this natural disaster … and are working just as hard and smart to get themselves AND THEIR NEIGHBORS out of this situation.
New Orleans was an area under a certain POLITICAL persuasion … and the population there, at least highlighted by the post-Katrina MSM, was portrayed as ‘black’ … when point in fact there were just as many ‘whites’ effected by the hurricane and flooding … but not that you would have noticed in the news.
People, we are being manipulated into a ‘racist’ corner here … Why? Because it will be the cornerstone for the general election campaign.
Don’t fall into it …
And for anyone who comes onto this site and assumes we here are racists … that’s a steaming pile of bullshit. I have seen, on more than one occasion, a ‘regular’ comment poster(s) smack down someone who has made a blatantly racist remark.
The racism going on in this country is being committed by the damn liberals … NOT the conservatives.
June 20th, 2008 at 8:31 amThese are the famous “Midwestern values” that are the backbone (literally) of this country. Don’t complaint, don’t explain, just work hard.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:00 amSince you didn’t clarify, I sure hope you aren’t implying that I’m manipulating anything.
I’m just calling certain comments as I see them. If you refuse to see the sentiment implied by certain individuals, that’s your prerogative.
Exactly… and 100% accurate. So, given the accuracy of this thought it would have made entirely much more sense to have first blamed the freaking libs and not bought into the MSM portrayal, would it not?
And anyone can assume that I assumed whatever they want to think I assumed but I can guarantee you one thing… if the assumption were correct, I wouldn’t have donated one stinking dime. So they’d at least be 1,000 times wrong.
This site enjoys referrals from some pretty heavily trafficked sites. The good name doesn’t need to be soiled by a few nimrods.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:03 amGMAFB
They’re nothing more than the values of GOOD people who cover every strata of racial background and physical location you can imagine from sea to shining sea.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:06 am1) I am not singling anyone out …
2) there is no real difference between the MSM and liberals in this country … The MSM is the voice box of the liberals in this country.
And you are correct … The ‘Midwestern’ values ARE the values of this nation and its backbone …
However, in about 4 decades the politicians in this country have convinced some people in this country that those values are just too hard to sustain, and they would be better off letting someone else take over their ‘personal responsibility’ …
Besides, the East and West coasts of this country have somehow been hiked up to somehow be the representation of the country as a whole … politically and ideologically, simply because there is a condencing of population in those regions.
The Midwest of this country is portrayed as some backward, knuckle-dragging area that ‘evolution’ seems to have bypassed. Hell, Texas is talked about as if it’s another damn country and not a state in the union.
These are all characteristics of the liberal mentality, and promoted by the MSM.
They all demand more government control and intervention, yet, the government is the first to be blamed.
Days after the drama of the rush of the waters in the Midwest, the MSM is now hunting, seeking, and gathering battered and weary Midwesterners who will somehow blame the government for their current situation.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080619/D91DDG5O2.html
But people seeing these complaints in their newspapers and on TV (all liberal agenda driven, especially in an election year) will assume the foundation for these poor folks’ complaints is somehow the current administration’s fault … But check the date in question … 1999.
And I do not buy into the whole, well, Bush IS the president now … so it’s his fault.
No, the decisions of past presidents and their administrations do count. As we are seeing right now with the ‘oil crisis’ in this country … not to mention the problems in Iraq and Iran …
June 20th, 2008 at 9:29 amGood. We’re almost 100% in agreement.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:42 amNO = social engineering at its worst.
Iowa = people, in particular American people, at their best.
Excellent observation Bash and thanks for bringing it up.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:02 amYou’re not ‘converting’ me to any measure … I am just defining my remarks in more detail.
The fact of the matter is, in New Orleans, the government and independent agencies that came to assist and help the folks sat outside the city for a spell … Why? … Because they were getting their inside information from the MSM … that was getting their information from hear-say … and they were hyping it to the fullest. Rapes, murders, shootings … blah-blah … So, the rescue and aid efforts, who are NOT armed or trained to go into what was essentially being portrayed (by the media) as a war zone …
So, with the aid of the biased media, the personal responsibility of the citizens of N. O. to get out of the way of the storm, and the primary government responsibility of the local and state governments has been deliberately buried under the fat finger of guilt pointing at the feds … who would have been blasted as fascists had they just decided to go balls to the wall and storm in there and take over the situation.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:20 amDon’t think I did anything in that last post other than say that I was largely in agreement with you, did I? Go ahead and define away.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/2315076.html?page=2
And do some of you believe nothing was getting accomplished while the governmental agencies were paralyzed?
I’ve got news for you. There was a lot being done (and more efficiently) well before any useless government agency got its ass in gear. Private citizens were just as responsible for saving lives as any governmental body.
The REAL first responders? Churches… no surprise.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:01 amYep … We ARE on the same page … Stepping back from the Howitzer …
June 20th, 2008 at 11:09 amCool… I was about to call in an airstrike.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:29 amIt’s more about what the Shepard Smiths of the world decided to focus on. All the good and right that went on in NO was overlooked for the lady Cops “shopping” in Wal-Mart. LA is not NO and we know that but the perception was pushed really hard.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:33 amNot with my A-10s circling overhead …
June 20th, 2008 at 11:38 amSense of entilement, class, race and the like all my play a part but the major differance is probably the Leadership.
In NO/LA you had a complete clusterfuck of a Mayor followed up by a waste of space Govenor and one of the most corrupt police forces in the country…
Things like that cant help when something like this goes down.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:45 amYou’re right, and instead of a wake-up call, it became a pity party.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:59 am“In NO/LA you had a complete clusterfuck of a Mayor followed up by a waste of space Govenor and one of the most corrupt police forces in the country…”
Therein lies the rest of the recipe for “the perfect storm”.
No argument here.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:00 pmOnly for the ones who were espousing what !should! be done but wouldn’t actually lift a finger to help to DO anything… at all… themselves.
Standing up in front of a camera during a “telethon” spewing all kinds of politically motivated bullshit doesn’t qualify as help, IMO. So you can take the whole Hollywood set out of the equation.
June 20th, 2008 at 12:08 pmMy husband and I discussed this very topic and the differences this morning.
Big major difference is people taking personal responsibility. Plus neighbor helping neighbor, community coming together and contributing where their needed.
New Orleans was a shocker to see how so many wouldn’t lift a finger to help themselves or their neighbors.
I remember my nephew with the national guard going in and trying to help some folks and they were shot at. They actually couldn’t help because the jerks were shooting at them.
The Red Cross from my community also loaded up and left hours after we heard of the damage Katrina had left. When they got there with all of their Red Cross credentials, they were not allowed in to help. They were held back for 12 hours. The county officials were the blockers. They were told if they snuck in they would be arrested. They did finally sneak in. Someone that knew the area showed them another way in.
Then I think of Shawn Penn making his pitiful moment of shame. He said he was going in to rescue people, and what did we see by the MSM? Shawn Penn in the boat, little did we know the boat he was going to use to rescue people had no room in it because it was loaded down with all of the equipment to film his heroism. How do we know that? By the pictures others took of him and [the boat] loaded down with equipment.
I heard a man on a commercial today talking a how hard he works on his farm and how his hands are always dirty (from dirt). He said his hands are dirty but his consequence is not.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:03 pm……But also, MSM was stroking their lamp that contained the Global Warming Genie for Katrina. Maybe they are catching their breath at this moment or they’ve had an epiphany. Either way I’d like to see the reception Sean Penn would be getting right now if he visits the Midwest.
I live in the armpit of america-Pacific NW, an eco friendly area that fouls quicker than a 350 lb. enviromaniacs a-pit treated with bio-degradeable anti-perspirant. I’m more concerned not about the next major earthquake as I am about the locals in the days following. A good tsunami might clean things up real nice ’round here.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:08 pmrightangle I did hear yesterday on NPR radio someone trying to lead the conversation into “global warming” the host didn’t bite and got the global warming dude off the phone quick.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:55 pmWhy is this? asks the cation writer. Because people in that part of the nation have integrity and we can do it attitude.
June 20th, 2008 at 2:53 pmReal freaking Americans.
“500 year flooding” did’nt this happen 92 or 93,and i think the same attitude prevailed then aswell.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:23 pmHmmm…. how come Snobama hasn’t visited IOWA.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:28 pmFor all practical purposes he owes the IOWA Dhimmis his nomination to become DEAR LEADER.
there is a difference between people leaving NO and the Midwest…the water has slowly built up here so its pretty obvious when you need to leave, while the water came all at once into NO. YES I know they were properly warned and they were idiots, but it is a difference.
June 20th, 2008 at 4:30 pmAmerican Infidel- The NPR host not biting on the Global Warming call.
Good to hear that.
My brother is a fireman that drew the lucky ticket down to the swelter post Katrina. He mainly was in the Alabama area where all the floating casinos ended up on shore. That area had many pro 2nd amendment signs up/VERY little looting and lawlessness.
June 20th, 2008 at 5:36 pmMy last comment on this thread is that the link below might…might explain a few things.
http://patdollard.com/2008/03/americas-blacks-were-owed-you-arent/
June 20th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
June 20th, 2008 at 9:23 pmThat’s because HERALDO REVERAHH, is on vacation, otherwise he would be in the various hay-lofts showing the TOTAL breakdown in civilization with the rape’in’s killin’s and be-head’n’s of the poor victums left behind by the EVIL BUSH-HITLER ADMIN. ANOTHER KATRINA!!!!! when will it END?????
I think there’s two main reasons for the clusterfuck the ‘black community’ finds itself in. First, there’s the fact that most people will follow the path of least resistance. Tell them all their problems are someone else’s fault and they should just sit on their asses until someone comes along and hands them money or saves them from their own bad decisions, and all too many people will comply. Life on welfare is miserable, but to them it beats honest work.
There are many white people like this, too, but it’s more of a problem for the blacks because of reason two:
The so-called black leadership, who have made fortunes blaming everyone but themselves. If the lives of black people improve, they miss out on the gravy train. No one gives a shit about the middle-class, after all. Therefore, anyone attempting to change the poisonous entitlement culture is viciously attacked, ESPECIALLY OTHER BLACKS. Look at the assaults on Bill Cosby, Clarence Thomas, and so on.
Hard working, honest black people who lift themselves out of the gutter are considered traitors. I’ve known plenty of black kids who grew up in middle class families (yes, families: mom, dad, and kids living together, with at least one wage earner) fuck up their lives in a horribly misguided effort to ‘keep it real’.
As Chris Rock said, “They’re keeping it real alright. Real DUMB!”
Basically, it’s a recipe for a multi-generational disaster. Take away the ‘Great Society’ bullshit, and people will have to leave the projects and get jobs, where they’ll quickly find that they can live much better lives in far nicer neighborhoods if they get off their asses and work. As they learn how to take care of themselves, they’ll find that the ‘Black Leadership’ is only holding them down.
Or, a new crop of leaders might inspire the masses to improve their lives. Considering that the latest messiah, Barack, is basically Jesse Jackson with better PR, I won’t hold my breath. Anyone advocating people learn to take care of themselves is branded a heretic and exiled from the herd.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:35 pmfrom st tammany parish
same thing that has been happening in iraq with the media happened again after katrina the media just shows the people a glimpse of whats going on it left out the people getting the job done but if yah been in Iraq within the first 4 years you would all know that
on the topic of the hurricane our murder rate in the city dropped as texas city murder rate sky rocketed
June 21st, 2008 at 12:00 amI feel bad for the midwest. They got screwed out of a free gift card from the goverment. I’m just waiting to here how Bush created the floods!
June 21st, 2008 at 4:37 amScott, Don’tcha know the govt is seeding jet contrails with chemicals that can induce torrential downpours AND make evil Republican zombies out leftwing, liberal, democRats?
June 21st, 2008 at 4:51 amIt’s called good old fashioned Americanism. It’s the spirit that built this nation in the first place.
If N.O is the smelly armpit of the nation; the midwest is it’s blood, sinew and guts.
June 21st, 2008 at 9:02 amNew Orleans = The best demonstration of the failure of Johnson’s “Great Society”
I concur 150%.
September 27th, 2008 at 6:03 pm