DU: Stranded Galveston residents call in vain for rescues (Almost "Best Of")

[Lord Undies]

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kurth_ (361 posts)        Sat Sep-13-08 12:05 AM
Original message
Stranded Galveston residents call in vain for rescues
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Source: Houston Chronicle

Stranded Galveston residents call in vain for rescues
Galveston, Harris call curfews to protect evacuees' homes
By DANE SCHILLER, KEVIN MORAN and MIKE TOLSON Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
Sept. 12, 2008, 10:55PM

As Hurricane Ike pushed a swelling surge onto Galveston Island tonight, many Galveston residents who ignored a mandatory evacuation order phoned for rescues to no avail because emergency workers were called off the streets, officials said.

Help wasn't expected until after dangerous storm conditions subsided.

"We don't know what we're going to find tomorrow," said the city's mayor, Lyda Ann Thomas. "We hope we'll find that the people who didn't leave here are alive and well."

City Manager Steve LeBlanc went so far as to ask the media not to photograph "certain things" in the aftermath, referring to the possibility of dead bodies.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5998538.html

Ok, a good posting from a Little Goon.....Then we have Little Goonette Sarah Ibarruri attempting to...to....whatever:

Sarah Ibarruri  (1000+ posts)         Sat Sep-13-08 12:08 AM
Response to Original message
1. Doesn't it burn you up?
   This is the City Manager: "City Manager Steve LeBlanc went so far as to ask the media not to photograph "certain things" in the aftermath, referring to the possibility of dead bodies."

Of course not. It might reflect badly upon the GOP, which consistently puts Americans in harm's way.

Sarah Ibarruri  (1000+ posts)         Sat Sep-13-08 12:16 AM
Response to Reply #5
6. Hurricane Ike did a LOT of damage in Cuba......
Cuba is an EXTREMELY poor nation. I don't need to emphasize that. However, only 4 people died in Cuba due to Hurricane Ike, tho it encompassed and nearly obliterated the entire length of the country. WHY?

I'll tell you why. Because the government and army ENSURE that everyone is evacuated. They PLACE people. They actually physically evacuate them. Here? Here they're left to die, float, drown, whatever. If countless die in this, as in N.O., it will not be because they were stupid, or they were lazy. It will be because the U.S. government did not take matters into its hands and ensure the complete evacuation of people.

She gets slapped:

paulk  (1000+ posts)        Sat Sep-13-08 12:24 AM
Response to Reply #6
9. and if the US government went in and forcibly removed people
   against their will -

you'd complain about that.

And she's back up for the count (making her last appearance):

Sarah Ibarruri  (1000+ posts)         Sat Sep-13-08 12:26 AM
Response to Reply #9
11. I'm not so sure. Generally, in the U.S. the ones that die are the ones that don't have the money .
   to evacuate. The U.S. needs to evacuate people. I thought the military and national guard had to protect the well being of Americans? I just don't understand leaving the poor and helpless to die because the U.S. govt. has no method in place for evacuating people. Doesn't make sense at all.

All the Little Goons in between do a good job of exposing the truth about the situation....and slamming Cuba, the socialist paradise.

But Sarah Ibarruri has a friend.  One who didn;t bother to read the thread before flapping his plate-infused lips:

yardwork  (1000+ posts)        Sat Sep-13-08 12:43 AM
Response to Reply #8
20. I doubt many wealthy people stayed in Galveston. There are a lot of poor minorities there.
   I imagine that the people with cars left; the others remained behind because they had no way to get out.

[Lord Undies]

I had to come back an ad this one (Sarah returns).  This Little Goonette needs to be put out of her idiocy:

Sarah Ibarruri  (1000+ posts)         Sat Sep-13-08 12:48 AM
Response to Reply #21
27. If there's danger, or we're attacked, or there's a fire, one cannot be moved forcibly?
Of course they can. People are moved forcibly from burning buildings all the time.

Yes, people love to be stubborn when they are about to burn to death!  I'm sure it's a real problem for the fire putter-outers.

"Ma'am, your going to have to leave.  This building is on fire"

"NO!!  You can't make me leave!  I've lived through fires before!  I can do it again!"

[GOBUCKS]

However, only 4 people died in Cuba due to Hurricane Ike

Of course, Cuba is a socialist workers' paradise. Often, such paradises are less than scrupulous in being sure that negative news is accurately reported. The enjoyment of paradise, and the free health care, leave little time for counting and reporting death totals.

[md11hydmec]

Thats the thing about the USA.  You're free to make your own decisions no matter how stupid they are.  I shouldn't have to pay for your stupidity.  If the government forced these people out they would be screaming too.  I find it intersting, that they refer to one of their socialist paradises as poor.  I thought that with all that free healthcare, government mandated jobs, free speech, they would be prosperous.  Or is that just the ruling class in the paradise?

[formerlurker]

They were told to leave, and offered the resources to leave  -- they refused.    The alphabets had microphones in their faces askng why they aren't leaving.   No one replied the reason was because they were "poor."

Dumbasses stay.   Dumbasses can now wait for rescue personnel to come assist them.     Risking the lives of first responders because of extremely poor choices/decisions of the entitlement crowd is not something the GOP will endorse, and you can put that on a bumber sticker freakshows.

[Tucker]

Sarah Ibarruri  (1000+ posts)         Sat Sep-13-08 12:16 AM
Response to Reply #5
6. Hurricane Ike did a LOT of damage in Cuba......
Cuba is an EXTREMELY poor nation. I don't need to emphasize that. However, only 4 people died in Cuba due to Hurricane Ike, tho it encompassed and nearly obliterated the entire length of the country. WHY?

I'll tell you why. Because the government and army ENSURE that everyone is evacuated. They PLACE people. They actually physically evacuate them. Here? Here they're left to die, float, drown, whatever. If countless die in this, as in N.O., it will not be because they were stupid, or they were lazy. It will be because the U.S. government did not take matters into its hands and ensure the complete evacuation of people.

This one has me a tad confused. If the entire country was ravaged by the storm, where did the people get evacuated to?

[DumbAss Tanker]

The "Only 4 died in Cuba" gambit reminds me of a passage in The Gulag Archipelago.  The famous Maxim Gorkiy was speaking on the completion of a large navigation canal project using political prisoner labor under horrifying conditions, and from his ivory tower perch, pronounced in the speech that "No lives had been lost in the construction," apparently because he had been told the project started with 100,000 workers and finished with 100,000 workers.
In actual fact the work force had turned over about five times due to deaths from hunger, exhaustion, exposure, and physical abuse, but in the Socialist Workers' and Peasants' Paradise annals, 'No lives had been lost.'

[GOBUCKS]

The mayor of Houston is holding a press conference on TV, and one of the local officials on camera with him reminds me of something. DUmmy sfexpat2000 is the dumbest person on all the internets only during those times when Houston Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is offline.

Recall her tour of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, when she was shown a model of the Mars Opportunity rover vehicle. Her question, on air, was whether it would be possible for the rover to be maneuvered to send back images of the flag left by Apollo astronauts.

[franksolich]

What?

Say what?

The Sarah Ibarruri primitive is still around?

During the presidential campaign of 2004, the Sarah Ibarruri primitive was one of those who promised to leave the United States, going to live her life out somewhere else, if George Bush were re-elected.

And she hasn't left yet?

This is one of the reasons why this time around, the presidential campaign of 2008, I've been collecting links and screen-caps of primitives "threatening" to leave us if John McCain and Sarah Palin are elected.

I'm really disappointed in the Sarah Ibarruri primitive.

[BlueStateSaint]

What?

Say what?

The Sarah Ibarruri primitive is still around?

During the presidential campaign of 2004, the Sarah Ibarruri primitive was one of those who promised to leave the United States, going to live her life out somewhere else, if George Bush were re-elected.

And she hasn't left yet?

This is one of the reasons why this time around, the presidential campaign of 2008, I've been collecting links and screen-caps of primitives "threatening" to leave us if John McCain and Sarah Palin are elected.

I'm really disappointed in the Sarah Ibarruri primitive.

Coach, the more relevant question is:  Are you surprised that the Sarah Ibarruri primitive hasn't left the US?