What ever happened to those folks gravely affected by the "Iowa floods"?

[Mind_your_head]

The guy/woman who let the cattle go on their raised deck, for instance? How did it 'all turn our for them' and their livestock?, etc., etc.

How's Cedar Rapids recovering?

[DJ13]

1. Like vampires, the MSM already moved on to their next bleeding victims

[Mind_your_head]

3. They're not 'vampires'.....they just lack QUALITY in the extreme....

they never "follow-up"....EVER!

[FirstLight]

2. You know, since they fell of the msm radar ...

I just figured the whole midwest washed away or something...? not trying to beb smarmy, I am sorry for all who lost home & livlihoods...but it seems like they aren't getting much "relief" are they?

sometimes I really think this world sucks :grr:

[Mojorabbit]

4. I mentioned the same thing to my husband

about how strange it was that the coverage.. sucky as it was ..just stopped. It seemed weird to me. There has to be major cleaning up and rebuilding being done?

[hacktivist]

5. Simple

Reason number 1] Most of the residents are white, so the Jessie Jackson's and Al Sharpton's won't say a word

Reason number 2] Most of them are poor whites, so the Republican's don't care - they don't have millions of dollars to give to the war chests

Reason number 3] If the Democrats tried to help, Republicans would filibuster until an amendment was passed adding the word god into the pledge of allegiance another five times.

[Suich]

7. You're absolutely right...

...and welcome to DU, hacktivist!

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[hacktivist]

9. Thank you

for the welcome.. I must say the design and functionality of this board is very different than what I'm used to...

[orleans]

21. what is LU? your profile said you were a mod there? n/t

[hacktivist]

33. LiberalUnderground

It was a much smaller forum years ago.

[sandnsea]

11. Willie and Mellencamp advocate for farmers

so maybe the question you need to ask yourself is why white people helping white people don't get the smears that black people helping black people do.

[hacktivist]

14. huh

I believe, and hope - that we all help each other - My point was, we never hear a word from these two particular hypocrites (and there are plenty of white ones too) unless it helps them.

[sandnsea]

19. Jesse Jackson marched in Missoula MT

with the nursing home workers. Al Sharpton was arrested in Puerto Rico for protesting the bombing range.

You don't know what the fuck you're talking about. Stop listening to bigots, including the idiotic media.

[hacktivist]

20. Done

[Kickin_Donkey]

15. No welcome from me ...

sounds like you got some racial issues.

Nice way to work in a slur against blacks.

If most of the residents are white, then you can find plenty of white hypocrites. I fail to see where Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton were at all relevant to the topic.

Like I said, sounds like you got some race issues.

Enjoy your stay.

[hacktivist]

16. wow

Way to judge without knowing me, if I wanted that I'd have joined another board.

My beef is with hypocrites who push a single agenda rather than helping all.

[hacktivist]

17. oh

and I've donated the legal max to Obama's run & am hoping to work for his campaign.

jackass

[libnnc]

6. My SO's younger sister and her husband and son

just got back from a volunteer trip to CR. Husband is a Lutheran pastor and he took a group there to help. According to them, it's still really, really bad. There are people who are still waiting for trailers--still living w/o running water etc. They visited one elderly couple whose basement was still flooded. Pretty grim.

[hacktivist]

10. Idea

Maybe Bush should have skipped the Olympics (like he should have) and used all the money being spent on Hotels, Fuel, Food and Security to help out the people who are living this tragedy

[orleans]

24. he couldn't skip going to china. they hold a TON of our national

debt. he had to suck up to them by going there--if they get pissy they can call in their loans and send us into a depression. so there is george--sucking off an entire country.

[Mind_your_head]

8. MSM YOU NEVER do 'FOLLOW-UP' EVER!

You s*ck at the teats of *whomever*

Enjoy your *appletini's @ 9:00 am IN THE OFFICE @ the ad agencies (the 'hard drugs' probably are offered, later, in the 'basement' ~ some "cool enticing place"....that's how evil works its dirty deeds, isn't it?)

[ccharles000]

12. The media like a one night stand...

they fuck you, you never see them again, you may get a disease.

[SoCalDem]

13. They were all fully insured, and the water evaporated, leaving no damage

and they all lived happily ever after..

Brownie couldn't have done it any Heck-of-jobbier


and all the kids got a unicorn of their very own..

or so the media would have us believe, by their total lack of interest..

[orleans]

25. you are so wrong about this!

they all got a PONY! a DOG AND A PONY!!!

[SoCalDem]

26. WHERE THE HELL IS MY KITTEH?? I was promised a KITTEH

:rofl:

[orleans]

29. um...i think you've had enough "kittehs" for one day.....! n/t

[Karenina]

30. Your kitty sig

makes me smile every time I see it!!! :loveya:

[Mind_your_head]

18. How's Cedar Rapids recovering isn't "sexy"

but if *I* live in the next potential "Cedar Rapids"...it's "sexy" (of high interest) to *me*. (and "sure" I'll help everyone else along the way .....:eyes: )

[ColbertWatcher]

22. First rec? I'd like to know the answer, too! But, first rec?! n/t

[EFerrari]

23. May be outrage fatigue.

:(

#2

[ColbertWatcher]

28. You may be correct. But, this is something we can justifiably be outraged about! n/t

[JeanGrey]

27. I guess they didn't have enough film of people looting

stores and cops carrying off booty to make it interesting.

[laylah]

31. Here's a bit of information:

http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080717/NEWS/21842233/1001/NEWS

http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2008/07/21/news/latest_news/b83fea87b081cfe18625748d00750425.txt (mold!)

http://outdoorsportsman.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/together-we-will-all-rise-above/

My understanding is that this once jewel of a small city will never be the same, tho' :cry:

[ColbertWatcher]

32. We're all targets of GOP greed. n/t