here is latest right wing crap email going around

[lovelydem]

I have gotten this twice already!!

Subject: Colorado Blizzard - 2006



Weather Bulletin - Colorado

Priceless. Think about this for a moment.

Denver News

This text is from a county emergency manager out in the western part of
Jefferson County after a snowstorm.

WEATHER BULLETIN
Up here, in the Northern Plains, we just recovered from a Historic event; may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a
historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that
broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of
motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.

FYI:
George Bush did not come.
FEMA did nothing...No one howled for the government.
No one blamed the government.
No one even uttered an expletive on TV.
Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.
Our Mayor did not blame Bush or anyone else.
Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, either.
CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5
snowstorm. Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.
No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.
No one looted.
Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something.
Nobody expected the government to do anything, either.
No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera.
No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Streisand, No Hollywood types to be found.
Nope, we just melted the snow for water.
S ent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.
The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny.
Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments
delivered it to the snowbound families.
Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.
We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns.
We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die".
We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of
a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes
for 'sittin at home' checks.
Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this
early, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.
In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about
40 degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate.
It does seem that way , at least to me.

I hope this gets passed on.
Maybe SOME people will get the message. The world does Not owe you a living

[lovelydem]

1. I sent them the snopes link that says this is false btw

http://www.snopes.com/katrina/soapbox/dakota.asp

[Sparkly]

6. Wow!!!

It's not only BS, it's recycled BS!!!

"One can shovel snow, but one cannot shovel water." Indeed!!

[ClassWarrior]

2. It's not even original. See Snopes...

http://www.snopes.com/katrina/soapbox/dakota.asp

Also, search for a thread about this from Saturday that includes a great response.

NGU.

[ClassWarrior]

7. Here's the response:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3045066&mesg_id=3045170

NGU.

[meegbear]

3. The "latest right wing crap email" came out last year ...

and it was North Dakota.

http://www.snopes.com/katrina/soapbox/dakota.asp

[Sparkly]

4. That is infuriatingly racist BS.

The racism isn't even subtle.

"Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit."

"We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of
a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes
for 'sittin at home' checks."

These people didn't have their whole city WIPED OUT!! What a bogus comparison!!

[unpossibles]

13. well, once you get above that latitude....

oh! I get it! More white folk!

[Hav]

5. .

Shaun Penn hahaha. Damn, stupid idiots...

[LostinVA]

11. Streisand's first name is spelled wrong, too

What is the point of this OP being posted?

[baldguy]

8. Thousands of people didn't die.

Millions of people didn't lose their homes.

And, unlike Katrina, disaster couldn'y have been prevented.

[Wickerman]

9. racist non-sequitur. Nice n/t

[Bitwit1234]

10. I bet this is about the fifty leven

different versions of this thing I have seen. Starting a couple of years ago they have had everything from North Dakota blizzard to east coast flood.

[GOPFighter]

12. People who write this shit never sign their names

That says a lot right there. If a genie happened to grant me one wish, it would be for all those "rugged-individualist," "the government is the problem, not the solution, libertarians got their wish to live without the government they so despise. They deserve no less...

[Mad_Dem_X]

14. I got that one - it enraged me

so much that I shot one back (I did a "reply all") and WENT OFF about how the damage done from Katrina could have been prevented, because the gov't had been warned about the levees. I can't stand these racist, right-wing bullshit emails. :argh:

[distantearlywarning]

15. As a matter of fact

I heard on the radio that FEMA was dropping bales of hay for stranded livestock. My first thought was, "How come they can take care of cows within 48 hours after a natural disaster, but can't take care of humans for over a week?"

So, yes, this thing is full of crap. FEMA was in Denver, and they were spending taxpayer money feeding cows. But I guess cows are more important to the average Freeper than black people, right?

[onenote]

16. just send this link to the next person who sends you this

http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=32927
Its the declaration of emergency relief for Colorado, released today!