I just received this pile of shit e-mail

[Lost-in-FL]

And I need your help for a response. This one I am answering back...

Weather Bulletin - DENVER


Forward:
WEATHER BULLETIN

Up here, in the "Mile-Hi City", 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. Nobody demanded a free bus ride to Florida. Nobody has demanded an extra square on their tax returns, either.

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 Sean Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found.

Nope, we just melted the snow for water.

Sent 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 'sitting 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 48 degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate."

It does seem that way, at least to me.

I hope you all will think clearly about this.

Come to think of it....after four hurricanes and a tropical storm hit Florida in 2004, there was never any of this government begging that occurred after Katrina!


Maybe SOME people will get the message. The world does Not owe you a living. If you cannot afford to live with the potential negatives that living near water or coastal areas may bring......MOVE! *If you don't like lava.....move away from the damn volcano!

[NYCGirl]

1. Snopes is on the case! Link:

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

[Rosemary2205]

6. LOL

all the morans can do is parrot. LOL :)

[LSK]

2. was there even ONE house destroyed????

[Parche]

denver

Thats what I was going to say, how many residences and structures were demolished
like New Orleans?

[knitter4democracy]

3. That's word for word the one on North Dakota.

They should make up their minds.

Oh, and they apparently forgot that the guys clearing the roads are paid by the county or state, interstate roads were done by the federal government, and that it is the government that keeps the fires from burning down their homes and keeps things going.

[kskiska]

7. How about the Civil Air Patrol

looking for anyone stranded?

[karlrschneider]

4. I see NYCGirl beat me to the Snopes link.

:D

[Bethany Rockafella]

5. You're right. It is a pile of crap. Right wing crap. n/t

[EstimatedProphet]

8. My answer:

The jackass that wrote that is a racist piece of shit.

I don't think anything else needs to be said. Just reply to all that the clown is a racist KKK-loving subhuman.

[RPM]

9. uh, maybe because the Feds didnt create the snow....

but they sure as hell created the flood by not maintaining the levees.

[bluewave]

10. Don't reply at all. That's how they get off. Find some porn sites

and give them their address. Find 10 of the nastiest, most grotesque porn sites and when they ask for an email, give them theirs. :D

[karlrschneider]

13. Got some links?

:evilgrin:

Welcome to DU! :toast:

[Dr. Death]

11. They copied word for word and forgot to change the latitude

Denver is only 39 degrees 45 minutes N latitude (or thereabouts), not 48 degrees.

They copied the North Dakota one and changed the name to Denver, but didn't correct the latitude.

Which just shows that they're geographically stupid as well as bigoted and racist.

[karlrschneider]

12. Good catch, I'm embarrassed I missed it!

:D