Who should pay for rescuing people who choose a certain lifestyle?

[underpants]

I mean COME ON!

(alternate title question) What part of "living in Colorado" did they not understand?

I mean COME ON!



Farms and ranches in southeast Colorado are blanketed with snow near Springfield, Colo., Sunday, Dec. 31, 2006. Searchers using helicopters and single-engine planes flew over a thick blanket of snow covering southeastern Colorado Sunday, a day after a powerful storm blew out of Colorado and began causing havoc in Kansas. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)



A Colorado National Guard helicopter loaded with hay searches for stranded cattle to feed near Lamar, Colo., on Wednesday, Jan. 3 , 2007. Ranchers, pilots and snowmobilers also searched for thousands of cattle trapped by heavy snow and high drifts in southeastern Colorado, while hundreds of cows were reported dead in Kansas. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)

[Chemical Bill]

1. We should.

Why do you ask?

Bill

[Jacobin]

2. Mr. Underpants

Sometimes has his tongue in his cheek, friendly fyi

:-)

[underpants]

3. ON EDIT

:sarcasm:

I have thought that there is a direct parallel between this and the whiners about the Mt.Hood hikers and the scapegoating of the people of New Orleans.

[Jacobin]

5. I got it

I just didn't think your first responder did.

:-)

[peace13]

9. Yes, saving the pretty white people from the pretty white snow

is much different than the brown waters of New Orleans. It is interesting that Americans seem willing to accept what went on in New Orleans. It parallels the fact that the majority of Americans do not view the Iraqi people as souls in peril. It is so sad! Kim

[seabeyond]

10. majority want to do something about soldiers, and strong majority felt katrina

was a disaster and were outraged by our govt ineffectiveness. i dont think a strong majority accept what happened in katrina

[peace13]

12. Maybe so.

People may agree that bad things happen but as long as it doesn't directly effect them the vast majority will not get up and do something. I feel that we are at a big turn in the road here and if we want this war stopped we will have to get off of our butts and get to Washington. Unfortunately with the * crowd it will be a dangerous mission and I feel that we may loose some peace activists in the process. Peace on earth, Kim

[seabeyond]

16. i hear ya with war. a lot of people got off their butts nationwide

with the katrina catastrophe. govt was piss poor, but the people weren't. it is important to honor when right is done. for me anyway

[jarab]

14. "Sarcasm" undetected becomes "sarchasm". eom

...O...

[LostinVA]

15. I got the sarcasm re: Mt. Hood

[Chemical Bill]

26. I should have added this:

;-)

[peace13]

4. Good Point!

Those pictures are amazing. Peace, Kim

[magellan]

6. The damn cattle should know better

This is what happens when you insist on standing around chewing your cud all day instead of informing yourself on the dangers of your environment.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. Yeah, like those loosers who live in the

path of hurricanes?

or the idiots who want to farm bottom land?

you mean like them?

[noonwitch]

8. You are kidding, right?

People who lived in New Orleans knew that their city was below sea level, maybe no one should help them out. People in Kansas know they could get hit by a tornado, maybe they don't deserve any help when one hits. People in California know they live on a fault line and that sooner or later, everything west of it will fall into the Pacific.

There are the kind of snowstorms that everyone is prepared for, and then there are those that are bigger than the usual weather for the area. We don't get a lot of blizzards in Detroit these days, but when we do get one, it can hold things up for days.

[ellenfl]

11. ?

"There are the kind of snowstorms that everyone is prepared for, and then there are those that are bigger than the usual weather for the area."

There are the kind of hurricanes that everyone is prepared for, and then there are those that are bigger than the usual weather for the area.

ellen fl

[BOSSHOG]

13. WHY DO PEOPLE CHOOSE TO LIVE THERE?

I recall that question being asked of people in and around New Orleans about 17 months ago.

[underpants]

17. |

Please see post #3

[wuushew]

18. Serious economic question here

I have been seeing on the news that hay bales are being airdropped to prevent mass starvation of cattle.

Does the final market price of a slaughtered cow exceed the aviation costs of large scale helicopter operations?


If so why don't we just cut checks directly to ranchers?

[underpants]

22. When I saw that footage this morning

I said to my wife-Man I hope those bales don't hit the cows

They were tossing these things out at at LEAST 200 feet

I was going to make a smartass comment about how the cattle industry doesn't need nor want to take any such government hands outs (checks) they want some poor weekend warrior to go to the effort of flying around feeding their cattle just like any godfearing capitalist would.

[Az]

19. We the People of the United States,

in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Um... does that answer your question?

[kevinbgoode]

20. Of course we should care. . .

but perhaps it would be interesting to ask the wingnuts where all of their Katrina comments are now....I mean, after all, aren't they the ones who said that all the poor residents of New Orleans had plenty of time to "walk" out of town before the hurricane hit?


Isn't it the same concept for this scenario? I mean, after all, people knew for DAYS that there was going to be a horrific snow event in the state. . . these white rural residents could have easily walked out of the path. . .

Just sayin'. . .

[salin]

21. For the life of me, I can't think of *where* we should all live

so that no insurance company (and whining righties) can say "can't help you - you chose to live in the face of XXX threat".

Midwest? Flooding and tornado Alley? West? Earthquakes, mudslides and wildfires Southeast? Hurricanes Northeast? Blizzards and floods? Southwest? Not sure - southwesterners are you free from natural disasters? Should we all move there?

[azmouse]

23. Not enough water in the Southwest

and the heat is extreme here. 110 degrees in the summer isn't all that unusual.

[salin]

25. good points

and the battles for water rights in the future are likely to be doozies.

[RB TexLa]

24. What part of "living in Louisiana" did they not understand?

I mean COME ON!
I mean COME ON!
I mean COME ON!
I mean COME ON!




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