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Topic: Cold, Dark and Damp, Pockets of Misery Persist 2 Weeks Later |
Cold, Dark and Damp, Pockets of Misery Persist 2 Weeks Later
New York Times, by Michael Wilson
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Posted By:Drive, 11/13/2012 9:13:00 AM
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| In Coney Island, a 67-year-old man sleeps with plastic bottles from the bodega, filled with hot water, tucked in his armpits. Toilets unflushed by modern means for a fortnight have created a stench in the Rockaways that is so bad that one man keeps incense burning in his apartment day and night. On Staten Island, people sit in “warming buses,” cozy and, like time itself these days, going nowhere. In a town in New Jersey where wells do not pump because the power is out, residents collect rainwater in empty
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
gustavwasa, 11/13/2012 9:15:57 AM (No. 9010885)
Guess I´m mean .. the voted for Obama in droves - let Obie and Schumer take care of them - it´s what they want
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
jimmiet, 11/13/2012 9:20:35 AM (No. 9010898)
Relax the government will fix it. Security problem? Call a cop. Government is a hell of a lot better at intruding on your individual freedoms than it is at providing help in times of trouble. The Constitution is a whole lot smarter than the folks taking away its authority.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl, 11/13/2012 9:29:59 AM (No. 9010926)
Oh but Skippy looked so good in his bomber jacket when he dropped in to console the victims. They were so comforted that they voted in droves for him. Now that he doesn´t need them anymore, they can rot.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
frenesi1, 11/13/2012 9:31:07 AM (No. 9010928)
Just read an article on Red State about how unions turned away electrical people and how FEMA is sidelined due to unions and red tape. This is big government and this is what the voters in NY and NJ voted for.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
dadofboys, 11/13/2012 9:34:50 AM (No. 9010938)
The whole country just entered a cold, dark and miserable pocket, and it will last a hell of a lot longer than 2 weeks!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan, 11/13/2012 9:35:33 AM (No. 9010940)
RE #1:
You´re not mean, you´re realistic. I sent more than $100 worth of goods to relief efforts before the election. Now I wish I hadn´t. I need that money for my own relief.
I said it in another post, I´ll say it again: let the me-gimme-mine´s do for themselves for once. My give-a-dam broke into smithereens on 11/6/12!!!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
GoDeacs79, 11/13/2012 9:49:27 AM (No. 9010966)
How on earth anyone could think the federal government can successfully run the nation´s healthcare system is beyond me.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
tennman, 11/13/2012 10:01:24 AM (No. 9011016)
But Obie got his photo op for the election. Now these people are forgotten since they´ve no value. They now learn the FEMA lessons we in Louisiana have come to understand.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
sfacheem, 11/13/2012 10:06:52 AM (No. 9011039)
Your government-regulated utilities in New York are an absolute dumpster fire right now.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Hardright, 11/13/2012 10:07:05 AM (No. 9011041)
Obama can dig into his stash and help these people. He and Moochelle can cut back on their fancy vacations and party´s. Don´t hold your breath.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Mobyclik, 11/13/2012 10:24:25 AM (No. 9011126)
Where´s all the screaming headlines attacking the messiah for letting these people suffer? Where´s the demands for heads to roll for all this incompetence? Where´s all the sob stories from the victims?
Sure makes a difference when there´s a complete democrat fool running things, right, so-called media?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 11/13/2012 10:28:24 AM (No. 9011141)
Don´t expect anything from the Obamedia. They´ll just rail against Fox News not being a member of their club.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
lil dotty, 11/13/2012 11:02:35 AM (No. 9011255)
The misery is certainly spread around. What did these people do to deserve this? What did any of us do to deserve this? We turned our backs on our creator. We said "No" Just as we cried for the Tsunami victims in Japan, we cry for these as well.
If there is no turning, then perhaps they should move to a country favored by the won. Our government would jump right in pronto in order to assist.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mustang flyer, 11/13/2012 11:04:14 AM (No. 9011261)
Why do I have to keep reading about the miserable people in the north east who tripped over themselves to vote their savior back into office? They were so stupid in pretending that everything was rosy and bright when the country was going to hel* in a basket. Now that he´s back in the saddle and the useful idiots are no longer needed he´s planning his victory party, his next vacation and rushing to head us into a World Government mode to feed and clothe the worlds little people in africa, the middle east and everywhere else but here...anyway, thanks again for voting for him, now go and pretend that he has already removed your trash, provided heat, electricity, water, gasoline, food and transportation not to mention JOBS and quit your bellyaching!!!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
pouncer, 11/13/2012 11:13:26 AM (No. 9011294)
I see this as an opportunity from God to show others that "we the church" are to step up and in to show the Way. Not the government. Social justice comes only from our Heavenly Father not from man nor from government. This is our lemons to lemonade moment, Christians.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
southron, 11/13/2012 11:20:31 AM (No. 9011330)
I know this has been said over and over, but this would be HUGE headlines if Bush were president.
I cannot imagine how people are coping without their necessary medicines and medical care. The area is ripe for some awful pestilence.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
mustang flyer, 11/13/2012 11:40:06 AM (No. 9011384)
I don´t think God was thinking about lemonade when Eve refused His orders about the apple, He chose instead a different method to press the point to obey and we are all paying for that behavior...I think the north east could learn from their experience too without being bailed out right away...do you think?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Bettysez, 11/13/2012 11:49:27 AM (No. 9011406)
Thank God George Bush isn´t in charge. Whew!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan, 11/13/2012 12:04:20 PM (No. 9011460)
RE #17:
Revelations 6:8? Though I´m not sure if the "pale horse" refers to the hurricane or urkel.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
B&B, 11/13/2012 1:11:23 PM (No. 9011612)
#16, think about, and see how long the list grows, if Romney was suddenly president; all the issues in this country brought about by Zero and the dems, and kept so vigorously under wrap by the lsm, would be, overnite, shouted from the rooftops, and it would ALL be Romney´s fault, before he even took official office.
I´m so very tired of it all...
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
nonsense, 11/13/2012 1:26:40 PM (No. 9011643)
I don´t understand, today I saw streams and streams of groups of utility vehicles going south on I-81 through Maryland. Some had North Carolina license plates. I thought the job was completed, and power had been restored to everyone. s/off.
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