Sunday, February 01, 2009
Obama: " Screw Kentucky"
Imagine a disaster where at least a million Americans are without power in the dead of winter, 46 people have died and the president and FEMAare nowhere to be found.
You've just described what's been going on in Kentucky for the last five days:Utility crews renewed work in subfreezing temperatures Saturday in their effort to put the power back on for nearly a million customers left in the dark by an ice storm that crippled parts of several states this week.
Thousands of people in ice-caked Kentucky awoke in motels and shelters, asked to leave their homes by authorities who said emergency teams in some areas were too strapped to reach everyone in need of food, water and warmth.
A 20-degree temperature boost was forecast across much of the region, a boon to the power crews but one that carried with it the threat of flooding.
Dozens of deaths have been reported and many people are pleading for a faster response to the power outages. About 536,000 homes and businesses across Kentucky were without power, down from more than 600,000 the largest outage in state history, surpassing the damage last year from the remnants of Hurricane Ike.
The outages disabled water systems in much of the western part of the state, where some in rural areas resorted to dipping buckets in a creek. Authorities warned it could be days or weeks before power was restored in the most remote spots.
That uncertainty had many appealing for help. Officials issued curfews Friday and urged those in dark homes to leave.
"We're asking people to pack a suitcase and head south and find a motel if they have the means, because we can't service everybody in our shelter," said CrittendenCounty Judge-Executive Fred Brown, who oversees about 9,000 people, many of whom spent a fifth night sleeping in the town's elementary school.
Local officials grew angrier at what they said was a lack of help from the state and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
In Kentucky's Grayson County, about 80 miles southwest of Louisville, Emergency Management Director Randell Smith said the 25 National Guardsmen who have responded have no chain saws to clear fallen trees. He said roads are littered with fallen trees and people shivering in bone-chilling cold are in need.
"We've got people out in some areas we haven't even visited yet," Smith said. "We don't even know that they're alive."
And where is President Obama? Hosting his Superbowl party and relaxing in his toasty warm office while women, kids and old people are freezing to death.
I can't help but ask the question...is the fact that these people are mostly white and predominantly GOP voters have anything to do with the president's decision to ignore this disaster?
Kentucky has called out its entire national guard in an effort to evacuate people to shelters where they can find some kind of respite from the cold, but in a largely rural state with no help from FEMA and the Feds, they're fighting a losing battle against time and the freezing weather.
Conspicuously absent is the press,which lined up shoulder to shoulder to bash the Bush Administration for the way it handled Hurricane Katrina with much less cause. They ought to be ashamed of themselves.
During the campaign, I had major reservations on the character and the experience of the man who has become our president, but after his election I was more than willing to acknowledge that we have only one president and to allow him to prove himself.
Based on his conduct and decisions during the 12 days he's been in office and the sort of appointments he's making for positions in his cabinet, I was far too generous.
Heckuva job, Barry.
UNRWA Admits IDF Didn't Hit Gaza School
There's a pattern to the disinformation war waged against Israel by the likes of the Palestinians and their allies on the Left. It goes like this:
1)Subject Israel's civilians to attacks to provoke an IDF response.
2)Make sure you use Arab women,children and other noncombatants as human shields to hide behind when firing rockets, storing ammo, shooting at IDF troops etc. and stop the civilians from leaving.
3) When the Israelis do finally respond, get some useful idiot from the UN, the EU or the dinosaur media to wail about disproportionate responses, civilian casualties and human rights violations. Use the term massacre, invoke the Holocaust to libel the Jews as Nazis ( goes over especially well in Europe) and provide lotsa gory photographs, even if you have to fake them.
After the headlines, the facts come out,but that's no big deal - the impression of the IDF as a bunch of ruthless babykillers has already been repeated in the media ad nauseum and sticks nicely.
The Pals have worked this scam numerous times, including Mohammed al-Dura, Jenin,the Gaza Beach 'massacre' caused by Hamas' own landmines and a score of other occasions.
The latest example is the accusation that the IDF deliberately targeted a UN school amplified by John Ging, the director of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza, a major aider and abettor of terrorism in the Strip.
Now, almost a month later, the UN has admitted that the IDF never fired at the school to begin with.
Ging, of course is lying ( as the LA Times link shows)and claiming he never told anyone the Israelis fired on the school. Characteristically, he's laying the blame for the 'confusion' on Israel..because the IDF,in the haze of battle, responded to Ging and the UN's accusations by saying quite truthfully that their targets were gunmen sheltering among noncombatants.
"Look at my statements," he said. "I never said anyone was killed in the school. Our officials never made any such allegation." Yet the paper also cited an official UN weekly report three days after the attack, saying that "Israeli shelling directly hit two UNRWA schools," which helped spread the misconception worldwide.
But Ging still questioned the attack itself, no matter where the mortars had hit.
"I know no one was killed in the school," Ging told the paper. "But 41 innocent people were killed in the street outside the school. Many of those people had taken refuge in the school and wandered out onto the street. The state of Israel still has to answer for that. What did they know and what care did they take?"
Ging, of course, has never had anything derogatory to say about Hamas targeting Israeli civilians, deliberately aiming rockets at schools in Israel or using civilians as human shields. Mr.Ging apparently has no problem with that whatsoever.Neither does the UN.Nor will any humanitarian aid be going to those Israelis who were injured, lost loved ones or had their homes destroyed in places like Sderot.The UN could care less.
Nor should anyone expect them to, really. They're on Hamas' side in this and would love it if Israel no longer existed. Jew hatred is in fashion again at the UN, if indeed it was ever unfashionable.
Why the media goes along with this horse manure is another question, but I suspect the answers are similar.JoshuaPundit's Headlines, 2/01/09
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Harry Reid...Blame GOP If Stimulus Fails
GOP Senators pushingtax cuts and mortgage rate cuts for credit-worthy borrowers. From 5% to 4%federally-guaranteed 30-year-mortgages.... real payment relief that will help the housing and mortgage market instead of simply creating government programs.
StimulusWatch Lets You Keep Tabs on What Your Money is Being Wasted On...
Stimulated Right Into Being Another Europe - Mark Steyn at his best!
Is the Stimulus the Democrats' Iraq?
Money for Nothing Won't Grow the Economy - Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe
Daschle Faces Tax Questions... Another questionable Obama appointee, this time in the health and Human Services slot.
Gov. Palin: ‘We Must Drill In ANWR’
Encountering Gitmo Terrorists - Lorraine Arias-Beliveau, NY Daily News
UK: Bloody Beating in Golders Green
London: Protest Against IDF Officer
Tony Blair: Bring Hamas Into The Peace process
ElBaradei: ‘No comment’ on Israel as Jewish state - what a surprise....
Israel's Mother of All Quagmires - Michael Totten, Commentary
Netanyahu says Iran will not get hands on nukes...
Gaza Rockets Hit Israel; Olmert Vows ‘Harsh’ Response
Hamas leader meets Iran's Khamenei - Khalid Meshaal is back in Tehran to get some fresh orders...
Cyprus to Search Iranian Arms Ship
Iran says Obama's offer to talk shows US failure - That's obvious!
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accepts invitation to visit Poland - President Obama's left turn on the missile defense bases bears fruit, as the Poles will now knuckle under to the Russians.
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