“Obama Dozed, People Froze!”
Amid reports of storm stranded residents not resorting to cannibalism, Kentucky has
called up entire Army National Guard.
More than half a million homes and businesses, most of them in Kentucky, remained with out electricity from the Ozarks through Appalachia, though temperatures creeping into the 40s helped a swarm of utility workers make headway. Finding fuel – heating oil along with gas for cars and generators – was another struggle for those trying to tough it out at home, with hospitals and other essential services getting priority over members of the public.
The addition of 3,000 soldiers and airmen makes 4,600 Guardsmen pressed into service. It’s the largest call-up in Kentucky history, which Beshear called an appropriate response to a storm that cut power to more than 600,000 people, the state’s largest outage on record. Many people in rural areas cannot get out of their driveways due to debris and have no phone service, the governor said.
“With the length of this disaster and what we’re expecting to be a multi-day process here, we’re concerned about the lives and the safety of our people in their own homes,” Beshear said, “and we need the manpower in some of the rural areas to go door-to-door and do a door-to-door canvass … and make sure they’re OK.”
“PS: can I just add at this point — so far, no reports of looting!”
More – “Someone needs to go wake up President Oblivious, because he must be snoozing in that warm Oval Office after his big Wagyu Steak binge not to have noticed, mentioned a word, or taken any emergency actions to this days long debacle.”
At Instapundit – ““What Katrina taught the media was that they could hurt Bush by lying. What 2008 taught them was that they could help Obama by not reporting at all. What will 2009 teach them? I shudder to think.””
Remember, it’s all happening in Flyover Country — and according to the best and the brightest who’ve supported the O-gasm, Flyover Country doesn’t matter.
Garth
You know, when the US economy comes crashing down from Chairman O’s constant spending, HE, not GWB is going to be the one “to need a good war” to divert attention. Why else is the Chairman softening up defenses? To let a major city get nuked, and then it’s going to be all out war against Russia in the ME.
What will Leftards say then? Or will they finally Heil, er, salute their fuehrer, er, the flag for a change?
As long as we make the right point:
The question isn’t “where is FEMA?” Fema was only invented in the 1970s and for some reason, Americans lived without it. Those that died, well, died, because sometimes people — gasp! — die during acts of God.
The question should be “where is the media?” asking “Hey, when is Obama gonna visit City XYZ?!??”
PS: can I just add at this point — so far, no reports of looting!
PPS: I got this via email today. Make of it what you wish:
“How did the same people who couldn’t bother leaving New Orleans when a hurricane was coming manage to haul *** to Obama’s inaugural in the bitter cold?”
Besides, he’s healing the planet, people! C’mon! What’s more important? Saving some dumb crackers who probably didn’t even vote for His Supreme Enlightenment, or rescuing Gaia?
Sheesh. You haters are all alike.
Garth
just wait until the big o’s energy policy has most of the northern u.s. freezing in the dark. that will probably be the tipping point. revolution and the correct use of the second amendment.
The point is that the planet is in the midst of a Global Warming Pandemic, and yes this means North America too. To respond to this ice storm,blizzard,record cold-spell would be tantamount to becoming one of those DENIERS.
Oh, no. Are Al Gore’s mansion servants safe? The lack of electricity hits them harder than the Average Joe because they’re used to using so much more electricity than the Average Joe. God protect them.
O & the boys enjoy the roast and munch alfalfa.
Looks like the roast ended with a game of poker and a free-for-all.
Kentucky bourbon and poker are dynamite; a disaster, even.
…-
“President Obama pokes fun at the annual Alfalfa Club dinner
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama poked fun at his volatile chief of staff in a free-for-all roasting of Washington and its politicians Saturday night.
Obama was attending the Alfalfa Club dinner, an annual black-tie event where the capital’s political and business leaders give humorous speeches.”
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Barry hosting a Superbowl party tonight. Chips and dips in the Oval Office.
He said although he appreciates the struggle of the Cardinals , Steelers are nearest to his heart after the Bears. must be the black uniforms.
Obama and his administration fully realize that Global Warming will take care of all that ice in Kentucky. Just give it a chance, and have HOPE.
“Can’t you just wait for the sun to come up?”
“YES WE CAN!!!”
everyone knows the folks in Kentucky can take care of themselves. there are a pile of squirrels to eat and clothes can be made from Racoons ,
I done seen it on the telly on early Disney movies.
Daniel Boone was a man.
Yes a big man
with an eye like an eagle.
the rest is buried in the cobwebs of my mind.
Only Democrats are entitled to Fema disaster relief – only states that voted for Obama will get disaster relief and be declared a national emergency. Obama eats $100 steak while people in Kentucky eat cold beans from a can. Hope those folks have a manual can opener.
Hugh hewitt had segment with Fred Barnes and Charles Krauthammer friday
http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/MediaPlayer/AudioPlayer.aspx?ContentGuid=02d286f5-42a7-416d-95be-75917e105db0
it looks like BO did not have a very good first week.
With BO probably more than any other POTUS perception is everything. If the initial few weeks and months develop the perception that he is weak he could have lots of trouble from the house and congressional leadership.
No looting? It’s Kentucky, no snow machines!
I remember during the California wildfires a few years ago, a woman on the telly was lamenting that the federal government was “totally unprepared”, and it was her neighbours that came to the rescue with horse trailers to move her animals.
Self-reliance and helping neighbours seems to be a thing of the past for some people – I don’t quite expect FEMA to deploy a network of stored horse trailers across the US “just in case”.
Is Kentucky run by Democrats or Republicans?
Just asking.
Be fair. The President is preparing a billion dollar Bill declaring Spring. He’s on it.
This should explain why the O is helping Kentucky so much
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/ky.htm
Do you remember Obama’s 72 degrees comment last year? Well, it appears that he has insisted that the Oval Office temperature remain at 72 degrees no matter what. More here. What a hypocrite!
Speedy – hope the bill for spring passes on March 20, 2009
That’s the type of change I can believe in.
…so far, no reports of looting!”
The President is preparing a billion dollar Bill…
Define looting.
While POTUS Obama and VP Biden host Super Bowl parties in their respective new homes tonight there will be some elderly people, up in the hollows of Kentucy, who will be trying to make it through the game without freezing to death.
It is all in the perspective you have from where you sit. I guess there is little the administartion can do about a Global Warming event.
“Pass the arugula, please. By the way, whats the weather for kickoff time? Over 72 degrees; Wonderfull!”
Shouldn’t Obama be flying over Kentucky right now, shining down his magnetic rays to warm things up? This is the man who can keep the oceans from rising by his own admission.
Instead, he’s hunkering down in a White House heated to Hawaiian tropical standards to watch football while non-Obama voting-worshipping Kentuckians freeze in the cold and dark. Obama doesn’t care about white people!
Meanwhile, his media handmaidens are still filing stories on how New Orleans, called “chocolate city” by its re-elected mayor, a.k.a. the moneypit for tens of billions got “shafted”.
And by the way, cold periods as opposed to warming periods throughout the history of mankind kill more people. Not that the global warming socialist Chicken Littles are ever going to part with that information.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/01/alfalfa.obama/index.html
In Kentucky looters would get shot. NQA.
O! is going to find out that folks are going to realize DC is becoming irrelevant in the minds of a lot of people.
Where did that 250.00/lb beef come from, Japan I think. I thought he must ordered everything had to be made in the USA.
In two weeks, the great one has, spent more money than Pres Bush did in 8 yrs, ignored a disaster in one of the states, he dozed people froze, showed us he plans to be a dictatoror by ruling via executive order. (I know, some of those orders he signed had to be explained to him) Has anyone seen his wife lately. Oh, I almost forgot, he ordered one missle attack on a country.
Great start for the next four years.
Eventually the media will turn on him, if he has not outlawed media by then.
Kathy Shaidle: The current govenor is a Democrat, Steve Beshear.
I’m not sure what the point is of linking to the story of some (leftist) moron’s claims of cannibalism is when they turned out to be groundless. The reality of Katrina was bad enough.
The writers for the late night comedians say they cannot find anything funny about the Big Zero to joke about – I suggest they just read the comments of this site.
I truly feel for the people in Kentucky surviving through an ice storm……been there, done that myself. They really really need a fine man like General Rick Hillier to help them because he sure knew what to do in the ice storm in Eastern Canada in 1998. If anyone has ever wondered how long it takes to revert back to a “cash” society it only takes hours in a disaster….however with no electricity bank machines don’t work, gas stations unless using a generator pump no gas, a loaf of bread suddenly becomes worth 7$ and candles sell for 5$ and on and on the list goes.
Without electricity pretty well nothing works…plain and simple.
James, lots of claims turn out to be groundless, from the CIA invented AIDS to Oswald had help. And millions of people still believe these claims and will to the end of time.
Most people are stupid. They believe the first thing they hear. The rumor was reported by “left wing media” but was INVENTED AND SPREAD by blacks about their fellow blacks in the Superdome.
Katrina was “bad” because thousands of lazy imbeciles insisted on living below sea level on welfare as high school dropouts with no gumption or common sense, then voted in shiftless corrupt Dems to run their lives because they still have pictures of RFK on the walls of their shacks.
Also, not sure why you’re bugging me about the cannibalism ref since Kate was the one who brought it up.
Please try harder.
What do you get when you cross Obama with a potato?
A dick-tater.
Sorry. I just had to do it.
Every house should have a wood stove and couple of cords of wood on hand. When I was growing up, that was ALL we heated with.
Every house should have a wood stove and couple of cords of wood on hand. When I was growing up, that was ALL we heated with.
Posted by: Edward Teach at February 1, 2009 3:23 PM
Very true!! All we had to get us through the ice storm was a woodstove, a tractor with a front end loader (for pushing debris)one flashlight and candles. Neighbours moved in with us because we had that little to survive with and they had nothing.
Funny the whole horse trailer to safety thing got mentioned. Yours truly just went down there with her horse trailer to pick up the sister-in-law’s kids and some family belongings down there(the kids rode in the truck, although I did threaten them with the trailer if they didn’t stop bouncing around in the cab).
Their old house had a wood burning stove, but they moved to a new one this summer, and guess what — most new homes aren’t equipped with wood burners (I guess they’re bad for the environment and all that).
Didn’t see any signs of looting or civil unrest in general (outside of some mild griping about the weather) — sort of like in my mom’s town with the floods and tornados last spring. For the record, nobody from the government helped bail (literally) out folks in Mom’s town either, and there was no looting or civil disobedience (besides some mild griping about the weather).
I think the flyover folks need to start learning to pitch more of a fit.
Kathy….be nice.James can’t read and comprehend,let alone be sensible.Oh.And Kate and Kathy….only two letters different! I mean,c’mon.I have a hard time telling Canada from the USA!
And James….everything Kathy said was true.Now get of your butt and try reading.Or is your mom at work and can’t read to you?
kathy
“”””” to Oswald had help”””””
and you speak of stupid people
I would dare say there is a VERY strong probability Oswald never even fired a gun that day, much less fired a frontal shot that blew the back of Kennedy’s head on to the truck and lawn. You’v just touched on a subject I’v read long and hard about for many years.
Edward Teach and Glengarian – do you wish to hear a big bellow from the ‘carbon cows’? Wood is NOT for burning!! Wood stoves are considered Politically incorrect because they leave smoke in the air!!
People are not allowed to burn wood in Crouton’s Wife’s Park (the Yukon) because wood smoke pollutes the air. It is, of course, the height of stupidity for a whole city to be TOTALLY dependant on electricity to heat their houses, esp in a place where power failure is not unusual and in a place where -40 below for weeks is not unusual. Last winter the city of Whitehorse had a 12 hour power failure – it was -20 below -pipes froze and people went and sat in their running vehicles to keep warm. 12 more hours without power would have been a disaster, yet the law is still in place.
In 2004 wildfires in the forests burned over half of the Yukon’s timber. We had 2 weeks of warm weather in June; there was no attempt by the Feds (Liberanos) or the Territorial(Liberano lite) gov’ts to fight the fires. The gov’t Park Wardens did , however, manage to stumble through the smoke and find and fine 4 young Austrians who were building a raft out of dead wood to float down the Yukon River to Dawson City.
We have inmates running the asylum in too many places, in Canada. It is always such a relief to visit SDA where voices of sanity pipe up to drown out the squawks of the babbling imbeciles.
Thanks again for this cyber oasis, Kate.
GYM, having “read long and hard for many years about the Kennedy assassination” isn’t something to brag about.
I spent many years in buffdom, and have concluded that such “Long and hard” (cough) “research” such as yours is one step below a grown man collecting model trains, and is usually a sign of either alcoholism or high functioning autism or both. Reading a lot of books filled with poor explanations for physical phenomenon doesn’t make you smart. It makes you stupid, and the more of it your read, the stupider you get.
My sentence reads “many people believe many things, FROM XYZ TO Oswald had help.
Meaning, “from ‘XYX’ to ‘Oswald had help.'”
This is a comments thread. Punctuation is optional. Sorry to violate your single quotation marks theory.
Get a life. And I mean that literally.
PS Gym
I believe the word you were looking for was “truNk”.
Well 90% of my heat comes from the wood stove. Power has went out 4 times already this winter. Shortage power outage was 6hrs and the longest was 11hrs. Each one was -35*c. Had food, water for coffee.
next on the list. volcanic eruption for feb 9th, you heard it here first.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,486347,00.html
If W did this the MSM’s would be pissed, luckily B Hussein Obama has better colour or something.
They were livid that it took hours for help to show up at New Orleans. Presumably that kind of attitude is now irrational and bigoted.
Woodstock Ontario 1949. Power went out for about 11 days.
Thank God we had a coal furnace. Lots of heat, prepared our morning toast in the fire and ate whatever our Mom could prepare under the circumstances.
And guess what? We are both alive and healthy to this day!
Bet these wimps that call wolf whenever they are inconvenienced never thought to use their barbies for cooking or ever had an original thought about survival.
What is the deal with Ms. Shaidle’s hatred of model trains? That’s twice now.
There’s a backstory there somewhere.
Some municipalities in and near the GTA have banned wood burning but the most widespread issue is the difficulty of getting insurance with a wood burning facility—-except an outdoor wood boiler…..
Many folks purchase a home then the insurance company sends in a “surveyor” who orders a fireplace blocked or a wood stove removed.
It’s all about risk and a demographic which hasn’t a clue about maintaining stove-pipes/chimneys…….
A local fireman tell of the coincidence of very cold nights and chimney fires….
James, lots of claims turn out to be groundless, from the CIA invented AIDS to Oswald had help
lots of claims turn out to be groundless,
kathy
I think (and yes I do think) that you may have missed, even tho you wrote it, the part of the groundless,
now maybe you can try again
THAX in advance for your efforts:-)))))
PS; punctuation, grammer and good spelling are for those who give a sh!t, by the time most dyslexics git to my age, we don’t. Fools can’t insult us, they only prove their own foolishness with their efforts
Well as someone who actually shoots rifles on a regular basis, I have difficulty believing that Oswald managed to hit anything, especially with a POS Carcano rifle that didn’t group worth shit and couldn’t be sighted in properly.
Watching Holmes on Homes last night they installed a new fireplace that comes with a catalac converter thingy. No smoke just vapour being released from the chimney. It burns cleaner than my new car or an oil fired furnace.
The eco warriors are a decade late and a dollar short on new tecnology me thinks.
Sasquatch….the insurance industry had a very real hate on for woodburning stoves in this area in the years before the ice storm. If you had a wood stove you paid extra on your policy and could count on a visit for a loss prevention officer (isn’t that a nice PC title)to inspect, inspect and inspect some more. When the ice storm hit in January ’98 and people had no way of heating their homes for up to 4 weeks and there was severe damage (imagine everything including electronics frozen solid)the insurance companies sure changed their tune about woodstoves and the fact those with backup heat had no claims.
Believe me when something happens the # 1 priority is to stay warm and # 2 is something to eat…dry cereal for weeks on end just doesn’t cut it sorta scenario…dry cereal because the milk and everything else in the fridge has gone bad with no refrigeration.
One of the neighbours that moved in here was border line vegetarian. When she left she was a born again meat eater after living on a beef farm for 3 weeks. So leftism can be cured. At least by me.
Gym then why did you insult MY punctuation, gayboy?
Dyslexic, well that’s another good explanation for your buffdom. Don’t tell me: you believe in a conspiracy involving the CAI, the BFI, Buca and the Bom? (Get someone to explain that one to you.) Don’t you wonder if your dyslexia has effected the efficacy of that “lifetime” of reading you’ve been doing on this subject??
Edward: the crappy Carcano thing is another canard. Sharpshooters have easily duplicated Oswald’s shots with his own rifle, now in the National Archives. Oswald was rated a sharpshooter in the Marine Corps.
http://patterico.com/2007/08/03/meeting-vincent-bugliosi/
The M-C is widely refered to as a ‘POS’ because US gun manufacturers were concerned about foreign gun imports in the 1950s and 60s. Calling that and other Italian made bolt actions ‘crappy’ says more about the success of US manufacturer’s marketing copy than it does about ballistics etc.
Like much good marketing, this Carcano slag has held on to this day as “common knowledge”, rather like Protestant anti-Catholic propaganda about “chained bibles” — or the phrase “an apple a day keeps the doctor away,” which is also an old marketing/ad slogan.