“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.””
Please Obumma that people in Kentucky are Americans too. Guess he doesn’t care unless they live in the south side of chicago.
Please Obumma that people in Kentucky are Americans too. Guess he doesn’t care unless they live in the south side of chicago.
Kathy: Sorry; only the first paragraph was supposed to be addressed to you. Maybe the two paragraphs should have been in reverse order. I guess I was operating on the assumption that any paragraph not explicitly addressed to a commenter would be taken as being addressed to the host, but I can see how I would be misinterpreted. I only addressed anything to you at all because I thought (wrongly?) that you genuinely wanted to know the governor of Kentucky’s partisan affiliation, even if it was not what you expected.
And by “bad enough as it is” I was referring to the atrocities that occurred and were committed by the people of New Orleans, not to anything Bush-related. Sheesh, I would think I’ve popped enough in enough comment threads over the years that you would know my general political affiliation by now.
(I always thought the “below sea-level” argument was historically tendentious, though, as it seems to act as if “lazy imbeciles” were the ones who put the city there to begin with, which is obviously not the case. And it’s still true that I don’t know of anyone who spread the cannibalism myth besides Randall Robinson – not “blacks” in the plural. He made a fool of himself pretty quickly. And honestly, I don’t know if I can quite follow your argument – since many people believe false things, there’s no harm in referring to them? Huh?)
Sorry, “popped up enough.” The image of “popped enough” seems vaguely gross, so I thought that should be corrected.
And I wrote “enough” twice, too! Ignore whichever one you please.
On February 1,2009 @ 7:30 PM
Kathy Shaidle kicked GYM right in the nuts.
Just after Wonderful Patro Lougheed brought natural gas to rural Alberta a terrific ice storm swept central Alberta leaving everyone without power or telephone for a few weeks. A few farmers were some ticked that they had been foolish enough to remove the old coal fired furnaces that had stood them in good stead for decades. Other, more prescient farmers congratulated themselves for having the wisdom to keep the old clunker and a ton of coal just in case.
Red states are on their own now, would seem to be the message here.
ZerO could at least acknowledge the situation – after all people have died in this disaster.
I recon he expects Americans to get used to freezing in the dark. One of his campaign promises was that he is going to bankrupt the coal industry and cause electricity rates to skyrocket. This was his Nov 2 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle – video on youtube. Lots of links to this unmentionable story in Newsbusters archives.
In addition he vows to cure America’s “addiction” to oil – cold turkey no doubt.
To state the obvious: This guy zer0 is a disaster for the country.
Obama has all the media buzz he can use right now. He doesn’t need to waste precious time being photographed looking sad in front of ruined houses or serving soup to freezing rednecks who didn’t vote for him.
After all, he’s got those bank bail-out and gun registration bills to stick handle through Congress. Gotta keep the big contributors happy.
Let’s all try to keep our priorities straight, shall we?
Well Kathy I don’t really know what to believe where the Kennedy assassination is concerned. Personally I believe that the “vast conspiracy” theory gives Kennedy more importance than he is entitled to. I also am not convinced that Oswald did the shooting…rather convenient that he got whacked before he could start answering questions!
I do know this though: if in fact he was a competent rifleman, there’s no way in hell that he would have brought a rifle that could only manage a 5″ group at 80 yards to an assassination!
I’m very proud of the Americans in Kentucky and surrounding environs dealing with the temperature extremes. If you recall last year, floods in Iowa had the rivers swelling to the size of the Amazon running horizontally across the state. I fly to Chicago frequently and could hardly believe what I was seeing. The economic strain to the state was underreported, and I’m sure the BBC barely mentioned the situation. These events more reflect the strength of Americans and America than the sorry display produced by the Democratic minions in New Orleans.