California fires destroy 1,500 homes. BIGFUCKINGDEAL

Hurricane Katrina destroyed 7,000 homes in Pass Christian, Mississippi,

alone -- that's not damaged -- that's totally, completely destroyed --

nothing left but concrete slabs.

Hurricane Katrina destroyed 5,000 homes in Waveland and Bay Saint Louis,

Mississippi, alone -- that's not damaged -- that's totally, completely

destroyed -- nothing left but concrete slabs.

And these numbers do not include the destruction in Long Beach, Gulfport,

and Biloxi, MS, and do not include the businesses, hospitals, sewer systems,

water systems, electrical grid, telephone and cable grid, bridges, wharves,

and railroad tracks that were totally destroyed.

Oh, wait a minute -- I forgot -- Southern California is a reliable

Republican area filled with middle- and upper-income white folks. We people

living on the Mississippi Gulf Coast were low-income white and black folks

who elect Democrats. Sorry. I got carried away.

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:29:07 -0400, "Joe S." <noone@nowhere.net>

wrote:

>Hurricane Katrina destroyed 7,000 homes in Pass Christian, Mississippi,

>alone -- that's not damaged -- that's totally, completely destroyed --

>nothing left but concrete slabs.

>

>Hurricane Katrina destroyed 5,000 homes in Waveland and Bay Saint Louis,

>Mississippi, alone -- that's not damaged -- that's totally, completely

>destroyed -- nothing left but concrete slabs.

>

>And these numbers do not include the destruction in Long Beach, Gulfport,

>and Biloxi, MS, and do not include the businesses, hospitals, sewer systems,

>water systems, electrical grid, telephone and cable grid, bridges, wharves,

>and railroad tracks that were totally destroyed.

>

>Oh, wait a minute -- I forgot -- Southern California is a reliable

>Republican area filled with middle- and upper-income white folks. We people

>living on the Mississippi Gulf Coast were low-income white and black folks

>who elect Democrats. Sorry. I got carried away.

Southern California voted for both Gore and Kerry in the last 2

elections. The LA area is solidly Democratic. Orange and San Diego

counties vote Republican but not as overwhelmingly as they used to.

The response was STATE led, primarily state and locally funded, state

managed, and only federally assisted. Planning was done before the

onset of the fires - men, materiel, and planes had already been moved

to the area PRIOR to the fires.

You can blame Bush for the Katrina fiasco. You cannot give the Feds

much of the credit for the preparation in CA - it was all state and

Ahnold. Sure the Feds screwed up Katrina - but so did the state and

local governments.

WB Yeats

Bush - go home. We don't need or want you out here, and can't wait

until you get the hell out of Washington and into some high security

federal facility. You can also send out National Guard back here where

they belong.