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| Re: PAFWAV conversion question [message #56345 is a reply to message #56341] |
Thu, 28 July 2005 03:58   |
Don Nafe
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ne wrong(and there are many);I
>think we can say the one thing that has gone right is the
>response of the American people.I'm in St. Louis and we're
>expecting 8,000 to 10,000 hurricane victims in the next few days.
>
> An airplane hanger at Lambert is set up for people with a
>medical facility,pharmacy,clothes store with thousands of pairs
>of shoes etc.A prison that has been closed for years was
>renovated in a week for victims to live in temporarily.I was just
>thinking of how it was located right in the middle of the worst
>hit area in St. Louis in the '93 flood.When I called the
>volunteer line they said they were getting 800 calls an hour.
>
> There are volunteers from all over the country in the gulf
>coast now;rescuing people,providing medical services,providing
>food,shelter,rescuing pets.I've seen churches sustaining
>communities where FEMA and other organizations have yet to show
>up.These churches being sustained by donations from everywhere;
>some regular folks just showing up with truckloads from
>states far away.All kinds of cross-country church network
>donations;money,supplies,human resources,shelter,counseling.
>
> The multiple cities trying to take in the vast number of
>victims;find them housing,food,other family members.Free hotel
>rooms to stay in;people just being there with signs when they arrive-welcome
>friends and neighbors.Schools and colleges
>taking in students on the spot no questions asked.Those schools
>often adopting those families to care fo
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| Re: PAFWAV conversion question [message #56371 is a reply to message #56345] |
Thu, 28 July 2005 22:19 |
RZ
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>>this is NO LONGER "do we like black people?" any more. This is not
>>1961. (and honestly, look at liberal cities like San Fran and
>>Portland OR and try to find some black people) The fundamental
>>difference today is whether we believe that the government should
>>provide equal opportunities or equal results. The right believes
>>that the government should provide equal opportunites, but the
>>left believes that unequal results automatically equal racism.
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>>The left believe this because it keeps them in power and keeps
>>people coming back to them for handouts, creating a permanent
>>underclass of black victims on the bottom and white liberals on top with
>>handouts.
>>
>>But of course, equal opportunity does not always give equal results.
>>And that offends those with socialistic bents. Unfortunately for
>>them, the methods of providing equal results always fail, and
>>pretty much everyone knows it.
>>
>>Why do African immigrants do so much better than many black
>>americans? They do. Better grades, better jobs. It clearly is
>>not the genes.
>>
>>Racism isn't just sinful, it's stupid.
>>
>>It's the damn culture, not the people. Read Thomas Sowell on this.
>>That culture, derived from slave owners, has a history all the way
>>back to england, scotland and ireland, and every group, white or
>>black that embraces it, sees the same phenomena that black
>>american culture currently suffers from.
>>
>>I spent most of my life in academia, and I have done more than
>>have black friends. I have mentored and led young black men.
>>Today, nearly all are succesful and many are professionals, and it
>>all started with changing the way they think. Racism is not the
>>issue. It's like "whack-a-mole", we need to hammer it wherever it
>>pops up, but that won't change things. What made the change
>>is a sense of ownership.
>>
>>Young man came in my office one day to apologize for being late.
>>Said he was in jail. Turns out he was in McDonalds late at night,
>>just "eating while black" and a cou
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| Re: PAFWAV conversion question [message #56376 is a reply to message #56371] |
Fri, 29 July 2005 04:25 |
Don Nafe
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sounds like vintage '77 black gaffer tape.
Especially tape made in Keokuk, Iowa. In June.
pab
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------=_NextPart_000_0028_01C5B3FA.45F90230--Nappy, glad to hear you're doing well. Prayers and best wishes for your
health and a speedy recovery.
Love, guidance and respect,
Rich
Man count thy days,
and if perchance they fly too fast,
for thy dull thoughts to count,
count every day thy last.
Henton Londini - Anno Dom 1605
"Nappy" <
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