Help with email from relatives in Houston

[canichelouis]

Just got an email entitled "How can the mayor of NO explain this picture?" I was afraid to open it because I knew it was 'the buses'.
Sure enough, it was.

Now my 80 year old aunt in Houston is a life long democrat. She was born and raised in PA in a staunchly democratic household,of smart and involved people, as I was. She moved to Houston 30 years ago and my 5 cousins were raised there. They are real Texans, with heavy accents and George Bush politics. I don't see them much. I really like them. I have always sensed that we live in different worlds. Almost foreign.

Her sister, my 'home town' aunt (who by the way is a lovely person) is married to an idiot neocon. There has been much friction in our family because of this. A couple of years ago I almost through my uncle out of my house at a brunch I was hosting ...things got ugly and relations have been seriously strained ever since. It was wonderful having my Houston aunt here just before the elections last year. She's conservative, but supported Kerry. Needless to say, politics was reserved for individual conversations, and banned from the group gatherings. We all joked about it, trying to keep 'family' together.

I have not contacted her since the disaster. Out of fear of what I would find.

Texans , like Babs herself, are afraid of 'these' people.

The email was all the propaganda talking points and requested the receiver pass it on to everyone they knew. Blame LA.

Which photo do I send in response?

I don't want to be antagonistic, just serious and thought provoking.

[TahitiNut]

1. Here's what I posted elsewhere, in response to a now-nuked disruptor.

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"... those who ... chose not to use busses (sic) they had to evacuate people without transportation ..."

OK. Tell you what. You're mayor. Take the buses. Now what? Who's going to get on them? Who's going to drive? Most important, just where the fuck are they going to go? Are you going to send them to Biloxi? You're not Mayor of Biloxi. Are you going to just drive them north, find an open field, and dump the people on the ground? Whose ground? What'll you do about the trespassing charges? Now, I'd like to hear, in detail, exactly how you're going to load buses with people, all of whom are willing to go to the same destination (unless you want kidnapping charges), and arrange for food, water, and shelter (those minimum things they've had to leave behind, that they've already paid for!) at that destination. Let's assume we have 100,000 (that's low) people. Let's assume we have school buses that can carry 50 (that's high) passengers along with a minimum of personal belongings. Let's even assume we have 2,000 school buses, all fueled, in working order, and with drivers. Now ... tell me what 2,000 destinations you'll send them to ... and how long it'll take you to make the arrangements ... with absolutely no fucking authority whatsoever in that destination jurisdiction!


Now, let's climb on the clue train. Have you at all noticed what's been going on since Der Fuhrer, over four days later, hugged the imported 'colored' girls and lamented the tragedy borne by the poor, disadvantaged and bereft Trent Lott?? (Trent Lott is really a tragic figure of David Copperfield proportions! In Bushworld, I guess.) Just whom do you suppose has actually done the job ... even long-belatedly. That should be a clue. They're the ones who were supposed to do it all the time!!! Do you really think, in some delusional condition, that something changed in responsibility?? Non-fucking-sense!

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[babylonsister]

2. I don't know what kind of info you want to

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