On 11 Jan 2007 14:15:14 -0800, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:


JohnH wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:21:59 GMT, "Don White"
wrote:

Here's a sad story.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia...r-funeral.html


Speaking of New Orleans reminds me of an email I just received. I'll post
it, not to start a political fight, but because it's an enjoyable read.

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Dateline Denver:

Up here, in the "Mile-Hi City", we just recovered from a Historic event---
may I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a
historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that
broke
trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of motorists
in
lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of communities and cut
power to 10's of thousands.

FYI:

George Bush did not come.

FEMA did nothing.

No one howled for the government.

No one blamed the government.

No one even uttered an expletive on TV.

Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.

Our Mayor did not blame Bush or anyone else.

Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, either.

CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5
snowstorm. Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.

No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.

No one looted.

Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something.

Nobody expected the government to do anything, either.

No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo
Rivera.

No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be found.

Nope, we just melted the snow for water.

Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.

The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a
penny.

Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered
it
to the snowbound families.

Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.

We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns.

We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die".

We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a
mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes
for
'sittin at home' checks.

Even though a Category "5" blizzard of this scale has never fallen this
early, we know it can happen and how to deal with it ourselves.

"In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48
degrees North Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate."

It does seem that way, at least to me.

I hope this gets passed on.

Maybe SOME people will get the message. The world does Not owe you a
living.
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John H


Just call me obtuse, but we're 3-4 posts into this thread and for the
life of me I can't figure out what the boating, fishing, navigation,
watersport or remotely related angle is. Can't find it in the first
one, or any of the follow-ups. Is this the most appropriate place on
the entire internet for this topic? That would seem pretty unlikely.
Why "waste" it here, when there are groups that would really appreciate
the political opinions, etc? Signed...."Obtuse" :-)

I don't know what prompted Don to post his story. But, his post about New
Orleans reminded me of a message I'd received which was a good read. So, I
posted it for the same reason others post things which may not be boating
related but are enjoyable nevertheless.
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John H