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Edward Snowden—Patriot.

Nobody’s Opinion

“The total influence – economic, political, even spiritual – is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the federal government,” the outgoing Republican president said. “We must be alert to the … danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.”

      —-Dwight D. Eisenhower

Edward Snowden…must have had great parents. We found out today that a young 29-year- old NSA agent was the whistleblower of all whistleblowers.

He told the world, that the American government was spying on us all, and keeping it secret. Edward was very smart to come out and show his face, because if he dies mysteriously, we will all know who did it. Dianne Feinstein wants him prosecuted. And I’m sure if we could read HER emails, that’s just the beginning.

Yes, we are all being watched. It costs them $80 billion dollars a year, but hey! They are trying to keep us safe!

That’s why we have open borders…to keep us safe.kris 29

I was telling a woman at a gathering today, that I had always been suspicious of someone watching me…not because I consider myself of any threat to the United States, but because I looked up at the drone above my head in 2007, and was positive that my picture was taken by that drone, along with the rest of the people there at that first tea party gathering in St. Louis.

The drone made at least five passes over the crowd.

I don’t think they were looking for Muslims.

And a few weeks ago, I was finishing a blog piece, not yet published, and I stopped to look at my words, and RIGHT before my eyes, the whole last paragraph disappeared. Either Bill Gates puts a, “You were too mean in that paragraph, can’t print that.” in his Windows Seven, (or was it Google?) or somebody was watching me type in real time, and didn’t like what I was going to post…so they just erased it.

I swear to God this happened to me. My mouth dropped open and a, “Bust my biscuits and call me a buttercup!” expresstion came out of my mouth.

Anyway, the woman at the party thinks that I’m a complete nutcase. I think she’s probably doesn’t read much. What else can I think?

And that’s the problem, too many people don’t give much thought to the Constitution and how it effects their daily lives. A politician comes on the TV and tells them don’t worry, be happy—- it’s for their own protection, that every single word they have ever written, every single email, every website, every purchase, every picture, every video…is being gathered for their own protection, and that’s okay with them. They have their daily routines. And as long as their daily routine goes on, they really don’t care.Kris 76

Unless they are arrested, or it affects their life, they really don’t give a damn. And that’s the honest truth of the matter. So those of us that DO care, are looked upon as conspiracy nuts.  It’s right in front of their face and they still think..well..so what has that got to do with anything anyway?

McDonalds is still open. We can’t buy Twinkies anymore, but Little Debbie is still out there. You could say, we have reached a tipping point in intelligence in this country.

But not with Edward Snowden. Edward did the right thing. It’s about time the American people knew.

“Oh, but we won’t EVER go over your stuff, we are just collecting it for the future.”

I paid careful attention last week to who played this down: Guess what? On the 5 o’clock program, THE FIVE on Fox, the ONLY one who complained was the Democrat. Bush’s x-press secretary, Dana Perino, was fine with it.

Rush Limbaugh was outraged. But Mitt Romney would not say a word. Lindsey Graham is all for it. Pay attention to who shrugs it off: Because they are not for the American people.

Drudge was all over this today:

Noting that he enjoys a relatively comfortable life — a stable career, a girlfriend with whom he lived in Hawaii, a close relationship with family — Snowden said he is “willing to sacrifice all of that because I can’t in good conscience allow the U.S. government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they’re secretly building.”

And he’s right. If they have been keeping this a secret since 2000 (and probably before) what ELSE don’t the American people know?

We can never trust them again.

I remember years ago, reading in the Library that in the future America would become a ‘service’ economy, and America would go from the industrial to the Knowledge era.

Knowledge would be the new economy.

Thanks to Edward Snowden, I finally know what that means. Just imagine what you could do with all…that…knowledge.

Edward Snowden did…and now he’s telling the world. And I would like to personally thank his parents.

They did a GREAT job.

June 9, 2013 Posted by | Constitution, corruption, Uncategorized | , , , , , | 2 Comments

Mention the Constitution, and They WILL Silence You.

Nobody Flashes

Here it is: Proof that the lst amendment is gone. This young man was told not to deviate from his valedictorian speech…and when he started talking about the Constitution, they shut the mike off. He is the top of his class, and this is how they reward him.

And notice, how the administrator, thinks she did NOTHING wrong. She is so brainwashed that it’s her right to shut kids up, and make them say only what she thinks they should say. She thinks that since he was told his mike would be shut off, he deserved it.

History is being repeated. What? Only liberals have the right to free speech now?

I hope they keep it up frankly. Kids aren’t stupid. When you are THAT blatant with your tyranny, it’s too obvious. Those kids will NOT forget the night they turned the mike off on one of their own.

 

 

 

June 8, 2013 Posted by | Constitution, tyranny | , | 1 Comment

Global Warming Now Send Email Jokes…

Nobody Gets Email

The elites will continue to push Global warming, and they are getting very creative at propaganda. Here they put two liberal messages in one so-called joke. Message One: Men are stupid and mess up nature.  Message Two: People that live in the suburbs are morons and all this mowing of lawns is a complete waste of God’s green earth.

It was sent to me by my liberal friend JR….and he thought it was true and clever, but of course he did. Note that since many liberals do not believe in God, isn’t it clever how they used GOD in the joke? I’ll let you ponder that.

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Conversation between God and St. Francis. It would be funny if it weren’t so true…

GOD–Frank,  you know all about gardens and nature. What in the world is going on down there on the planet? What happened to the dandelions, violets, milkweeds and stuff I started eons ago? I had a perfect no-maintenance garden plan. Those plants grow in any type of soil, withstand drought and multiply with abandon. The nectar from the long-lasting blossoms attracts butterflies, honey bees and flocks of songbirds. I expected to see a vast garden of colors by now. But, all I see are these green rectangles.God

St. FRANCIS: It’s the tribes that settled there, Lord. The Suburbanites. They started calling your flowers ‘weeds’ and went to great lengths to kill them and replace them with grass.

 GOD: Grass? But, it’s so boring. It’s not colorful. It doesn’t attract butterflies, birds and bees; only grubs and sod worms. It’s sensitive to temperatures. Do these Suburbanites really want all that grass growing there?

 ST. FRANCIS: Apparently so, Lord. They go to great pains to grow it and keep it green. They begin each spring by fertilizing grass and poisoning any other plant that crops up in the lawn.

 GOD: The spring rains and warm weather probably make grass grow really fast. That must make the Suburbanites happy.

ST. FRANCIS: Apparently not, Lord. As soon as it grows a little, they cut it-sometimes twice a week.

 GOD: They cut it? Do they then bale it like hay?

ST. FRANCIS: Not exactly, Lord. Most of them rake it up and put it in bags.

 GOD: They bag it? Why? Is it a cash crop? Do they sell it?St. Francis

ST. FRANCIS: No, Sir, just the opposite. They pay to throw it away.

 GOD: Now, let me get this straight. They fertilize grass so it will grow. And, when it does grow, they cut it off and pay to throw it away?

 ST. FRANCIS: Yes, Sir.

 GOD: These Suburbanites must be relieved in the summer when we cut back on the rain and turn up the heat. That surely slows the growth and saves them a lot of work.

 ST. FRANCIS: You aren’t going to believe this, Lord. When the grass stops growing so fast, they drag out hoses and pay more money to water it, so they can continue to mow it and pay to get rid of it.

 GOD: What nonsense. At least they kept some of the trees. That was a sheer stroke of genius, if I do say so myself. The trees grow leaves in the spring to provide beauty and shade in the summer. In the autumn, they fall to the ground and form a natural blanket to keep moisture in the soil and protect the trees and bushes. It’s a natural cycle of life.

 ST. FRANCIS: You better sit down, Lord. The Suburbanites have drawn a new circle. As soon as the leaves fall, they rake them into great piles and pay to have them hauled away.Man mowing lawn

GOD: No! What do they do to protect the shrub and tree roots in the winter and to keep the soil moist and loose?

ST. FRANCIS: After throwing away the leaves, they go out and buy something which they call mulch. They haul it home and spread it around in place of the leaves.

GOD: And where do they get this mulch?

ST. FRANCIS: They cut down trees and grind them up to make the mulch.

GOD: Enough! I don’t want to think about this anymore. St. Catherine, you’re in charge of the arts. What movie have you scheduled for us tonight?

 ST. CATHERINE: ‘Dumb and Dumber’, Lord. It’s a story about….

GOD: Never mind, I think I just heard the whole story from St. Francis.

June 8, 2013 Posted by | global warming, Propaganda, Uncategorized | , | 1 Comment

This is NOT the Phone-call You Are Worried About…

Nobody CaresObama in Ohio

Obama made an appearance today, and granted the permission for a hand-picked reporter to ask him the question about the fact that the government is collecting all our data, including internet, phone, email, and financial information. And with his usual wide-eyed, I am innocent look on his face proceeded to say…pretty much this:

“Uh..well you weren’t suppose to find out about this, because it was TOP SECRET and by the way, I had nothing to do with this: Congress has approved it, I didn’t do anything about this, and we looked over it, and we are NOT reading your emails, we are just collecting them, for the safety of America, and really, my job is to protect the American people (Like he protected the men in Benghazi) and trust us, this stuff had been going on for a long time, and so you don’t have to worry about it. Nobody wants to read your stuff.”

Yeah…right.

We should trust the NSA, just like we trusted the IRS.

And if you believe anything Obama says anymore, than I have the biggest shark ever caught on record to sell you residing in my basement, as a reminder to us all—-the humongous appetite, just one shark can have. I’d say there’s more than one cell phone in that baby. shark big

June 7, 2013 Posted by | Barack Obama, Spy technology | , , , | Leave a comment

Nobody Remembers Extortion 17

Nobody Remembers

Seal Team Six, remember them? Oh how Obama praised them, Oh— how he bragged about how he ordered the killing of bin Laden. And how brave he was to go into Pakistan to get bin Laden.

And yet, there is a scandal as big as Benghazi, that will make your stomach turn. Obama Muslim

We all heard every so briefly, that most of the members of Seal Team Six, the team that had killed bin Laden, were killed in a helicopter crash. And then…we heard no more. Media blackout. God forbid Obama’s Hollywood picture be interrupted.

Until today. It’s been shown that the Seals were probably…sacrificed. Did Obama hand those brave men over to be murdered? The ‘accident” came over two months after the raid.

Watch this video, (at the bottom of the link above) and judge for yourself.  Listen to the parents. Listen to the proof. Is Obama capable of it?

Well–at their funeral, an Imam was allowed to damn them all to hell.

What do you think? It’s my opinion: Yes. Obama sacrificed Seal Team Six. It’s the way he works.

The servicemen were put in a slow helicopter that is never used for combat operations….they were sitting ducks.

President gave out their names…they had targets on their backs. And then, the setup.

Former Central Intelligence Agency Director and former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta revealed the name of the Navy SEAL team that carried out the raid on Osama bin Laden at a June 24, 2011 ceremony. He also named the unit’s ground commander. The information was classified, yet the ceremony was attended by “Zero Dark Thirty” filmmaker Mark Boal. The ceremony took place a little over a month prior to the team’s helicopter was shot down by a Taliban-fired rocket-propelled grenade.

The attack on the SEALs helicopter was the largest single loss of U.S. life since the beginning of the 2001 Afghan War, and is the largest single loss ever suffered by the SEALs.

And that’s not all:

Afghan National Army, the Afghan National Police, and the Afghan Security Ministry have been and still are involved in the planning of every single stage of every single Special Operation that takes place in that country.  And yes, these plans include flight routes and landing zones,” says Karen Vaughn.

Wow…let your enemy plan you flight route. Smart.

Klayman says, “The funeral that was held in Kabul where you couldn’t even mention the name of our lord and savior Jesus Christ, but yet a Muslim cleric gets up and damns these fallen heroes to hell as infidels.”

This makes me sick. Baby Angry

We need to bring this to EVERYONE’s attention.

EVERYONE’s. Call your Congressmen. Call Paul Ryan. Cruz, Beck. Get everyone talking about this.

Please…watch the video…..Our foreign President is a Muslim.  We must start calling our Congressmen, and get this scandal out with all the rest of them.

THIS is the scandal. The contemptuous Iman is at 20.00.

As an American…I am furious.

And you can put that in your next Star Trek Movie and smoke it NSA.

June 6, 2013 Posted by | Afghanistan, American Soldiers, Obama, Uncategorized | , , , , , | 2 Comments

Nobody’s Fool: The Brilliant Becky Gerritson

Nobody’s Fool

Becky Gerritson, gave one of the most patriotic and moving speeches ever giving before Congress. Every word she said, was right on point. Becky was brilliant. (Go ahead, compare Becky’s brilliance to Michelle Obama saying I’m not going to talk to a protester.)

We have to get back to the notion that the government works for the people, not we for them. I cry with Becky and feel the same emotion and grief at what Obama and his Marxists are doing to the country.

Becky’s just became, on this D-DAY anniversary, an American hero, for if we don’t fight for the Constitution, and our own rights, then if we are denied our rights by our “rulers,” then I can’t see any reason that any son or daughter should have to fight to set up democracy in any other country of the world.

But we are not setting up democracies now are we? We are setting up the Muslim Brotherhood theocracies, who hate us.

Obama is NOT going to stop harassing patriotic citizens like Becky. And the sooner we stand with her, and start shouting out our grievances against his tyranny, the better we will all be.

June 6, 2013 Posted by | Angry Citizens, Barack Obama, tyranny, Uncategorized | , , | 2 Comments

Obama–Our First Madman

Nobody Wins—

When the leader of your country basically says “$%& you” and puts Muslim sympathizers into power, it’s a hard pill to swallow. And yes, it’s time now to start being scared.

He appointed Susan Rice to be by his side today and run the “world”, and now she doesn’t have to testify about Benghazi. How convenient. I once said that I thought Obama was having sex with Susan,  (there I said it, can’t prove it, but she is always around him, it’s just an opinion) Not that it matters. Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Bill Clinton all had their mistresses, it’s just that Obama has given his power. Obama and Rice

Just in case you are thinking that Obama is still a nice guy, today he proved to the country, that he will continue to do whatever he wants. He can let Americans die, (Benghazi )  and even kills them if he likes. (drones) Today in two devastating blows to the country, he appointed Susan Rice to be his National Security Advisor and Samantha Powers to take her job at the U.N.

As you see in the video, Samantha would have no problem with America sending forces into Israel.

Power’s advice to the President would be to alienate the American Jewish community and invest in Palestine. She said she wants the US to establish and pay for a mammoth protection force for the Palestine State though she was opposed to doing the same in Iraq.

Samantha Power is married to Cass Sunstein, former regulatory czar. Sunstein once said that animals should have court-apponted lawyers to protect their rights. He is a big fan of the UN Bill of Rights which would destroy our Bill of Rights. In his Bill of Rights, everything becomes an entitlement. Everyone is entitled to a car, a house, a vacation, and so on, without necessarily working for it.

Obama is establishing a dictatorship, backed by communists, and Muslims.

And we ain’t see nothing yet…our only hope is the House. Soon, he goes to join Merkel in Berlin, and I’m not sure the world is ready for our Madman.

Yes, finally, America has her first Madman.  And it’s just been declared, by the half-wit psychological liberal fraternity that half of America is mentally disturbed.

And I bet you can guess which Americans Obama thinks those are.

June 5, 2013 Posted by | Barack Obama, tyranny, U.N. | , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

And the Teachers…Looked Shocked.

Nobody Wonders

What would happen, if more people did this to the brainwashed NEA? This young valedictorian just broke Obama’s rule: Do NOT favor Christians. This took some guts, and the best part of this video, is shown on the faces of the teachers, or administrators sitting behind him.

Enjoy!

June 5, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | | Leave a comment

“Some People Live, and Some People Die..”

Nobody Knows—

What monsters rule us:

How ironic–

 U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sibelius says she doesn’t want to intervene in transplant decisions about a dying Pennsylvania girl when three other children at the same hospital are just as sick.

The little dying girls just needs her signature…that’s it.  The other kids have nothing whatsoever to do with this.Kathleen Sebelius 2

They say she has been awaiting a transplant from a pediatric donor and is also eligible for a lung from an adult donor. But under existing policy all adults in the region with her blood type will be offered the lungs first, her parents say, even those more stable and with less severe conditions. The girl’s parents called for a change in the policy after their appeal was denied.

Kathleen (Goebbels) Sebelius, must have felt powerful because she holds the little girls’ life in her hands. And then she says that she doesn’t  want to have to decide who lives and who dies.

Have you got that?

She doesn’t want to be the one who decides who lives and who dies.

But she just did. She just killed her by denying her care. But, hey…she’ll look into the rule that keeping the girl from living.

A Congressman tried to BEG:

I’m begging you … Sarah has three to five weeks to live. Suspend the rules until we look at this policy,” Rep. Lou Barletta, R-Pa., told Sibelius at a session of a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing.

“Forty people in your home state are waiting for a lung,” Sibelius countered in the exchange in which the pair spoke over each other.

Remember this hypocrisy, next time you hear Michelle Obama claim that we must do everything for the children.young girl dying

This is compassion? This is ‘progressive’? We have the science but the great dictators will not let us use it?

Does everyone here realized that these people are going to start committing  genocide? Does everyone get it? Obamacare will decide  whether they LET you live or die, if you should need help.

What we can all do is PRAY..that some parent somewhere, whose child dies in the next few weeks, let’s pray that they hear of this poor child, and donates some lungs.

And may God help this monster called Kathleen Sibelius, because I’m pretty sure if she was lying on a road dying and asked for my help, I would not give her any…

I would simply say…”Some people live, and some people die.”

And walk away.

(Sorry, I’m pissed.)

June 4, 2013 Posted by | Angry Citizens, Obamacare | , , | 4 Comments

Who Let the Dogs Out? Wolf, Wolf,- Jim McDermott

Nobody Reports

Today, thanks to Fox News, who were the only ones carrying it because C-SPAN was too afraid to, we heard moving testimony from regular citizens who had been threatened and attacked by the IRS when they filed a “tax-free” form, paid their $800.00, and then…got harassed and ignored. The testimony was paramount to how Hitler must have started when he went after the Jews. The evidence is overwhelming that Obama and the IRS wanted information…and used intimidation with the full force of the government to get it, with threats of perjury and jail time, if these people did not comply and give them what they wanted. They targeted only the patriotic Americans.

Obama’s democrat whip boy today was: The psychologist turned progressive attack dog, Stay Puff-the-Daddy, Jim McDermott.

Remember, Obama does this all the time: Whenever democrats are accused of a feloney, they attack. Here’s a more of what he said:

“The mistake here was that the staff organizing the organizations used the names of the organizations rather than the work they do and asked improper questions to figure that out,” McDermott said. “It’s clearly wrong. It was inept, stupid and a whole lot of other things. But let’s not get lost. During the Bush administration, liberal groups were targeted without any concern by Mr. Issa or anyone else on this committee. The Republicans were looking for a conspiracy where there isn’t one. Mr. Issa says ‘he can feel it in his gut’ that someone’s broken the law.”

“Just ask yourself which is more likely,” McDermott continued. “That mid-level employees overwhelmed by four-times as many applications as before made stupid, irresponsible shortcuts? Or that there is an administration-wide plot to take down community organizers. Let’s not forget that this happened under an IRS commissioner appointed by George Bush and was investigated by a Republican inspector general.”

So, this whole IRS thing is just a political theater, Bush did it, the poor IRS agents are overworked, and some mistakes were made and YOU people sitting there whining shouldn’t even be here because your whole motive is political and you shouldn’t get a tax break. Shame on you. Castro with Obama

Jim McDermott even bought up the “communist party” to throw everybody off, to the fact that what Obama is doing is exactly what China or Russia, or Cuba would do. He knows we are all thinking it, so he is dismissing it with bringing it up. Paul Ryan smacked him down, but not well enough in my Nobody Opinion.

I would have bought up the many progressive organizations, (Like Obama’s brother) and who are nothing but political entities, who get tax exemptions. And also, all the subsidies that Congressmen put in all the bills that patriotic people have to pay for.

Jim McDermott: Another poster boy for term limits. Somebody needs to make a poster so patriotic Americans can post them up in their offices and walls…like the FBI wanted list.

If Obama can have lists…so can we.

June 4, 2013 Posted by | IRS, Uncategorized | , | Leave a comment

Nobody’s Perfect: Kanye West VS IRS

Nobody’s Perfect

Watching a bad video is about as uncomfortable to me as having to wash hockey uniforms. And I watched both this stinkers this week.

Kanye West, the rich guy who has China slaves make his Nike’s, is complaining that the rich blacks are the New Slaves. I want to know how he got this video played all over the world. Paul McCartney, he’s not.

But first: Let’s take a look at our Gestapo IRS, trying to pass as a white man’s dance group:

We won’t discuss the fact that the IRS is comprised of 99% union Obama lovers, and we recently found out that they are now working for the slave master who everyone KNOWS ordered them to target all his enemies…and for that, the master gives them nice perks…like being able to take wonderful vacations, and make really stupid videos, that WE pay for.

This from Newsmax:

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service spent about $50 million on 220 conferences for employees from 2010 to 2012, according to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

The cost of the agency’s conferences was released today by the committee, which is holding a hearing on the subject June 6. In one case, the IRS spent $4 million for an Anaheim, California, conference in 2010, where some stayed in rooms costing $1,500 to $3,500 a night and $135,000 was paid to outside speakers, including $17,000 for a lecture on “leadership through art.”

The General Services Administration was the subject of similar scrutiny last year for money it paid for employee conferences, including $823,000 on a Las Vegas event featuring a clown, a mind reader and a $75,000 bicycle building exercise. Some details of the Anaheim event were already known. The Star Trek video became public earlier this year, as did a parody of the 1960s television show “Gilligan’s Island.” The dance party video, which shows employees being instructed in line dancing ahead of the conference, was released by the House Ways and Means Committee on May 31.

First they rip us off, steal our money, and THEN make us watch them dance. Even Putin would not order such torture.

And then there’s Kanye: You don’t have to know much about music to know–this isn’t a music video. It’s a political hack job, used to incite riots in the black communities.  The words are really stupid, but I did like one line: (see words here) He complains that they give him contracts even though they know the “nigger don’t read.”

Hey…I’m just quoting him. He’s blaming them for the fact that he can’t read.

Kanye actually starts singing at 3.07. OMG….Where are the Temptations when you need them?

So whose video wins the Nobody’s Perfect award for the week?

The IRS. Even though, professionally speaking, they pay Kanye big bucks to ‘sing’ and he is so incredible bad at it, you have to wonder WHY he’s a star…the IRS does fifty times the damage that Kanye does. The IRS can’t dance, and I wish to God Kanye would learn how to sing. If Kanye’s a slave, then I sure would like to be one.

So Congratulation IRS! You win the Nobody’s Perfect award for the week.

This video is proof that we need to pass a flat tax and put them all out to rest…for good.

June 3, 2013 Posted by | humor, taxes, tyranny, Uncategorized | , , , , , | Leave a comment

Overwhelm the System…

Nobody Flashes—

My favorite video of the week so far…

Don’t miss it.

June 3, 2013 Posted by | economy, Uncategorized, Welfare | , | 1 Comment

It’s All About the Weather: Or Fry Your Bacon Now

Nobody’s Opinion:

Last Friday night, I was cooking dinner and watching Sheppard Smith on FOX NEWS talking to a storm chaser in Oklahoma. The TV screen looked…green. The whole Oklahoma skyline looked… green. I was wondering if some technician somewhere added some “green” just to make it look even scarier. Oklahoma

I would have added the wicked Witch of the West zooming through the clouds on her broom for the kids, but that’s why I don’t work for a TV station.

No detail is too small when it comes to the entertainment of the masses. And THIS tornado had become the most exciting thing that had happened since the LAST tornado that ‘President’ Obama has already forgot. He no doubt thought this happened in Madison.

They had great camera shots of it. This was Hollywood stuff. This was Oscar worthy. This was news titillation in its finest hour.

The storm chaser talking to Sheppard Smith was screaming and talking so fast, Sheppard had to tell him to slow down…

“A FARM just went over my head!” the storm chaser yelled.

“What…are you okay..did you say you see some farm equipment?”

‘NO! The whole FARM went over my car!”shepard Smith

Money. What some people will do for it.

I was flipping over the bacon, when I turned on the local news: St. Louis was also on a tornado watch.

“Great” I thought. “not again.”

Sure enough…my husband and I went downstairs as the tornado sirens were going off and then the lights went out, almost at exactly the same time that the tornado that hit my street on April 10 this year had: 8.30pm.

Cell phones weren’t working, so I was stuck with my old trusted radio, and very anxious to hear where the tornados touched down. Were they near us? Were they coming this way?

Do I have time to flip the bacon?

Oklahoma is used to tornadoes, but here in St. Louis people were calling up to the radio station, asking about damages, etc…..and the reporters would always say, “We’ll see what happened tomorrow.” As I laid in the dark and listened to the frightened voices on my radio, I thought the commentator was purposely being very nebulous and leaving everyone literally…in the dark. He knew what happened. He was just not going to say.  His reputation was on the line.

He wasn’t about to lose his job.tornado damage

In the meantime, people were calling up saying they had been in a Casino where the roof was ripped off, tractor trailers flipped, there were houses hit, schools torn apart, etc, and the radio host acted as if it was just a little storm.

First report came in: (You KNOW how I am about first reports.)  Many casualties when a hotel was hit. Drivers reported 20 ambulances arriving at the scene, but the cops said, nobody was hurt.

It’s okay folks, only 100 houses have been flattened and over 200 damaged but that’s really nothing.

The next day, I was stuck without a car, and so I had the Cardinal  baseball game on. They were playing the Giants. KMOX is our main radio station here. It’s the only one that reports the news. Around 10 a.m. The man in charge of our local electric company came on to say that the whole city had wires down everywhere, they had 800 men out, 300 men coming in from other states, and it was reported that about 100,000 people were without electric. The numbers went all over the map in every different report.

The electric man said that Governor Nixon had declared a disaster, and he would tell everyone at 2.30 pm that day, what was going on. He had to take the whole day reviewing everything.

So…he SAID he’d be back at 2.30 pm, and tell us what he found out.

I couldn’t wait to hear what he had to say.

Nobody knew just how long their electric would be out, so I’m sure I wasn’t the only fool who listened to the radio for hours in anticipation. I decided. I would listen to the game.

They had to cancel the game the night before due to weather, so they held a double- header downtown. They even added fireworks.  No doubt, they were hoping all the people without electric would drive downtown for the game. What an opportunity! Get out of your miserable house and come on down!floods

Yes, whole neighborhoods left in the dark…good idea.

Not once, throughout that whole game was there any mention of what had happened in St. Louis. Jack Buck (RIP) would have said something. I would have devoted a whole ten minutes of gratitude to Tom Edison, and how really $%& up the world would be if he had not been born, but that’s why I’m not a sports broadcaster.

Sure, the 200,000 people who had electric saw the news on TV. but the other 100,000 were left out in the cold, and clueless.

At 2.30. nobody came on to tell the good people anything.

I HATE when that happens. I felt like I had been stood up. If you say you are going to do something, well then DO IT.

The game was a shutout: 8-0. Cardinals won with some rookie pitcher. I could have cared less. Couldn’t they have at least had a small news break about the electric situation…like around the seventh inning?

Sure they could have…I wondered: I know life goes on, but after all…come on.

It’s a little bit after 10pm on a Sunday night as I am writing this,  and it’s being reported that three Storm Chasers lost their lives, killed by the tornado’s in Oklahoma trying to get a good shot for the big News channels.Tornado in OK

How stupid is that? Are they that hard up for ratings? What do they tell these guys?

“If you can get IN the tornado and get a good shot, it’s an extra bonus for ya!”

And what about this business that they don’t really want to admit to a tornado until they have ‘professional’ come out and declare it such. Is that for insurance purposes?

Insurance agent: Uh…I know you lost the whole roof to your house sir, and your car is over two blocks in a tree,  but nobody has really confirmed that there even WAS a tornado and so, I will have to list this as wind damage, and of course, we can’t be liable for any water damage caused by the storm, or your fence that is blown down.  That’s was added to your policy last year.

I’m not sure what I got out of this: But it seems to me that there’s a real disconnect in the media, not only about the seriousness of our politician’s crimes, but the worsening natural disasters that are hitting the United States. Fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes…are good for business. Cars are destroyed, houses have to be rebuilt, food gets spoiled, this is all good for the bottom line.

In the meantime, we don’t have to be attacked by any country…the weather is doing a good job of destroying us.

And in two days…it happens all over again.

You know where I’ll be. I’m flipping my bacon at 5.

 

June 2, 2013 Posted by | Barack Obama, disasters, Media | , , , , | 2 Comments