[MDG1976]

Congratulations Texas, you just got 60,000 welfare recipients! Better put in some overtime.

[HighVelocity]

25k in Dallas so far. Just what we need. :banghead:

[CentralTexas]

We are fostering over 100,000 of NO's finest here. I don't wish for Texas to hog all the glory so please send me your address and we will ship you a few!

CT


__________________
When they kick at your front door,How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head,Or on the trigger of your gun?
"Guns of Brixton"
-The Clash

Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot
be a good man.
--Arthur Schopenhauer

There is a name for law enforcement officers that support gun contol- "Gestapo".
-Me

A Man Cannot Ride Your Back Unless It is Bent
- Martin Luther King

[04SilverSCFX4]

Hey guys, it's not ALL bad news. For those seeking employment in law enforcement it's some added job security.

[MDG1976]

CentralTexas: I'm in San Fransico, send 'em on over! :evil:

[CentralTexas]

Hey I moved from SF to Austin in 1999 and from what I remember it's already full! ;)
CT

[middy]

Thanks. Just the neighborly thing to do...

[Drizzt]

Yeah, I noticed that today as I was coming south on Ben White/71 that there were signs referring to the location of the Red Cross shelters. I didn't know the refugees had made it this far yet.

[middy]

I just heard that we're putting up 2500 refugees in the old, empty WalMart building on University & Redbud here in McKinney, TX.

Folks, this is whitebread middle-America. This is a record-growth, record-birthrate, big-church, low-crime, low-unemployment city. We just got beer and wine a year ago and you still have to drive for liquor. Hopefully, these aren't all refugees from downtown NO, because they will have a hard time fitting in. It's a whole different world.

I welcome them as long as they stay out of trouble, look for jobs, and try to fit in. I hope that's not asking too much, but I have my doubts. I wish them the best of luck, but they better lose any inner-city criminal mentality they may have. We Texans are heavily armed and not highly tolerant of nonsense.

Warning served, now pull up a cot and have some beans and brisket.

[c_yeager]

I welcome them as long as they stay out of trouble, look for jobs, and try to fit in. I hope that's not asking too much,

In the comfort of their own homes, in their own city, this was asking too much.

[middy]

Well, they may not all be from NO, yeager. These could be country folks from LA or MS...

I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

[MudPuppy]

This thread aint even remotely gun related, but those folks showing up just had their city destroyed. (Yeah, it was a stupid place to have a city...)

You don't just turn your back on that. This is the highroad, after all. Our church is hosting Operation Warm Welcome tonight--I know plenty of people will put the needs of American refugees before their own needs. Now, I'm not a bleeding heart liberal and I don't have first hand knowledge, but I don't think Texas has the same welfare system as many places. Lots of businesses are working to employ displaced folks and I heard some traing institutions are going to wave the fees for those people.

[Moondoggie]

Ya never know, in a different enviornment with a little mentoring and encouragement some of these inner city folks might adopt some new attitudes.

[Standing Wolf]

Hopefully, these aren't all refugees from downtown NO, because they will have a hard time fitting in.

Eh? What? You've got nothing to loot? Nobody to rape? Nothing to hot-wire and drive away in?

[dolanp]

They are going to our schools now too. They are also getting jobs here but I can't say that's worse than them not getting a job.

[chris in va]

now pull up a cot and have some beans and brisket.

Dammit. You had to mention brisket. I really miss that stuff. :banghead:

[thorn726]

don't worry guys!

people who lived in the south counties (parishes? is that what they are there?)

are eligible for individual FEMA - so they will HAVE to return to LA to get heir money!

well it's a nice dream anyway.

it's gonna be interesting, all these super poor being displaced. we're gonna see them in every less than freezing city, and even a few of those i bet eventually.

NO just got rid of all its poor and homeless. crazy, just crazy.

[Delmar]

Some nice attitudes here :rolleyes:

This hurricane could well have taken a turn and hit Texas too, and most thinking people know it. I do not for one moment pardon the shootings, rapes and thuggery of which has and may still be happening in New Orleans, but there is a LOT of blame to go around.

The governor and mayor of New Orleans are criminally negligent in their actions, and should be tossed to the curb. Better yet, should have to spend a week on a bridge overpass in 95 degree heat around cadavers bloating in the sun without food or water. I'm glad those who denigrate our efforts in Texas never had to go through that, and hope you never do. Any displaced High Roaders out of the affected zones are encouraged to PM or e-mail me. I don't have much, but I am willing to share what little I have.

We might well be putting up with some increased crime statistics due to our generosity, but I think you will find that Texans will not put up with much. I seriously doubt that Harris County is gonna put up with much-those boys KNOW how to swing a billy! As to the looting, rape and murder probablilities, I seriously doubt there is going to be much. We got guns-lotsa guns. And know which way to point them.

[El Tejon]

Geez, you guys. They just got clobbered, what else should they do.

Paper up here is running a story about refugees from New Orleans arriving in Indianapolis. I say great! We'll put them to work, we'll get stuff done and they will make money to rebuild. :)

[armoredman]

Heck, I am hoping any (good) former NO residents are looking for a job in AZ, and can work LE - we need some people in DOC, soon. Hiring today....anyone, anyone, Bueller, Bueller?
The madcap looters can stay east of us, or wait! I had a great idea - LET'S SHIP 'EM TO MEXICO!!!!! :what: :D

[gm]

The madcap looters can stay east of us, or wait! I had a great idea - LET'S SHIP 'EM TO MEXICO!!!!! ya mean like having a stray and dropping it off way far out in the country at some farmhouse?

it would be nice if the criminal element could be rounded up and dropped off in mexico.kinda ironic. :D


seriously though, there are now an entire region of new homeless people,Americans, who now have nowhere to go,nothing but the few things on their backs and in their arms to wear or eat.it could very well have happened to any state.alot of them couldnt get out before it all hit the fan,some made bad choices to stay.fact is, theyre americans,not illegals.

[JamisJockey]

We're picking some up as far away as Utah.

http://saltlakecity.about.com/b/a/198799.htm

[CentralTexas]

that they aren't "asking" the refugees to help. I would be in line to pick up trash or whatever. I was amazed watching some of the footage them walking through the domes and saying we are waiting for more Red Cross folks etc. to help distribute food and water etc. with 20,000 mostly able bodied sitting on their butt behind the camera....
CT

[DeseoUnTaco]

They will probably all vote Democrat!

Seriously, I doubt these guys are ever going to to return to NO. There's nothing to return to.

[JamisJockey]

I passed the first bus of refugees on my way home from work today. I saw a few smiles.

[cracked butt]

The madcap looters can stay east of us, or wait! I had a great idea - LET'S SHIP 'EM TO MEXICO!!!!!

What good would that do? They'd be back in the US by midnight. ;)

[Art Eatman]

Note that the refugee center in the Astrodome was set up within 48 hours. Had the storm been headed for the Houston area, it would have been even sooner.

The Houston area has had to give serious thought to this sort of thing since Carla in 1961. That storm pushed seventeen feet of storm surge into Trinity Bay. Today, some 400,000 people now live below the seventeen-foot countour on the west side of Trinity Bay below Houston.

The Coastal Zone Management Program of the middle 1970s--aside from other things--produced a report, "Hazards of the Texas Coast". Input came from Herb Saffir and Bob Simpson (Saffir/Simpson hurricane scale, remember?) which discussed such things as subsidence storm surge and hurricane winds--as well as the flooding from thirty-inch rainfalls.

I'd bet that by-and-large, Texas is better prepared than the other coastal states of the Eastern U.S.

Art

[Dead]

If they are from NO ship them to mexico... I hear the boarders are OPEN.... Once complete CLOSE the boarders ;)

[LawDog]

I expect Texans to welcome these poor souls with an open hand.

I also advise that the other hand be on the grip of a CCW.

Maybe I'm just paranoid.

LawDog

[Oscar Orum]

Law Dog, Your are not paranoid. Just speaking the truth. We are to be helpful, kind, and cheerful. But, by God, we had better be prepared and observant. God help us all. But, by the grace of God there go I.

[oneshooter]

Just as long as they obey OUR laws, no problem. If they insist on repeating thier evil ways, then THEY have a BIG problem. :evil:

Oneshooter
Livin the good life in Texas

[NHBB]

+1 lawdog.

[Preacherman]

See here (http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/viewtopic.php?id=1336) and note the bit about downtown Dallas security. Heads up, Dallas members...

[seeker_two]

Another +1 for Lawdog...

And, as worthless as our govenor has been here in Texas lately, he's earned a lot of brownie points for acting to help the NOLA victims before NO's mayor, LA's govenor, or even the Feds got their act together....

...guess he's hoping all these new "voters" remember that in '06. :scrutiny:

[one-shot-one]

hopefully we got a few good folks to offset the bad, so far i have not heard any stories approaching the crap that was happening in NO. the mayor of houston put the new comers on notice that they are expected to beheave themselves and conform to texas laws, this from a democrate so it seems that most are going into this with their eyes open.