1
Tennessee?

What's that?

2 Screw these bourgeois pigs.  Maybe if they had voted for me I'd throw them a few handouts.  As it is, they can all drown.

3 Obama's Katrina.

4 Thanks to you, Ace, and PGiS who mentioned this in an earlier thread.  Just drove through there and back last week.  Stayed at a hotel near the Cumberland.  Would have been stuck (and possibly drowning on I-24) if we'd traveled a week later.

I miss seeing Sheppy Smith standing on an overpass, crying, and.....wrong city.

5 0bama hates white people!

6 Gaia is a vengeful bitch.  Any idiots blaming this on "climate change"?

7 Who cares about Tennessee

8

Tennessee Flood?  Never heard of it. 

Where's Tennessee?

9 Rush spoke a lot about this today.  The media aren't interested in the story if the victims aren't poor/minorities/dependent on the government and helpless.

Besides, a Democrat is president.

Fuck, Sports Illustrated has been covering it more than CNN, MSNBC and the old networks combined, just for the sports angles.

10 Somehow I don't think there are many country music fans in the current Administration.

11 Oh shit!  On the phone with the wife and there's knock at the door.  She opens it and I hear in the background, "Hi.  I'm John with the US Census Bureau.  I'm following up on the Census that was sent out in March...."

Before I'm able to say, "NOOOOO!!!" she says, "I'll call you back." and hangs up.

12

Rush - right yet again.

10 Rush spoke a lot about this today.  The media aren't interested in the story if the victims aren't poor/minorities/dependent on the government and helpless

13 Aaaaaand today's nauseatingly cliched YouTube musical juxtaposition goes to THE BEATLES! Let's give 'em a hand!

14 by the way, we never received the census.  Punks.

15 Check out this video of a building rear ending a semi truck on the interstate. 

16 I guess Barky has too much on his plate this week. To be fair fox has covered this although no mention of fancy pants response.

17 Honestly its probably because the floods are caused by nature and you can't blame it on the evils of man really quite like that oil spill.

Have you met the religion of Global Warming?

18 Why has the media embargoed it?  Because it's occurring in  a "Red State" (i.e., there's reported to be a lot of  (horrors!) white Republicans in it.)  Therefore to the MSM it is not a disaster, not worth even noticing,  and their Maximum Leader can ignore it as he wishes.  (Same exact treatment was accorded Mississippi in the aftermath of the Katrina, even though the eye of the storm passed over Mississippi, and whole towns in Mississippi were wiped off the map.  The coverage in Mississippie was limited to a twenty seconds of a  couple standing in front of their damaged house, and then back to the Big Sleazy.)

19 Salute to the people of Nashville.  They're handling it themselves.  The American way.

BTW:  Obama hates the Grand Ole Opry.

20 Yep, 32 deaths from flooding < oil spill, no deaths, failed bombing, no deaths

21 The media also isn't covering it because these people are helping themselves. They're not sitting on their fat asses waiting for Uncle Sam to bail them out like they did in Nawlins. It's amazing what Americans can do when they're not attached to the gov't teat. Good for Tennessee! They'll come out better than the Katrina victims.

22

Maybe Obama thought the Grand Ole Party got flooded. 

23 Because is why.

I do think this is a cultural thing.  The Grand Ol' Opry got massively flooded.  There are generations of country music history just gone now.  It's a huge blow to American musical history.  But it's country and that doesn't matter, only the uncouth like country.

24 The reason there is little interest in this story in the media is because they haven't yet figured out a way to blame it on Bush, Cheney, Rush, Beck, Palin or Rove.

25

Honestly its probably because the floods are caused by nature and you can't blame it on the evils of man really quite like that oil spill.

Posted by: buzzion at May 06, 2010 07:54 PM (oVQFe)

Or like that Hurricane Katrina damage.  Nobody tried to blame that on the then-sitting President or anything like that....

26 The left's real Katrina.

27 At the end of the day Nashville will be a chocolate city....


Wait... what?

28 Obama never liked Elvis, either.

Or Charlie Pride.

29 Damn! That old sock puppet was still in there??? Oops!

30

I posted a comment here a few days ago. It was the most unbelievable thing. Folks were sitting in traffic, like any other day, and rain was falling from the sky.

In less than 3 hours the river rose 40 (yes, 40!) feet. They were just sitting there, doing their normal commute, and  friggin wall of water comes across them.

And, as for the folks in New Orleans who claimed that poor, black folk were left to die...well, Music City has its share of poor black folk and, yet, no looting...no blaming the government...no poor-mouthing...no using of gift cards to purchase Louis Vuittton handags (remember that?).

God Bless them all and all the very best in their recovery.

31

The government and media only help those who cannot help themselves.

32 I just made it to Nashville for the first time last June, and I instantly feel in love with the place. This coming from someone who doesn't like country music.

Nashville, America is with you, even though it may not feel like it.

33 The video's maker wonders why the American media has all but embargoed this. I didn't even see a reference to it until last night.

Replace flood with ACORN scandal and your answer will become clearer.

34 I thought the waters were supposed to recede or something when barky was crowned.

35 How long before the waters recede?  And don't say, "after Obama arrives on scene," cuz we'll have to start calling it Lake Nashville. 

36

My guess is that next to Oklahoma, the precedent, his almighty from on high, the ruler of this great nation, Barry Hussein Sotero, got his ass handed to him in the 2008 election right here in the Volunteer state.

But couldn't be that.  He promised to unite us and would never hold a grudge, now would he? 

And America Pravda is right there to do his bidding.

37 Also, I'll bet the local authorities were competent in Tennessee.

It's why no one blames Bush for the Katrina destruction in Mississippi, because Haley Fucking Barbour took care of his fucking job.

38

Hey, that video looks familiar.

39

#7...

Duh!

Yes they can. It's just not convienent to do so now that Booosh! is out of office.

40 You know what I didn't see in that video?

40+ school buses sitting useless in water.

It's amazing how a town run by racist teabaggers can hold its shit together.

41 I do think this is a cultural thing.  The Grand Ol' Opry got massively flooded.  There are generations of country music history just gone now.  It's a huge blow to American musical history.  But it's country and that doesn't matter, only the uncouth like country.

Posted by: alexthechick at May 06, 2010 08:02 PM (6Cojl)

I hope CMT does a huge telethon for the benefit of the Tennessee (and surrounding area) flood victims, and that at every break to give out the phone number, they remind their viewers that the telethon is necessary because the Obama Administration has essentially ignored the suffering of the people in Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi.

42 Flooding is so last Katrina.

43 I was lucky. I lived far enough away from a creek or river not to have a major impact. But many of my immediate family members have suffered losses. My BIL's family had to be evacuated, with floodwaters up to their knees. Indoors.

An area just can't take 14" of rain in 2 days; it's what they've called a 1000-year flood. And we're lucky the TVA and the Corps of Engineers managed the dams upstream on the Cumberland River, or it would've been much worse.

44 Nashville and its environs is a beautiful city.  I've traveled through there many times.  Unlike New Orleans, these people took it upon themselves to take care of their own catastrophe.  Barry was so busy throwing a Cinco de Mayo party.  All you dems in Nashville, take note.

45

Also, found this link at Newsbusters to a Nashville site that is rounding up information about how to donate. I sent the video and the link to a huge list of friends because I'm appalled that almost no one knows this happened.

http://tinyurl.com/2cf5rjg

 

46

Why aren't Shep and Geraldo crying and screaming in Tennesse?

 

47 I'm alive.

48 10,000 dead at Graceland!

49 If Haley Barbour didn't have that accent, I think he could easily be Presidential timber (NPI).  He's been a very successful governor and political leader. 

50 Let's see -- white suburbanites in trouble. Obama doesn't give a shit. I'm not a bit surprised. Buck Ofama.

51 That was weird.  Thought My Gomer Pyle sock sent the powers that be over the edge.

52 48Why aren't Shep and Geraldo crying and screaming in Tennesse?

Because they aren't worthy of their attention.  And where are the celebs like Sean Penn, rowing around trying to look tough?

53 alexthechick, the Home of the Opry was the Ryman Auditorium until 1974 and it was spared any damage.  The Opry museum wasn't flooded vary seriously either. 

Until the current auditorium is repaired (flooded basement), the Grand Ole Opry will be at the Ryman.

54 Needs more otters.

55 Fuck the media. Newsrooms/studios sacked, editors/producers/reporters on trial.

56
10,000 dead at Graceland!
Zombie Elvis is eating the corpse men!

57 0bama hates white people!

Posted by: Kanye West at May 06, 2010 07:53 PM (Mmw0q)

But there's plenty of Mocha people in Nashville too.  It IS the South. 

Oh wait.  Tennessee went for McCain.

58 Fuck the media. Newsrooms/studios sacked, editors/producers/reporters on trial.

AMEN!

59 56 Needs more otters.

And a huge-ass oil slick.  Then the Tennessee Flood will be worthy of attention.

60 alexthechick, the Home of the Opry was the Ryman Auditorium until 1974 and it was spared any damage.  The Opry museum wasn't flooded vary seriously either.

Oh thank God.  I read, yesterday, the day before maybe, that the museum did get hit so I'm glad to hear that's wrong.

I'm sitting on my hands not to go off on people I know who were convinced that Bush hated blacks due to Katrina.  I mean, if I use their standards, then Obama really really hates white people.  I mean, there were the ice storms in Kentucky last winter and now this. 

61

I still can't forget the hysteria that Geraldo tried to scare up in New Orleans, adding to the fear and suffering with talk of the thousands of snakes and alligators swmming the flooded streets. (not so)

I wanted to choke the piss out of him then and, especially six months later when I did my driving tour through the entire coast from the panhandle of Florida all the way to and beyond New Orleans. It was truly awe-inspiring to see what devastation was unleashed. It was so much worse that what we saw on television yet those assholes, Shep and Geraldo, handled themselves in such a way as to make most people watching them instantly discount by half any claim they made.

Now, with Nashville swimming and nearly two dozen people killed, they could give a shit less.

62 Meh,buncha crackers get wet.....

63

Zombie Elvis is eating the corpse men!

Marine Corpse?

64 Anyone have a good apolitical link for the flooding? I want to share it with my liberal acquittances without making the politics overt...

65

#67

I got your back.

66 http://www.tennessean.com/

67 President Puss n Boots and WH staff have yet to figure out how to use this crisis, errr, natural disaster to their political advantage. but.................. Pencil Dick Bammy has been on this since Day One. sigh just wish Bammy was on my White Lilly fat ass since Day One.

68 Why the hell do you think I moved out of state? I told you putzes I'm god.

69 Oh hey, by the way, fuck New Orleans. Fuck it right into the sea. I'd like to dump ten thousand Cumberland Rivers into that murderous fucking septic rathole so hard and fast that no one would be able to escape this time. I'd like to see a new Katrina hit that useless soul-sucking bastard sewer city of desperate animals each year again and again and again until the very last thing left was that criminal fucking shithead Mitch Landrieu clinging to the steeple of St. Louis Cathedral surveying a city that was under 40 feet of water that finally drained out just in time for a squadron of Air Force jets to arrive to napalm the whole fucking thing just to make sure.

Then build the biggest fucking refinery the world has ever seen on the site of the former N.O. so as to make good use of the land for the first time in 300 years.

_{Ahh. That felt good.}

70 Black liberal Pezzydent. There are no more Katrinas, by definition.

71 Newsweak has a piece up on "Why the media ignored the Nashville flood." Um. That is why Newsweak will be sold and promptly dismantled. There is zero reason why any "media" should ignore stories. And by stories, I mean, reporting events and facts.

72 I live in Nashville. Luckily, my home was spared but I have coworkers and friends who weren't so lucky. In some areas, the devastation is comparable to Katrina. And President Hopenchange has almost completely ignored the loss of history, property and life. At this point, I have completely lost the ability to stomach him at all. I can't imagine what would happen if something like this happened in, let's say, Memphis and a, let's say, President McCain ignored it. Oh wait...I think I have an idea... On the other hand, it's a compliment. We haven't gotten any attention b/c there is no victimhood here even among the victims. I am so proud of my new hometown. I totally get the Volunteer State thing now. We have helped each other and we'll be fine. But it would be nice to get a little attention in the national media b/c we can't pay for it all ourselves. I love this fucking city. Come visit soon. Thanks y'all. P.S. Barack Obama hates white people!

73 #72  lol, Undead...please tell us all how you really feel, . 

74 @72 Posted by: The War Between the Undead States Ideas, newsletter, subscription. By the way, I'll load the napalm ordnance on the racks for you.

75 Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at May 06, 2010 08:23 PM (DBT5l)

Cutjib. 

76 Obama hates country music.

77 Put me down for Undead's newsletter as well!

78
We haven't gotten any attention b/c there is no victimhood here

BINGO!

79

#72

I felt the same way after Super Bowl XXIII.  You will get over it. 

80

Why wasn't Mitt, Sarah, Tim, or any of the other cast of republican political characters down there showing what a true leader does? It is a given President Piece of Shit couldn't care less.

81 O/T: Nikkei stabs itself in solidarity with the US markets.

Down 429.

82 Just think about it. With a flood this large, the media has enough fodder to produce 128 hours of tear-jerking footage of non-white poor folk, reduced to ruin, needing federal largesse to salve their wounds. There are hundreds of stories out there, waiting to be told, wringing the hearts of viewers nationwide. But why make Barry look bad? Someone might think The Government Must Act if they show such stories with the alacrity and outrage observed during Katrina. And the gubmint hasn't made everything better, even though Chocolate Jesus is President. So fuck 'em, says the MFM.

83 The media also isn't covering it because these people are helping themselves.

So did Cedar Rapids in 2008.  What's different, besides Iowa picking Easy Bake in their caucus four months earlier?

84 Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at May 06, 2010 08:23 PM (DBT5l)

No, no, no. Neutron bomb. There some real purdy architecture in the French Quarter.

85 err Super Bowl twenty four.

86 #84  Chaos is beginning to reign?  And what is it with the rumor that the reason for the massive sellout was a trader typed in a "b" instead of an "m"?  I didn't know the system was that sensitive.

87 We haven't gotten any attention b/c there is no victimhood here

Just wait til football season.

88 Why wasn't Mitt, Sarah, Tim, or any of the other cast of republican political characters down there showing what a true leader does?

Sarah was just there in February, media couldn't get enough of covering that.  *srednop*

89 The media also isn't covering it because these people are helping themselves. Hey now, we can't have people just taking care of themselves. They might eat too much salt or spill lead paint or forget to recycle or something.

90 Hey Rum, remember our Justin Bieber discussion?  BWAAAA! 
_{(You know you want him.)}

91 Any one know of a local charity in Nashville to help out flood victims?

92 Until the current auditorium is repaired (flooded basement), the Grand Ole Opry will be at the Ryman. Posted by: Pelayo at May 06, 2010 08:12 PM (C8qIl)

Pelayo, the current auditorium had water covering the stage. 

I have seen the pictures.

I grew up in East Nashville, and these are some awesome folks.

Neighbor helping neighbor.  

93
So if the Tories get 305 seats, 21 short of the majority, but still a plurality of the seats, then Cameron is the new PM, right?

94 Sock off.

95 Federal government says TN is 16.8% black people (higher than national average).  Nashville/Davidson County is 26.8%.  National average 12.8%. 

Cedar Rapids 3%.

Don't mind me, I like numbers.

96
"[Gordon] will argue that the sitting government has the first right to form an administration even if it is not the biggest party..."

97 And what is it with the rumor that the reason for the massive sellout was a trader typed in a "b" instead of an "m"?  I didn't know the system was that sensitive.

There's a good summation of what apparently happened in the crash thread.

98 Obama hates stupid White crackers now shut the fuck up an donate to Haiti!

99 #98  Don't mind me, I like numbers.

Don't all dirt-stealing radishes do?

So Obama's racist for paying no mind to Tennessee?

100 OT fuck Erin Andrews.

Posted by: Blackford Oakes at May 06, 2010 08:37 PM (BiCQw)

Whoa.  Erin Andrews transcends politics.  And besides, it wasn't a very nice thing to say, no matter who said it.

101 Any one know of a local charity in Nashville to help out flood victims?

This one was recommend on Twitter.  I don't have any first-hand information.

Salvation Army Nashville

102 Federal government says TN is 16.8% black people (higher than national average). Nashville/Davidson County is 26.8%. It's true. B. Hussein Obama, Accidental Pezzydent and fan of Kools cigarettes, hates black people. He thinks he's high yellow. I'm really starting to think he is that much of a racist.

103 New Orleans --> national embarrassment

Nashville --> great American city

104 OT fuck Erin Andrews

Gladly. Send her over.

105

Kratos,

That is the urban myth that has sprouted from today's action. A couple of stocks were halted on the floor, P&G being one of them, but the electronic market kept going. Thus, when it reopened trading some thousands of shares were still trying to be sold. By that time the bid had plummeted. When the rest of the market saw this, it freaked. So, it was a glitch, just not a transcription glitc.

106 Yeah, Rush said Tenn. was "flyover country" so therefore the media is scornful. No class action victimization, here. Thus, the MFM (and most libs) adopt a "nothing to see here" attitude. F'n hypocrites. 

107 Oh hey, by the way, fuck New Orleans. Fuck it right into the sea. I'd like to dump ten thousand Cumberland Rivers into that murderous fucking septic rathole so hard and fast that no one would be able to escape this time. I'd like to see a new Katrina hit that useless soul-sucking bastard sewer city of desperate animals each year again and again and again until the very last thing left was that criminal fucking shithead Mitch Landrieu clinging to the steeple of St. Louis Cathedral surveying a city that was under 40 feet of water that finally drained out just in time for a squadron of Air Force jets to arrive to napalm the whole fucking thing just to make sure. Hey, why don't you go fuck yourself, War Between the Undead States? I live here and I'm not going to sit here and listen to you bad mouth this fine city, you dirty sumbitch!* I will NOT stand by - _{*psst! just cool it for a couple of months, would you? my house is on the market and I just need a couple of months to get out of here. Oh, and I got dibs on pulling the initiator ring to blow the levees on the way out. I called it, fucker!} - and listen to you badmouth the hardworking, industrious people of this unique jewel of an historic city. Because French Quarter!

108

All I can say is Dr. Barry Idi Amin Dada President for Life Mugabe Obama's favorability ratings are up so the flood you are referring to never happened.  Obviously.

109

I am from Nashville originally. I was a cop there for a stint and now reside in DA ATL YO!

My parents along with most of the members of my extended family are there. I attended high school just across the highway from the Orpyland Hotel & the Grand Ol Opry house. They opened my old high school and moved some of the hotel's guests there with help from the Red Cross. I've been in the Orpyland Hotel more times than I can count, and it had 10ft of water in the bottom floor. If you've never been, the glass ceiling conservatories are amazingly beautiful, and now they're ruined.

I've seen the Cumberland flood before, but never anything even close to this level before. To give you reference, the normal river level at downtown 1st Ave and Broadway & Riverfront Park is roughly 45ft below street level. on 1st Ave.

My parents live in the same house I grew up in on the side of a small hill. At the bottom of the hill across a small field is the junction of 2 small creeks, and the houses along those creeks have never been flooded as long as the neighborhood has existed..until this weekend. Most of the houses of my childhood friends were flooded out.

My old patrol areas in north and west Nashville were only passable by boat. There is a new high rise condo building in downtown that has a 3 story underground parking garage and it's completely flooded to just below the ceiling of the 3rd story. The arena where the Predators play, the Ryman, and other building got flooded because of back-up storm drains.

If you've seen the video of I-24 @ Bell Rd where the small building comes floating down the river from Lighthouse Christian School? Yeah that is the headwater area of Mill Creek and where that occured Mill Creek is relatively narrow and shallow. I know because I've fished it plenty when I was a teenager. For there to be enough water to float a portable classroom building down that creek is unbelievable. And what you don't see is the houses and school on the other side of I-24 that got washed away.

The flooding in downtown Nashville is unreal. It's compounded by the fact that 3 large recreational TVA Hydroelectric dams all empty into the Cumberland River. Dale Hollow Lake, Center Hill Lake, and Percy Priest Lake (the PPL dam is a mile from where I grew up) all empty into the Cumberland, and all east of downtown Nashville.

Basically every stream/creek/river from south of Franklin TN all the way around to Murfeesboro, up to Center Hill and Dale Hollow Lakes, and up into south-central Kentucky at some point empties into the Cumberland River, most east of Nashville.

It's a sheer wonder that there isn't more flooding in downtown. Old Hickory Dam and Percy Priest Dam both did an amazing job coordinating the timing of their open spillways or it would have been MUCH worse.

My cousin resides in West Meade, and that entire area was basically a lake. They live close to the Harpeth River but above known flood plain until this weekend. She actually uploaded a video to WSMV TV from her iPhone and they played it on the air most of Sunday morning. They have a finished basement and an in-ground pool. When the river level dropped enough for them pump water out, they had about 4 inches of mud on the floor. They pumped out the pool and it has 2 feet of mud in it.

I know that Gov. Bredesen has asked for the feds to declare a state of emergency in TN, and rightly so. It just angers the living piss outta me that arrogant shit Obama has been silent on the situation. Hell, I survived the massinve flooding here in ATL last September and Douchebag Biden even made a stop here to survey the damage. I can tell you that Nashville has been hit harder by this than ATL was in Sept.

Thus far the vast majority of the flooded areas in Nashville and middle TN are upper-middle class and upper class predominantly white neighborhoods.

I think we have our answer as to why this isn't being spoken about by the current POTUS...

In Sept 09 ATL flood the worst hit flood areas in west metro were ALL lower income predominantly black neighborhoods.

So much for our douchebag POTUS being color-blind and post-racial...

No looting in Nashville is not surprising to me. You'll get your ass blown away if you try to loot something. Neighbors actually look out for each other in Nashville. It's just the culture there, and just one of the reasons I still think of Nashville as my true home. We get insulted and made fun of as being a redneck city, but Nashville is a great place to live.

Nashville and TN doesn't fucking need Obama's help, and most prolly don't want it anyway.

110 alexthechick, the Home of the Opry was the Ryman Auditorium until 1974 and it was spared any damage.  The Opry museum wasn't flooded vary seriously either. 
Many instruments, costumes, audio tapes and other historic paraphernalia are feared lost or damaged at the site.  :-(

111

OT fuck Erin Andrews

I concur.

112

The lootings and shootings in Tennessee are horrible, out of control.

Hospitals have been fired upon. People are breaking into drugstores, and residents, black and white, are sitting at their front doors with loaded guns.

What? You say that isn't happening?

113 Due to the flood in Tenn, me taking the most money from BP ever, an evil teabagging muslim incompetent terrorist and today's market meltdown, I feel the country deserves a break.  Therefore, my administration will issue an unexpected surprise lowering of the unemployment rate tomorrow.  Your welcome.

114 Hey Rum, remember our Justin Bieber discussion?  BWAAAA!

Ugh. Soooooo gay. What's with the pansy looking men these days? Including the president.

115
fuck yeah!

116 TenneSea

117

Blackford...

Hasselback was wrong.

Just plain wrong. But, we've all said things we wish we could take back, yet most of us don't do it in front of an audience that large. She did the right thing and apologized.

118 Oh, and logprof, Everyone knows George Bush slashed the tires on all the school buses in New Orleans so that black children would die. Is George Bush president? No, he's not. Barack Obama is president. He just saved or created thousands of black children's lives in Nashville by rolling back the Bush Tire Cuts. Q.E.D. I said Q.E.D., that means I win.

119 "I've never seen this kind of response," said Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen (D), "and we've had our share of tornadoes and so forth." The Volunteer State governor was speaking to reporters on a conference call from Nashville, which has been hit hard by rains last weekend.

"FEMA and the White House could not have been more helpful in this thing," Bredesen said. Record amounts of rain fell Saturday and Sunday, more than 13 inches recorded in parts of Tennessee. Officials Thursday reported the state's 20th death from the storm and subsequent flooding.


Gag.  Why don't you two just get a fucking room, Phil?

120
and here come the Tories!

121 Speaking of Dems abandoning things...

Dems may abandon House race in Hawaii

122

Is there a Save Tennessee concert in the works?

Oh, yeah, right...

123 Retread, I am researching that right now.  A friend posted a link to a Charity, but I know nothing of it, so I can't recommend it until I hear back from them.  Until then:

The Nashville Area Red Cross is in need of financial support to continue providing relief to victims of local disaster flooding.  The American Red Cross is not a government agency. All disaster assistance is free, and is funded solely by local donations.  There are several ways to give:

• Visit www.nashvilleredcross.org and click DONATE NOW to make an online gift
• Mail a check to the Nashville Area Red Cross
2201 Charlotte Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203
• Call (615) 250-4300 to make a donation by phone
• Text REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation on your mobile phone 

124

The video's maker wonders why the American media has all but embargoed this.

In the eyes of the bolsheviks who run our newspapers, television networks, and, of course, Hollyweird itself, Red State America simply doesn't exist.

 

125 ...the urban myth that has sprouted from today's action. A couple of stocks were halted on the floor, P&G being one of them, but the electronic market kept going.

Mish already has a post questioning the current rush to blame "automated trading."  The part that should frighten everyone is what Mish says at the end:

Regardless of what anyone finds, a trading error did not cause this collapse. The market collapsed because it was ready to collapse. A retest is likely coming up, especially if shorts covered in that dramatic rise off the bottom.

126 Room is full bro. 

127 #105 Thanks Heather. The Salvation Army Nashville has a link for online donations.

128 Crap. Stupid filthy Habs score.

129 There's a reason why it's called "Flyover Country"

130 Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 06, 2010 08:41 PM (xGIqT)



Jeff, you got a deal. I'll put the BushRove Hurricane-o-Matic™ on standby for a few more months.

131
I'm guessing the Tories come up 11 seats short.

132

Let me re-post my link to a Nashville website that has rounded up a bunch of places to donate, time, stuff, or money, it's a really good list:.

http://tinyurl.com/2cf5rig

133 Obama hates American people!

134

127...

Yeh.

Wait for it.

Julia Roberts and Matt Dillon are sure to arrive shortly.

135
Don't mind me, I like numbers.

Math is hard. 
 
Let's go drink beer!

136 Gah, from bad to worse, another fluky piece of shit Habs goal.

137 Breaking:  Sean Penn spotted renting a canoe in Bowling Green, asking "the way to Petticoat Junction, where all those rednecks are drowning."  He says he's a journalist.

138 Did I miss something?

139
Who's that disgusting little terrorist sympathizer anti-American arabophile,over there in the Parliament? George someone? Hope he loses.

140 OT another possible no-hitter going.  This time atlanta has the pitcher.

141
Posted by: Steve McNair at May 06, 2010 08:55 PM (8OTio)

Ohh, kinda not cool.

142
OT another possible no-hitter going.  This time atlanta has the pitcher.

Sportspickle - "Good thing Bobby Cox didn't live to see this."

143 Galloway I believe.  Big time scumbag.

144 The media also isn't covering it because these people are helping themselves.
And they're not helping themselves to their neighbors' property. 

145
I think the Liberal Democrats are spoiling a lot more races than predicted.

146
yes, Galloway. What a lowlife. He's like our Jim McDermott and Barney Frank rolled into one.

147 Math is hard. 
 
Let's go drink beer!

Already there.

Someone call me about 4 a.m. and make sure I don't miss my flight out.

148 Nevermind,  No-no is a no.

149
Someone call me about 4 a.m. and make sure I don't miss my flight out.

I'll send you a really loud tweet.

150 So does it look like a bare victory for the Tories?  Does this even matter, given the Tory policy of being Tony Blair Lite?

I'm thinking our elections this November will be far more anemic and helpful to Demotards than anyone expects.

151 57 Fuck the media. Newsrooms/studios sacked, editors/producers/reporters on trial.

Posted by: 48%er at May 06, 2010 08:14 PM (gxpfq)

cut, jib, newsletter?

152 Galloway literally received money from Saddam Hussein.

153 And it was the Nationals pitcher that took it to the 8th.  Sorry, I feel like cnbc.

154

#145

I agree.  It was borderline. (my sock) I feel bad for him and his family.

155 The Opry got flooded? I don't much listen to country I'll admit - I'm barely even American - but I do know the Opry's significance. This is horrible.

156
and Galloway is close to Chavez and Castro. Very close.
What's his nickname?

157  @160
Damn, I forget.  He has a very apposite nickname and it escapes me.

158 #151  Someone call me about 4 a.m. and make sure I don't miss my flight out.

I'll make sure the warming lamp is turned on by then.

159
Nah, the Tories need this win. WE need this win. Our civilization is hanging by a thread, here, and that's not hyperbole. We need to get these radicals out of power.

160 Freedom Fighter - When did you graduate from McGavock?

Donelson / Hermitage / Old Hickory / Madison were my stomping grounds growing up...

I am DuPont Senior High, Class of 1978...

161 #126 TXMarko and #136 PGiS, thanks for the donation info.

I'm always more inclined to help people who help themselves and Nashville is showing us all how to do just that.

162 ParanoidGirlInSeattle, your link comes up void....

163 This organization is heading up the relief effort: Hands on Nashville - http://twitter.com/honashville Also, there's a telethon on local tv right now - call (877)-345-1522 to donate.

164 I'm thinking our elections this November will be far more anemic and helpful to Demotards than anyone expects.

Posted by: George Orwell at May 06, 2010 09:00 PM (AZGON)

If that happens, it will close out the last option to stop Obama's National Socialist program...at least at the national political level. 

It will come down I guess to how willing people or to believe the propaganda over their own eyes.

165 Our civilization is hanging by a thread, here, and that's not hyperbole. We need to get these radicals out of power.

What I fear is that the Tories will do nothing, even if they have a big victory.  They will just drive down the road to ruin at 150 kph instead of 170.  That, and their win will be so narrow that even had they the stones to cry "Stop" they will not be able to do so.

166

hang on! i got me paddle boat and little red sippy cup to bail y'all out.

 

167 This has been widely posted, including here last night, but it deserves another shot.

These are some good people, these Nashvillians...

168 "I hope CMT does a huge telethon for the benefit of the Tennessee (and surrounding area) flood victims, and that at every break to give out the phone number, they remind their viewers that the telethon is necessary because the Obama Administration has essentially ignored the suffering of the people in Tennessee, Kentucky and Mississippi. Posted by: stuiec at May 06, 2010 08:06 PM (7AOgy)" This is happening right now on local channel 4 (NBC) put together by "Vince Gill and friends". They just reported that Taylor Swift gave $500,000...that's pretty awesome.

169 Orwell 154, Cameron didn't give the voters any reason to go for him. He was just the most serious alternative to the truly-awful Brown.

Anyway I told my British friends not to vote this time. Period. The coming years are going to suck for Britain, none of the parties has a clue what to do, and it's mostly international financiers who will be delivering the news anyway. This vote didn't matter, except insofar as whoever wins gets to be blamed for whatever unpleasantness comes up.

In the US, this election season, plenty of Republican candidates are Tea-Party sorts who do give the voters something to vote for. So I'm not telling anyone not to vote HERE. Please, do, get out and vote.

170
I just want them to hold the line until people snap out of this craziness. We can't let the UK fail. If they go, we're next.

171 Why wasn't Mitt, Sarah, Tim, or any of the other cast of republican political characters down there showing what a true leader does?

Reply is hazy, try again.

172 Ugh. Soooooo gay. What's with the pansy looking men these days? Including the president.

Posted by: wherestherum at May 06, 2010 08:43 PM (gofDd)

Actually, you know there is an argument that the pill has feminized what women look for in men. It would certainly explain the androgyny crazy in the 70s, and the even the prevalence of pretty boys now like Orlando Bloom...

173 Britain is dead. They passed the point of no return.  Judt a matter of time. Check out their marriage and birth rates. 

174 It will come down I guess to how willing people or to believe the propaganda over their own eyes.

I'm in Clownifornia.  Living here, you learn there are no limits to how willing people are to believe the rankest propaganda and happy talk.  The nation is a very big ship, and even the Titanic didn't go from iceberg to underwater in seconds.  The nation can disintegrate, but it will happen slowly.  Like a giant redwood falling.

175 Barry is president and has more important things to do like:

1. Golf
2. Taking Chewie to dinner
3. Vacations every weekend
4. Talking off of teleprompters
5. Practicing throwing a baseball
6. Finding new people/industries to villianize
7. Campaigning
8. Fighting "the Man"

176
Taylor Swift gave $500,000.

Wonder how much Kanye West has donated.

177 Wonder how much Kanye West has donated.

Posted by: Dang Straights at May 06, 2010 09:12 PM (6hFrP)

Can you really put a dollar value on stupidity of that magnitude?

178
the BBC is a joke. It's like they refuse to show the Tories ahead of Labour.

179

@ 72

No, seriously, how do you really feel?

LOL, that was good.

180 In the US, this election season, plenty of Republican candidates are Tea-Party sorts who do give the voters something to vote for. So I'm not telling anyone not to vote HERE. Please, do, get out and vote.

With guys like Mike Steele running the GOP like Club Med, we had better be on guard.  The vote is important here, but only as important as the GOP makes it.  We've already seen miles of backpedaling on Repeal and Replace.

181 An excellent local blog with info: http://nashvillest.com/

182 Actually, you know there is an argument that the pill has feminized what women look for in men.

The pill has also put a lot of estrogen in the water.

Ecowhackos never complain about that, for some reason.

183 It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of country music stars give money and keep quiet about it. They seem more interested in actual helping than getting credit for it.

184 Obviously not enough racism to pander to for the White House to even mention was is very likely the largest non-hurricane weather destruction in our history. I wish some enterprising reporter would ask why they are being ignored.

185

#185

Replace and expand!

186 First edition newsletters will be printed with the blood of slaughtered media traitors.

187 172 The Sky was Crying.

Posted by: lowandslow at May 06, 2010 09:09 PM (GZitp)

killer, RIP SRV

188 I stand by my idea of MassCare.  But I hate BarryCare.  I can't tell you exactly why, but you wouldn't want the disaster of MassCare on a BarryCare scale.  But I stand by MassCare.

Would you like to ask me about gay marriage?

189

@ 179 The nation is a very big ship, and even the Titanic didn't go from iceberg to underwater in seconds.  The nation can disintegrate, but it will happen slowly.  Like a giant redwood falling.

Wait a minute.  I'm just guessing here but I think a redwood would hit the ground faster than the Titanic hit the bottom.

190
Damn, I gotta make a beer run.


_{and then watch supernatural}

191 I'd like to remind all my friends in Nashville that you needn't be worried about having Obama as President.

I never said he was a good plumber, but as President he's just dandy.

192
okay, for real this time, the Tories are closing in and getting ready to take the lead...

193 Nice fold, Pens.

194 Look.  It was either go to Tennessee, and film some stupid old muddy water, that might be inconveniencing a few racist tea-baggers, or hang out in DC for a chance of getting some footage of President Dreamy-Eyes.  Use your brain, man!

195 Wait a minute.  I'm just guessing here but I think a redwood would hit the ground faster than the Titanic hit the bottom.

Mixing metaphors can be exhilirating.  Or silly, as the case may be.

196 Taylor Swift just donated $500K. I think I just fell in love with her. And that might be the craziest thing about this disaster.

197 198 Nice fold, Pens.

Posted by: 48%er at May 06, 2010 09:22 PM (gxpfq)

like chinese laundry. _{was that racist of me?}

198 I'd hit taylor swift like chixulub on the yucatan

199 Just to piss off the lefty press (or the BBC, one and the same), it would be nice if the Tories made the exit polls in favor of Labour look like cat crap.

200

Yeah, the press/hollyweird don't care about nashville because there is a deficit of WACCP (Whiny-Assed Complaining Colored People) to wring their hands over and that unlike libutard hellholes like N'Awlins, normal folks just roll up their sleeves and DEAL WITH IT without waiting for fat ol' slobutard Uncle Sam to do it for 'em.

Oh, and because the Chosen One is in His Holy Office and that if the Blessed Lightworker Barack had wanted to spare those people, He would have with a wave of His Hand. But He hates hillbillies and other white folk, so The Chosen One has cast them into the waters.

201 I'd hit taylor swift like chixulub on the yucatan

We could use your aim on the Potomac, around Maryland.

202 203 I'd hit taylor swift like chixulub on the yucatan

Figures, lol.  I wouldn't.

/Although kudos to her for donating so much.

203

I love folded Chinese laundry.

If I like the race, it's not racist.

204 I made it my job today to make sure everyone I talked to was at least aware of this disaster. The media blackout on this is inexplicably baffling.

205 It wouldn't surprise me if a lot of country music stars give money and keep quiet about it. They seem more interested in actual helping than getting credit for it.

Posted by: Retread at May 06, 2010 09:17 PM (ARZ2I)

Country music understands its fans depend on real values and living up to them; not bling, hos and blow.  There will be plenty of money given and benefit concerts done no matter what the empty suit in the Whitehouse and his Pravda-West quislings do to keep it on the QT.

Btw, Nashville is more than just country music; smokin' hot rock guitarists are prety much all over the place..

206

OT - I just watched the video of the Navy Seal who was finally acquitted of assaulting the Iraqi piece of shit terrorist.  It brought tears to my eyes.  Not that he was acquitted but that our country could have ever done this to these three incredible men.

I will pray harder for our country.

207

We'll be driving through Nashville in 2 weeks on our way to and from Daughter #1's college graduation.  We're staying in a hotel that thankfully was spared any flooding (I called them yesterday to ask).  We will do our best to help out the local economy while we are there.....

208 The media blackout on this is inexplicably baffling.

Not really.  Consider that Nashville is responsible for things like this....

... and that scares the hell out of them!

209 #211

point taken on the rock guitarists, Captain Hate. My father raised me on country music and I've never gotten over it, so when I think Nashville I think country, sort of on autopilot.

210 WTH is up with web donations sites that don't take you to a secure url? Perhaps for donations like this a phone call is more secure. I do not feel like phoning some rep in Pakistan with my card information is very secure so I don't usually do phone cc/debit transactions.

211 The telethon on Nashville's local NBC station (Channel 4) is doing very well - just under $1.3 million.  Lots of busy folks manning the phones - including Naomi Judd, Darius Rucker, and other music folk.

I was a bit perplexed at the slightly disheveled look of many of the on camera interview folks and even a few media personalities, until I remembered that there is a severe water shortage warning on for all of Metro Nashville.  Earlier today one of Metro Nashville's council members sent out an e-mail alert to his constituents, imploring them to use their tap water only for drinking and cooking.  He wrote, "Remember the Batman movie where the Joker poisoned the make-up supply?  Remember how everyone in the movie looked?  That's how we're all going to look, at least for the next few days" (paraphrased)

Good to see that the media and music folk are pitching in and doing their part by going along with the water restrictions. 

Now, Keith Urban is on.  Eep.  *fans self a tad bit*

212

Actually, you know there is an argument that the pill has feminized what women look for in men. It would certainly explain the androgyny crazy in the 70s, and the even the prevalence of pretty boys now like Orlando Bloom...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 06, 2010 09:10 PM (bgcml)

Excellent point.  If women didn't like pretty boys, there wouldn't be any pretty boys.

213
here's my half-ass analysis: so far the LibDems have no net gain of seats but they've got a shitload of votes. That means they've helped the Cons win seats, I think, because they're taking away votes from Labour.

214 I'd hit taylor swift like chixulub on the yucatan

Like Democrats on the recovery.

215
I'm just guessing, but it looks like the Tories will gain 50-65 seats.

216 #217  Good to see that the media and music folk are pitching in and doing their part by going along with the water restrictions.

Indeed.  God bless 'em. 

217
okay, I think this is gonna be a rout.

prediction: Tories will have the majority. There will be no hung (snicker) parliament.

218

Not really.  Consider that Nashville is responsible for things like this....

I'm going to buy a surplus Sherman tank, hook up big speakers, and play that song as I plow through this city like Oddball in Kelly's Heroes.

219 Holy shit, gotta make a mental note to never move to flood country.

220 #224  prediction: Tories will have the majority. There will be no hung (snicker) parliament.

We'll see.  I hope this is true.

221 Taylor Swift and Def Leppard do Hysteria.

Something oddly hypnotic about it.

222 219  Anyone see that a UKip member almost died trying to promote his party at the polls? Also, most headlines are suggesting big gains for the Tories. Local parties not doing well in Wales.

223 158/650 seats declared.

224 #221

Per BBC results the Conservatives have picked up 15 seats so far and that's with only 155 seats declared out of 650 seats total.

225 Why no media coverage? Because it's a red state. Obama could care less about Teh-Nazi.

For the most part, people won't be looting, they will pitch in and clean the mess up themselves. No professional victims on parade.

Any negative coverage might make Obambi look bad as well.

So it will be an un-event.

226
check it out: The LibDems are getting 20% of the vote but they actually lost a seat, so far.

The LibDems, as far as I can tell, are mucking it up for Labour!

227 No hung Parliament? But I was all set to go to Britain! I was told they would have a hung Parliament!

228
now they're kicking ass!

this is a preview of our November elections...if the gop doesn't fuck it up.

229 Oh my, a man dressed as a crucified Jesus ran for David Cameron's seat. That's just disgusting.

230 #231  Per BBC results the Conservatives have picked up 15 seats so far and that's with only 155 seats declared out of 650 seats total.

The Conservatives have 69* out of 174 seats now.

*heheh.

231 Interesting how they have all the candidates up on one stage when they announce the election results.

232 And by the way, you're welcome, everyone. I sent an email to friends and family earlier predicting a hung Parliament and Brown managing to put together a government with the LibDems, and since every time I do that the prediction blows up in my face, the Tories will now get a majority.

233 Something oddly hypnotic about it.

Posted by: Waterhouse at May 06, 2010 09:52 PM (tuqxD)

She's definitely all grown up.

234 The Conservatives have 69* out of 174 seats now.

DUDE!

235 238 Interesting how they have all the candidates up on one stage when they announce the election results.

They've always done that. Everyone lines up & they announce who's won the constituency. They even parodied that in the Monty Python sketch. 

236
oh dude you just jinxed it

237 239 And by the way, you're welcome, everyone. I sent an email to friends and family earlier predicting a hung Parliament and Brown managing to put together a government with the LibDems, and since every time I do that the prediction blows up in my face, the Tories will now get a majority

Thanks for taking one for the team, Undead.  . 

A LibDem/Labour UK gov't would have kept me up at night for all the wrong reasons.

238 The Tories have become TINO's.They are British RINOS and will solve none of the UK's problems.Still better than the alternative but that ain't saying much.

239 Their is a flood in Tennessee, when did this happen?

240 182 seats declared and the Cons just tied Labor!

241 Obama has been talking about this all week long....there on day one.

242 They've always done that. Everyone lines up & they announce who's won the constituency.

Yeah, I guess I've never watched a UK election night before. I was reading a novel about South Africa and they described the same thing, so it might be an English thing, except I know they don't do that in Canada.

243 243
oh dude you just jinxed it

Shit, good point; I just made another prediction.

Uh... LABOUR'S GONNA CLEAN UP TONIGHT!

244 Where's the ONT, I'm drunk.

245 Thanks for posting this video, I live in TN and that video shows more coverage of the flood than I have seen in 5 days from the state controlled media, if you have any doubt that Katrina was nothing more than a propaganda campaign against BOOOSH this is your proof.  FUCK the STATE-CONTROLLED MEDIA, although Nashville needs to get with it and get some more welfare cases if they want to make the news

246 BBC is being defeatist about a hung parliament, but now whining about lack of excitement. Only person who feels Labour's been buried is David Blunkett. (Yeah, he's blind, bring on the jokes.)

Drat, Chancellor of the Exchequer won his seat. Too much to hope that he would get ousted. He's also Scottish.

247

OMG.... the Opry land Hotel.. 

Tennessee will take cre of it.. will not whine.. will not hold their hands out like a bunch of losers..

That city is awesome will recover just fine.

God bless the peope of TN!

248 Why do the Brits keep choosing socialist Scots to run the banks? It doesn't work well for them.

249 Drat, Chancellor of the Exchequer won his seat. Too much to hope that he would get ousted. He's also Scottish.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at May 06, 2010 10:08 PM (Yq+qN)

AND, I'm not wearing anything under this kilt either lassie.

250 Ky is flooded too. Not far from were I live a hole town had to be evacuated. The people just pitched tent up on a hill to keep eyes on their things.

251 EwNay ReadTay

252 If the Chancellor of the Exchequer's not Scottish, he's CRAP!

253

It appears the 'Cuda sent out a tweet about the flood:

Per r country music buddies: Easy 2help r friends in TN;Give $10 @redcross relief effort. Text‘REDCROSS’ to 90999 (FoxNews site explains it)

Country stars John Rich&George Jones ask help 4 Tennessee floods,via Red Cross donations(see Fox News website).Help save American landmarks!

254

Hey, we heard that Nashville has some Hispanic gangs youth groups. Any chance they're facing an anti-immigrant backlash?

Posted by: MFM at May 06, 2010 10:14 PM (Ks4nX)

No, but I'm pretty sure the Spirit of the Confederacy lives on in Nashville.  Would that work?

255 The Chancellor is like the Treasury Secretary, except he's as important as our Vice President. Gordie was Chancellor under Blair.

256 No, but I'm pretty sure the Spirit of the Confederacy lives on in Nashville.

BUNK!

257 Ya'll can go hell, I'm going to Texas.

258 The Chancellor is like the Treasury Secretary, except he's as important as our Vice President. Gordie was Chancellor under Blair.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at May 06, 2010 10:15 PM (Yq+qN)

I'm positive I've seen you before.  Aren't you that girl in that movie who started out as the brainy nerd nobody liked and turned into the hot chick at the end?

259 I will spare no resources to save Oprah's home in TN after this tragedy

What? Op-RY?

Screw those cracker teabaggers, they don't like my government, and the feeling is mutual

260 The Chancellor is like the Treasury Secretary, except he's as important as our Vice President. Gordie was Chancellor under Blair.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at May 06, 2010 10:15 PM (Yq+qN)

Okay thanks for the info, I had no idea. But I still wear nothin' under this kilt lassie.

261 Aren't you that girl in that movie who started out as the brainy nerd nobody liked and turned into the hot chick at the end?

M80s, you're Ally Sheedy??

262 The Conservatives have 69* out of 174 seats now.

*heheh.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 06, 2010 09:58 PM (c0A3e)

Nice!

263 No, but I'm pretty sure the Spirit of the Confederacy lives on in Nashville.

BUNK!

Posted by: Zombie Andrew Johnson at May 06, 2010 10:15 PM (DBT5l)

Fuck you carpetbagger!

264 267 I will spare no resources to save Oprah's home in TN after this tragedy

What? Op-RY?

Screw those cracker teabaggers, they don't like my government, and the feeling is mutual
Posted by: King Barry the Postracial at May 06, 2010 10:17 PM (sYxEE)

THREAD WINNAH!!

265 M80s, you're Ally Sheedy??


No, she was the weirdo who kept all that shit in her bag.

266 266 I'm positive I've seen you before.  Aren't you that girl in that movie who started out as the brainy nerd nobody liked and turned into the hot chick at the end?

Uh, Mia in The Princess Diaries? Wow that's mean.

267 Oh by the way England, hate to break it to you but...

_{See also: America.}

268 M80s, you're Ally Sheedy??

Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at May 06, 2010 10:18 PM (DBT5l)

--I was thinking Rachel Leigh Cooke

269
M80..

This cartoon originated nearly 3 months ago in Scotland.
It looks like most of the world is laughing at our current nation's leadership.

270 48

Why aren't Shep and Geraldo crying and screaming in Tennessee?

When human sacrifices and cannibalism is occurring in the Opry like it did in the Superdome, then we'll talk

271 BBC: "We're told talks have already begun between Labour and the Liberal Democrats..."

272 48

Why aren't Shep and Geraldo crying and screaming in Tennessee?

Because Tennessee hates gay people

273 Uh, Mia in The Princess Diaries? Wow that's mean.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at May 06, 2010 10:20 PM (Yq+qN)

No, but what the hell is wrong with Anne Hathaway?

274 ONT is up, Morons.

275 281 Nothing, for the most part. It's just that movie is the story of my life, except for the princess bit.

276 Did you see the nazi flags flying in that video? Let 'em drown

277 Gee, you'd think Bart Gordon and Jim Cooper would get a little help now, since they followed dear leader every step of the way. 

278

I am saddened for my sister city Nashville, but, you would have had another looting/killing spree Katrina on your hands, had it been Memphis. 

279 Mississippi Girl @ 25,

God Bless all of you that are dealing with this and the loss of life.

I was suppossed to go there in 2 weeks for a work convention at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel which was featured in this video.

You and your state are not forgotten by the American peopleand are admired and prayed for.

Another F'ing feather in Preznizzle Obizzle's hat.

280

We Are Nashville

My son, and hundreds of other Nashville LEO's volunteered to work double shifts from the moment the floods began, and will continue to do so for weeks to come. Rescues, looter control...

Compare that to New Orleans' cops who cowardly went AWOL.

281 Let's say what we all know. 

No Negroes wailing and crying about how they were left to die.

No story. 

The MSM is racist. 

If Blacks had some dog in this hunt, AKA, a white president, they would be all over this.

A Black president is AWOL on this, 29 dead already, and the MSM is AWOL also.

We see nothing.

Where are Jesse and Al?  Where are the helicopter pictures?

282 248 Obama has been talking about this all week long....there on day one. BULLSHIT. He issued a written statement a couple of days after it happened, he spoke to the governor and he sent FEMA people down here. The guy jumps on television for everything under the goddamn sun and WE HAVE YET TO SEE HIS FUCKING FACE IN TENNESSEE. Haven't heard a word actually escape his lips. Funny, I was under the impression that he was my president too. Apparently not. Sorry, seeing the videos during the telethon tonight stirred up my rage yet again. Shame on him. It's a disgrace.

283

Thanks for posting the video.  It breaks my heart to see all the devastation in my beloved Nashville.  BTW, Nashville isn't just country music; the Southern Rock and Indi bands are making huge strides in TN.

Ace, I want your readers to know that not only was Nashville communities hit by flooding, 52 counties (of 95) have been declared a disaster!  Homes, businesses, roads/bridges, enitre neighborhoods desimated.  In Dyersburg (Northwest TN) nearly 300 families are flooded; they have lost everything.  In Jackson roads gave way and swallowed cars and chunks of asphalt moved across the streets.  Reports of 17 inches of rain fell in Brownsville.  It is so sad. 

The good people of Tennessee are out in droves; neighbors helping neighbors.  It's who we are.  It's what we've always done!

TN Mom

 

 

284 Megyn Kelly was all over this the day of the Times Square bomber.

285 The elites in this country loathe the Midwest and see us as nothing but a bunch of hayseed hicks. For all intents and purposes, this country has plunged into a what I would call a "cold" civil war. This happened a year ago in Georgia. Massive flooding and the media was preoccupied with everything else but the devastation in Georgia.

286 Rush read this very post today on his show. Word for word.

It came from last nights thread.  Rush reads Ace, or Bo does.

4

hey guys

this past weekend we had a little flood here in middle tennessee,just killed 20 people, 10 in Nashville alone. anyway this local writer tells  how it is

We are Nashville.

Allow me a moment to step away from the usual voice of this website.

What I am about to write has absolutely nothing to do with hockey.

If you live outside of Nashville, you may not be aware, but our city was hit by a 500-year flood over the last few days. The national news coverage gave us 15 minutes, but went back to focusing on a failed car bomb and an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. While both are clearly important stories, was that any reason to ignore our story? It may not be as terror-sexy as a failed car bomb or as eco-sexy as an oil spill, but thatÂ’s no reason to be ignored.

The Cumberland River crested at its highest level in over 80 years. Nashville had its highest rainfall totals since records began. People drowned. Billions of dollars in damage occurred. It is the single largest disaster to hit Middle Tennessee since the Civil War. And yetÂ…no one knows about it.

Does it really matter? Eventually, it willÂ…as I mentioned, there are billions of dollars in damage. It seems bizarre that no one seems to be aware that we just experienced what is quite possibly the costliest non-hurricane disaster in American history. The funds to rebuild will have to come from somewhere, which is why people need to know. ItÂ’s hard to believe that we will receive much relief if there isnÂ’t a perception that we need it.

But letÂ’s look at the other side of the coin for a moment. A large part of the reason that we are being ignored is because of who we are. Think about that for just a second. Did you hear about looting? Did you hear about crime sprees? NoÂ…you didnÂ’t. You heard about people pulling their neighbors off of rooftops. You saw a group of people trying to move two horses to higher ground. NoÂ…we didnÂ’t loot. Our biggest warning was, “DonÂ’t play in the floodwater.” When you think about itÂ…that speaks a lot for our city. A large portion of why we were being ignored was that we werenÂ’t doing anything to draw attention to ourselves. We were handling it on our own.

Some will be quick to find fault in the way rescue operations were handled, but the fact of the matter is that the catastrophe could not have been prevented and it is simply ignorant beyond all reason to suggest otherwise. It is a flood. It was caused by rain. You can try to find a face to stick this tragedy to, but youÂ’ll be wrong.

Parts of Nashville that could never even conceivably be underwater were underwater. Some of them still are. Opry Mills and the Opryland Hotel are, for all intents and purposes, destroyed. People died sitting in standstill traffic on the Interstate. We saw boats going down West End. And, of course, we all saw the surreal image of the portable building from Lighthouse Christian floating into traffic and being destroyed when cars were knocked into it. IÂ’m still having trouble comprehending all of it.

And yetÂ…life will go on. WeÂ’ll go back to work, to school, to our livesÂ…and weÂ’ll carry on. In a little over a month, IÂ’ll be on this website talking about the draft. In October, weÂ’ll be discussing the new PredatorsÂ’ season with nary a thought of these past few days. But in a way, they changed everyone in this town. We now know that that it can happen to usÂ…but also know that we can handle it.

Because we are Nashville.

FYI, the damage estimate for Nashville alone is STARTING at 1 billion dollars

this flood affected the entire middle tenn region ,33 counties every city,town

and one stop light hole-in-the-wall from kentucky to alabama. very expensive.

thanks

rol

Posted by: rain of lead at May 06, 2010 12:00 AM (ms1uh)

God bless ya.  What do you need? I'll send it. Now.

287 I live an hour north of Nashville, a mile north of the Cumberland. My house is on high enough ground that we were fine, but the roads out were under six feet of water. The stop signs were under water. Clarksville took a hit down along the river, but it's survivable. Nothing like what Nashville took. And yes, Nashville will recover. This will become an infomercial for the joys of old-school conservative America. I won't hate the hippies around Vanderbilt too much.

If this had happened in Memphis, you'd see Katrina all over again. Different demographics.

288 Rewrite: Those cops weren't AWOL ... they didn't exist.

The NOLA machine put it's supporters ( and probably dead people ) on the payroll as cops in order to get fed dollars for law enforcement. They then spent the pay.

When the feds wanted them to do actual police work during the flood, they sorta vanished.

289 Regarding the worst Tennessee flooding in 80 years, I follow The Fred Thompson Show. Otherwise, the MSM have tabooed the story, another catastrophic non-event because Obama doesn't recognize any of it as relevant. What does the Tennessee flood do for Michelle's kids?

Flooding brings up INSURANCE. And today's headline references Allstate/National Polling numbers. Today's public endorses the "promise but peril" investments. And a majority of Americans would vote for Obama again. Given that Allstate et al. insurance industry is bedding with Obama's administration, and Allstate's earnings missed forecasts after high first-quarter catastrophe losses, there's motivation for finding support for Obama whether real or not. Illusion is all that matters with the dollar value, insurance appraisals and financial investments. And the only way for insurance losing money via catastrophe collateral damage to stay afloat given the Tennessee flood is to convince everyone to close their eyes, click their heels, and repeat, "There's no one like Obama. There's no one like Obama." Cuts both ways.

290 rain of lead, thank goodness for high ground in rainy weather.

God bless Tennessee, particularly with what you need.

291 "all but embargoed this"? I've seen it at the top of every news site I've visited since it started.

292 I live in Franklin, TN - just south of Nashville. Our little 'burb was met with chaotic devastation. Sadly, there has been no looting, no gangs rising up to take over the streets and no loss of morality. Just neighbors helping neighbors, happily and tirelessly.

No families around here carry flood insurance and as you know, homeowners doesn't cover flood damage. So this will become a story once the FEMA numbers become a burden to the bailout funding... Wait for it.

293

164 @ TXMarko

Graduated McGavock in 1987.

294 Hey, I know I'm late to this but I'm on the road (I'm a musician). I'm a liberal regular AOS reader, usually lurking (this is probably my 5th post). I live in Bellevue, West Nashville, only a mile from the River Plantation condos where the Harpeth River flooded. My wife (who was there when it happened, while I traveled) and I were lucky to be on very high ground. Many of our friends were not so lucky and got wiped out. I know many, many people who would appreciate whatever support anyone can provide.

This is the best place to donate funds that go IMMEDIATELY to the best local relief fund:

http://bit.ly/aeuBiF

I have also noticed that the media coverage of this event was, shall we say, not what it would have been if it was in L.A. At the same time, while I'm no fan of the MSM (for different reasons that most here, I'd guess), I think it's mostly because people there are taking care of it themselves with a minimum of "media bait" - violence, an easy villian...a politically-charged story. It just hasn't been like that on the ground. It just rained a lot, period. People aren't thinking about that other stuff. They're just trying to help any way they can.

I'm from NJ. My experience in Nashville has been amazing. My immediate community is made of musicians, both very liberal and very conservative. We live side by side and make music all the time, even though we have *very* different views on any number of things. I'm not involved with organized religion myself, and yet I've had great fun and even joy out of doing church gigs. Democrats run the city (and are represented in Congress), but Republicans run the state government. It all seems to work very well. People are nice and the services (DMV, tax offices, etc.) work very smoothly.

I'm not trying to get off a kumbaya here, but I'd just invite everyone to consider the possibility that, despite what Rush had to say (and I've read the sports blog's post in full), it wasn't meant to be a political statement. It's just a rallying cry for a community. Ideally, it doesn't have to be owned by any particular political persuasion, even though I also get that this is a political blog and things tend to go there.

Anyway, I thought I'd offer this perspective from just about ground zero. As always, YMMV. But please, if you're so inclined, donate to the link above.

Thanks again for the open forum, Ace & co.

295 http://nashvilleflood.myshopify.com/ -$17 from each sale goes directly to charities related to the flood relief. Its all local - I have no affiliation with these shirts, just forwarding along a good thing...

296 Interesting video. I seriously have not heard very much about this. I knew it was happening but had no idea of the magnitude of the devastation.

I love Nashville, it's one of my favorite cities.

This makes me sick.

297 Obama hates Southern folks!

298 My family and I visited Nashville in mid March for a few days and had a fantastic time. People were great, and we saw much of the city, even played a small gig, so we could say we played in Nashville.  Heartbreaking to see the places we went to so much under water.  What can you say about the MSM?  Their bias, ignoring the important stories is one of the reasons for their downfall and demise.

Nashville people have character and the right stuff to make themselves whole again.They will do what they have to do to rebuild their city and their lives.  These kinds of people are what makes this country great, despite the criminals in the legislative and executive branches of our national government.

299 The devastation downtown is going to be a long time rebuilding project.

The South in general has been bitch slapped by weather related devastation.
In AL we had tornadoes that ripped Albertville's downtown flat. Other area's got damaged too.

Our coast is about to become an oil covered wasteland that is going to devastate the tourism industry. See ya later, bye Redneck Riviera and Gulf fishing trips.

Heard ANY mention of us suffering? Didn't think so.
Nashville got more coverage but we aren't whining about it either.

Fuck the government and FEMA.

300 15 by the way, we never received the census.  Punks.

Posted by: Editor at May 06, 2010 07:57 PM (pUfK9)

 

Oh, oh, you are one of those pre-filled census data.

Your own input is not neede.

301 32

The government and media only help those who cannot help themselves.

Posted by: s'moron at May 06, 2010 08:04 PM (UaxA0)

 

who cannot would not help themselves

302 It is because Nashville is is  racist white cracker type of city......

303 People of Tennessee remember this in November 2010 and 2012. Fucking Bastard Obama needs to be bitch slapped.........

304 What's FEMA's response been so far?  I haven't heard a peep if they are even involved.  Did the Tennessee governor ask for their help and if so what did they do?

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