I think this is the first time I have printed an chain email ever. But I believe it says something about the media and society today! It could be a "urban legend" as noted in the comment below, but the statement still is meaningful to say the least!
Emergency Weather
Bulletin
This text is from a county
emergency manager out in the western part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
after a severe snow storm ...
The Mining Journal, Marquette, MI
WEATHER BULLETIN
Up here in the Northern part of Michigan we
just recovered from a Historic event --- may I even say a "Weather Event" of
"Biblical Proportions" --- with a historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow
and winds to 90 MPH that broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles,
stranded hundreds of motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads,
isolated scores of communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.
FYI:
Obama did not come.
FEMA did nothing.
No one howled for
the government.
No one blamed the government.
No one even
uttered an expletive on TV.
Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.
Our Mayor's did not blame Obama or anyone else.
Our Governor did
not blame Obama or anyone else either.
CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX, or NBC did
not visit - or even report on this category 5 snow storm.
Nobody
demanded $2,000 debit cards.
No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.
No one looted.
Nobody - I mean Nobody demanded the
government do something.
Nobody expected the government to do anything
either.
No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and
No Geraldo Rivera.
No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand,
No Brad
Pitt, No Hollywood types to be found.
Nope, we just melted the snow for water.
Sent out
caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.
The truck
drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny.
Local restaurants made food, and the police and fire departments
delivered it to the snow bound families..
Families took in the stranded
people - total strangers.
We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or
Coleman lanterns.
We put on an extra layers of clothes because up here
it is "Work or Die".
We did not wait for some affirmative action
government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare
program that trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks.
Even though
a Category 5 blizzard of this scale is not usual, we know it can happen
and how to deal with it ourselves.
I hope this gets passed on.
Maybe .....
SOME
people will get the message ......
The world does Not owe you a
living.
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Sgt Kim Munley came face to face with Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood, and came out a heroine for shooting the Major before he continue his carnage on the Army Base. She shot Hasan four times, but was also wounded in the gun battle. Thank-You Sgt. Munley for your heroism!
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You remember the group of mature British women from Rylstone Women's Institute? They posed nude for a calendar to raise funds for cancer awareness? The movie "Calendar Girls" was made about their story? Well...They are back with a 2010 Calendar...and they all look great
Daily Mail
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