Iowa vs louisiana

Louisiana, from my view.

gogrow said:

at least YOU know a little bit about who we are here...

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"We fired our guns and the British kept a-coming. There was wasn't 'bought as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began a-running, down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico"

"Yeah they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles, and they ran through the bushes where the rabbits wouldn't go. They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em. Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico."

SocataSmoker said:

Louisiana, from my view.

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thats fuckin beautiful. i wish there was bud that could grow on the edge of water

Well I went Johnny Potseed a few days ago and planted a damn good number of seeds, at least 150-200 near the Mississippi... I just hope the floodwaters from Iowa don't raise it so much to cover them up completely. If not they'll be ready for who'ere finds them in October

ain my state beautiful? nothin like it on a warm summer day. gettin lifted and sittin by the mississippi...

SocataSmoker said:

Well I went Johnny Potseed a few days ago and planted a damn good number of seeds, at least 150-200 near the Mississippi... I just hope the floodwaters from Iowa don't raise it so much to cover them up completely. If not they'll be ready for who'ere finds them in October

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i have been considering going big guerilla this year...

gogrow.... so when you say they have been our problem....who are they?

LoudBlunts said:

gogrow.... so when you say they have been our problem....who are they?

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hahaha...um,um, yeah; lets not get into fingerpointing and stereotyping here; "they" refers to the group of people who for some reason or another believes that it is our govt/societies responsibility to take care of them.... want everything for free and do next to nothing for themselves....

they pay taxes the same as any state, but i guess New Orleans is different in your book when it comes to federal aid.

gogrow said:

hahaha...um,um, yeah; lets not get into fingerpointing and stereotyping here; "they" refers to the group of people who for some reason or another believes that it is our govt/societies responsibility to take care of them.... want everything for free and do next to nothing for themselves....

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so you saying all the people across the bridge are like that?

LoudBlunts said:

so you saying all the people across the bridge are like that?

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noo.... i am talking about all the people living off of our "welfare state"; google "welfare problems new orleans" and you'll get several places to see what i mean.... me thinks you are fishing for a racial/ethnic pov from me, but won't happen, b/c that is one of the reasons we cant get shit done down here; cause its allways about race to someone...we will never get any progress until the south starts to see "people" and not just "colors"...

lol, i have no problem asking what i want to know....if i wanted a racial/ethnic pov from you....i would just ask.

no point of beating around the bush aye? i just wanted your opinion bro.

i have lots and lots of family everywhere.....one of those places being the NO....

LoudBlunts said:

lol, i have no problem asking what i want to know....if i wanted a racial/ethnic pov from you....i would just ask.

no point of beating around the bush aye? i just wanted your opinion bro.

i have lots and lots of family everywhere.....one of those places being the NO....

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cool; well thats my opinion; we need to do something about this "welfare state" bs; in this state there are too many people that are entirely dependent on the govt for there survival and in new orleans in particular, this is perpetuated by a public education system that is a joke; leading more people into crime or govt dependence...but you cant bring that shit up down here without someone jumpin up and down turning a political/financial issue into solely a race issue... its ridiculous how much people hold on to the past...on all sides of the fence.

do you blv that people become a product of their environment? why or why not?

Stoney McFried said:

Because they still have water in cedar rapids, they just have to conserve on flushing. Many folks got out, and help seems to be coming quickly. The folks in Louisiana were trapped.

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I'm sure this isn't the current vein of conversation anymore, but i havent read the rest of the thread and i wanted to throw two cents at this comment. I work for a logistics company and we had drivers in Iowa who got stuck in Des Moines as well as Cedar Rapids. People were trapped there as well. I was listening to a conversation about watching bodies float away in the water and being able to do nothing. Tragedy is Tragedy is Tragedy. In my opinion the honest difference is that iowa is predominantly White. This was not the case in NO. As such think about the things you're heard about. Was there any "looting" in Iowa? No, of course not. Because white people don't loot. They "forage" for survival goods. Crime is in the eye of the beholder.

Selah.

I had to leave my house, and just now today got back into my house. I live right in the shit of it, and pretty much all of my neighbors dont have a house now. I am litterally watching from my hilltop house down on my neighbors gut their entire lives out into the street with family, friends, and I have gone down to help people I don't even know that well.

My neighbors had 10 minutes to get out of their house, because (the water wasn't supposed to get this high.) I was watching peoples house/cars everything floating by my house.

We had very little time to get out. We didn't know our city was going to be flooded to this horrible extent for a week unlike other cities. I watched the water creep up so fast it was insane.

Middle class... you gotta be kidding me. We had a lot of very poor people get hit, and I don't expect very many of them to even come back. One of my neighbors is selling her house to my other neighbor for 5,000 dollars and is leaving town. People couldn't even get any insurance for flooding (I don't get it either). Anyway, I'll post some pics of our HUGE MIDDLE CLASS MANSIONS under water...pft.

LoudBlunts said:

do you blv that people become a product of their environment? why or why not?

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absolutlely....but not always for the bad; i come from a pretty fucked up background and will/am give my children better; i consider that to be a product of my environment....

nomoretrouble said:

I'm sure this isn't the current vein of conversation anymore, but i havent read the rest of the thread and i wanted to throw two cents at this comment. I work for a logistics company and we had drivers in Iowa who got stuck in Des Moines as well as Cedar Rapids. People were trapped there as well. I was listening to a conversation about watching bodies float away in the water and being able to do nothing. Tragedy is Tragedy is Tragedy. In my opinion the honest difference is that iowa is predominantly White. This was not the case in NO. As such think about the things you're heard about. Was there any "looting" in Iowa? No, of course not. Because white people don't loot. They "forage" for survival goods. Crime is in the eye of the beholder.

Selah.

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so working in logistics taught you that white people dont loot??

apparently if ur a louisiana grower u parctially live in this room. i still cant believe all this time has passed and people still dont know the truth about Katrina

gogrow said:

so working in logistics taught you that white people dont loot??

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i think he was being sarcastic!