[Rhodes22-list] MCPP Emergency Meeting

[Ronald Lipton]

Reminds me of the story about the navy helicopter pilots 
who participated in the early rescues without orders,
saved ~100 people, and were reprimanded by their 
commanding officer.  

Ron
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "brad haslett" <flybrad at yahoo.com>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 8:37 AM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] MCPP Emergency Meeting


>A friend of mine, Steve, a fellow member of the
> Memphis Center for Peace and Prosperity and former U
> of MEM quarterback from the 80's, called yesterday and
> scheduled an emergency meeting.  Some of our members
> who are also Memphis Tiger football fans were
> suffering from depression and having suicidal thoughts
> after the Tiger loss to Ole Miss on Saturday.  A new
> patron came in and sat down in our "boardroom", a
> black guy with long dreadlocks.  Dreadlocks won't earn
> you a second glance in our club compared to the
> heavily tattooed, and metal laden wait staff and the
> unusually coiffed college professors who frequent our
> meetings.  After Dr. Steve ordered a couple of rounds
> (strictly for medicinal purposes) and explained that
> our Freshman quarterback (who had to step-in for our
> regular quarterback who is out for the season for an
> early game injury) actually did a pretty good job,
> and, our star running back and Heisman candidate,
> DeAngelo Williams, put in his regular performance, all
> hope was not lost and a post-season game was not out
> of the question.  That perked up the most downtrodden
> members and the question naturally turned to where the
> post season game would be (last year it was the Super
> Dome).  Talk quickly turned to Katrina.  I made
> mention of the kid who commandeered a school bus and
> drove it to Houston and how I thought he was one smart
> kid.  Our guest, the Bob Marley lookalike, said that
> the bus driver was his cousin and that he may face
> charges.  After everyone expressed their surprise, I
> countered that he was a national hero and I'd
> personally contribute to his defense fund.  Our guest
> replied, "he's not worried about it, he's faced more
> serious charges than that!"
> 
> After the laughter died down we, we welcomed our
> newest member, had some more medicine and adjourned
> our meeting.
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
> 
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