[Rhodes22-list] MCPP Emergency Meeting

[brad haslett]

Ron,

Hadn't heard that story, what ship were they operating
off of?  You've probably heard about the Bataan on
this list and the NYTimes Krugman story, it was there
but wasn't being used, blah, blah, blah.  Someone from
blog world discovered this jewel.  All Navy ships have
their own websites.  The Bataan steamed into the NO
area as soon as the weather allowed and immediately
started rescue operations.  It would seem the Times
was too anxious to start their attacts on the Feds to
do a Google search before writing their story.

Brad

--- Ronald Lipton <rlipton at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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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