[Rhodes22-list] P - Katrina Humor

[brad haslett]

Here is a joke from President Bush's speech to the
Republican Jewish Coalition 20th Anniversary on
Wednesday.  You can read the whole speech here:


http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050921-1.html

There is some "meat" in the speech about plans to
rebuild NOLA and Sourthern Mississippi, specifically
the Gulf Recovery Zone tax breaks.

Brad


At Tulane University, the Director of the Chabad,
Rabbi Rivkin, brought teams of students to New
Orleans, and southern Mississippi, and other
communities hit by the storm. He called in folks to
help. He didn't say, head away from the storm; he
said, let's take it right to the middle of the storm
area to help people. They helped rescue stranded
people; they distributed bottled water and
self-heating kosher meals; they cleaned up and helped
salvage homes; they provided spiritual support for
those who lost loved ones. And one of those rescued
from New Orleans put it this way: In the days after
Katrina hit, Chabad saved lives." (Applause.) 

Rabbi Stanton Zamek of the Temple Beth Shalom
Synagogue in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, helped an African
American couple displaced by the storm track down
their daughter in Maryland. When Rabbi Zamek called
the daughter, he told her, "We have your parents." She
screamed out, "Thank you, Jesus!" (Laughter.) He
didn't have the heart to tell her she was thanking the
wrong rabbi. (Laughter and applause.) 



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