Real American Heroes

jkaduk said:
Not just mine.
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SixPapaCharlie said:
Conservative, male, Trump voters are heroes.
And also "the quiet ones".

Got it.

This is total ******** attempted to be disguised as not a political post.

I live here and I see who is doing what. while I don't have time to make some flowery post about who the people really are that are helping out, I will tell you who it is. It is everybody. every single person in my neighborhood has banded together to send supplies that direction white black red yellow green liberal-conservative everybody. it's not any one group more than any other group.

Everybody at the airports around here have gathered to fly their multimillion-dollar aircraft and deliver supplies. Not just redneck truck driving done loving Trump voters. Everybody here is doing what they can to help. this original post is complete b******* propaganda.
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Maybe the article reflects the truth, and it's you who decided to make it political.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3781505
Either way, what's so wrong with patting someone on the back and recognizing a good deed? If he'd included the LGBTQ contributions would it have been non-political enough for you?
 
Cooter said:
Maybe the article reflects the truth, and it's you who decided to make it political.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3781505
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This study is heavily slanted due to religious contributions. Take that out and blue outnumber red in every other charitable volonteering category - at least the ones the study chose to include. I don't want to argue about whether a religious contribution should be considered a deductible charity, but can we at least agree that the people on the boats are not there to distribute Bibles?

So no, this study doesn't prove that it "reflects the truth".

Cooter said:
Either way, what's so wrong with patting someone on the back and recognizing a good deed?
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Nothing - but are we now SO slanted as a society that we need to state which side of the political isle someone is on before we can judge their deeds as good or bad? Why can't these just be good neighbors?
 
deonb said:
This study is heavily slanted due to religious contributions. Take that out and blue outnumber red in every other charitable volonteering category - at least the ones the study chose to include. I don't want to argue about whether a religious contribution should be considered a deductible charity, but can we at least agree that the people on the boats are not there to distribute Bibles?

So no, this study doesn't prove that it "reflects the truth".
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And why should religious contributions be excluded? The point is giving to to charities. It isn't divided along any other lines, so why should religious institutions not count? Our church uses the money it's given to support many other charities. We do construction projects in other countries, which provides school buildings, homes, wells, etc. Many people also pay their own way to go and donate their time and energy to these projects and it gets them involved in a personal way. Go look at what Samaritan's Purse does and tell me that it shouldn't count.

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The Hospital above was built in India by contributions to a "religious" institution. We've followed and supported this from the beginning and it is absolutely amazing that a man with no medical background was able to oversee such a huge project.

http://www.allindiamission.com/what-we-do/medical-outreach/shanti-bhavan-medical-center/
Watch the video above and tell me why donations like this don't "count" to people like you. All India Missions believes athat people deserve to be treated with love and kindness, and that real love ministers to physical needs AND spiritual needs. But somehow to the irreligious, ministering to the spiritual needs disqualifies their service. Follow the link and look around, the hospital is just one ways that he (Varghese) is helping the impoverished people of rural India.

So in response to your little quip about handing out Bibles, that is a blatant mischaracterization. Instead of trying to discredit the giving of those on the right, why don't you do a little more looking into what some of that giving does. There is a good argument to be made for handing out bibles, but that's not all that the churches do.
 
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Here's another "religious" institution that we support.
https://www.compassion.com/m/default.htm
We have three kids with Compassion and have been with them for about 9 years now. It's been a great experience staying involved with their lives and interacting with them as they grow up. Hopefully we'll have the opportunity to visit them someday.
 
Let this sink in for a minute.....Hundreds and hundreds of small boats pulled by countless pickups and SUVs from across the South are headed for Houston. They're using their own property, sacrificing their own time, spending their own money, and risking their own lives for one reason: to help total strangers in desperate need.

Most of them are by themselves. Many are dressed like the redneck duck hunters and bass fisherman they are. Many are veterans. Most are wearing well-used gimme-hats, t-shirts, and jeans; and there's a preponderance of camo.

These are The Quiet Ones. They don't wear masks and tear down statues. They don't, as a rule, march and demonstrate. And most have probably never been in a Whole Foods.

But they'll spend the next several days wading in cold, dirty water; dodging gators and water moccasins and fire ants; eating whatever meager rations are available; and sleeping wherever they can in dirty, damp clothes. Their reward is the tears and the hugs and the smiles from the terrified people they help. They'll deliver one boatload, and then go back for more.

When disaster strikes, it's what they do. Heroic people. American people. And then they'll knock back a few shots, or a few beers with people they've never met before, and talk about fish, or ten-point bucks, or the benefits of hollow-point ammo, their F-150, or why you now have to pay for what use to be gimme-hats.

In the meantime, they'll likely be up again before dawn. To do it again. Until the helpless are rescued. And the work's done.

They're unlikely to be reimbursed. There won't be medals. They won't care. They're heroes. And it's what they do.
 
I was completely with you until you had to go and polarize the whole thing with the "F-150" crap .... many of the heros drive Ram Cummins diesels! :)

only kidding, of course! :D
 
gkainz said:
I was completely with you until you had to go and polarize the whole thing with the "F-150" crap .... many of the heros drive Ram Cummins diesels! :)
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And what about those of us with F-350's??

Just because we're a bit heavier, a bit slower and our booties are a bit wider, does that mean we cannot still contribute?

If you prick us, do we not leak?
If you tickle our pedals, do we not roar?
If you sugar our gas tanks, do we not die?
and if you gear us wrong, shall we not rev?
 
I was sort of ground zero for Cajun Navy/Texas navy Operations and provided some support with a couple of trailers and 4 wheelers and a boat...we had 49 inches of rain over three days at the house and lost about 25K of stuff in the yard with dock an pool damage but house stayed high and dry...we were cut off for four days but made it to my office by wading and then truck as I work in insurance and needed to start the claims process with clients...lots of unsung hero's in this deal...and from a politically astute individual...politics played no part but , the OP is accurate...whining about it is ridiculous...no different than saying they were a group of second amendment supporters...cause most of them were armed to the teeth as well...hell we all were...FYI its Yamaha but we learned that from the Vietnamese Crabbers locally...they run forever...
 
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