Tirades we never finished reading

[snopes]

Comment: I have visited your site a few times to check on the validity of
e-mails that have come through. Although I believe that, for the most
part, you do clear up inaccuracies that are spread throughout the world
via the internet, I also believe that you have your own agendas included
in your supposed expertise. Someone told me Barack Obama is a muslim. I
checked it out with you. Who were your references? People in Mr. Obama's
world, his teachers, people who did not definitively say that he is not
muslim, just that the school's were open to all faiths. Maybe Barack is
not a muslim, and it is too bad that our society needs to be concerned
about such things, but muslim's have proven that we don't know which of
them can be trusted or which of them is planning to blow us up. I do like
Mr. Obama, but I am not convinced that he has not been influenced by the
muslim world. Today I checked out an Albert Einstein legend regarding the
atheist professor. I am sure that you are correct in suggesting that this
is a modern day parable. But I believe Einstein's religious beliefs were
well documented, so that much is worth mentioning - but you didn't. And,
there are professors who want to rid the world of christians in
particular. I am the 7th born of 10 children from a Catholic family. In
college I was taught by my social science professor that I was destined
for failure, as were most of my siblings. What a bunch of foolishness.
Of all of the large Catholic families I knew, they all went to college,
they are all gainfully employed and none of them failed. Yes, there are
children in this country born in poverty to parents who start having
babies while they themselves are children, and some continue to do so
until they perpetuate their own poverty or until they die or go to prison.
This is a genuine crisis in our society. I personally have taught a
student who had had 5 children by the age of 23 and said that she would
not marry again unless she could afford to provide for her children when
her husband left. She had not gone to college and there were no social
science professors to teach her that she was destined for failure. There
is a great difference between the large family I grew up in and those that
are born in circumstances where the critical basics of life are missing.
Maybe social science professors are not evil atheists as the stereo type
goes, but their information is deliberately misleading, i.e. large
families are bad. Also, today I checked out a few of your legends
regarding saints. One in particular, regarding burying the statue of St.
Joseph to create a miracle and sell your home, explains that this is a
myth. In fact, no miracles can occur without the power of God. He works
through faith and prayer. The statue serves as a memorial of St. Joseph
and his life - but the prayers are what bring the miracle. When someone
buries the statue and faithfully prays, and especially if they ask for
prayers from others, it is the faith of those people that brings about the
miracle. Some houses sell, some don't. Is selling a house a miracle? I
don't know, but neither does Snopes. If you really want to provide people
with accurate information regarding such things, why didn't you ask the
Catholic Church for their input? Because, it appears to me, that you
would prefer that people not believe such nonsense.

[Ieuan ab Arthur]

Originally Posted by snopes

Comment: I have visited your site a few times to check on the validity of e-mails that have come through.

Boy, this guy really rambles on before getting to his pointless. And somewhere along the way, his train of thought gets seriously derailed.

Ta ra 'wan,

Ieuan "and winner for most in need of medication is ..." ab Arthur

I think with that rubbish, she/he has proven the prof. half-right.

[snopes]

Comment: I was locked up for a misdormeaner and a probation hold 30 day's
before the storm( in orleans parrish prission)
5 day's before the storm.........they turned off the t.v.
privledges.......after we saw the storm on the news\
4day's prior.they turned off the phones.................so we could not
call out for help becouse they were leaveing us there
we had just elected a new sherriff Marlyn Gusman
The privios sherriff always eveacuated for even the minorest of
hurrricains
3 days prior........they moved me over to the Old Parrish prison.where
they house capitol offender's only....I.... was a misdormeaner
2 days prior.......we had no idea how bad the storm had become.no
t.v............no phones.
I started haveing a premonition while me and
this terot card reader named Evil sat in the ever becomeing more crowded
corner.....he asked if I'd ever astol
projected I said no...he said let me teach you..
we put our hands togeter and
meditated ..he tought me how.........He asked if I could see his
girlfreind out there.
I described her ...he even seemed
amazed.........I told him she was on the street's.and she had two cat's in
a backpack
he said" what do the cat's look like"
.......I described them........he flipped out.............
again and again he came to me that
night asking me if she was o.k...........then I saw it......
They are on a balconey.......and
there is water everywhere,,,,,,,,,,boat's....it's looks like venus.
that didn't really make scence to us
becouse we'd had storms before.but.never anything like I was seeing
He said .they?.who is she
with.......I said a little girl........ (he latter found out that
his girlfrend had found a lost child
and she protected the girl
durring the storm, while they waited for the boats .on a balconey .in
french courter)
He said...is this now or what I said
no..I don't think so....it's the storm.it's comming big
Then he said focus.what about
me....what is going to happen to me.........I said..You've got blood on
your face n hands
1 day prior.......They moved us all to the top floor..turned off the
A.C...........We were packed like rats in a teir meant for 50 we had over
500
shoulder to shoulder....over
120degrees....they came in and thew a bag of rice crispy treats on the
floor and quikly slammed the door closese ....we all nearly killed each
other to get a bit.and that was our last meal.for the next 6 days
The morning of...........the power went out......the water went out...the
toilets over flowed unto the floor....and that became our drinking water
for the next 5 days.......I looked out the window and the storm had
begun.I asked Evil if this was the hurricaine.he said no.he said.when you
see that yellow pedestrain crossing sign out there start
running...that'll be the hurricain........an hour latter...that sign was
fopping back and forth so fast that the man icon on the sign was
LITTERALLY RUNNING!!!!!!! then it blew awy staight up in the air.until
it looked like a kite in the far off distance.........the small window got
too foogy to see..but we could hear the God awfullist explosins and train
sounds....it didn't last very long though.we thought we were in the
eye.......the windows still foggyy.I grabed evil and said..........man is
that water out there? it's moveing like Mississippie river........he
loooked and said hell no.couldn't be.............but he was
wrong..........We marked the water by the hour aginst a stone wall by the
courthouse......a ft. per hour at least it rose that day and rose more
(over for 3 days) we just knew we would die here
that night the guards came the the door and said we'er all trapped
surrounded by 24 ft. of water..........
and this is word for word what they said............we don't give a ****
about you mother ****ers.we've got lived ones to think about.....so you
bitches can burn this mother****er down,rape, ****en kill eack other in
there...we ain't comeing in there to get none of you....we know were
getting sued and we'd dont' care if we lose our job.......gooby WE
BEGGED FOR AT LEAST A FLASHLIGHT..THEY LAGHFT AND SHUT THE DOOR. AND
THAT'S THE LAST TIME WE SAW THEM FOR THE NEXT 5 DAYS NO FOOD NO WATER NO
LIGHTS NO Meds NO HELP FOR WHAT WAS TO COME///////////
That night............It was so dark you could not see a hand in front of
face...........They (inmates)started setting fire's
I screamed...stooooooooooop.carbon monoxide.....they didn't
care.......they started a tribal rythmatic beating on the
walls......dancing around the fires..( my dad , who was in florida at the
time recalls witchen CNN AND SEEING LIVE FOOTage of the priison on fire,
saying to himself God I hope my son ain't in there, and that's exactly
were I was) like a sceen from lord of the flies..............enemies
were screeming at each other thought thew chicken wire that had had
separrated them for these past year while they awaited trall...remmember
this was a capitol offence teir.........they were saying thing to each
other like yaaaaaa I killed your brother.I raped your mother
.........Then they started dragging people out to the back and rappeing
them.....they would screem for a moment then it would stopp sudenly..we
knew theere was a killing but it was to packed to see far
The they ripped the ceoiling out and everyone pulled oput the metal pipe
casings from around the wires.sharpened on both ends we all now had swords
and spears.........they ripped up the chichen wire in the back of the teir
thsat separatted the enemies....
and both side's poored into one another....it sounded like a scean from
braveheart ahhhhhhhhhhhhhahhhhhhhhrarrrrrrrrr and the ching chin sound of
metel and iron crashing together
that lasted all night and reoccered every night for the next 5 days......I
hid under a table that night with a lot of othe scare white boy's...they
were holding on to me so tight saying What was that What was that
What was that What was that and we all just knew we weweregoing to
die
But i made up my mund that I was not going to die.....I remmebered
somthing.I learned in the Marine corp..
I tied my shoe strings together looped them though one shoe as a trip wire
Evrey time some-one would get close to the table to assalt one of us i
would slipp of my shoe
slide out from under the table and with my pipe and star upwarthrusting
and jugging the unssuspecteing assailent
that went I noticed evil who was also fight with me.......he had blood all
over his face and hand and so did I..the premonition was revealed to be
true

the next morning...it looked looked helter skelter blood all over the
walls scalp on the bars.. the water had risen in the teir.. knee level..
we would just piss and shit right where we stood..... bodie under water
nad no bubbles coming up...........The big guy's on the teir were making
every one work to burst out the windows( it took us all 2 days to punch a
air hole though 1 window)
It was over 120 degrees with no air and no drinking water
that was how was spent every day....every night fighting.......day
working-slaveng for the big guys
We finally got one window open(day3)- there was nationalgaurd outside in a
armored boat
ther was a family floating on a rooftop
we saw a man get sucked into a drainage pipe in front of his family
we screamed at them all.haeeeeeellllpppppppp there ****eing over us in
here but no-one gave a shit.
they had to have been hearing the constant construction work we'd been
doing the last few day's any way.......
On the 5th day........the warden came to the door and said o.kk. we'll
try to get survivors out today
we didnt belive him and we'd tried to take him hostage.(well they did.my
hands are dirty enoughf.gatta draw the line)
that afternoon.......we heard a load bang,,,,,,,swatt team and angola riot
squad in full armor,electric shelds,a.r.service rifles.shotgus and hand
guns they kicked in the door,and.............flooded the teir screamind
......get the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck on the ground
it was an impressive opperation......they stripped us doiwn
naked.......and file us out though the courthouse.....there wereso many
deputies shouilder to shoulder on both side all with shotguns all the way
too the steps of the court house
and to think not one of these ****s ever came to check on us in
there.....and what was this they have air conditioner........
we were introduced to the sherriff.....who told us that we'er to be loaded
into air boats and we'd have to swim to the interstate.....he told us that
any one who ran would be shot...........We got into air boatss.I asked the
boat driver if he thought this storm was worse then cameal..he sai
shhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiit we picked up ove 50 bodies between here and the
interstate yesterday..the I saw I body pinned againsta razor wire fenc
bloated floating smokey grey with leaves and debree all over
it...............
thre brouth us to the inter state......we could see the whole city...the
appocalipse........smoking buildings downtown......gunfire.people walking
with nowhere t0o go.............they still did not feed us for 2 more
daqys.we stayed on the interstate until a carevan of transport vehicles
came to get us............they took the long rout to hunts
penatentury.........
The night mare was not near over.......................we got to hunt's
inside a razor wire feild they had a few tent's set up to house thousnads
of prissoners from every parish around..............this was to be called
tent city...as soon as you entered the gate........or should I sai as soon
as you were thrown in........you had to walk this line inmates on both
side bent over shapeing shanks.....pipes.and toothebrushes....for hundreds
of feet
there was violence and killing everywere...................
any time anyone ran to the gate to get help they were shot
several days latter I was taken to catahoola state pentatintury....where I
was LOST IN THE SYSTEM THROWN INTO GENERAL PO. FRO ALMOST A
YEAR........YEAR .....A YEAR can I stress again I was arrested for
a misdomeanor and a probation hold
when I finally retuned to new orleans to stand triall I saw a re-electio
ad compain for sherriff marlyn gusman
it went like this....................
MARLYN GUSMAN A REAL HERO .HE STAYED BEHINND DURRING KATRINA HOUSING
THOUSANDS OF DANGEROUS CRIMINALS
WITH OUT THE LOSS OF A SINGLE LIFE..............
what the **** is that shit .....what did they do with the bodies I want to
know I'll tell the worls
what have they done with those bodie
the families deserve an answer I

my die for reveiling this.............but the truth must be told......bet
you never see this on T.V.
this shit is wack................all they mention is the
superdome........what about the victumes of C-4 in the old parrish
prission


please send this anonamously...and excuse my mispellings

[Hyper Squirrel]

And this relates to Snopes.com how?

[dfresh]

Originally Posted by Hyper Squirrel

And this relates to Snopes.com how?

Hyper, I think you overlooked a key point of the tirade. Try reading it again, completly. Out loud. Maybe read it a few times so you can fully follow it.

[snopes]

Comment: Just reading No. 18 on the glurge list (on my way to reading the
one about the Littlest Fireman about the young lad with cancer and I
thought as I had not been on your site for a while I would try and read it
without crying which I haven`t managed so far- I am a 58 yr. old bloke and
still have tears streaming when I read that even though read it a few
times AND cried when told story to kids and adults!! GLURGE is not an
English word and I often use that to explain glurge when I use the word
having learn it from your site.) and wonder how this bloke having a RARE
meeting with his Mum to such an extent thatit was over-special, is
cited as something good. When my Mum, who was The mega-best Mum in History
of The World, was alive I took her out a lot and often bought her
"unbirthday presents". Never did anything for Mother`s Day (or `Mothering
Sunday` as was known in England until too much global,USA mostly,
influence commercialised it) as I said shouldn`t have a single day for
it - Every day should be Mother`s Day and I took her out for meals and
shopping etc (wheeling her in wheelchair as she got older) on many other
Sundays and other days in year. SO, THIS GUY WHO "HADN`T TIME" FOR HIS
MOTHER SHOULD BE CRITICISED A LOT. GOING OUT WITH A LOVING SON MAY BE
SPECIAL (AND SPECIAL FOR HIM AS IT WAS FOR ME TO BE WITH MY MUM) BUT IT
SHOULDN`T BE SPECIAL BECAUSE IT WAS A RARITY!! IF HE HAD TAKEN HER OUT
MORE HE WOULD HAVE SEEN MORE OF HER BEFORE SHE DIED AND HAD MORE OF A
CHANCE TO SHARE LOVE. Interesting how modern, over-busy, over-money
conscious modern society can put an unfortunate twist on things. I nearly
started crying before I got to the little lad story talking about my Mum.
Plus I live on my own and am lonely quite a lot and really get irritated
by people who "haven`t time" to spend an evening with me. I always have
time for others and life pays me back by being over-loaded with selfish
people who waste time a lot and yet cite work as an excuse when they want
to cop out of helping or alleviating some loneliness. Sounds like the
bloke in that story could have been that kind of person??

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Comment: Yes, the Littlest Fireman got me again. I have a tearful face as
I write this. Only this time went one better. Just after I sent my last
e-mail to you (criticising that story of the bloke who should have seen
his Mum more often)I came across one not seen before about the little girl
kissing the soldier and getting a hug and kiss back from her Dad. That
set me off crying as well! I did hint a criticism in last e-mail at some
of commercialism we get (Halloween is another that has changed - eg we
didn`t used to have scarecrow competitions and pumpkins)but I will mention
that I have put (since 9/11) on Sept. 11th, a USA flag on my prime flag
position on house (quite rare to see flags on English houses as unfairly
labelled by lefties, such as our current government, as being
overpatriotic at best and even a bit fascist or right wing)and British
flag on secondary corner. Usually put English flag up more often than
British but of course British died on 9/11 not just English and Americans.
Put the flags at half mast this year as your President asked.(Although
less sure about that really as a big part of me thinks that maybe one
angle is to leave the flag at full mast to show we remember but ALSO that
we should show the enemy that we are not cowed by their actions and are
ready to stick up fully for our Country, freedom etc..) Soldiers and
children are the same the world over; I mean you could cry for any child
having Dad go away to fight a war and for the patriotism of the Dad. There
is a lovely war memorial near here (Alfreton in Derbyshire) showing statue
of a Dad returning from war with his children greeting/hugging him.
Probably patriotism is one of likeliest things, along with untimely death
and children hurt etc, to get me tearful. I even occasionally get very
emotional for other people`s National Anthems if they are good enough "Oh
say can you see etc" is such an emotive description that it is in that
category but so is "Dixie" and Swedish National Anthem is pretty good !