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Why Isn't Kansas Media Covering Obama's Win?

The election is over, no more debates, weird commercials, robocalls, political rallies, or local people calling their President the "antichrist" for awhile.......hopefully; but I am wondering: how come the media here in Kansas is not proudly posting pictures of Barack Obama in all of their front pages, heralding to the world that he won the election? We have front page stories about dumbasses flying their flags upside down on Veterans Day because they hate anyone whose ancestry is African, and we have someone in the white house whose ancestry is African, but where's the pride in making the announcement about the winner? Is Kansas, as a whole, truly undersocialized enough to openly display racial prejudism? Northeast Kansas small town, I am talking to you! Some schools will put up pictures of the President on the office wall, but I have not seen one at my childrens' school since we moved from the East Coast.  Why is it that none of the Kansas children in my aquaintence know that President Obama's mother was from Kansas? How is it that Kansas fails to celebrate this fact? Yet Kansas will celebrate a flag flown upside down when the nation is NOT in distress. Grow up, Kansas. You are ugly.

 

The President with his mom, when he was little.

Message From Obama

To everyone on the East Coast, this is very important. Please pay attention to this and be safe.

 

Obama Does His Job While Romney Runs For Cover

 
A big storm threatens the East Coast. Obama headed straight for Washington D.C. Romney, on the other hand, ran away, getting as far inland as he could without running into another storm. If Mitt Romney cannot stand up to a storm, how on earth would he stand up to an enemy? He'd be the first in retreat. Every time.

 

But then, Mitt does not keep his money in America, either.

 

Update: "And while both Republicans and Democrats were tiptoeing around politicizing the storm, some progressive news sites pointed out Sunday that Romney called federal disaster relief funding "immoral" in a primary season debate last year.".....Yahoo News

Time For Earthquake Insurance?

Things ya never think of. Or the time-honored "those things NEVER happen here". And lets not forget the classic line, "that will never happen to me". Oh yeah. I'll bet that's what almost everyone on the East Coast, where I used to live, thought about measureable tremors and earthquakes, too. Until today. From the looks of things, I would say everyone is pretty lucky, too. Here's a pic of some damage to a building in Pennsylvania.........it's bad enough to worry about future earthquakes and start building with earthquakes in mind, but no mass destruction.

                            
                                                      Glass cracked by the earthquake

A 5.9 quake, which is what this was, would not be expected to topple a building, but it can damage your house. Most people who live on the east coast do not purchase earthquake insurance, and quite a few of them will probably have to pay out of pocket for whatever happened to their homes during the earthquake. I am guilty, myself. I have owned several homes in that part of the country, and I never even thought about earthquake insurance.

Why wasn't anyone prepared for this? Hmmm.......looking at demographics a little, I can only guess it has something to do with families either not having been in this country for over 150 years, or families not communicating, generation to generation, about things that have happened in the past. History has practically disappeared from our minds, because we have no place for extended family, and nuclear family alone cannot give us a complete picture of our familys' pasts, or of the geographical pasts of the parts of the Earth we tend. From the dust bowl to the rain forests, it seems like we never learn.

So now, there are new reasons to purchase earthquake insurance right here on this map!
According to Businessweek.com:

A policy from Chubb for earthquake insurance in New York is 50 cents per $1,000 of homeowners coverage, or about $250 a year on a home valued at $500,000. ..........Aug. 23, 2011

That will never take the place of  being prepared for a disaster, or of having a way to contact family members already in place in case a disaster occurs, but I'll bet more people are looking into buying insurance in case of an earthquake, after today.