Posted On: April 26, 2007, 8:20 am CDT

Posted By: Mjolnir

I apologize for giving the impression I was back-pedalling.

Let me be more clear.

I wasn't apologizing for accusing gulf coast posters of hypocrisy and blatant self interest. I was apologizing for singling out Florida. I think many of the posters from the Gulf Coast are whiny and obnoxious.

"It's Bush's fault."
"State Farm screwed me."
"The government doesn't care about NOLA."
"Insurance companies are rapacious ba$tard$ and they are wrecking Florida."

I see this stuff quite often. Other than rapacious- that word's not in the vocabulary of most of the usual suspects.

I, personally, can remember only one post where someone from the midwest asked for cat coverage.

I'm sure there were others, but I missed them.

I also remember when the national cat pool article was posted here, there was a slew of posts from the southeast explaining why it was a good idea.

However, when articles about disasters in California or the Midwest are put up there is zero- Z.E.R.O. response from the hurricane victims.

Your only response has been to call me names and declare that you donate to disater relief funds.

Good for you. Where's Melanie? Rosie? adjusterjoe? The nameless hordes who post 1 or 2 rambling diatribes and disappear?

They take the time to castigate our government over it's Katrina failures, and they burn out keyboards demanding a national cat pool when the article talks about hurricane coverage.

But they don't say an effin word when it's New Hampshire under the gun.

That's petty and hypocritical, and I'm neither ignorant nor incorrect for saying so.

Your charity contributions after Katrina do not offset the clear "gimme mine, screw you" attitude inherent on this board.

Particularly since you have yet to demand cat coverage for NH. All you've done is call names and tell us how wonderful you are.

Does that sound like backpedalling to you?