Comments on: Last Titanic Survivor Hits Rough Waters

96-Year-Old Woman Sells Mementos From Doomed Ship To Pay Nursing Home Bills

[spiritwalk]

Considering the election and what should be a subject of at least slight interest, what does this say regarding what you can expect from the health care business when you retire.

The postings are a perfect reflection of the attitude of the public about this election. You scream and swear at each other over race and class while the system leaves the elderly hustling to pay for their health care.

You get taken advantage of by the lying politicians and the greedy bankers et al. because you get distracted by silly hot button topics while you set yourself up to be robbed and left to fend for yourselves when thinsg go wrong.

[good4always]

WOW, even be asking this question. There was only one black family - second class passengers, traveling (pregnant wife and two young daughters) from France to Haiti.
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Posted by LostUrDik at 04:42 PM : Oct 17, 2008


you are way to dumber then I thought. You still cannot answer what I am really asking. Ok let me aks the question in 5 languages (if you having hard time in understanding English:

"DID NOT THEY STOP POOR PEOPLE FROM BOARDING THE LIFEBOATS?"

French:
N''ont-ils pas cesser de pauvres gens de monter ` bord des embarcations de sauvetage

Spanish:
No dejar que la gente pobre de embarque de los botes salvavidas

German:
Nicht stoppen sie armen Menschen aus der Rettungsboote an Bord

Japanese:
%u8CA7%u3057%u3044%u4EBA%u3005%u3092%u6B62%u3081%u308B%u4EBA%u305F%u3061%u306A%u306E%u3060%u304B%u3089%u3001%u6551%u547D%u642D%u4E57

[thisandthat1]

Before you feel too sorry for poor Millvina Dean ... she has been making a very lucrative living for many, many years from her story of being on the Titanic. For the right price, Millvina has attended many signing sessions where she''ll sit and sign anything that can be signed (again, for a fee). There is a joke among Titanic collectors that Millvina will sign anything that stops moving! She is a very sweet woman but I doubt very much that she is in financial trouble at this point. More likely, she is selling a few of her personal items and, on advice, talking them up to maximize the bidding!

[good4always]

#3. Blacks don''''t try to emulate the success stories of other cultures who had strife but overcame. (YO, black folks: 6 million jews who were incinerated, mamed, tortured, and their lives swept away are doing WONDERFULLY) Instead, they make excuses, degrade their own culture and heritage by glorifying the rap culture, embracing violence, not holding their men responsible for staying with their families, and extend their upturned palms out instead of rolling up their sleeves.
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Posted by LostUrDik at 02:19 PM : Oct 17, 2008



I am totally agreing with your ALL points.

Haven said that, question still remains.....
did not they prefer richer over poor and/or white over darker skin people when boarding the people on lifeboats?

Did they or did they not put poor/dark skin people on lifeboat also?

[noamnestymc]

Posted by Roachcrusher at 02:10 PM : Oct 17, 2008
Yeah this has everything to do with American politics, moonbat.
Posted by easeup at 02:21 PM : Oct 17, 2008
*** Politics has everything to do with it. If we hadn''t been angering the Germans so much before use getting into world war 1, maybe the german ship that was only a few miles away would have replied to Titanic and saved most of the people on the ship before it sunk. Reports at the time showed a german ship that wasn''t responding.

[noamnestymc]

Hmmm...
Here is an opportunity for the Titanic movie production company folks to stand up and do the right thing.
That movie made more than 600 million dollars from all over the world.
James Cameron and the rest of his movie production folks should take the time and interest to financially help this lady.
Create some good will... !
Posted by dakotaclark at 01:14 PM : Oct 17, 2008
*** That is a really good idea!

[noamnestymc]

Didn''''t she survived because she was given preference to board the lifeboat over the blacks and less rich people who were forced at gun point not to board first?????
Posted by Good4Always at 02:04 PM : Oct 17, 2008
*** I honestly doubt there was many black people on a ship from traveling from England to the US in the early 1900''s. That shows your arrogance!

[jeannettelj]

THERE WERE TEARS IN MY EYES AS I READ THIS STORY. WE CAN NOT IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LIKE TO TRY AND SURVIVE THE SINKING. SO MANY DIED BUT MANY DID SURVIVE. ALTHOUGH SHE WAS VERY YOUNG, SHE IS PART OF HISTORY. MY FATHER-IN-LAW, WHO DIED IN 2005, WAS BORN ON THE DAY THE TITANIC SUNK. WE NEVER FORGOT HIS BIRTHDAY.

[easeup-2009]

Posted by Roachcrusher at 02:10 PM : Oct 17, 2008

Yeah this has everything to do with American politics, moonbat.

[roachcrusher]

Only the Republicans and conservatives can sink a legacy of the Titanic. And they are leaving this country in a Titanic mess. A Reagan economic disaster all over again.

Don''t forget folks, we still got the McCain/Palin giant block of ice floating out there. Don''t let them near the sinking, stinking Republican economy.