Looters around the city freely cleaning out stores (Amazingly Honest Account)

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | Natalie Pompilio

[IronMan04]

Yes it will.

[IronMan04]

Being concerned about looting in New Orleans in like being concerned about the looting that took place on the Titanic the night it sank.

[Fawn]

FLorida is not in a sinking hole or below sea level......that I know of....
But ...I'm all for not rebuilding Miami if it goes :)

I know...I'm mean.

[Bombardier]

Agreed, but their ignorance and their barbarity is a threat to the rest of us. I'm very happy you and your family are safe, although I'm sad that New Orleans may end up being a ghost town after all this (my great great grandfather came into the US through New Orleans), and I'm very disquieted that barbarians such as the ones looting are still among us.


I hope you and your family can find a good place to live when all this settles down. You sound like good, Christian folks and you've been through more than anyone deserves to go through.

[longtermmemmory]

I understand completly. I am giving to a group that is 100% known to me and I know where and what they are going to spend the money.

Seriously, I blame the mayor of NO and the Gov. of LA for not getting on the radio and telling people water and food are on the way. They induced this panic by the lack of leadership.

[strongbow]

" I think of Huey Long and the minor bosses, bleeding the system, rather than actually doing what they claimed to do."

Huey Long brought La. out of the dark ages(until today in NOLA). There were no roads, hospitals, University, and the oil industry was out of control. Was he a crooked politician? Absolutely. After all it is Louisiana. At least when Huey made promises to do something for the state he did it. Blanco is just a party hack who takes her orders from the DNC and bows to the unions, the mafia( one and the same) and the gimme gimme minorities. Read T. Harry Williams biography of Huey, you will be impressed.

[don-o]

Bump to 145.

FRiend, please post that to the Live Thread, if you have not

[arizonarachel]

I'll bet that you cannot get flood insurance in New Orleans.

Don't know if you've received a response on this yet, but the Federal Government underwrites flood insurance anywhere in the US. I'm in the insurance industry, and I can bet that if you owned a home in NO, you would be required by your mortgage company to have flood insurance, because you're in such a obvious flood plain.

[Smokin' Joe]

Most gas stations' profit margin on fuel won't cover a 12-18 cent jump in fuel costs. Gotta pay for the next load...

[Fawn]

No..I didn't know that.....and now that you pointed it out...I take it back.....
I agree with you about the other suggestions :)

[ReformedBeckite]

I don't mind sending money...to the RED counties

Maybe that should read/spell countries, I don't consider those blue cities as coming from the same country as I live in.
I'm not to excited about giving out aid to socialistic countries.

[Nov3]

You have no idea what you would do in those circumstances. I'm not saying what they did was right, but to punish because some people will just naturally do the wrong thing is absurd and it makes me think you're just looking for a way out of giving money. Shame on you.

No no No!! Hildy Freepers are better people. After the police started looting the stores (I am sure that is considered OK!) the little people should have just sat there and been thirsty and hungry! These freepers would have sat in NO and without power, water, sewage, "police protection", national guard, communications, and the city flooding around them, and no help on the horizon and gone hungry and thirsty. They are real men behind their keyboards.

Of course all of the people doing BLANKET condemnations of all these people have been through worse - right????

[fortunecookie]

Good analogy. It's too easy to 'judge' from afar. I don't think it's even sunk in. I've been watching televised reactions of locals returning in MS to the ... places where their houses were. Just shocked, blank faces, some tears. It reminds me, in a way, of the shock, disbelief, the strangeness of time and events after 9-11. After 9-11, because of the work I do, although I'm not in NYC, my company and all related were shut down for a week, we waited, hoping to hear someone had made it, sad when learning of those who had not. Time was suspended. It was like walking in a fog. 9-11 was a very different kind of tragedy to be sure, but the same kind of suspension of time and unsettled feeling. And I'm not even there, it must be even more intense for you all. As the MS man on MSNBC said, 'there are no words'. I agree.

Damn, this is sad. I have a dozen or so Refugees at my house in Austin and none have even had a chance to cry.

I have a feeling the tears will come. It is very sad. We are keeping you in our prayers.

[Coldwater Creek]

Obviously you have not seen the video of these looters.

I am glad that you had a nice home in Austin to go to and that you are taking in your family, but somehow I just do not think that you get the point that unless it is for survival you do not steal. These people were not just trying to survive.

[Admin Moderator]

Hint: Tone down the language

[Smokin' Joe]

Suuuure. Left a check on the till.....just kidding.

Actually, that one is skinny enough to be really sick, a speed freak, or really poor (starving).

[Clemenza]

Sorry! :-)

[fortunecookie]

We rebuild Florida every six months why not rebuild New Orleans and improve the levees?

LOL, that's too true. Rebuild, improve the levees. And maybe move it inland a little?