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President Bush To Address Nation At 5 Pm
AP | 8-31-05

Posted on 08/31/2005 11:32:04 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache

President Bush to address the nation on Hurricane Katrina...has flown by the damage on Air Force One on way back to D.C.


TOPICS: Breaking News; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: bush43; katrina; neworleans
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To: Rebelbase
I wonder if they're 'working on a plan' yet to deal with the bodies? Other than just shoving them aside, that is.

Why, oh why on earth would you just leave the bodies floating around? First of all, it has to be very unsanitary. Second, can we maybe treat them with a little more dignity than that? I mean, they were human beings, not pieces of flotsam to just be judged out of the way.

21 posted on 08/31/2005 11:42:39 AM PDT by Trust but Verify (Get over yourselves!)
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To: Howlin

Thank you so much for the ping Howlin!


22 posted on 08/31/2005 11:42:59 AM PDT by Just A Nobody (I - LOVE - my attitude problem !)
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To: Howlin

Thank you


23 posted on 08/31/2005 11:43:04 AM PDT by firewalk
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To: My Favorite Headache
Now that he's had his fun, I hope he'll explain how he plans on using the new hurricane creation and steering technology for good instead of evil in the future.

(I read about it on DU.)

24 posted on 08/31/2005 11:43:17 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: janetjanet998

Bush to ask American citizens for aid and help...also the global community as the situation spins out of control in certain portions of the gulf coast.


25 posted on 08/31/2005 11:43:19 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
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To: Freeper Lady
Folks... I don't have a good feeling about this.

Please elaborate, if possible. I may not be sufficiently worried.

26 posted on 08/31/2005 11:44:36 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson (My brain maybe tiny but it is quite accurate.)
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To: My Favorite Headache
.has flown by the damage on Air Force One on way back to D.C.

Click...(static)

Now Mister President, If you'll look out of the starboard window, you'll see the Worlds largest punchbowl, where New Orleans used to be....

May I recommend calling it a huge Absloute Martini, and inviting Senator Kennedy down to survey the site?

27 posted on 08/31/2005 11:44:58 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "I know everything so you dont have to...." ;)
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To: Freeper Lady

Bush's face going onto Marine 1 looked like death.Ask the global community for AID.


28 posted on 08/31/2005 11:45:06 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
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To: Freeper Lady
This will likely end up dwarfing 9/11 in terms of lives & dollars      :-( ` ` `
29 posted on 08/31/2005 11:45:21 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: steveegg

Im not whining, just stating the facts. Gas in Columbia, SC (the cheapest in the nation) went from an avreage of 2.60 this morning to 2.99 at lunch. Many stations are running out, and lines are growing extremely long. Some of the surrounding towns are complete out. We need to build refineries ASAP.


30 posted on 08/31/2005 11:45:38 AM PDT by conservativeinferno (My SUV is the urban squirrel's worst predator.)
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To: txflake
THIS President had it all thrown at him, and it is my opinion (history will bear this out as well, I am sure) that he did as well and better than many ... I mean that. He is a giant and has, in all of it, retained his professional commitment and personal humility. Neat trick. If you don't think so, just look who was in the WH previously and tell me THAT bore any resemblance to commitment or humility.
31 posted on 08/31/2005 11:45:44 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: My Favorite Headache

I am SURE that countries around the world will rally to our aid and help out financially...and Bono will have another concert for the victims.....


32 posted on 08/31/2005 11:46:08 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: dead
Now that he's had his fun, I hope he'll explain how he plans on using the new hurricane creation and steering technology for good instead of evil in the future.

(I read about it on DU.)

<sarcasm=1>The next targets are Havana, Cuba, and Caracas, Venezuela. Of course, that won't be exactly what the DUmmies wanted to hear, but they're in a delusional state anyway. <sarcasm=0>

33 posted on 08/31/2005 11:46:10 AM PDT by steveegg ($3.00 a gallon is the price you pay for ANWR! Start drilling or stop whining! - HT Falcon4.0)
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To: tomkat

Rumors are that he's going to ask the nation to conserve energy, gas will be $4.00 a gallon by the weekend.


34 posted on 08/31/2005 11:46:48 AM PDT by va4me
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To: hobbes1
May I recommend calling it a huge Absloute Martini, and inviting Senator Kennedy down to survey the site?

ROTFLMAO!! Terrible, but funny.

35 posted on 08/31/2005 11:47:44 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (The constitution is not in exile, it's in a nice safe deposit box in the Cayman Islands - Lileks)
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To: PilloryHillary

1. We start drilling the Artic next week.
2. 10 new refineries will begin construction in the followeing red states. . .
3. One blend of fuel may be used across the USA.

Any questions?


36 posted on 08/31/2005 11:47:45 AM PDT by soycd
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To: Trust but Verify

"Why, oh why on earth would you just leave the bodies floating around?"

Because they're trying to rescue the living first.

Resources and manpower are overwhelmed. Even with lots of manpower, it's almost impossible to get around the city. What transportation is available is being used to save lives.

Sure, floating bodies pose sanitation problems. So do overflowing sewers.

It's just a matter of priorities, kind of like triage in nursing. You put the effort and resources where they do the most good.

In this case, saving lives trumps respect for dead bodies.


37 posted on 08/31/2005 11:48:03 AM PDT by Jedidah
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To: My Favorite Headache

At least, the President didn't do like our local politcos did last year after we were flooded out by Ivan. They all gathered around, bothering the rescue workers and the cleanup people and generally getting in the way. I was waiting for someone to hand the governor, the senators, the state legislators and every other VIP who showed up a shovel and some bib overalls and tell 'em to start shoveling.


38 posted on 08/31/2005 11:48:07 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: My Favorite Headache

4 eastern time?

Why go one hour before local news shows begin..I would wait until 5.


39 posted on 08/31/2005 11:48:26 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: va4me
I posted this on another thread and believe it to my core:

There is no moral difference between the bastards jacking up gas prices on inventory already purchased and the bastards looting in the streets of New Orleans.

40 posted on 08/31/2005 11:48:51 AM PDT by tomkat
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