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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Even Chrissy Matthews noted this on his show tonight.
They had a story from NO and a story from Biloxi.
The NO people were angry, the Biloxi people were grateful.
That being said, Biloxi has been easier to get aid into than NO, so that might account for the difference in attitude.
So you say the following..."Within four days, Boyce said, U.S. officials had set up a combined support force with 1,500 people from numerous government and nongovernmental organizations" supports your claim that "We got aid to thailand faster than this." And a single article claiming we secured 80% of Fallujah within 5 days (we were still taking casualties weeks later) supports your claim that it took less than 4 days to secure Fallujah? Are you kidding me? By your line of thinking a person could easily claim the rescue effort in New Orleans is nearly complete. I mean, we've got 20 times more men and equipment than we had in Thailand, and probably more than 90% of the city is free from violence. Sorry, but your logic and facts just don't hold much water.
The stone-aged types in the Indian Ocean islands acted in a far more civilized fashion.
Scanner Update
Still confusion about the helo to rescue 4 state troopers and 6 EMT's at Cabrini. Still don't know if helo is large enough.
We're obviously talking about two different people. My whiner said that she had nothing to eat for three days except for food from the Salvation Army.
Cool! Louisiana could use a true conservative governor.
That would certainly piss off your friends at the Sierra Club, wouldn't it?
Now go peddle your toxic waste hysteria somewhere else.
Just stay out of the way and let the grownups clean up the mess.
They have decided to Blame Bush for everything.
Ain't that the truth.
I totally agree about people first. However if there are groups already down there or planning to go I think it reasonable that we alert them to this case. I think we are all feeling so helpless at this point that we will grasp at any tiny thing we can do to help.We certainly can't save them all but maybe we can save this one...
I know, it's very disturbing...it has been a constant issue.
The SD did hold up during the hurricane - but if they had planned on it in advance, why wasn't it stocked? Even if people had only been there a couple of days (normal in a hurricane without flooding), they would have needed water and food and lots of Porta-Potties.
The judge who is running things in Houston was asked today how they had been able to get things set up so quickly, and he said "we had a plan." Obviously, NO didn't.
Why?
So they can sing a song about her like they did for the Kent State shootings?
Believe me - this is what she's thinking in her Blank head.
Like the crazed gambler who keeps winning and going double for nothing.
"You people need to chill out. I saw this lady on TV that you are all trash talking and she was just a sweet talking, nice old lady about 85 years old who was just talking like any old grandmother...please. God help us."
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You need to chill. The woman I was referring to was in Houston, about 50+ years old, being interviewed at the Astrodome, about her narrow survivable experience at the Superdome and her cracker only unheated meal at the Superdome. Guess there could be more than one such person, maybe...?
They're going to be shocked when they get into Texas...
It is a very sad thing,but most people have to have the hell scared out of them to convince them to get out. If Blanco and the Mayor had started getting people scared Friday night this would be a whole different ballgame. There are people that still would not leave,but a lot more would be alive if they have been more Alert and responsible. I heard many people say they thought they could weather this like they did the others,and they named all the ones they survived.
Please quote my offensive statement...
Thanks for the chuckle! A bit of (almost) gallows humor:)
Well, that's comforting- NOT!
I'm sure you're right though.
I'm sorry. I feel I ought to know but what is LNO & LSP?
Well, I read a couple of months ago that New York still has many, many millions of $$$$$ left in it's 9/11 emergency fund....and the US Govt. is asking for it back...
But, of course Sens. Clinton and Schumer say they need it "in case" some people get sick years from now of some disease we don't know about yet...that they can attribute to 9/11....IOW..they ain't givin' it back!!!!
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