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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by NautiNurse
28,000 National Guard troops are deployed to the disaster areas in Mississippi, Alabama, and to Louisiana, where SWAT teams are working to combat the looters and shooters in New Orleans. Additional 1400 National Guard troops are being deployed daily.
Shootings reported at a New Orleans hospital, rescue boats, and a military helicopter, while conditions continue to deteriorate at the SuperDome amid refugee deaths and chaos. Evacuation of New Orleans continues.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert has voiced serious doubts about rebuilding New Orleans with federal funds, while assuring the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida that the United States Congress stands ready to help them in their time of need. New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin issued a "desperate SOS."
Doctors at two desperately crippled hospitals in New Orleans called The Associated Press Thursday morning pleading for rescue, "We have been trying to call the mayor's office, we have been trying to call the governor's office ... we have tried to use any inside pressure we can. We are turning to you. Please help us," said Dr. Norman McSwain, chief of trauma surgery at Charity Hospital, the largest of two public hospitals.
The Port of New Orleans is now open to shallow draft vessels. Congress is reconvening in an emergency session. International offers to assist the U.S. have been received from Russia, Japan, Canada, France, Honduras, Germany, Venezuela, Jamaica, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, Hungary, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, China, South Korea, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, NATO and the Organization of American States.
Jesse Jackson has arrived in Louisiana...
Links to various news, local and state government websites:
WLOX TV Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagula has link to locate family and friends
2theAdvocate - Baton Rouge Includes Slidell, St. John Parish, St. Bernard Parish updates, and other locations.
NOLA.com
Inside Houma Today includes shelter and volunteer updates
WLBT.com Jackson MS
WALA Channel 4 Mobile, AL Includes links to distribution centers, Emergency Ops, etc.
Sun-Herald Gulfport MS Includes link to town by town reports
Gulfport News via Topix.net
WAFB Baton Rouge
Mobile Register via al.com
Mississippi updates via Jackson Ledger
Lafayette LA Daily Advertiser
Pensacola News Journal
St Bernard Local Government
Alabama Homeland Security Volunteers can sign up online
Alabama DOT
Alabama.gov
Louisiana Homeland Security
Louisiana State Police road closure info
State of Mississippi Website has traffic alerts, emergency contact numbers
Streaming Video:
WWL-TV (via CBS): WWLTV via CBS
WWL-TV Now via WFAA Dallas **NEW LINK**: http://www.wwltv.com/cgi-bin/bi/video/makeadplaylist.pl?title=beloint_wfaa&live=yes
WDSU-TV: http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38843.asx
WPMI-TV: http://www.wpmi.com/mediacenter/default.aspx?videoId=113739
WKRG-TV: mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95518
WTOK-TV Temporarily Not Live Streaming (follow the link on the home page): http://www.wtok.com/
WJTV-TV: mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95563
Louisiana Statewide Katrina Network (WJBO-AM Baton Rouge): http://ccri.eonstreams.com/ccri_la_batonrouge_wjbo_am.asf
Gulf Coast Storm Network (radio): http://www.stormalert.net/main.html#
Louisiana Scanner
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Discussion Thread - Hurricane Katrina - What Went Wrong?!?
Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here
Looting Begins In New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina HOUSING Thread
Martial Law Declared in New Orleans
Due to the number of requests to assist, the following list of some charities is provided.
This is not intended as an endorsement for any of the charities.
www.redcross.org or 1-800 HELP NOW - note: website is slow, and lines are busy
Salvation Army - 1-800-SAL-ARMY or Salvation Army currently looking for in-state volunteers - (888)363-2769
Operation Blessing: (800) 436-6348.
America's Second Harvest: (800) 344-8070.
Catholic Charities USA: (800) 919-9338, or www.catholiccharitiesusa.org.
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee: (800) 848-5818.
Church World Service: (800) 297-1516 or online at www.churchworldservice. org.
Lutheran Disaster Response: (800) 638-3522.
Nazarene Disaster Response: (888) 256-5886.
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance: (800) 872-3283.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is accepting donations at its 3,800 stores and Web site, www.walmart.com.
National Black Home Educators Resource Association http://www.nbhera.org/
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You should see a straight on shot of his face. He's very irritated.
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Heart Warming Freeper post?
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They are complaining on one thread about a a post by calex59 to Baynative
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475609/posts?page=24#24
EVERBODY (evacuees, reporters, etc) has had nothing to say but praise for the Coast Guard. They have been stellar
"Is he running down the road yelling "Ashley, Ashley, you're home!!"
LOL, and I would tell him, "Frankly Scarlet, I don't give a damn"
That's certainly a very big part of this. I think Bush has had to take control of one damned thing after another before anything started to get done.
Part of the job of FEMA's chief administrator is keeping the press busy so everyone else can do their job. Think about that.
Barbour has a job for life in MS, IMHO. So does the AL Gov.
No one is going to blame Bush for an act of God or its effects. The American people are reasonable people.
The left makes this mistake over and over while the right always worry's needlessly that the next liberal spin will work.
That's what Sharpton was already peddling.
That's what FOX reported, there is just too many security concerns for a touchdown..
Maybe with a more accurate, on the ground frame of reference, if the President was angry with FEMA, he may see what they are dealing with.
IOW, FEMA can only work with what they have and NO did not give them anything to work with.
It has to come back to local. NO is an example of what can go wrong (everything!) if disaster planning is not a major issue for each locaility.
Can someone post pictures for us cubical prisoners please!
Never has the statement, "You get the government you deserve.", been proven in gigantic, glowing letters.
I can't find the exact article now.
There are a ton of articles that Google turns up about how the Sierra Club and the other environazi groups have worked to block the Corps with regard to levees, though.
Google something like "Corps Sierra Club levee 1998" and expanded variations and you'll see tons of articles - many by the groups themselves in their proudly crowing newsletters about how they have been fighting to keep the swamps.
Colonial pipeline.
Not to mention that President Bush just praised the FEMA director - "You're doing a hellova job."
If you don't like that, press Congress to change the Constitution, and the law.
You are over-simplifying. Lawyers can disagree about the precise extent but there is a very strong argument that the president has the inherent constitutional authority to employ federal military force to stop insurrections such as we have seen. The Posse Comitatus act limits the use of the military (actually only part of it) but it contains exceptions, and many legal experts believe that the president's inherent constitutional authority goes beyond even those exceptions.
Has John Kerry-Heinz been heard from?
Here is a web cam link in downtown NO of one of the fires. Compliments of Interdictor in the middle of this mess.
http://old.mises.org:88/NO2
Yeah, but this is what we knew he was doing behind the scenes. He looked like a Leader because he has been leading.
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