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Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII
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| 1 September 2005
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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by NautiNurse
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To: Arizona Carolyn
To everyone in the MSM with an email address that has not baned me for the day.
If you have email addresses of the Main Stream Media please post them.
Many of my address now come back undeliverable.
Especially from things like Comments to Fox.
Most in the Main Stream Media could care less about hearing anything from their listeners.
Liberals do not like dissent from their radical opinions.
5,501
posted on
09/02/2005 2:28:08 PM PDT
by
OKIEDOC
(There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
To: plain talk
So, where was Bush slow on the draw? You said it, I didn't.
To: queenkathy; southernnorthcarolina
One and the same; you know he has that new "Poverty Institute" at UNC now, so I guess we shouldn't be surprised to hear from him, huh? All those pimps show up at times like this.
5,503
posted on
09/02/2005 2:28:59 PM PDT
by
Howlin
(Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
To: SE Mom
And the recovery will dominate the weekend news, along with any additional news the White House wants to make regarding relief and reconstruction strategies.
5,504
posted on
09/02/2005 2:29:04 PM PDT
by
mwl1
To: heylady
You know why everybody buys milk, bread and eggs when it snows? I'm assuming they're all making french toast.
To: Tarheel
Just above 540 would be fine!
5,506
posted on
09/02/2005 2:29:40 PM PDT
by
Howlin
(Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
To: LizardQueen
Why the hell would they put their emergency generator in their basement in one of the countries worst flood zones?
Houston Medical Center also did that (generators in the basement) and suffered enormously during a flood a few years back. Lost MRI and other expensive medical equipment, years of medical research, had to move patients on stretchers down darkened stairwells. It was abysmal. It cost a fortune to repair. Medical waste was floating around like in NO right now.
5,507
posted on
09/02/2005 2:29:43 PM PDT
by
hummingbird
(21st Century Newsreporting - "Don't get me started!")
To: MIsunshine; All
This is part of an interview that the mayor gave to a WWL this morning:
WWL: If some of the public called and they're right, that there's a law that the president, that the federal government can't do anything without local or state requests, would you request martial law?
NAGIN: I've already called for martial law in the city of New Orleans. We did that a few days ago.
WWL: Did the governor do that, too?
NAGIN: I don't know. I don't think so.
But we called for martial law when we realized that the looting was getting out of control. And we redirected all of our police officers back to patrolling the streets. They were dead-tired from saving people, but they worked all night because we thought this thing was going to blow wide open last night. And so we redirected all of our resources, and we hold it under check.
I'm not sure if we can do that another night with the current resources.
And I am telling you right now: They're showing all these reports of people looting and doing all that weird stuff, and they are doing that, but people are desperate and they're trying to find food and water, the majority of them.
Now you got some knuckleheads out there, and they are taking advantage of this lawless -- this situation where, you know, we can't really control it, and they're doing some awful, awful things. But that's a small majority of the people. Most people are looking to try and survive.
And one of the things people -- nobody's talked about this. Drugs flowed in and out of New Orleans and the surrounding metropolitan area so freely it was scary to me, and that's why we were having the escalation in murders. People don't want to talk about this, but I'm going to talk about it.
You have drug addicts that are now walking around this city looking for a fix, and that's the reason why they were breaking in hospitals and drugstores. They're looking for something to take the edge off of their jones, if you will.
And right now, they don't have anything to take the edge off. And they've probably found guns. So what you're seeing is drug-starving crazy addicts, drug addicts, that are wrecking havoc. And we don't have the manpower to adequately deal with it. We can only target certain sections of the city and form a perimeter around them and hope to God that we're not overrun.
WWL: Well, you and I must be in the minority. Because apparently there's a section of our citizenry out there that thinks because of a law that says the federal government can't come in unless requested by the proper people, that everything that's going on to this point has been done as good as it can possibly be.
NAGIN: Really?
WWL: I know you don't feel that way.
NAGIN: Well, did the tsunami victims request? Did it go through a formal process to request?
You know, did the Iraqi people request that we go in there? Did they ask us to go in there? What is more important?
And I'll tell you, man, I'm probably going get in a whole bunch of trouble. I'm probably going to get in so much trouble it ain't even funny. You probably won't even want to deal with me after this interview is over.
WWL: You and I will be in the funny place together.
NAGIN: But we authorized $8 billion to go to Iraq lickety-quick. After 9/11, we gave the president unprecedented powers lickety-quick to take care of New York and other places.
Now, you mean to tell me that a place where most of your oil is coming through, a place that is so unique when you mention New Orleans anywhere around the world, everybody's eyes light up -- you mean to tell me that a place where you probably have thousands of people that have died and thousands more that are dying every day, that we can't figure out a way to authorize the resources that we need? Come on, man.
You know, I'm not one of those drug addicts. I am thinking very clearly.
And I don't know whose problem it is. I don't know whether it's the governor's problem. I don't know whether it's the president's problem, but somebody needs to get their ass on a plane and sit down, the two of them, and figure this out right now.
To: oceanview
Could that be because many of us have worked our A$$ off to try and have something in life. Either way, that is neither here-nor-there. I actually have GREAT empathy for these poor people because the people they trust are purposely keeping them in the basement.
All they care about is getting them to the voting booth and if they were to get them educated many of them would see the writing on the wall and vote for the right party.
Edwards delights in this as a DEM because he continues his them against us mentality... that is sooooo destructive, be it in life or work. I still remember, years ago, one of our managers telling his boss that it was them against us... it got out and that guy was pretty much toast because everyone was so appalled at his attitude.
To: All
5,510
posted on
09/02/2005 2:29:57 PM PDT
by
Iowa Granny
(Be nice to your children, they will someday be selecting your Nursing Home)
To: mystery-ak
I should have known I could have counted on you to slap me around. :-)
5,511
posted on
09/02/2005 2:30:17 PM PDT
by
Howlin
(Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
To: Howlin
The footage of suffering is just overwhelming. Good thing we can turn to our faith at times like this.
Hang in there. We'd all like to smack a reporter, or kick the Mayor and the Governor in the derrierre.
Hope you guys are doing ok in North Carolina, with the gas crunch!
5,512
posted on
09/02/2005 2:30:40 PM PDT
by
Darnright
( Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before)
To: hipaatwo
Was he talking salary or talking about net worth?
To: mwl1
If the RATS and their media handmaidens at CNN and MSNBC have turned this story to racism, they will not only lose their audience, they will engender a backlash for Bush. Don't tell them!......Post this kind of common sense "heads up" again, and I'm clicking the "abuse" button ;-)
To: Willgamer
What a kind thing for you to say. :-)
5,515
posted on
09/02/2005 2:31:23 PM PDT
by
Howlin
(Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
To: cgk
Wow, she went in right over the narrow opening from the Gulf to Ponchartrain.
To: BurbankKarl
LOL
Funny and sobering at the same time.
5,517
posted on
09/02/2005 2:31:44 PM PDT
by
sfimom
(NW PA thank God.)
To: Born in a Rage; KakaduDreamer; Warren_Piece
Those who don't understand the agenda of Scientologists might not be appalled about their "helping" the hurricane victims, but those who are familiar know better than to "trust" the sort of "help" a Scientologist might offer.
Anyone who wants to know a little more about them should do a quick Google search about Lisa McPherson, and see what kind of "help" she got from them. I find it a little ironic that they are offering food and water to those afflicted by Katrina.
God help us!
5,518
posted on
09/02/2005 2:31:50 PM PDT
by
Ohioan from Florida
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke)
To: Hard Way
"You just can't please some. I saw a woman on FNC this AM who complained, "Well yeah, we got water now, but we don't have any ice! It's HOT down here!"
I just finished speaking to my cousin, who volunteers at our local Red Cross. I am so angry right now I can hardly type. Anyway, it seems that one of the evacuees who arrived here yesterday REFUSED refuge in a shelter. She raised such a ruckus the police had to be called. I'm assuming that the police asked the Red Cross to baby the whining b*tch so they gave her a hotel room. They were back at the Red Cross today. This freaking prima donna wasn't happy with the selection of FREE clothing at Goodwill.
I wish I had been there. I might have gone to jail for it but I honestly I believe I would have slapped the woman.
To: ican'tbelieveit
You bet the media is looking to tear America apart.
5,520
posted on
09/02/2005 2:32:01 PM PDT
by
OKIEDOC
(There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
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