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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Bus overturned. Must be Bush's fault. :(
And THEN hopefully the military folks have nightvision stuff to see pathogens more clearly....
Calling John Edwards. Calling Al Sharpton. Calling the ACLU.
What exactly HAS the state and local government done in La ?
I'm not talking about the old, the sick or the children, but I've never seen such a helpless, do-nothing group of people in my entire life. There are many able-bodied people in that group.
I live in Tn and I guarantee you that if women were being raped, and people killed in a large complex like that, there would be men defending them with their lives. They showed some tourists at the airport that were badly beaten by men in the superdome. One of their friends had been beaten to death. Are there no decent people in that mass of people who would come to their aid? I saw big muscular men in the crowd. I don't understand.
Where is the massive amounts of food that was looted? Put back for a "rainy" day?
I was thinking about all the rich leftists... Hollywood, east coast, west coast, people with multiple residences.Many in the liberal media have vacation homes. Many even have guest homes on their properties. I wonder how many will offer these to the "refugees?" I can tell you.
None. All they will do is use this horrible NATURAL disaster to blame W. For the Dems, Sunday was the kickoff to campaign season for the the 2006 elections. I see Harold Ford Jr got a jumpstart.
I'll be firing off a multitude of letters to Blitzer, O'Brien, and
the gleeful Chris Matthews. Won't do any good, but it will get rid of some anger.
HEADS UP
FNC ALERT
Bus accident of NO refugees .. Bus over turned
1 reported dead
woman on CNN, evacuated from the Ritz-Carlton, FEMA agreed to allow their charter buses to take them out (that dovetails in the OReilly story from last night). they walked through the raw sewage to get to the buses, they all took antibiotics, they had armed security. they were taken to a hotel in Baton Rouge, then flew out of Houston.
Golly, the NYSlimes got it wrong? I'm shocked, SHOCKED!
“Supposedly this one was the big one,” Lambert said. “This bridge took it.”
It helped that the stronger winds appear to have blown from one end of the Causeway to the other, unlike the I-10 twin-spans, which took both a crosswind and a surge.
Oh no... God have mercy.
well said.
Marine 1 must have flown too close
I think you are foolish to suggest that the workers need someone who can do nothing for them but pat them on the back to show up to make things miraculously better. It is better that those who can make decisions on the ground be there than a figure head who can only hold their hands and console them.
You know what made a difference today, not the President landing his helicopter to view the destruction, it was the NG showing up with relief supplies and guns. The President didn't make that happen by showing up, it has been in the works for days. Some of the NG drove from CA to bring supplies; they have been on the road for days.
The reality is, in a disaster, things take time. Everything has to be moved out or you won't have a response at all. After that assessments have to happen. I think it is miraculous the number of coast guard and other rescues that have happened as quickly as they have.
If you want to lay blame at the feet of anyone, it needs to be at the feet of those in charge that did not provide a complete evacuation of the city for those that wanted it. Once a local government forces a population to rely on it for everything from food to transportation, it then has an overwhelming responsibility to provide for that same population support during a disaster.
No, Laura. She was in Lafayette, today.
I know, but what is MSM concentrating on? The President and saying he is behind the ball on this... where is the Governor today??? WHY isn;t she there with the President and Nagin and WHY isn't the MSM asking that question???
There was a tremendous amount of confusion on FR over this as well, as people repeatedly put up pics of the Ponchartrain causeway and incorrectly said they were pics of the I-10 bridge.
placemark.
Yes, Ivan knocked out the power for 3 days.
Didn't lose my phone that time.
Thank the Lord!
We, personally don't get the tornadoes but a lot around the city do.
We live half way up a mountain and get lots of wind, doubling our trees. None have been lost as of yet, though.
During Opal we had hurricane force winds and tropical winds with Katrina.
Our neighbor across the street lost a large maple the other night.
We have lots of limbs and leaves, but no damage. PTL!
Good lord, what's next. I can't wait to hear what caused it to flip. How many lawsuits are going to be filed over that!
These people can't catch a break.
150 busses x 50 seats = 7,500 left?
Is that the number?
90,000 square miles
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