Posted on 09/02/2005 3:25:22 AM PDT by jimbo123
That is why other cities and communities across the country have to take in some of these people. If they are all housed in a couple of cities, their opportunities for employment and decent permanent housing, will be limited. Relocating may give some of these people the opportunity to make a better life for themselves and their families.
There seems to be plenty of water but too few people who know how to add a few drops of Clorox to it before drinking it.
Unfortunately, many residents of New Orleans are returning to their AFrican roots.
And the heart of the problem seems to be lack of fathers in most families.
After a;;, how many 10-second soundbites do you see in which there is a mother holding small crying children, with no father anywhere in sight.
The older children are left to fend for themselves by looting and preying on the weak.
If I knew that my children, or any relative for that matter, were going to be in such a dangerous situation as a cat. 4 hurricane, I'd like to believe me and my family (including my son) would have crossed hell or high water to evacuate them days before the hurricane struck.
I've been to New Orleans twice, once on business and once on vacation. I loved both trips there, but I can also say that I also felt more unsafe there than I have in any other city I've been in.
I grew up outside New York City and have been all over the country, in nearly every major city. Not even NYC in it's bad years ever gave me the red-alert hair-on-the-neck-raised kind of feeling that N.O. did. I've got some pretty good street-smarts from growing up where I did, and the alarm bells were ringing the entire time I was there, both times.
It's really a shame. Old N.O. was/is a beautiful place with a lot of cool history and culture, but the thug element was ruining it even before the flood.
Maybe some day I'll make it over to your area. I've wanted to take a driving tour outside of N.O. and see the real Lousiana but haven't made it yet. Closest I got was 2 bus trips, one to Oak Alley plantation and another to a swamp tour in Westwego.
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I've heard others say that, and I just don't believe it.
There were three days of warnings, plenty of time to walk to higher ground, or take a $1 bus ride.
If I'm not mistaken, FEMA and/or the state of LA was even offering bus rides and temporary shelter prior to Sunday when the storm hit.
I've heard others say that, and I just don't believe it.
There were three days of warnings, plenty of time to walk to higher ground, or take a $1 bus ride.
If I'm not mistaken, FEMA and/or the state of LA was even offering bus rides and temporary shelter prior to Sunday when the storm hit.
I agree wholeheartedly. Media reporting has been reduced to a repeated collage of hysterical anecdotes and badmouthing. Even FOX news has joined the circus .
If it had been a radiological attack, all would be calm and peaceful by now....
Quite the opposite, the city is a template for poor, liberal misplaced COMPASSION........ the dependency class.
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Check out "Wylie Avenue Days" .... a story (on DVD) of a GREAT mostly all black community in Pittsburgh back in the 30's through the early 60's. It was wonderful. Now it's not...... and you know why!
They didn't have to do all of that when they were told to evacuate in the first place. I really am losing sympathy for the people of NO. I've known for years that city will flood if hit by a hurricane, and I've never even been there. I did feel bad for them at first, but they stayed behind with no emergency supplies and expected help to just drop from the sky the next day. All of this is the fault of people in NO and LA. Nobody locally used any foresight to make preparations for the inevitable. Nobody locally is taking charge of the situation. They just sit around and whine that somebody needs to do something. They can whine about Federal funds getting cut for this or that, but ultimate responsibility lies with locally leadership, or the lack thereof.
That being said, I still pray that people are taken out of danger quickly.
The key consideration in the breakdown of a society is whether civilization is internal or external to the individual. Our pandering agenda of political correctness has undermined the critical internalization of our culture through education and civics, and has replaced it instead with a "nonjudgemental" multicultural agenda, that in effect means "NO culture". In most cases, inculcation of societal norms still occurs (to some degree) in the home, church or in non-government education. Where it does not sufficiently occur in these environments, we see a catastrophic failure of the act of "civilization" (meaning the civilizing of the individual through reason, morals and faith.) As a result, in some communities, political correctness has allowed civilization to simply become a veneer, a thin and broad collection of norms and behaviors, frequently broken, and sustained only by threat or force of violent coersion.
Civilization is only robust when achieved internally and intrinsically. Those residents who were internally civilized had a higher propensity evacuate early, leaving a higher concentration of the uncivilized among the remaining residents. The anarchy that has broken out in the absence of force of authority is a logical outcome of tolerance of uncivilized behavior under the auspices of political correctness.
PC kills, and we are seeing it in New Orleans.
If you don't have an automobile, why not put some canned goods and water in a pillow case and start WALKING out of the city? I'm an old guy, but I think I could easily put about 40 miles behind me in two days, even with family members poking along.
I had a student once who was a Cambodian and when their family split up to escape Jane Fonda's pals, she walked to Laos -- at age 12 (!) with two siblings in tow!! She told me how lucky they were.
Compare and contrast with the folks you see on TV....
Absolutely on the money, even if you are a "Demoniac"!
The community there needs to start firing back and taking these people out-
Our military won't be able to take them out and the liberals will continue to make excuses for them-
Don't insult the animals :)
If you don't have an automobile, why not put some canned goods and water in a pillow case and start WALKING out of the city?
I'd been thinking the same thing for about two days (how many miles is Baton Rogue? Tens of miles, not hundreds, correct?) However, another thread this morning had a report from "Bigfoot" (apparently a local NO celebrity) who said that people trying to leave the convention center area are turned back at gunpoint--even those who have used their cell phones to arrange private rides!
To be honest, this troubles me as much as anything I've heard about the emergency response.
Off-topic: why so few threads about the apparent gas crisis? Is it just Orlando where the stations are runnig dry?
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