Brett Coomer / Chronicle A paramedic carries a pair of girls away from an Army helicopter after they were airlifted from their flooded home in New Orleans on Tuesday.
Posted on 09/02/2005 1:28:16 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
I see Americans helping Americans. I hear stories and see photos that inspire me! I thank God I live in America.
Brett Coomer / Chronicle A paramedic carries a pair of girls away from an Army helicopter after they were airlifted from their flooded home in New Orleans on Tuesday.
I just listened to the local D.C. radio news and they played a woman screaming about no showers in the Astrodome. No this, no that, no nothing (I hear different). Then they quoted Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich making snide remarks about the progress of relief efforts.
Melissa Phillip / Chronicle Volunteer Heather Carson holds her son Joel Carson, 10 months, while she sorts through donated items. She and other volunteers at the Westlake Fire Department organized donated items for refugees from Hurricane Katrina. Three families of around 70 people stayed at the Westlake Volunteer Fire Department on Saums Road near Katy. Residents of the community converged on the fire station to bring supplies and offer support.
Americans are doing for each other but what is reported?
Negative, negative, negative.
Depress. Depress. Depress.
Bash Bush. Bash Bush. Bash Bush! Bash America.
Never, ever uplift and encourage or praise! That's the MSM I know and despise!
There are so many GOOD things going on by agencies and citizens. But NO, they won't report those things.
Keep up the good work FReepers. Report what Americans have been doing and will continue to do to help the survivors of Katrina.
They were both just good ole down home country people from rual Alabama. Both grew up on farms, working in the fields and wood mill with their parents in between school hours. I am grateful everyday that they cared, and made us do right, learn, listen, and make a life for ourselves, instead of leaving us alone while they hit the bars together like they do now.
Yes they can.
But too often they use their position to spin for their politics.
Yes.
It's parents like yours who teach the next generation and so on.
It's a gift to their country.
BTTT
On one e-list one lady talked about someone she knew getting through on her cell to family. A large group of evacuees could be heard singing "Amazing Grace".
Thank God I don't see Bush panicking. If Bush can be criticized about anything, it's that he's respecting state's rights and hasn't trumped the lame NO mayor and LA governor yet. He probably can't afford to sit back any longer and hope they'll step up to the plate: pretty clear to me they won't ever do that.
Did you catch Phone Bill freaking out last night while proposing that the nation's oil companies voluntarily (with Bill's media gun held to their heads) agree to cut profits by 20% for the good of the nation? What a dork! He should be arrested for conspiring to violate anti-trust laws. Why doesn't he announce that he's voluntarily reducing his profits and his hysterical bloviating by 20% for the duration of this crisis?
Part of the problem is they are only covering NO where all the angst is for ratings.
Having said that (and, as everyone has reminded us, if it bleeds it leads), there are legitimate questions that have to be answered. Not the troop levels or timing necessarily. The big question I have is, "why have FEMA? Why are we paying taxes for it?"
I know people are upset with questioning of delays, but that is the NAME of it, the Federal Emergency Management Administration. Is their job to just come in and write checks after an emergency is over and Texans rescue the victims? If so, then let's rename them to Federal Insurance Agency, fire 90% of the bureaucrats, and stop the waste of the money for planning. If not, then their performance, both planning and in action, is an unmitigated failure. And this is a question that has to be focused upon.
It's pretty much wall to wall Rat propaganda. I just want to hear news about how things are going in Iraq and the disaster area, not all the Rat propaganda all the time.
Here's some good news:
A co-worker's family lost everything, but luckily they evacuated. She was heading out Friday (today) afternoon to the Mississippi coast to help how she can. Wednesday another co-worker emailed everyone and said if we wanted to donate something to bring it by her office by Friday (today) a.m.
Laura had to go home and get her husband's truck because of the amount of items we sent off with her. Oh, and around $500. In a day and 1/2. She was crying, we were trying not to cry (like that ever works). I hope it helps her.
17 people in her family lost everything. Her parents, sister, brothers, their spouses, and kids (one of them had 9! kids). I'm calling HR Monday, because Laura hasn't been at her job for real long, and I'm going to offer some of my sick or vacation time.
Here;
Kathy's prayers were answered when the bright orange raincoat she was wearing caught the attention of Daniel through his rain-splattered window. The 45-year-old waded downstairs and managed to release his 14ft fishing boat from its trailer beside the house. He was joined by his 48-year-old brother, who lives next door, and together they motored through the choppy, debris-strewn water and plucked Kathy to safety. "These guys are heroes," she says. "If it hadn't been for them I would probably be dead."
Next, the brothers sailed from house to house looking for other neighbours in distress. Among those rescued: an elderly man recently recovered from a heart bypass operation and his wife, who could not swim; and Irvin Blanks, an 85-year-old D-Day veteran, who afterwards gave the brothers his war medals to thank them for saving his life. "If the storm had occurred at night I wouldn't have survived," he says.
In all, 10 people spent Monday night in the sanctuary of Daniel and Sara's upper floor. John has been bed-ridden there since wounding his bare foot on a submerged shard of glass following the storm.
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.asp?feed=FT&Date=20050902&ID=5083504
Bump to prove you wrong! ;-)
HAH! That's a pretty good suggestion! I caught his interview with that gentleman from the CATO Institute last night, and I was LMAO at BO'R when he launched into hysterics by suggesting what he suggested, as you say, which would essentially allow President Bush to encourage oil companies to violate anti-trust laws.
This is why BO'R didn't get the answer he was looking for from the President, because President Bush, being a former CEO himself is aware of the anti-trust laws as most business owners are.
One other thing related to BO'R that I said earlier in another hurricane related thread is this: Too many people, be it in the media or elsewhere have been screaming hysterically for the feds to do things against the law, and BO'R and people like him wonder why they don't get taken seriously.
I read all 91 replies and nowhere does anyone explain what MSM means. Please enlighten me.
Main Stream Media
I don't know about you, but I don't bother tuning into the MSM anymore.
Me either but I have to suffer thought the local ABC radio news.
Grrrrrrrrrr.....
MSM [Mainstream media] = abc, cbs, nbc, cnn, new york times, latimes, time, newsweek, etc., etc. - the formerly called the LIBERAL media.
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