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Katrina Live Thread, Part XIV
Various ^ | 2 September 2005 | Various

Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse

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To: Soul Seeker

Excellent points. The worst of them don't want to "report" they want to tell us lesser mortals the "meaning" of what happened/is happening. It's especially irresponsible when they try to do it by "emoting." If they can't conrol their emotions when confronted with distressing reality, they shouldn't be on-the- scene reporters.


1,481 posted on 09/02/2005 7:26:09 PM PDT by 185JHP ( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
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To: LA Woman3
72 hours was the ideal time frame. The New Orleans officials didn't make a definite decision until time was running out. They didn't give the people 72 hours to evacuate!!

Oh baloney. Look I have never seen officials and weather experts so damn scared in my life and I have lived in the gulf coast for many years. There is ABSOLUTLY no argument to be made that people did not have timely and forceful warnings.

1,482 posted on 09/02/2005 7:26:22 PM PDT by Texasforever
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To: McGruff

They need to tell more of those stories. I am sure there are many.

I know here in Southwestern Louisiana, several folks have already found jobs and are getting on with their lives. Also, on the AM station out of Beaumont, TX they were all excited about getting several blue chip football players for their local teams.


1,483 posted on 09/02/2005 7:26:46 PM PDT by CajunConservative ("Dems can bus people to the polls but can't bus them out of danger to save their lives.")
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To: oceanview
indeed, Blanco is the #1 cause of this.

Reading between the lines as to why the delay in relief entering the city, etc., I wonder who had authority on the checkpoints, and so forth.

I wonder if her ego and desire to control things kept help from entering; or if she knew the thugs were in charge and just wanted that to burn out before letting the help enter. I wonder if we'll ever know.

1,484 posted on 09/02/2005 7:26:47 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Texasforever

You are sooo right. The men in those pictures sicken me.


1,485 posted on 09/02/2005 7:26:52 PM PDT by SolomoninSouthDakota (Daschle is gone.)
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To: uncitizen
Does anybody know if the DUmmies over at DU have anything to say about the mayors "school bus vs. Greyhound" remark?

I sure don't know. Can't bring myself to look in there these days.

1,486 posted on 09/02/2005 7:26:53 PM PDT by texasbluebell
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To: Spktyr

who do you think would even bring the charges?


1,487 posted on 09/02/2005 7:27:03 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: DrewsMum
If bush is getting the blame for NO then i hope to heck that he gets the credit for what good job miss and ala have done dealing with this...

How can he get credit? The dad-blamed media isn't paying attention to Mississippi & Alabama...no chance of starting wars or ruining the President's credibility in those places.

1,488 posted on 09/02/2005 7:27:09 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Soul Seeker

They are aware of good things happening. Shep said things are better. They aren't good though. Where is the bad reporting here?


1,489 posted on 09/02/2005 7:27:11 PM PDT by Blogger
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To: Txsleuth

Who are Scar's epublican friends? Chafee? Whitman?


1,490 posted on 09/02/2005 7:27:30 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Ah, how sweet)
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To: Txsleuth

Scarborugh has gone totally off the deep end. he can forget about any Florida senate bid.


1,491 posted on 09/02/2005 7:27:32 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: McGruff

In another good news story, my brother, his wife and two kids were found ALIVE in Pascagoula yesterday!


1,492 posted on 09/02/2005 7:27:58 PM PDT by Snoitan5 ("This we'll defend" (Any questions???))
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To: McGruff

That kid was Moses! He drove people to the promised land (the Astrodome). Notice too that he didn't just take black people or white people -- he rescued ALL kinds of people! If a few more had his initiative, New Orleans would be a lot better off!!


1,493 posted on 09/02/2005 7:28:08 PM PDT by You Dirty Rats
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To: You Dirty Rats

From the way he spoke, he seems like he might be an inner city poor person with not much education or perhaps didn't pay attention in school. He saved lives instead of picking up an gun and shooting at the rescuers.I hope they tell his story more often.

I wish more people would have thought of this solution. I didn't catch where he went to get the bus. It might have been a different place than the picture of all the flooded buses.


On another note, very angry woman just saying GWB won't get her vote. I guess she doesn't know he won't be running next time.


1,494 posted on 09/02/2005 7:28:11 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Arizona Carolyn
Those complaining that Geraldo is a drama king should think if they have children, how would the feel if their baby was exposed to who knows what.

It's worse than that. Anybody who has been to Louisiana in August knows that the hunidity and heat is awful. People showed up there soaking wet and are in the same clothes. No diapers, water, food for the majority of the time they have been there, outside in the elements with naked babies and old people in wheelchairs, many with injuries. We don't have to pay attention to the "hysterical" reporters. For God's sake... we can see them ourselves. In any event, I don't see how anyone can be around that and "exaggerate."

1,495 posted on 09/02/2005 7:28:11 PM PDT by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: Cboldt

I was wondering about the security geraldo had there. Maybe they need to be securing other areas instead of protecting him..Just my opinion...


1,496 posted on 09/02/2005 7:28:17 PM PDT by queenkathy (Dear God, I have a problem; it's me.)
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To: Blogger

He is a professional. He is paid the big bucks to do this in a professional manner.

The ones who have done the best job IMHO, are the ones who have been there & done that....Steve Harrigan comes to mind, Rick Leventhal. Both were embedded in Iraq. I have to add Orlando to the A list because right now, he is my favorite. See my tag line.

I am wondering if this is the first time Shep has been as close to this type story as he is now. It is one thing to report death and destruction after the event. But it is baptism by fire if he has not been this close before and has lived with the stench of death for 5 days.

The biggest clue is when he told Sean "This is all the perspective you need." His tone of voice had that something which signaled he may very well be close to losing control.

But once again, he is a professional and paid to be a professional. If the time has come to pull him before he cracks, FOX needs to pull him. They are doing him no favors letting him stay if this is the case.

As for Geraldo, he has been there done that so many times I have lost count. He gets emotional (it must be in the contract, LOL! " Geraldo emotes 3x a week"), but I have never seen him this intense. It may be because he has an infant at home. Personalization. But if Geraldo needs to decompress, he should be pulled.


1,497 posted on 09/02/2005 7:28:31 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights (Sooner or later Ted is going to swing the camera over to Orlando's head!)
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To: oceanview

Like I said, I tried putting tin-foil on to see if I could put that past them, and I couldn't. The timing of the presstitute/DemonRAT 180, and the fact that it happened, isn't coincidence.


1,498 posted on 09/02/2005 7:28:35 PM PDT by steveegg ($3.00 a gallon is the price you pay for ANWR! Start drilling or stop whining! - HT Falcon4.0)
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To: DrewsMum
Not going to happen according to Joe Scarborough who in all of his infinite wisdom thinks the response by Mississippi has been "miserable".

What a grandstanding Sandra Dee.

1,499 posted on 09/02/2005 7:28:37 PM PDT by WoodstockCat (Gitmo? Let them eat Pork!)
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To: pollyg107

The Superdome had power, and when it went out, the generator kicked on.
I'm reporting from the thread.
You'll have to go back and read it.
I can't remember all this, as I have been here since last Saturday night.
I actually have family in Gulfport, so I make it a point to jump on when these threads start.
And yes, they are safe.
They even went back (through backroads).
Two houses are okay, one is damaged, they got gas out of their garage and headed back out of town.


1,500 posted on 09/02/2005 7:28:47 PM PDT by mabelkitty (Lurk forever, but once you post, your newbness shines like a new pair of shoes.)
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