Colorado National Guard members Sgt. Rachael Lone, foreground, and Pvt. Macellus Oliver load up their vehichle for deployment to the New Orleans area at the unit's headquarters in Denver on Friday, Sept. 2, 2005.
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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Colorado National Guard members Sgt. Rachael Lone, foreground, and Pvt. Macellus Oliver load up their vehichle for deployment to the New Orleans area at the unit's headquarters in Denver on Friday, Sept. 2, 2005.
See #s 211 & 232, this page
He wants that diesel for his Mercedes
I cannot understand what is going on at the convention center, Harrigan is still reporting that while security has arrived there, there is no evacuation.
Shep just said a SWAT team is being put together to go in to get the people out
He did not mention Blanko or Nagin. He mentioned all that was being done from the federal level though.
FNC said they confirmed it, so at least I assume they did some basic journalism to do so, but who knows, I could be wrong.
The scanner does say lots of folks are responding.
If the student's records are lost, the best thing to do is placement testing. There is nothing sinister in that. Or, let them place themselves in the grade they think they belong in, and see their performance. Good school districts have no problem shiften students to the classes they are best suited for.
"Many shots fired at helos, media silence/downplay notwithstanding. CG & NG fly in pairs, one rescues/fights fires, other provides cover. Helo parts shot off. Stopped evac at superdome as gangbangas firing at helos. Pilots operate 120 sec max in LZ: less time in sights, lower shootdown risk. Miraculous if flying only one week, as predicted. More like month++. Airlines aside, mil av fuel scarce. 90's chickens home to roost compounding leadership failures in LA & elsewhere. MS recovery sooner than LA, despite total destruction of 50 miles of coast to 5+ blocks inland. "
Someone on WDSU is saying that if we can get troops into Iraq in 24 hours, how come we can't get them into NO as fast.
I just don't know what to think.
That is with 2 miles of where the 2 families with us live. Looks like most healthy big pines did OK vs. Katrina. Matches reports of the 2 families who went back already.
Speaking of that....
Anyone beside me notice that the Superdome Food convoy footage shows an UP-Armoured Hummvee leading?
The LA Lt General Honore seems to be a really good guy. This is also something that President Bush would do.
"As she was walking in the street with Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, the person in charge of the military operation, CNN's Barbara Starr reported seeing one young woman with twin babies in her arms.
"She was trying to walk in this terrible heat, and she apparently was so exhausted the babies were half falling out of her arms," Starr said.
Gen. Honore, she said, "went up to this woman, and he said, 'We're going to get you help.' And he took both of those babies, handed them off to his soldiers, said, 'Take these babies,' and we got on a Coast Guard ship."
The mother and the babies are now getting medical care, Starr said."
good post.
you can see the liberal media outlets now downplaying the looting and the thugs shooting up the town, because they know that plays against the political agenda they seek. americans have zero tolerance for that. they now want to portray NO as a town full of nice people waiting for aid that can't get there because the federal government is incompetent, and doesn't care about them because of their race.
Amazing what happens when the adults come to town.
because these guard forces are under control of the governor, not Dod. and the governor is an idiot, or worse yet, a DNC pawn.
they must have 300 or more blackhawk type helos there by now...they emptied California....
every C5, C17, C141, and C130 in the country is on duty for this relief effort.....the air controllers report 300 planes arriving or leaving the N.O. area at any one time.
After reading others comments, I may very well have. I should not tune in over there....but what I heard him say was that the NAACP and the Black Caucus made these statements and he implied (at least for the portion I watched) that he agreed it was truthful. If I'm wrong, so be it. None-the-less, CNN is nothing but a bunch of Bush-bashers and they are low-lifes.
Good ideas- and a carbon monoxide detector in living spaces is a must- they are readily available nowadays.
Updated link from the Alexandria Town Talk:
http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050902/NEWS05/50902008
The front page has a breaking news link stating that the fatal bus accident happened in Opelousas. This would indicate that the bus was heading north up I-49 toward Alexandria.
Rapides Parish schools were closed today not only because the governor "commandeered" the school buses, but also because school employees needed a day to process paperwork to enroll over 1,000 refugee children in our school system. Since the buses were originally planned to take New Orleans refugees to Houston (this destination probably changed after the Astrodome was closed), the schools will reopen on Tuesday but parents are responsible for getting children to school themselves.
Not everyone here is so charitable about bringing the refugee children here. Several school bus drivers delivered their buses as ordered, but refused to drive them to New Orleans stating "they don't pay me enough." (Considering how low wages are in Louisiana, this didn't surprise me, by the way, and may account for the reason so many New Orleans police officers threw down their badges.) And I've personally encountered people in Alexandria who have a NIMBY attitude ("not in my back yard"), not wanting the refugee children at our schools. In case you think it's a racist sentiment, though, the person who seemed most resistant to the idea was a black woman. After that conversation, I really did a double-take.
KALB now trying to find out what's really going on. Alexandria officials originally made an announcement that no more refugees would be accepted, yet there are more buses heading for the I-49 Welcome Center. Red Cross rep being interviewed right now.
More to come...
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