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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
"and dusk-to-dawn afterwards"
"dusk to dawn" should be "dawn to dusk".
Coffee is my friend!!
But then, pictures and imagiges are very powerful. Who was rescuing these people? It certainly wasn't Jesse Jackson or the Black Caucus. Yes, there are many blacks who are in the armed forces and in Red Cross, Coast Guard, etc. but you see they are the ones who get out of the plantation mentality. I pray that many of those rescued will have the scales drop from their eyes.
And, (probably in Uptown New Orleans), a lot that are not wet. I could be wrong but satellite photos don't usually get it wrong. Lots of Uptown New Orleans appears to be dry. Lots of Meterie (the other side of the 17th Street Canal where the levee breech is), appears to be dry. River Rd. which goes to the Huey P Long Bridge is dry, the Crescent City connection is apparently dry. My sister in law was driven by her son out of Uptown New Orleans and to Baton Rouge on Thursday, I believe that was the high water mark of the flood in East New Orleans and downtown. You go across the Crescent City Connection right there by the Superdome onto dry land on the West bank of the Mississippi River. Kenner, where the International Airport is located is dry. Shep Smith is leaving every day and being refreshed and renewed for his reports. He's not sleeping with these poor people on the bridge. I am becoming very suspicious about a lot of what we are seeing on the newscasts.
The situation now is spreading, like a long slow storm surge, along an expanding wave from the Hurricane area - refugees from N.O. are being force-fed into an area already saturated by those who left the coast voluntarily - the geographic scope is unimaginable - the Media cannot tell the story - it's too big - all they can do is pick a few spots - but they cannot tell the story, whether they want to or not.
Just saw an interview on Fox with a Lt McLeary (sp?) of the LA State Police.
He said "There were a few robberies in the Superdome, but no rapes" (don't think he mentioned killings..) "..hard to tell fact from fiction.."
Given that Gov. Blanko said basically the same thing yesterday morning (was it? time runs together..), I'm wondering if this is now the "Official Line", to be repeated regardless of facts or reports from the ground.
Exactly. The Louisiana govt is in massive CYA mode. We already know too much. Too much real news of these numerous criminal incidents came straight off the LEO/military scanners and is documented throughout these hurricane threads. They can try to spin it away, the record is clear.
"LikeLight wrote:
"Exactly. The Louisiana govt is in massive CYA mode."
That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it...
;)
He's a natural born leader. Someone will notice.
I pray that young man has a good future. And Texas is a great place to start that bright future.
I believe it comes from the horses ass.
I agree.
Guess you missed seeing the shootout in front of the building that was on fire yesterday on FOX.
bump
Go Vols! Geaux Tigers!
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Mannings aiding New Orleans
*By From wire reports* *September 3, 2005* Peyton and Eli Manning, who grew up in New Orleans, will fly to Baton Rouge, La., today on a plane carrying relief supplies for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The brothers will leave from Indianapolis on a plane sponsored by the PeyBack Foundation. The flight will be carrying 31,000 pounds of nonperishable items including diapers, baby formula, pillows, water and Gatorade that will be delivered to the American Red Cross.
Peyton, the NFL's two-time MVP and former University of Tennessee star, is the quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts. His brother Eli, the first pick in the 2004 NFL draft, is the quarterback for the New York Giants.
Manning starred at Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, and his parents, Archie and Olivia, reside there. Wayne was a standout athlete at John Ehret High School in New Orleans.
"It's hard to hear a whole lot because the communication down there is tough," Peyton Manning told The Indianapolis Star. "It's pretty devastating, the pictures you see and some stories that you hear.
"It's hard to watch, both from the New Orleans standpoint and the friends and relatives we have in Mississippi as well. Our prayers and thoughts are out for them."
Did I just hear right?
Caught the tag-end of a FOX interview with some kind of Doctor, and I thought I heard him say that one of the big health issues with the refugees/DP's is that many of them don't have HEALTH INSURANCE.
Please tell me that isn't what he said -- or else somebody really has his priorities outta whack.
Health insurance?! Ye gad. Who was that clymer?
http://www.uwec.edu/Geography/Ivogeler/w188/no.htm
This raises another aspect of the evacuation issue: if those who failed to evacuate did so because they were unable to, could not the city government have targeted those parts of the city which were disproportionately poor (who cares whether they are black, white, or purple with pink polka dots) where it might reasonably be assumed those who lacked the resources to remove themselves from the city would be clustered?
This strategy might have reduced the area the city needed to worry about, evacuation-wise, in the 24-48 hours before the storm hit. For all we know, between the now-imfamously unused school buses and the public transport buses all of those supposedly unable to evacuate themselves (and I have my doubts about that, see my earlier posts) could have been removed from the city in 4-5 round-trips.
Oh, please, tell me that he didn't say that.
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