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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
KCAL9 Los Angeles just reported the 17th Street Levee has been filled in...and they are going to start pumping.
Most of those fires were set after looting. Or Korean owned businesses were targeted.
Even the white store owners painted BLACK OWNED on their windows before they fled.
That Maxine Waters is one ugly woman.
Almost as stupid as she is ugly.
She favors a gorilla located in our local zoo.
Ugly, really ugly.
Did I say Ugly WHEW!
Those are from the LA Riots...
Shoutcast.com Search louisiana
I believe that photo depicts the LA riots - not NOLA. Look at the file name.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476864/posts
Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D). Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state's emergency operations center said Saturday.
The administration sought unified control over all local police and state National Guard units reporting to the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request after talks throughout the night, concerned that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. Some officials in the state suspected a political motive behind the request. "Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly.
A senior administration official said that Bush has clear legal authority to federalize National Guard units to quell civil disturbances under the Insurrection Act and will continue to try to unify the chains of command that are split among the president, the Louisiana governor and the New Orleans mayor.
Louisiana did not reach out to a multi-state mutual aid compact for assistance until Wednesday, three state and federal officials said. As of Saturday, Blanco still had not declared a state of emergency, the senior Bush official said.
"The federal government stands ready to work with state and local officials to secure New Orleans and the state of Louisiana," White House spokesman Dan Bartlett said. "The president will not let any form of bureaucracy get in the way of protecting the citizens of Louisiana."
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Thank you for writing.
I got a nasty email from some producer at CNN a few days ago telling me not to write to them ever again.
So I guess their ratings just went down another point as I quit watching Scarborough on PMSNBC and listening to his rants against the president.
KCAL also showed footage of the emptied Convention Center...looks like they even are trying to clean the place up...I wouldnt be surprised if they clean that up quickly and make it the media center for the rebuilding, since they are parking those ships next to it.
I also think they will drain the city in record time, if FEMA lets out some of those performance based contracts (Halliburton?) I remember them saying the LA freeways wouldnt be rebuilt in a year, and they were done in 90 days...with a bonus for every day early they were. Boy did the Dems complain about that...
get another e-mail address or use a different name..Keep writing to CNN!
Here's the bet...will it be ready for a conference one year from now?
Yes I was mistaken.
Couldn't be from New Orleans the way the sun is setting in the back ground.
I think the Republican Party needs to take some lessons from the Dems in Finger Pointing.
It requires people working together to get these things going...and this has been a great example of people choosing not to. And people died because of these games (I've been angry at the governor since day 2. Still think that the deaths of many are on her head.)
I was so close with my guess for baby aspirin.
That black actor that visited the center in Baton Rouge today said it on Fox.
Hyzaar is a common blood pressure medicine. Shouldn't be hard to get before morning...
TCU beat Oklahoma in football today?
WOW---not good!
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