Katrina Live Thread, Part XIV

Various ^ | 2 September 2005 | Various

[theophilusscribe]

It was not Usher. It was Kanye West.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476067/posts

[toldyou]

"I need a drink. Join me?!!"

HA! With a drink and the B/P......oh heck, sure. Are you anywhere near NJ?

[Spktyr]

Um.. FEMA's been there for a while. THe press isn't covering it

[Mo1]

KANYE WEST ON NBC FUNDRAISER: 'GEORGE BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food...they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us'... Actor Mike Myers asked people to donate... then Kanye West went on a tirade about Iraq... MORE.

Kiss off Hollywood!

[ncpatriot]

By now they could have all WALKED out of NO don't ya think? Without water anyway and food so if they'd started walking they'd be ...well they'd be further north at least. Is that a crazy idea?

I've wondered about that everyday, and I have no answer. I do not know the layout of NO. It remains a mystery.

[twin2]

Telethon over...ending with "When the saints go marching in".

Overview...music good

rant by paranoid rapper, bad.

[oceanview]

we go through the same thing here along the south shore of long island. the army corps does nothing year after year except do more studies, hires consultants, writing reports. they don't plant a blade of sand grass or put a rock on a jetty. the local government is all about maximizing the salaries of public employees, they won't divert any money to beach projects because they think "its the federal governments job". so we have a stalemate, and nothing is done, and it goes on for decades.

[toldyou]

Oh, so frightening.

[bwteim]

We need to put up a running clock on FR main banner that shows the number of years/months/weeks/days/hours/minutes/seconds that majority of FReepers have stopped watching MSM.

I expect such a running clock would start somewhere by late eighties or early nineties with advent of cable and dish and thus be 20 years or so and running.

[RDTF]

He is a punk rapper. Most of us here don't buy his records anyway. Hope he doesn't incite a riot, the idiot.

[hipaatwo]

I got through. Told the woman I was going to make a donation but I stayed on the line to tell them I am withdrawing it. She already had heard about what was said. I told her I don't see black people down there or brown or purple I just see people. I will now donate to another charity. She apologized and I hung up.

[Flamenco Lady]

I agree medical attention and evacuation are what are needed there, but the MSM keeps complaining that they don't have food and water either. The picture seemed to indicate that the media has been "stretching the truth" just a bit.

Now that they are winding down with the SD where conditions were far worse than the convention center, I am sure medical assistance and evacuation assistance will start being shifted to the convention center.

These survivors are truly living in less than ideal conditions, and we all know that resources are stretched to their limits with so very many people effected by the hurricane.

I just don't think the media is helping matters by reporting that conditions are worse than they are. There is certainly enough tragedy for them to report, without "creative journalism".

[BlackRain]

They are held up in a building with the rescue firefighters in Chalmette- they are surrounded by gangs with automatic weapons.

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Helter Skelter has finally arrived.

[daybreakcoming]

There seem to be more people than anyone ever knew were there. I have to wonder when the last census was done in the projects.

[Coldwater Creek]

Why in this world, are you all having to take 100000 ? How can Texas absorbed all of these people? This is going to be a long term problem.

[Peach]

What an excellent idea!!

[Soul Seeker]

Yeah, the origianl person said Usher. But the sentiments remain the same and I direct to West.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

AND WHAT HAS FOX DONE WITH BRIT HUME?

I, too, want to know WHERE IS BRIT??????

Ping me please if you find out.

[McGruff]

Shep, got any water you can give those people?

[BurbankKarl]

U.S. Army National Guard Sgt. Burl Gulledge and Sgt. 1st Class James F. McLerd grab boxes of Meals, Ready-To-Eat that will be given to residents of Dauphin Island, Ala., on Sept. 1, 2005. Department of Defense units are mobilized as part of Joint Task Force Katrina to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster-relief efforts in the Gulf Coast areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Gulledge and McLerd are assigned to the Army National Guard's 900th Maintenance Company, Brundidge, Ala. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)