Posted on 09/02/2005 6:06:14 PM PDT by dennisw
After what they went through they're lucky to be alive? You seem to have some low expectations of the people who were in that convention center.
Birds chirp, crickets crick?!
The Mirror may very well be left wing. But pointing out that whites could be harrassed is not very left wing.
Hear, Hear. Most of the city is black, and practically everyone who couldn't evacuate is black. So of course most of the dirtbags are black, but so are most of the heroes and most of the decent ordinary folks just trying to get by.
There was some pretty crappy behavior after Hurricane Andrew, perpetrated by white people in white neighborhoods. Are they all scum and animals? Of course not.
Let's not let this board become Stormfront.
-ccm
Thanks, it's impossible to catch it all, you're help is really appreciated. The nuts are showing their true colors this week.
mjtobias (There is nothing new under the sun.)
And you're living proof.
These kids save up for two years to pay for their cheap around-the-world airfare. They stay in cheap hostels and work whereever they go, if they can.They come home and tell the locals about their travels, compelling more teenagers to want to do it.
You have a lot of issues, and I don't know why your anglophobia is a fit topic to trot around FR. More to the point, what is wrong, what is ant-conservative, about working to save money so that you can travel around the world and see what is going on in it? They earned it, it is their money, it is a worthy cause, and you should shut your yap about it. And, what is wrong with encouraging other kids to earn and save and go aout and see the world too?
And the reason that this is news is because a British newspaper is reporting about how American social conditions have affected some British teenagers. What I would be ashamed of is that we are such abysmal hosts to our overseas guests, but maybe hospitality to foreigners isn't part of your conservative social values.
All I can figure is that you are not a real conservative. You are just ani-inallekshul and derivatively anti-ferener. If you aren't you sure come across that way.
However all that does little to explain the COMPLETE AND TOTAL ABSENCE OF AID FOR THE AMERICAN CITIZENS WE HERDED INTO A BUILDING WITHOUT FOOD WATER AND UTILITIES AND LEFT FOR DAYS. A lot of people here say it was the disaster. It wasn't. It was an abject failure of local state and federal governments. My wife broke down in tears last night. There was a woman lying on the ground with her arm flung lifelessly out, her cheeks drawn tight and hollow, looking semi conscious with a baby clinging to her. At the same time they were showing helicopters dropping water and MREs into a crowd because the police were unable to maintain control. The food and water was not being distributed, it was being pillaged by the strongest. I am sure that woman did not recieve a drop.
The mayor told those people to go there. They obeyed and were left - many to die. It is a disgrace.
I understand about the buses being paid for but I don't agree. There are old people who are sicker than these tourists and the military can comandeer a bus if they have to. I agree that there was nout enough aid and PROTECTION for American citizens.
Oh I get it. You are depending on the same military who got those people in the condition they are in? BTW it was the national Guard not the military. They blew it. The hotel did what was necessary.
National Guard...military... it's the same to me. Either way, I disagree and I'm going to leave it at that. I'm tired of talking about it.
It seems to me that the buses were available and they were able to get in. A hotel chain was able to get them in, why wasn't the military? If you want to get mad at someone get mad at the military. It was doable and hasn't been done. It is not the hotel chains and guests fault - it is the governments.
The military does what they are told to do so we both agree that all this can be laid at the government's feet. Agreed.
Agreed. It is a national disgrace. There was national guard 70 miles away before the flooding started. They did nothing and it appears to be the Governors fault. Hundreds if not thousands died as a result. People are dying of thirst and lack of medical care in AMERICA!
The statist boot lickers around here blame it on the looters. The looting would have never got out of control if we put 7,000 National Guard on the streets of that city starting the next day. What did the government do - release the prisoners and let the city run wild! The horror of it escapes my ability to communicate.
The governor didn't shake a leg at the beginning with tragic results.
I'm sure they were bummed because they couldn't brush their teeth.
All good leftists still, I'm sure.
Awww,...we love ya,...besides, I've always loved ogre.
Especially when I add tomatoes with ogre or even breaded and deep fat fried like they used to make down South!
I'm surprised by one aspect of the whole affair.
New Orleans, Southern Louisiana, and the Gulf Coast in general has a fairly robust construction, engineering, and shipping community. New Orleans is host to some military commands which plan contingency plans for these types of catastrophies. Army Corps of Engineers and the oil & gas industry is structured to adapt to these types of situations with plenty of corporate knowledge in such operations.
The mouth of the Mississippi has considerable access to industrial shipping commodities and fishing industry.
The common man in the bayou can live off the bayou with little outside intervention.
With all the local resourcefulness potential, why are we only focused on Big Brother FEMA and inner city gang behavior?
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