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Superdome Evacuation Halted (rich people first..please.
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Posted on 09/03/2005 9:23:57 AM PDT by Dr. Marten
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To: united1000
Looks like another post and run.
To: Savage Beast
No. If people are threatening to kill you, you climb on the priority list. If it's your car, get in it and get out.
To: Dr. Marten
Maybe it has something to do with the Hyatt people not shooting at the rescuers?
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posted on
09/03/2005 10:54:57 AM PDT
by
null and void
(It's all like watching a train wreck, in slow motion, from the front of the train.)
To: Dr. Marten
I can. It is simple THOSE are the tourists who are going to come back to the rebuilt NO.
THOSE are the people who DON't need help once they are out of the area. They go back to their undestroyed lives.
When THEY are OUT OF THE WAY those resources they were taking up to go to those who have to remain in Katrina disater areas.
If the those people leave TX and LA. Then they are not the worry (or drain) on rescue efforts.
To: SauronOfMordor
I live in The Middle of Nowhere (and do I love it!).
Leftist relatives visited.
When I mentioned that I have an arsenal for protection, the woman gasped! "I think such things are best left to the police!" she exclaimed.
"I don't think so," my wife responded. "How long do you think it would take the police to get here?"
These are the same people who think we should have open borders ("because I think anybody who wants to come to this country to better themself should be allowed to and blah blah blah"), hate Mexicans ("my father said they were worthless and blah blah blah"), acknowledge that California is rapidly sinking beneath the weight of illegal immigration and Leftist policies, but maintain that "California's going bankrupt sooner or later anyway," and have nothing to offer but mindless platitudes, fuzzy thinking, and the same old worn-oud Leftist drivel.
No wonder more and more Americans have nothing but scorn for the Left.
No wonder California's in such a mess.
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posted on
09/03/2005 10:57:00 AM PDT
by
Savage Beast
(Love is the ultimate aphrodisiac!)
To: longtermmemmory
Well I guess there may be a little something good, leaving last after all. The cruise ships are coming.
To: redgolum
My inheritance from my late mother-in-law...a Nevada Highway Patrol Remington 870 Wingmaster Express. Still has a control number painted on the stock. Nothing scarier than the sound of a round being racked into place.
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posted on
09/03/2005 11:02:14 AM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! We willna be fooled again!")
To: Dr. Marten
Can anyone justify why the luxurious guests of the Hyatt were placed in line ahead of those that had been suffering in far worse conditions? NO! That is OUTRAGIOUS!
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posted on
09/03/2005 11:04:54 AM PDT
by
the Deejay
(THE LADY DEEJAY)
To: WOSG
"It boggles my mind that it would take more than 24 hours to clear out the superdome, when games can clear out in about an hour or so. "
Congradulations on stupidest post of the year.
Those people leaving the games are getting into their cars and driving home. These people have no cars and they have no homes. Where the hell are they supposed to go?
Idiot.
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posted on
09/03/2005 11:04:56 AM PDT
by
Dr. Marten
((http://thehorsesmouth.blog-city.com))
Comment #110 Removed by Moderator
To: NoControllingLegalAuthority; drlevy88
I've been looting Free republic of some really great ideas and philosophy...I guess I need to be shot too....:}
Please make the shot count...I don't want to suffer!
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posted on
09/03/2005 11:10:32 AM PDT
by
mdmathis6
(Even when a dog discovers he is barking up a wrong tree, he can still take a leak on it!)
To: Deetes
That was the mayor of N.O's idea. He will get it back in spades I imagine Poor choice of words in this racially charged context.
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posted on
09/03/2005 11:14:01 AM PDT
by
Rytwyng
To: EverOnward
It is we who must learn from this. We must learn to do our own thinking, to rely on ourselves, to prepare ourselves, to keep informed to make wise decisions about our well-being. If there's anything to be learned, it's that no one should depend on anyone else to do their thinking for them. These people had warning a devastating storm was coming -- not all of them were crippled and old and trapped unnecessarily. The government has never proven to me that I should rely on it before I rely on myself. So wait... we're supposed to trust the government when it warns us to get out--warnings that could be provoked by fear of lawsuits or other aspects of the CYA mentality--but distrust it in everything else?
The folk who made the decision to stay behind to defend their property from any opportunistic looters also distrusted the government's competency.
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posted on
09/03/2005 11:15:49 AM PDT
by
Dumb_Ox
(Be not Afraid. "Perfect love drives out fear.")
To: SauronOfMordor
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posted on
09/03/2005 11:20:06 AM PDT
by
jpsb
Comment #115 Removed by Moderator
To: axes_of_weezles
There were interviews of the Tourists who were left behind by Hyatt and Hilton who had no transport, the hotel workers abandoned them. They paid 30K for buses to evacuate themselves and the buses were taken by NOLA officials and FEMA to evacuate others. Yep - I think they were bumped ahead to make up for the fact that the buses they paid for earlier were seized.
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posted on
09/03/2005 11:21:20 AM PDT
by
Puddleglum
(Thank God the Boston blowhard lost)
To: Last Dakotan
___________________
Tourist bypass Superdome via Sky Bus!
Mayor says: Robbed, raped, and beaten like
other white tourist in the Superdome not an option!
___________________
Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane
Oops,
Wrong Channel, it wasn't CNN
but the movie Sworfish.
To: bvw
It's law and good custom to give priority to invited guests and legal visitors. Personally, I find it despicable that the rough vice of treating guests worse by giving priority to residents has found so much support on FR and have to wonder exactly what kind of families the FReepers supporting such crudeness and rudeness come from. Probably the same ones justifying all the price gouging going on.
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posted on
09/03/2005 11:30:45 AM PDT
by
Smittie
To: Dr. Marten
Mayor Ray Nagin has used the hotel as a base since it sits across the street from city hall, and there were reports the hotel was cleared with priority to make room for police, firefighters and other officials.
Are you as stupid as you look ?
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posted on
09/03/2005 11:35:34 AM PDT
by
John Lenin
(Liberalism: Where shame is a virtue)
To: Dr. Marten
Sure I can.
Tourism is the lifeblood of that city, for the most part, and the stories coming from the city are bad enough.
Adding the rape, beatings and murder of tourists to the already terrible list of atrocities would be a terrible blow to future efforts to resurrect the city as a reasonable place for tourists to visit.
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posted on
09/03/2005 11:37:37 AM PDT
by
LincolnLover
(New Orleans Born, New Orleans Raised, New Orleans Proud)
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