Posted on 09/03/2005 10:04:34 AM PDT by NavySEAL F-16
Edited on 09/03/2005 10:06:22 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
I have asked the moderators if we could start a thread with all the heartwarming, good news stories that are coming out of the disaster called Katrina.
The MSM is purposely not reporting these stories and we need to do something about it.
Everyone is encouraged to post URL's, stories, etc.
I've started with A Small Victory http://asmallvictory.net/archives/009740.html
Michelle is already on her fifth thread of good news stories that have been contributed to her site.
Have at it, folks.
BATON ROUGE: All patients, physicians, employees, and students were successfully evacuated from Charity Hospital.
The newborns from the well baby and in intensive care units were transferred to Women's Hospital in Baton Rouge.
The mental health patients and their mental health staff were transported to the Central Louisiana State Hospital at Pineville.
The employees, students, and residents were taken to Baton Rouge or San Antonio.
As soon as information is compiled on the location of patients transferred from the MCL Charity and University campuses, a toll free hot line will be made available and announced in the media.
This IS a good news.
I left your name at the bottom. You might be getting a note from her. LOL
I thought this thread would be a good place to repost this site with photos of our military actually helping people during this disaster while critics play quarterback from their armchairs.
http://jccc.afis.osd.mil/images/slide_show.pl?Lbox=defenselink.Hurricane_Katrina&lbc=30&thumbs_only=&tc=10&nav=group_list
Awesome pictures. Thanks for the post.
This will be a very sharp pebble in the boot of Jesse Jackson, Carole Moseley Braun and Al Sharpton. It takes away all their excuses, for they have been giving people a carte blanche 'pass' to be impatient, irate, angry, and pissed off at 'the white man'. Good news!
Houston Chronicle has the whole story....but the
headline should read:
Reliant Refugees Evacuate Themselves
not
School bus comandeered by renegade refugees first to arrive at Astrodome
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/topstory2/3334317
Someone just asked a good question on talk radio... what ever happened to the prisoners in NO and did that contribute to the shootings, rapes and murder.
I was going, but it is Labor Day weekend and I got to thinking I don't want to fight a crowd.
I live on a big lake and near a small lake where I could bass fish.I have a 17-foot canoe and trolling motor, and like to get out on the small lake in isolated little coves.
Most of the time I have these places to myself, so I guess I should just let the tourists have it on these occassions.
All the heroin, cocaine and meth have dissolved with the floodwater.
Yes, the New Orleans area gained a large Vietnamese population after Saigon fell. I was in 7th grade at the time. The Jefferson Parish Shool District segregated them for 3 semesters to bring them to English fluency. (Try that with today's immigrants!)
When they joined our regular classes, they were kicking our butts in Science and Algebra...they were MUCH more advanced than we were. Most are now entrepreneurs and degreed professionals. They added much to the New Orleans melting pot.
These people have more sense than the ridiculous anchors/politicos that are trying to promote this as another Bush Bashing party.
Was on vacation a couple weeks ago and was finally able to get a friend of mine to take me out on his boat. We (I) caught a few small mouths, the biggest being 19" and the others in the 16" range plus a small 24" muskie. Everything was released.........
Here's a thread. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474197/posts
http://apnews.myway.com/image/20050903/HURRICANE_KATRINA.sff_LADM121_20050903174726.html?date=20050903&docid=D8CD2PEO0 umm white people trapped? I had no idea http://apnews.myway.com/image/20050903/HURRICANE_KATRINA.sff_LADM136_20050903190709.html?date=20050903&docid=D8CD2PEO0
ping a ling.. i like your mall story. wanna post it here?
I'd love to!
People who are coming out today........people who have been stranded places like NO & other areas......are telling stories of banding together with others, doctoring themselves, moving to a mall and living off the food court food, policing themselves, even setting up a semi-government.
In other words, coping; I wonder how those stories, if we hear them, are going to sit with those who seem to think that as soon as the winds stopped in Katrina people were uncapable of survival.
I also love to fish and am so lucky to be close to lots of opportunties.
Being a lifelong Southernor I've never ice fished, but know some northernors who have, and I've heard it's great fun. I'd like to try it some time.
You ought to make a point to head down south once in awhile and fish at one of Tennessee's state parks. You can rent a small jonboat for a few dollars a day and the fishing is great.
We have a lot of transplanted Tennesseans in Michigan, went there after WWII to work in car factories. The guy who owns the lake house next to mine is from Michigan, and he comes here to fish and hunt in the winter.
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