POST your Katrina Good News Stories (the ones the MSM doesn't want you to know about)

Various ^ | September 3, 2005 | Contributors

[NavySEAL F-16]

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.

[Skylab]

2:58 P.M. - (WWL-TV)

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.

[Anticommie]

At the New Orleans dome, one thug was caught by vigilantes trying to rape a 13 year old and he was beaten to death........

This IS a good news.

[NavySEAL F-16]

I left your name at the bottom. You might be getting a note from her. LOL

[Route66]

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

[NavySEAL F-16]

Awesome pictures. Thanks for the post.

[AmericanInTokyo]

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!

[JulieRNR21]

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

[JulieRNR21]

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.

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The Intellectual Activist
http://tiadaily.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1026

Excerpt:

Jack Wakeland then gave me an additional, crucial fact: early reports from CNN and Fox indicated that the city had no plan for evacuating all of the prisoners in the city's jails--so they just let many of them loose.

[girlangler]

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.

[68 grunt]

All the heroin, cocaine and meth have dissolved with the floodwater.

[Lib Buster]

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.

[fanfan]

September 03, 2005
Reporting From The Astrodome

I just finished watching CTV news, and a segment that was busy playing up problems for refugees arriving in Texas.

Rightwingsparkle is volunteering at the Houston Astrodome. Her report is far more hopeful;

The whole thing was, of course, heartwrenching. People were packed cot to cot and with their supplies next to them. The really hard thing to see were the children. So small and with so little to keep them busy. The citizens and Churches of Houston came through in a BIG way and there was plenty of food, water, and clothes for everyone. The only thing I really had to dig for were toys. I plan to bring a bunch tomorrow. That seemed to be the only real need that wasn't being meet. There were also plenty of volunteers.

As you might imagine I wanted to hear what it was like being in the Superdome. One teenage girl told me that it was terrifying when the shooting started. "It was the gangs," she said. Her mother said, "The people found the guy who was shooting and beat his ass and his ass needed beating." I found over and over again that people were as disgusted with the behavior of the thugs as the rest of us. I asked them if they were angry at the government. Not one I spoke to said they were. They were angry at the people who behaved badly. They were angry at the thugs with guns. They were angry with the people who threw trash everywhere and went to bathroom in public places.

In other words, they were mad at the right people, unlike our friends on the left.


There's more - and you won't get any of it from CNN.
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[NavySEAL F-16]

I asked them if they were angry at the government. Not one I spoke to said they were. They were angry at the people who behaved badly. They were angry at the thugs with guns. They were angry with the people who threw trash everywhere and went to bathroom in public places.

These people have more sense than the ridiculous anchors/politicos that are trying to promote this as another Bush Bashing party.

[Hot Tabasco]

I don't have a boat or access to fishing but I love it! The only fishing I can actually do on my own is in the winter. The last several years I took up ice fishing on Lake St. Clair here in S.E. Michigan for perch. Last winter was a complete bust, caught absolutely nothing worth taking home.

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.........

[JLO]

Here's a thread. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474197/posts

[JLO]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474197/posts

[Cougar66]

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

[Diva Betsy Ross]

ping a ling.. i like your mall story. wanna post it here?

[Howlin]

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.

[girlangler]

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.