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Katrina Live Threads, Part XV
Various ^ | 4 September 2005 | Various

Posted on 09/04/2005 6:14:35 PM PDT by NautiNurse

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To: GOP_Proud
So, I guess Minnesota and Michigan better give up trying to get some up there?

That's a shame. Anyway it gets so COLD up here.

1,981 posted on 09/05/2005 2:00:57 PM PDT by madison10
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To: A Citizen Reporter

These guys have one thing in common. They wanted GW's job.


1,982 posted on 09/05/2005 2:01:06 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: Soul Seeker
Well, they need to get their sorry selves OUT of the beltway and find out what's going on in the real world.

There's NO WAY the average (thinking) American is going to blame any of this on the President, even with the pressure of the media (whom nobody trusts).

John Gibson on. Maybe HE will speak the truth. I gotta write to Fox! This is absurd.

1,983 posted on 09/05/2005 2:01:07 PM PDT by ohioWfan (If my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray......)
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To: Txsleuth

Betsy flooded NO 5 to 7 feet in 1965.

Something to think about.


1,984 posted on 09/05/2005 2:01:09 PM PDT by jeffers
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To: A Citizen Reporter

When I heard him talk I was realizing how MUCH I have wanted someone to speak like that to the press. This man is gold, if you ask me!


1,985 posted on 09/05/2005 2:01:10 PM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's son and keep him strong.)
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To: jeffers

LOL. Jump on a C-130 from the 130th Airlift Wing of the ANG. They have been arriving in LA out of Yeager Airport, Charleston, WV. They just WON their way off the BRAC list last week. What a difference a week makes, huh?


1,986 posted on 09/05/2005 2:01:37 PM PDT by GOP_Proud (Those who preach tolerance most, have the least for my views.)
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To: Peach
Al Sharpton says most of the looters were angry taxpayers


Note to Al....I'm sure most were on public assistance....
1,987 posted on 09/05/2005 2:01:54 PM PDT by LA Woman3 (On election day, they were driven to the polls...On evacuation day, they had to fend for themselves)
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To: TexKat

I am thinking maybe this is Lott's way of telling his fellow congresscritters that they better not play politics with any $$$$ going to fix up these cities...

He KNOWS he has Bush in his corner...


1,988 posted on 09/05/2005 2:01:54 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: Peach

I don't want to debate. I just thought it was an interesting question.


1,989 posted on 09/05/2005 2:02:04 PM PDT by John Jamieson (Hybrids are a highway around CAFE, that's all they're good for.)
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To: Cedar

Cedar, I apologized to you if I misread the intent...of course I somehow managed to send the post to myself, so let me apologize again. I'm sorry.


1,990 posted on 09/05/2005 2:02:12 PM PDT by Dolphy
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To: maica

crazy reporters all kinds of dry land around him but has to stand in water on FOX


1,991 posted on 09/05/2005 2:02:19 PM PDT by jhny7 (made in USA tested in japan mess with USA we'll use it again)
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To: RTINSC
They were thinking about losing the buses, not the people.

Nor, I think, did they want to spend money from their personal HS piggy banks on the gas and drivers to get the people out.

1,992 posted on 09/05/2005 2:02:27 PM PDT by Bahbah (Tim Russert is a poopy-head)
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To: jeffers

I'll take your word for it. My take at this point is that she's a puppet for the DNC and/or the Klintoons. Witt is there to assure she fulfills her commitment and talk for her since all she seems to be able to do is look teary-eyed.


1,993 posted on 09/05/2005 2:03:05 PM PDT by Seattle Conservative (God Bless and protect our troops and their CIC)
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To: John Jamieson

Those people who drowned in the nursing homes because no bus was deplyed to help them, would no doubt question your sanity. Unfortunately, they are dead while you are straining rescue resources by not evacuating. You must be special.


1,994 posted on 09/05/2005 2:03:07 PM PDT by RTINSC
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To: John Jamieson
I'm not trying to debate either. I'm trying to answer your question. Which was:

Why to do we all (sometimes, myself included) think we know more than the people that actually have the facts, education and training to do these jobs? It's hard to believe that replacing the top 100 people trying to save NO with 100 random Freepers would improve things.

And I answered because freepers are smart and right about a lot of things.

1,995 posted on 09/05/2005 2:03:42 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: Txsleuth

I know. I'm 5'0", so I have even less chance at it...


1,996 posted on 09/05/2005 2:03:55 PM PDT by livius
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To: jeffers

What do you figure? Some gobblins shooting in the air?


1,997 posted on 09/05/2005 2:04:04 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Txsleuth

I flat lined twice while waiting for a heart so maybe this is what I was spared for. Any way I didnt get a new heart so I could sit around on my butt abd feel sorry for myself.:-]]Besides If they come from Bayou La Batre I am kin to them, unless their Vietnamese.


1,998 posted on 09/05/2005 2:04:04 PM PDT by cksharks (ew prayers for them because they will need it.)
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To: plushaye

I referred to another posting by TennTuxedo with a most horrific account of NO from a NOPD officer. Here's another one of TennTuxedo's postings from other threads, which I think wasn't posted here. It's another email, but it's proud and hopeful. Get some kleenex ready though.




Here is an email from a hurricane chopper relief pilot sent to me from this pilot's good friend and a resident of New Orleans who did evacuate the city ahead of the hurricane hitting land.

" A note from a friend running choppers in Louisiana.... No words to describe what I have seen. Much like Vietnam, but I wish to tell you all..the negative media can kiss my ass. I have seen miraculous and heroic action like you have never seen.

DO NOT listen to the negative media. They look to sensationalize and place blame. The sequence of events could not have been forseen and it was a minute by minute crisis like this country has never seen.

God bless the people who have served and God Bless the best damn military in the world and God Bless our President. He has shown strong leadership and screw the naysayers who try to politicize this issue..they have no damn clue..none.

I can tell you I have seen things I have never seen or thought possible and the good that is being done far, far outweighs the negative crap you see from media. Those magnificent ####s are getting it done and they are doing it without a road map. You adapt and you roll.

Put the damn petty politics aside and pitch in and support these wonderful men and women. There will be many books written and history will tell the real story. The cream has risen to the top and I have seen it firsthand and these people of New Orleans have cried in my arms thanking us and I can assure you that there will be a changing of their hearts of many when all this is said and done and they reflect back on the events.

A special thanks to the people of Lafayette and Baton Rouge. My crews say they have never seen such wonderful people in their lives. LSU coeds greeted us when we landed at Ryan field and Bernie Moore with food and water and tearful hugs and it meant so much to our haggared crews and pilots. We have been pushed to our limits but our crews never stopped and often we threw the rule book out the window. We just get it done. I have never done such flying in my life and I am so grateful I knew the lay of the land and was able to help our crews and the dozens of other crews. I have witnessed so much heroism and sacrifice. So many stories..real stories and the media needs to tell it to the American people.

Do not dispair...America and their people are strong and no other country in the world could have done what I have witnessed. This country will be so much stronger and do not let the few bring it down.

God Bless President Bush. I do not care what your politics are...but this man has and is showing leadership and I have witnessed it firsthand and I don't give a damn if John Kennedy or Abraham Lincoln or FDR was President...no one could have foretold the scope of this event and what it would entail...but by the grace of God it is getting done.

As I walked thropugh triage and smelled the death and saw the magnificent work being done under horrible conditions that are beyond description..I stopped to check on an elderly 80 year old lady sitting alone in a corner..she looked at me and smiled. She looked near death and I walked to her and asked if she was OK. She said she was dying, but that was OK..she welcomed the peace and seeing her God. She took my hand and said, "God Bless you and save all you can. God protects the saviors."

I tried to say something, but the words would not come out as my throat tightned and tears came into my eyes. I have not cried in 40 years, but I could not stop the tears from my eyes. I gathered my crew and went back to my mission. I told my crew we had to put on our game face and when we lost people..we just lost them. We had to keep on going. I am glad they did not see my tears.

Keep the faith and we as a people will be stronger. This country and it's people are magnificent. Absolutely magnificent.

Got to get some sleep. Later"


1,999 posted on 09/05/2005 2:04:25 PM PDT by plushaye (President Bush: W-2-4-4!! God Bless him and his administration.)
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To: jhny7
That "no pets allowed" story was bogus. Didn't we just see Floritta and Dusty get on an airplane last night? And I KNOW I saw a guy and his dachsund lifted off a roof.

They have cages for the pets and a shelter for them.

I am SO SICK of this crappy reporting!! They are just making stuff up!!!

2,000 posted on 09/05/2005 2:05:33 PM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's son and keep him strong.)
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