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Posted on 09/04/2005 6:14:35 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Or maybe, instead of standing outside like idiots blowing in the wind for 48 hours waiting anxiously for the eye to hit New Orleans, they could have taken their cameras and crew, drove through the neighborhoods with a bull horn and warned people to get out.
Or maybe, instead of standing outside like idiots blowing in the wind for 48 hours waiting anxiously for the eye to hit New Orleans, they could have taken their cameras and crew, drove through the neighborhoods with a bull horn and warned people to get out.
Feds are picking up 100% of rebuilding tab for NO. Someone posted that keeps the locals from controlling the contracts and thus does what you, correctly, want.
I've said this before, but it bears repeating. Before the levee was breached nobody in TV land was really portraying the scope of the disaster. I remember vividly, last Monday, watching Brit do a 'normal' 6pm show, and thinking - they just don't comprehend what has happened to the whole Gulf Coast because it is just not territory that they think very much about ever. After 9/11 all programming, including commercials, except for coverage of the horror stopped for at least 3 days.
Last monday was practically business as usual.
Why: the devastation was so great, there was no video from Mississippi or Alabama, and no ability to 'see' the big picture. And now they all pile on because Mike Brown isn't Superman.
Lovely.
I wonder if he is alive. I guess one would loose his life in drowning and/or put another's life in jeopardy guarding his neighborhood store.
The rescuer has now gone from dropping the basket waiting for the guy to come out, to landing on the roof himself, and now he has had to get off into the water and bang on the door.
Gee. If she thinks moving from LA to L.A. will rid her life of vandals and gunfire, she might be in for a rude awakening.
Someone half-jokingly commented that we needed another medium-sized city in East Texas, so we should just build one there and give it to the refugees.
iamgine this scene - Gingrich and OReilly arguing, OReilly saying people need to be more self sufficient - Gingrich saying government can be the "nanny" in incidents like this.
I am going to drop out of the threads and FR for a few days while I find out what has been happening inside my own house.
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I need to make a fine distinction here.
I have no objection to New Orleans being rebuilt. My point is that clearly some, mostly in the media and local government are unhappy with the Federal effort that has been put into that so far.
If they feel we are just in the way, that they can do a much better job, I say, "By all means then, tear it up. Give me a call when you finish and maybe I'll take in a Mardi Gras and some jazz. SEEya."
I'm thinking about holding out for an apology. I really want to see Russert, Blanco and Nagin grovel a bit.
...ok, a LOT.
Well, and many of these kids are being welcomed into the Dallas schools tomorrow. The thought process up here is to get them into their seats, and get documentation and immunization paperwork down the road. I'm glad mine are in a private school.
Nice. Should we wave the white flag yet? I give up.
That one is true. Go here: American Red Cross Katrina FAQ
The state Homeland Security Department had requested--and continues to request--that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans following the hurricane. Our presence would keep people from evacuating and encourage others to come into the city.
Ah, that must be why Gov. Blank-o wanted to get herself to Houston today. She wanted some fun face time and photo ops with Oprah.
Instead, she had to stay at home and then admit she didn't know the President was coming back already. Was she the only person in America who didn't know that?
I want to see them hung from the nearest convenient tall object as a warning.
I'm primitive that way.
And the sooner they get enrolled, the faster the federal $ show up....
Those with such infections have all presented already, and Dallas is going to go ahead and vaccinate them before they enter the classrooms.
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