Baghdad on the Bayou
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Posted on 09/04/2005 6:14:35 PM PDT by NautiNurse
DMN article last week, IIRC.
The door was locked. The pilot of the helicopter had to fly to the rescue-e's house and get a key to the store from the rescue-e's wife. Now they have dropped the key inside of a bottle to the rescuer. Now the rescuer is talking to the rescuer and does not want to leave.
There is something wrong with this picture.
C-SPAN hasn't updated their web schedule, but I just saw that Pres Bush's remarks are going to be played at 10:30 eastern . The Admiral was an official Pentagon briefing, I think, so maybe it will be replayed.
but aren't you stunned by the fact they they talk as if this hurricane (forget the issues about the relief effort) is something other then a NATURAL DISASTER. When Gingrich says that the americans can't look at what happened there and "accept it". what does he want to do, reverse an act of nature?
I am voting in this billoreilly.com poll, everyone should.
Good Lord, that gives me the willies!
I agree with that, but limit the optimism to those parts that stayed mostly dry, like the West Bank and the southern third of downtown.
East Orleans, St. Bernards, Plaqemines...not real optimistic about them.
I'm not exaggerating about my motivation though. I'm so sick of the things we're hearing out of New Orleans that my main focus has shifted to the Gulf Coast. Not one report of anyone shooting at the hospitals, police, or rescue crews there, and no complaints about relief efforts either.
< maybe RFK Jr could ride in that boat with Sean Penn, taking water samples from the lake with that red dixie cup.
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I have no doubt that Penn had a lab bottle on him and is taking a sample back with him.
Baghdad on the Bayou
What good what it have done in the rescue efforts and the victims, for Bush to get on national TV and blast the effort of those in charge and on down the line???
The only thing it would have done, is give the MSM, the hack, and the dems a chance to blast Bush for blaming others, and not taking the responsibility...
I think that Dubya is the kind of "boss" that believes in encouraging people instead of denigrating them and their efforts...at least in public...I have NO DOUBT that he has told a few people in private that he is NOT HAPPY.
Also, Dubya is consistent...he has never cared what others think, and he isn't gonna start NOW.
Short of evacuation, nothing would have prevented so many deaths. The death count at the convention center and superdome is nothing compared to what the final body count from the outlying areas is going to be. The idiots in the press forget that if this was the Cat 5 direct hit they were originally supposed to get, everyone in the city of NO would have been wiped out, including Shepard Smith.
Yep mold will make a lot of people sick.
There is no vaccination against antibiotic resistent bacteria, flesh eating or otherwise.
er...yes...you are correct. My relatives still have homes. They're just under water at the moment!
And just imagine how it would have been had the storm accelerated to 25 mph and caught all the people in their cars.....
Absolutely correct. The river levy likely would have gone as well and the city would simply have been gone. There would have been no talk at all of "rebuilding." I also agree with you. The death toll is going to be huge. An incredible shock to the national system.
The text of his speech from Friday, Sept 2, after viewing the disaster sites, seems rather chummy with the Governor and Senator Landrieu. Recall also, Nagin being asked how was the President reacting to Nagin's criticism? Nagin's reply: "He said 'we're okay'" or something like that.
5:01 P.M. CDTThat is markedly different from his tone 17 hours later, where he refers to the results of relief in NOLA as unacceptable.THE PRESIDENT: The Governor and the Mayor of New Orleans, Senator Landrieu, Senator Vitter and Congressman Jefferson, Congressman Jindal and General Blum and I have just completed a tour of some devastated country. I started in Alabama, and worked our way down through Mississippi, and ended up here in one of America's great cities, and saw first-hand the devastation that this city has gone through. I know the people of this part of the world are suffering, and I want them to know that there's a flow of progress. We're making progress. I want to thank the Governor for her hard work, and I want to thank the Mayor.
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050902-8.html
10:06 A.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Yesterday I saw the aftermath of one of the largest natural disasters ever to strike America. A vast coastline of towns and communities are flattened; one of our great cities is submerged. The human costs are incalculable.
In Biloxi I met Bronwynne Bassier and her sister, Kim. Bronwynne told me that the only earthly possessions she has left were the clothes on her back. I also met relief and rescue workers who are performing heroically in difficult circumstances. They've been working around the clock, risking their own lives to save the lives of others. Yet, despite their best efforts, the magnitude of responding to a crisis over a disaster area that is larger than the size of Great Britain has created tremendous problems that have strained state and local capabilities. The result is that many of our citizens simply are not getting the help they need, especially in New Orleans. And that is unacceptable.
During my visit I discussed these problems at length with Governor Riley of Alabama, Governor Barbour of Mississippi, Governor Blanco of Louisiana and Mayor Nagin of New Orleans. Each state will have its own set of challenges and issues to solve. Yet all of us agree that more can be done to improve our ability to restore order and deliver relief in a timely and effective manner.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050903.html
Tammy Bruce is on WABC in place of Laura. Looks like I'm sticking around for an hour or so, really like her.
Ack. Greta interviewing Hillary...showing a promo. Interview at 10:00.
Pres. Bush X41 was asked by Greta why the levees were built to only withstand a Category 3 hurricane and Greta said both X41 and X42 thought it was a gotcha question.
Bill O'Reilly says Hillary has had harsh words for the current president and will in the future.
Greta never heard the comments and the thrust today was looking at the people who need help today and let's move forward.
BTW, Hillary looks AWFUL. Simply AWFUL.
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