Katrina Live Threads, Part XV

Various ^ | 4 September 2005 | Various

[onyx]

Perhaps she has been duly gagged...lol.

[Cboldt]

NAACP Partners with MoveOn to Provide Housing for Disaster Victims

Typo in the previous link - fixed here.

[Will_Zurmacht]

BBC World is showing the the bodies washing up by buildings.

just bloated and floating.

then talking to very angry folks.

then how the "racism" of America contributed to the damage

[Txsleuth]

That is joke, right?

Surely they didn't have a gay parade today, in the French Quarter????

[sassbox]

why are there tourists in New Orleans right now? I thought the city was being evacuated and sealed off to anyone except rescue workers.

[navysealdad]

Broussard crying without tears!!! If my Mother was in a nursing home and it was flooded I would get a boat and go get her.

[SeaBiscuit]

Websters: Refugee

Main Entry: ref·u·gee
one that flees; especially : a person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution

Refugee = LSM framing/connotations IMO. Evacuee would be better.

[sheikdetailfeather]

WFTV in Orlando says 15 Progress Energy trucks are headed to Louisiana to help.

[zot]

Here's a link to an excellent pictorial timeline of Katrina's path. http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/ Scroll to the middle of the page and click on the "Trail of a Killer" link Once you get the page displayed, you can click on the red circle for each day. This will bring up a daily timeline of the day's events including Bush taking action and Blanco and the Mayor not taking action

This is what I've been looking for, but I don't have the software to do the interactive. Is it available in html, or can it be copied and converted to html?

[Will_Zurmacht]

oh yeah, the queer pride parade went on as scheduled...

some of those interviewed were as unconcerned as they could be....completely oblivious to the world.

[Mo1]

I refuse to let the feds take the blame for the New Orleans and Baton Rouge corruption and incompetence. Brown may not be the most riveting speaker, but by gosh he was on the TV urging people to evacuate before the governor or the mayor did a damn thing!

I'm with you .. what is occurring on TV is absolute BS

Many people were begging Blanco and the Mayor to declare a state of emergency before the storm hit and those pleas were ignored until the afternoon before the storm hit

Why didn't Tim Russert have Gov. Blanco on today along with Gov Haley Barbour ???

And I am sick to death of hearing how the National Guard, the Coast Guard, the rest of are military aren't doing enough .. while these Talking heads sit on their fat rear ends

Tim Russert had blood in his eye during that show I just watch and he intends to pin ALL of the blame on President Bush

Hey Timmy ... You want an investigation???

BRING ON PAL ... We'll start with opening up the books and find out where all that money went?

And why was it spent on the Casinos and other building projects other then the Levees???

[Howlin]

Oh, sorry. Thanks for fixing that.

[OKIEDOC]

I don't blame the mayor, the blacks and Hispanics don't get along.

I believe Race Bating Jackson and his ilk just about have the two communities ready to go into a race war.

I don't think El Poncho Alcalde wants the black community to have backups coming to help out in the pending race war.

[Cboldt]

It is a testimony to the recovery and the spirit of this country, that such trivial pursuit is overlooked amidst a deadly serious situation.

God Bless America.

[owl37]

"Surely they didn't have a gay parade today, in the French Quarter????"

Well, I think it was more like a group of 20 people went dancing down the street.

[BurbankKarl]

those are residents... NOPD says they arent going to go inside and cuff people inside their own homes.

[Republic]

Very sad.

Wonder if this has been shown on American TV.

[OKIEDOC]

LOL

[Mo1]

your link didn't work

but the NAACP Partners with MoveOne, huh???

Well ain't that just special

[Sender]

OK sorry.