Glaad to see they have their priorities, umm, straight.
Posted on 09/04/2005 9:49:39 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans turned much of its attention Sunday to gathering up and counting the dead across a ghastly landscape awash in perhaps thousands of corpses. "It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine," the nation's homeland security chief warned.
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With large-scale evacuations completed at the Superdome and Convention Center, the death toll was not known. But bodies were everywhere: floating in canals, slumped in wheelchairs, abandoned on highways and medians and hidden in attics.
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The U.S. Public Health Service said one morgue alone, at a St. Gabriel prison, expected 1,000 to 2,000 bodies.
"We need to prepare the country for what's coming," Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said on "Fox News Sunday." "We are going to uncover people who died, maybe hiding in houses, got caught by the flood. ... It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine."
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Amid the tragedy, about two dozen people gathered in the French Quarter for the Decadence Parade, an annual Labor Day gay celebration. Matt Menold, 23, a street musician wearing a sombrero and a guitar slung over his back, said: "It's New Orleans, man. We're going to celebrate."
In New Orleans' Garden District, a woman's body lay at the corner of Jackson Avenue and Magazine Street - a business area with antique shops on the edge of blighted housing. The body had been there since at least Wednesday. As days passed, people covered the corpse with blankets or plastic.
By Sunday, a short wall of bricks had been built around the body, holding down a plastic tarpaulin. On it, someone had spray-painted a cross and the words, "Here lies Vera. God help us."
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Glaad to see they have their priorities, umm, straight.
SICK! Just sick!
...clearly lives his life doggie-style.
(..."Pug life"...heh.)
That is one sad looking group of "revelers."
There's that much dry ground in NO?!?!/sarcasm
I guess the wrong parts of the city were destroyed.
Bush's fault.
Did anyone rebuild Sodom & Gomorrah?
Looks like those turds float.
"Amid the tragedy, about two dozen people gathered in the French Quarter for the Decadence Parade, an annual Labor Day gay celebration. Matt Menold, 23, a street musician wearing a sombrero and a guitar slung over his back, said: "It's New Orleans, man. We're going to celebrate."
I almost thought the above was meant as a joke till I saw the photos.
What in God's name is wrong with these people?
I can't say what I am thinking.
"bi-got"= hateful of (most) homosexuals.
edmond246=bigot.
BTW, that poor dog.
I'm watching a show on the Discovery channel and part of it is about New Orleans. It's just stupid to have a city there. Ina hole. They need to just fill it up with water and leave.
First of all, it is great to see the French Quarter is fine.
Now get the mother F-er's off the street. It is just sick. And Im sure the residents that did stay did not appreciate these jackasprins celebrating in the streets as other houses have been flooded, the wharfs on fire and people dead in the streets.
Man. A LITERAL decadence party. Decay everywhere.
Once everyone is evacuated out of N.O., I'm really hoping Mother Nature will finish it off with another hurricane. That's right folks, I'm not the least bit interested in rebuilding that cesspool and hope nature will give the politicians no choice! There is hope.... several hurricanes are forecasted.
This is one of the most pathetic things I've seen in my life.
Seven sex perverts in the big parade
With one unfortunate pooch close at hand
Followed by rows and rows of perv no-shows
The greatest flop parade in all the land......
Leni
Are any of the people leaving being asked to leave permanently?
My tax dollars are going toward evac orders, support, care, housing and feeding of these......specimens from the gene pool?
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