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New Orleans Didn’t Just Go Nuts -- It’s Been Nuts
Human Events Online ^ | September 6, 2005 | Mac Johnson

Posted on 09/06/2005 9:58:20 AM PDT by hinterlander

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To: livius

Nagin- Do I seem paranoid? Do I? C'mon man do I?


21 posted on 09/06/2005 10:53:43 AM PDT by American_Centurion (A liberal is a socialist who isn't quite willing to get blood on his hands yet. -KarlInOhio)
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To: BlackRain

LOL!


22 posted on 09/06/2005 10:57:42 AM PDT by lupie
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To: Shermy
Exactly! We're starting to hear that many of these stories were apocryphal.

For example, in one article, the "reporter" states that upon entering the Convention Center, a person is told to "avoid that blood, it's contaminated". How would they know it was contaminated the second they came in? And why would the blood be fresh this many days after evacuations? In the story of the little girl shoved in the freezer with her throat slit... there's no electricity, folks. The freezer wouldn't be freezing anything. The body would be just as decomposed as those outside the freezer.

Some of these may turn out to be true, or at least partially true. But so, so many of them smack of rumor and budding urban legend, I'll be surprised if "this one time, at band camp" isn't soon replaced with "this one time, after a hurricane..."

23 posted on 09/06/2005 11:04:00 AM PDT by Jokelahoma (Animal testing is a bad idea. They get all nervous and give wrong answers.)
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To: American_Centurion
Take ur pick, I'm just spreading rumors.

You'll have to interpret as you decide and then spread further. LOL


HA! HA! HA! :-) Oh yes! I'm not sure what will push him over the edge, but I hear he's coming unglued NOW. :-)
24 posted on 09/06/2005 11:08:33 AM PDT by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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To: Getsmart64
Excuse the French but...you gotta be shitting me!!!....you have a link for this?

Yes
25 posted on 09/06/2005 11:14:02 AM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29 (God help New Orleans-)
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To: Jokelahoma

Reporters embellish true stories and rumors too.


26 posted on 09/06/2005 11:28:57 AM PDT by Shermy
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To: Shermy
My point to a "T". We need to wait for evidence of these atrocities before we fall prey to believing the stories.

Even multiple sources don't make a story true, as the MSM has an annoying habit of quoting one another, and using another MSM source as reliable fonts of information. Therefore, one source makes up a story, or repeats some urban legend, then a more "reputable" source uses the questionable source, then another, even more "reputable" source quotes the second, and before long some garbage reported by a college puke with an overactive imagination and a gullible mind becomes "well, the AP is reporting...". It's sad, really.

27 posted on 09/06/2005 11:41:44 AM PDT by Jokelahoma (Animal testing is a bad idea. They get all nervous and give wrong answers.)
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To: Sweet_Sunflower29
Actually, that story refers to the Convention Center, not the Superdome; and it doesn't say that the victim was raped.
28 posted on 09/06/2005 11:57:47 AM PDT by Christopher Lincoln
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To: Christopher Lincoln
You are entirely correct.

Not only was that link irrelevant to the story at hand, but it was irresponsible on my part to post as such.

Glad you pointed it out.
29 posted on 09/06/2005 12:23:05 PM PDT by Sweet_Sunflower29 (... roll on daddy 'till you get back home... roll on 18 wheeler, roll on...)
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To: clee1

As bad as things were under Nagin, IMAGINE if Morial was still in charge. He'd have been leading the looters . . . .


30 posted on 09/06/2005 12:52:26 PM PDT by rebel_yell2
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To: Jokelahoma

I heard that not only were they raping and killing children, they were unplugging baby incubators and stealing them.


31 posted on 09/06/2005 12:58:26 PM PDT by Gone GF
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To: Gone GF
Well if you believe Randall Robinson, and I quote, "It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive". Of course, the white ones are getting meals flown in from Ruth's Chris. But that's neither here nor there. No telling what you'll hear in the next few days as the press takes off and runs with the stories. Any more, failing to prove something did not happen is the same as proof that it did. Fact checking is for wussies, apparently.
32 posted on 09/06/2005 1:18:57 PM PDT by Jokelahoma (Animal testing is a bad idea. They get all nervous and give wrong answers.)
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To: hinterlander

Of further note. The entire Atlantic / Gulf Coast is, geophysically speaking, on what is known as a passive margin. As seafloor spreading occurs in the mid Atlantic, the plates move apart - North America moving apart from Europe and Africa. As this happens, the earth's crust cools and sinks. This is not new knowledge, it's been measured for years. Holland is the archetype for dealing with it.


33 posted on 09/06/2005 1:39:30 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: RexBeach

Gang bangin' ... sellin' crack ...


34 posted on 09/06/2005 1:40:12 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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To: hinterlander
Fellow Freepers:

At the suggestion of writer Michelle Malkin last Friday, I have cobbled together a blogsite called Texas Clearinghouse for Katrina Aid to serve as a clearinghouse for refugee efforts in Texas.

Texas is getting more refugees than any other state -- that's fine, we'll take them all -- but we need help providing them with food, clothing, and shelter.

If you are a refugee, you can information that will help you find relief. If you want to donate or volunteer, you can find someone who needs you.

Right now the site mostly covers Houston and Dallas but I will add various churches, schools, and other charities in San Antonio and Ft. Worth tonight. My wife is down at Reunion Arena in Dallas as we speak handing out care packages and otherwise ministering to the refugees as a representative of her employer.

There are a lot of churches and other organizations in Texas that need help in dealing with the problem and I would be most appreciative if you would get the word out.

Many thanks,

Michael McCullough

Stingray blogsite

35 posted on 09/06/2005 1:51:38 PM PDT by DallasMike
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To: rebel_yell2

Sh*t, if Dutch Morial were still mayor, he'd have hired EXTRA looters to come in before the storm.


36 posted on 09/06/2005 5:25:36 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: hinterlander


"Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem."

37 posted on 09/06/2005 5:31:23 PM PDT by John Lenin (When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around)
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To: RexBeach
Well I'll be damned. He's one helluva communicator, isn't he? Mayor Nagin. What a joke.

Understatement of the year. This clown's IQ is frozen in an artic quagmire. IMOHO.

38 posted on 09/06/2005 5:58:53 PM PDT by Cobra64
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To: clee1
The problem is that he was a mid-level business leader...

Iv'e worked with this level of un-expertise. He got into politics because he was inept. I'd like to see a documented copy of his resume... and others who like to bash President Bush.

Quite frankly, if I were still in college, I'd write a term paper on all of the ineptitude of the morons in politics. "Pros & Cons" would suit me fine.

39 posted on 09/06/2005 6:04:20 PM PDT by Cobra64
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To: Jokelahoma; Shermy
In the story of the little girl shoved in the freezer with her throat slit... there's no electricity, folks. The freezer wouldn't be freezing anything. The body would be just as decomposed as those outside the freezer.

The freezer, working or not, would be just about airtight, and so would have been a way for the living to separate themselves from the dead inside the dome.

Where else to put the dead? Outside to be eaten by dogs? Among the people in the arena? No one was about to live in the freezer, so it would be a logical otherwise unused and airtight place for them to put the dead.

40 posted on 09/06/2005 6:27:58 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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