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Cops trapped survivors in New Orleans
The Washington Times ^ | September 9, 2005 | Shaun Waterman

Posted on 09/09/2005 11:33:50 AM PDT by NavySEAL F-16

Police from surrounding jurisdictions shut down several access points to one of the only ways out of New Orleans last week, effectively trapping victims of Hurricane Katrina in the flooded and devastated city.

(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Those who would raise the Katrina issue immediately to a Federal one are the socialist/communists, who do appear to believe that the State is the answer, the god of all.

The rest of us lay up stores for the winter, and buy beans when the snows or rains look to hit, and keep our powder dry. We don't want government around at all.

To the extent we hear the horrors of a supposedly slow federal response (from a federal entity 24 hours is supposed to be slow??), we are hearing the socialists.


81 posted on 09/09/2005 3:49:52 PM PDT by combat_boots (Dug in and not budging an inch. NOT to be schiavoed, greered, or felosed as a patient)
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To: Republican Red

YGBKM!! And MSM is SILENT??!!

Gee, can you say "ACCOMPLICES"?

Now, more than ever, I've got that "every man for himself" kinda feeling, and that is NOT a good thing cuz I'm not prone that way and if I'VE got that feeling, there've gotta be COUNTLESS others in the same mindframe.

"Shadow" Nation, anyone??


82 posted on 09/09/2005 3:50:47 PM PDT by HKMk23 (SAVE THE EARTH! STOP THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS!)
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To: F-117A
Thread here:

STORM SURGE SWAMPS 9TH WARD, ST. BERNARD

83 posted on 09/09/2005 4:05:34 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: Republican Red
These people are animals. As bad as it sounds I am making sure money I give goes to MS and AL.

1. If all of them really were animals, wouldn't things be that much worse?

2. I know that these two situations would be different, but at heart, how does this differ from "after that meteorite hit and the tsunami devastated everything around the Gulf, I heard of such horrible things in New Orleans that I'm giving all my money to Cuba"?

84 posted on 09/09/2005 4:08:15 PM PDT by Lonely Bull
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To: combat_boots

The Fox Allstars had a good discussion on the topic of whther the Fed's should have seized authority, which apparently they tried to do, however the LA Governor refused to close the deal!

That of course was on the Brit Hume Special Report.


85 posted on 09/09/2005 4:09:56 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: editor-surveyor; NavySEAL F-16

This is just crazy, and we won't hear this on MSM.


86 posted on 09/09/2005 4:20:11 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl ("President Bush, start building that wall"!)
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To: F-117A

Good catch!

Levee break first ocurred just as the hurricane leaving. I relied on the Los Angeles Times, which had it wrong.

So the bridges would have probably been still closed for the storm as news of the levee break spread.

Tuesday morning, the water was still rising. By afternoon, first efforts were made to slow the leak.


87 posted on 09/09/2005 4:26:42 PM PDT by hlmencken3 ("...politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition")
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To: combat_boots
Discussion thread here:

Key planner (Admiral Loy) criticizes Homeland Security

88 posted on 09/09/2005 4:32:01 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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To: Republican Red

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/46552.html

The story may be urban legend. Here is a story listing survivors.


89 posted on 09/09/2005 4:43:49 PM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: Colonial Warrior

Ping


90 posted on 09/09/2005 4:46:44 PM PDT by Hushpuppie
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Grampa Dave; Mo1; Conservababe; Howlin; Brad's Gramma; BurbankKarl; bd476

Links to a sampling of Larry Bradshaw's Socialist worker Party activities.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cssn/cssn-list/2001/06/00052.html

http://www.socialistworker.org/2005-2/556/556_04_RealHeroes.shtml

http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/calendar081804.shtml (Scroll down to Aug 29)

http://www.timesizing.com/gts0411a.htm

http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/01/1566386_comment.php

http://www.shunpiking.com/ol0205/0205-look-sf-bf.htm

Links to his activities are endless.

The other writer is editor of the Gurney Gazette, an innocent appearing publication that goes head to head with other competing labor groups.


91 posted on 09/09/2005 6:32:13 PM PDT by TaxRelief
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To: Mo1
I'd like to know for sure what the Gretna Police actually did, not just what UPI says the Chief said. Maybe they did block the bridge, but I don't see any roadblocks, groups of cruisers, etc. on the satellite photos of the bridge and its surrounding ramps.

August 31 Satellite Photo

92 posted on 09/09/2005 6:37:22 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: Mo1; Howlin; Miss Marple; PhiKapMom; Dog Gone
Off topic to this thread but the following links will offer you some indept insight into this catastropic event. In the first one go down to the Skycopter videos and play them. Most are some 30 minutes or more of film taken from the air by WLBT 3 in Jackson Ms. You'll see that MS is very hard hit and not much media attention is being given to it. They also have a video of NO and St. Bernard.

The second link is to the Sun Herald in Biloxi and MS Gulf Coast... dig throught their archives for some interesting reading and info. I don't believe people as a whole understand the nature of this event and the destruction that it has caused. In the final analysis MS/AL maybe hit harder than NO, but whose to know at this point. The damage/destruction is different.

http://www.wlbt.com/

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/

93 posted on 09/09/2005 7:14:50 PM PDT by deport
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To: deport

Thanks for those links. I'll look at them early tomorrow morning based on their length.


94 posted on 09/09/2005 7:18:39 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: deport; Dog Gone

I have been looking at the Gulfport Miss Sat images, and it looks like damage away from the storm surge of the beach is not total like they keep showing on Foxnews, certainly severe but some rather large commercial structures are standing and the highways seem to be ok and have much traffic on them,,,


95 posted on 09/09/2005 11:35:38 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (History is soon Forgotten,)
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