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Posted on 08/30/2005 6:51:27 AM PDT by NautiNurse
I was thinking the same thing. Disgusting, isn't it?
Of course not. But using a gun to take money from one citizen and give it to another is not compassion, it is extortion.
back at ya. : )
Thing is, they aren't going to be able to actually USE all the electronics they are stealing until the electricity comes back on. Now they have to keep themselves from being looted. The looters become the lootees.
Overland Park, Kansas
Just to show you how "Twilight Zoney" we've gotten around here, when pictures of flags were posted yesterday, some people were actually CARPING about the people having the flag outside in a hurricane.
Wow, Russia and Venazuala offering aid. When has that ever happened after one of our major disasters? This is incredible. Seeing is believing. I hope they follow through. All other countries are welcome to join in. How many others will?
Between NOLA and Gulfport.
Tell your interlocutors that America is a free country, and thus in it you see man at his best and at his worst.
With the former we get scientific genius, the wholesale invention of many modern industries, overwhelming response to global distress (How quickly the tsunami response is forgotten!), bearing any burden in defense of lberty, accepting with equanimity all the world's people (from Japan and everywhere else) as our citizen equals, tremendous social entrepreneurship, etc. With the latter we get looting in a time of crisis, the world's most vibrant pornography industry, an appalling rate of divorce, out-of-wedlock birth, abortion, etc.
We are all things at the same time because we are left free to chart our own destiny in this world. And whatever we are, we are certainly not boring.
I predict that tremendous sacrifices made on behalf of complete strangers will be objectively a much bigger part of this story than the looting. But I also predict that the looting will get a lot more foreign press coverage.
Deserves repeating.
I haven't heard about any leaks from the river side. If there are, then water will flow from the river downhill through NO to Lake Ponchartrain VERY fast. The river is several feet above sea level, 14 feet at high water. If there is a leak from the river, we will hear about that one in a hurry.
CNN ticker: report of a man jumping to his death from the 2nd level of the stadium - which now has reports of 25,000 seeking shelter inside.
Most of the reporters I've seen in NO say they can smell the gas.
absolutely turns my stomach.
"To: RobFromGa
Where is Bay St. Louis?"
Between Slidell and Gulfport, roughly in the middle, the only big bay in that area. The city of the same name is on the western arm of the bay near the Gulf.
I thought it was Sunday as well when they realized that Katrina had bombed out - voluntary was issued on Saturday.
I remember Sunday morning when they announced the mandatory evac (I think it was 11:00 est). The Governor of LA made sure to say that the President urged her and the Mayor to order the evacuation. I was thinking at the time that if this storm didn't live up to the hype they could pin the evacation order on Bush. Funny, I haven't heard anyone commending the President on the evacuation today.
An orange X usually means the house has been checked so that isnt checked again....they will leave 2x or 3x for number of victims.
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