Katrina Live Thread XII

To: Diddle E. Squat

That was corroborated by two reporters who were there when it happened. They were just on O'Reilly.

401 posted on 08/31/2005 5:41:55 PM PDT by theophilusscribe

Thanks! I finally turned off cable news because I was tired of grandstanding from all of them. I have on WWL thanks to the links! :)

403 posted on 08/31/2005 5:43:04 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)

To: theophilusscribe

I saw a quick clip of something today where they were discussing moving prisoners to another location. But, this guy was giving specifics in numbers and to where. Not that they were releasing them freely.

404 posted on 08/31/2005 5:43:08 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit

To: Strategerist

Brit Hume said they have seen some gruesome scenes (bodies floating in the water) they have not shown.

The toll will shock us all, I fear.

405 posted on 08/31/2005 5:43:33 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights

To: tcrlaf; Dog Gone; Dark Wing; Shermy; ElkGroveDan; Gophack

Governor Blanco has not declared martial law in the areas subject to long-term evacuation, or made THE formal request for federal military assistance.

Those require decisions. She's been in full passive-aggressive mode at least since the weekend, and possibly last Saturday and Sunday.

http://www.ptypes.com/passive-aggpd.html

"Here is a hypothetical profile, in terms of the five-factor model of personality, for Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder (speculatively constructed from McCrae, 1994, pg. 306):
High Neuroticism
Chronic negative affects, including anxiety, fearfulness, tension, irritability, anger, dejection, hopelessness, guilt, shame; difficulty in inhibiting impulses: for example, to eat, drink, or spend money; irrational beliefs: for example, unrealistic expectations, perfectionistic demands on self, unwarranted pessimism; unfounded somatic concerns; helplessness and dependence on others for emotional support and decision making.
High Extraversion
Excessive talking, leading to inappropriate self-disclosure and social friction; inability to spend time alone; attention seeking and overly dramatic expression of emotions; reckless excitement seeking; inappropriate attempts to dominate and control others.
Low Openness
Difficulty adapting to social or personal change; low tolerance or understanding of different points of view or lifestyles; emotional blandness and inability to understand and verbalize own feelings; alexythymia; constricted range of interests; insensitivity to art and beauty; excessive conformity to authority.
Low Agreeableness
Cynicism and paranoid thinking; inability to trust even friends or family; quarrelsomeness; too ready to pick fights; exploitive and manipulative; lying; rude and inconsiderate manner alienates friends, limits social support; lack of respect for social conventions can lead to troubles with the law; inflated and grandiose sense of self; arrogance.
High Conscientiousness
Overachievement: workaholic absorption in job or cause to the exclusion of family, social, and personal interests; compulsiveness, including excessive cleanliness, tidiness, and attention to detail; rigid self-discipline and an inability to set tasks aside and relax; lack of spontaneity; overscrupulousness in moral behavior.

Character Weaknesses and Vices*
procrastination
argumentativeness
dilatoriness at work
querulousness
obstructionistic behavior
scornful of authority
resentful of suggestions
"forgets" obligations
unaware of being incompetent"

IMO Blanco is the last female governor Louisiana will have for a long time - perhaps the rest of this century.

And, when her conduct in this crisis is analyzed, there is a reasonable possibility that this will result in no female governors being elected unless they have first demonstrated "macho" executive abilities. Most likely taht will take the form of military service, i.e., which pretty much limits the field to female Republican veterans.

406 posted on 08/31/2005 5:44:02 PM PDT by Thud

Galveston 1900 and Texas City 1947 is forever etched in the minds of Texans charged with emergency planning. Never again isn't just a sentiment for them, it's a promise.

407 posted on 08/31/2005 5:44:29 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)

"Any evacuation plan MUST include contingencies for removing people who don't have cars. It is amazing to me that New Orleans, with a large poverty-stricken population plus several universities and a large tourist presence, had NOTHING in place for those people."

Let's never forget the fallacy of government leadership in the Big Easy.

Ultimately this is a man made disaster just waiting for nature to provide a tipping point.

Where were the pumps, the levees, the communications or the transportation?

Even today, National Guard trucks driving around with no supplies, blowing past people in need of transport.

Every crapweasel NO and LA politician needs to be brought to trial and impeached when this thing is over.

What we are seeing is criminal.......

408 posted on 08/31/2005 5:44:34 PM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy (Don't hit them between the eyes. Hit them right -in- the eyes!)

Thank you! Bayou La Batre suffered tremendus damage but is not a loss. Thats where I was born and raised.

409 posted on 08/31/2005 5:44:43 PM PDT by cksharks (ew prayers for them because they will need it.)

That's what another reporter has said. Some left and went to the convention center so they didn't have to go to Houston -- I heard some of them interviewed and several said they were walking out of NO.

410 posted on 08/31/2005 5:44:57 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)

To: Protect the Bill of Rights

I have a feeling Homeland Security heavily leaned on all the networks not to show bodies.

411 posted on 08/31/2005 5:44:58 PM PDT by Strategerist

To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Maybe it will shock us.... but why should the media censor their coverage??? This did not happen during 9/11 until afterwards where they stopped showing certain things. Most of us are grown ups and can take it.

412 posted on 08/31/2005 5:45:03 PM PDT by Tuxedo (This space for rent.)

I don't think her ineptness has anything to do with her gender; rather her overall ineptness as a decision maker.

413 posted on 08/31/2005 5:45:24 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit

From the way that guy from Houston described how they were setting up the Astrodome, it sounded like such a paradise I was about ready to go there.

414 posted on 08/31/2005 5:45:37 PM PDT by Strategerist

I think it's an excellent idea, if there are any available.

Seems like Clinton used closed military bases for refuges from Bosnia.

415 posted on 08/31/2005 5:45:46 PM PDT by ncpatriot

The mayor has now removed 1500 NO law enforcement officers from searching for the living to going after the looters.

Which suggests to me that the "looters" have graduated to rape, robbery and murder.

416 posted on 08/31/2005 5:45:53 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Violence never settles anything." Genghis Khan, 1162-1227)

I have heard quite a few people today say they should have left and not ridden out the storm. They didn't think it would be this bad.

417 posted on 08/31/2005 5:46:28 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)

Martial Law will allow them to shoot on sight any curfew violators, IIRC.

418 posted on 08/31/2005 5:46:40 PM PDT by Tuxedo (This space for rent.)

http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/FaultMaps/115-34_eqs.htm

Holy quake! Magma movement? A new volcano? They seem pretty shallow.

419 posted on 08/31/2005 5:46:44 PM PDT by CedarDave (VietNam Vet Remembers -- This Time SUPPORT the Troops, COMPLETE the Mission)

The FNC reporter from this morning said a woman had been raped on the road where he stayed overnight.

420 posted on 08/31/2005 5:47:00 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit

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