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Posted on 08/31/2005 4:00:15 PM PDT by NautiNurse
"Bush is gonna take a hit on this, I believe."
Only if we let it. Word-of-mouth from us and others to counter the spin is important. Given success with things like Rathergate, I truly think we can keep the president from getting railroaded. FWIW, the residents of NO seem to understand their state and local leadership has failed them in a big way.
Save the pets and the children the elderly, ....
I don't think it's a Southern thing as much as it is a big-city thing. New Orleans has always had a high violent crime rate, a corrupt and largely ineffective police department and government, and grinding poverty. Put the three together, mix in a Category 4 hurricane and some abysmal planning by local and state leaders, and you get this.
Not to pick on Detroit, but do you really think it'd be that much different if some sort of similar disaster could hit Detroit? Or, say, Philadelphia or Baltimore? Or St. Louis?
}:-)4
Beginning?? :-) Obviously, you're not from the South.
I saw one shot that made it look as though at least one building was on dry land. There was a pickup truck parked next to one of the burning structures.
Eating words now.
WDSU showing t-storms popping up over N.O.
:)
It's not "the south" that's different, but "the inner city." This same thing would be going on in Detroit, Houston, New York, or Chicago; and actually has gone on in Los Angeles and elsewhere.
With all that is flying around we type before we think of impact. You meant no insult, I understand. None taken!
[Southern charm speaking ;) ]
Been to Detroit lately? Same thing, just no flooding and no media coverage.
CNN showed the same, & also 'refugees' in large group chanting "we want help", & very upset people, outside the Dome.
Time for gov't to decide who's going to live.....these refugees or the gangbanging looters???
At this point, there are people dying and suffering. I couldnt give two hershey squirts about looters/gangs/rioters right now besides removing them from the problem.
They have armed security.
Oh. Answer still may apply.
You'd shoot someone who is taking food for themselves and their family rather than letting everyone starve?
I can see shooting the morons stealing beer and TVs, but there are a lot of people who are taking what they need to survive.
I saw it on CNN, without a bleeping of "Fu*k," and I'd swear they were saying Nagin. It certainly was "*AY-gun."
Not only shooting at them but trying to commandeer some of their boats. At least this was the case with the searach and rescue group my son was with. They had to call it off.
Like I said earlier on another post, New Orleans was a cesspool long before this hurricane hit.
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