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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
IIRC, the rioting and disorder in NO stopped the search and rescue efforts as troops were diverted. Also, the media did create the perception that all the white in town left, while poor blacks stayed behind.
"Voodo ops, voodo ops. This is Eagle three, over." I have no idea what that means but it sounds cool...:-)
My sister is wild about chicos. But nothing looks right on me from there,,it just doesn't.
That's funny that they named whatever their op is that.
The clothes from Chicos are not 'fitted'
This started because Shep spent days on that bridge screaming that no one was getting food and water to those people and implying that nobody cared about them. It could have been taken care of the first day if he would have gone to the hotel that was right behind him in most of those shots and told the mayor to either get some aid to those people or he'd start naming names. Instead, he just kept ragging on "the government" which was the equivalent of loading a gun, aiming it at the Bush administration, and handing it to the DNC. He basically accomplished NOTHING constructive and in fact did manage to accomplish something quite DESTRUCTIVE.
Now, we'll find out just what kind of man he is by how he fixes the mess that he made.
As a "newsman" he of all people should have known the hierarchy. He went through 9-11 and saw for himself how the city and the state were responsible for the first response, so he can't plead ignorance.
I know but they look funny on me. Maybe I am not built for them or something but I look frumpy in them. Now that I think about it I am frumpy.
No - you probably aren't! That's why you don't like them. That's how I feel.
He is probably talking about when the French owned New Orleans!
And we are supposed to rebuild this foul place, pay for its decadent citizens with money taken from our paychecks by our feckless govenment, and not question the sanity of recreating a city below sea level with a gigantic lake on one side, the Mississippi River on the other and the Gulf of Mexico on its doorstep? Are we really as stupid as the Frenchman who foolishly established the city where it should never have been built?
Omg! That pic just invalidates all the crappy racist rants. We will come together and take care of our neighbors.
JJ and Al need to pick up the white courtesy phone. Btw, where did you find that photo?
I like Talbots and Chicos, too. But Coldwater Creek is my favorite. They sent me an e-mail today about what they are going to do in the hurricane relief effort.
Thanks to a freeper message I spent 2 hours today unloading vehicles in Roswell, GA for a 50-foot trailer that was being sent with relief supplies.
It was great mix of good people who acted like they didn't care about race.
I'm holding my fire to see how bad the AJC is tomorrow so I can fire both barrels with the make up of this group and the willingness to help any American citizen.
http://www.radioreference.com/wiki/index.php/Hurricane_Katrina
I recommend people listen to some of the GREAT AMERICANS helping these people. I have been listening to the San Antonio Feed for the past half hour. Ambulances on the tarmac waiting for the planes to land, Code 3 rolls to the hospitals, Trailers of supplies arriving donating by local business owners.
In any case, the Red Cross can direct you to where the need is greatest, be it high-profile shelters like Houston or Baton Rouge or in the small towns of West Texas or West Virginia.
We're talking about a couple of million displaced people (when you include the ones that heeded the warnings to evacuate and didn't need to be rescued...yet still lost everything they own), not just from New Orleans but from 92,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast. Yes, they'll need the clothes, and the toys! (And bless you and your kids for your generosity.)
Off topic....is it me or does anyone else get a weird feeling seeing Islamic Relief Fund splashed on the screen?
I was in the car and turned to Air America for a minute and there was a black host taking phone calls...
The only phone call I lasted long enough for was from a black lady complaining about the use of the word "refugee" to describe the victims of the hurricane...which is the "talking point" of the day...I even heard Kiran Chetry on Fox say refugee and then correct herself to evacuee..
Anyway...she was complaining about how degrading that word is...and then said, "they aren't refugees, they are homeless!!"
Whoa...did I laugh out loud----so I guess in her mind, calling them "homeless" is more respectful than "refugee"..
On the Thursday the Loudon County VA Sheriff's office sent a search and rescue team to Louisianna. They were forced to turn around and come home after FEMA denied their request to assist in the recovery effort.
FEMA chief Chertoff in a press conference today tried to discount the idea that it was reasonable for FEMA to have planned in advance for something on the magnitude of what we're seeing.
There are also reports that FEMA initially rejected the assistance of a private flotilla of 500 boats due to communications snafus.
I'd that for 50 years we've known what it would take to protect New Orleans, yet nobody thought it worthwhile to do it.
Government, at all levels, democrat, republican, whig, you name it, has failed.
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