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Posted on 09/04/2005 6:14:35 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Jessie HiJackson trying to steer the questions toward "federal preparations"
Some of the people creating this mayhem and destruction are being shipped to private homes. I am worried about that.
1. So much for Wal-Mart paying "slave wages".
2. NOPD is notoriously corrupt. That amount does not include what the corrupt cops get as bribes or kickbacks. The honest cops starve, quit, or go crooked fast in that environment.
Jessie Jackson make another statement that the Red Cross was told by the State not to go into New Orleans.
Jessie Jackson asking why UNICEF wasnt asked, or Venezuela's offers. (oh plueeze)
My feed was cutting in and out, but if I had to guess, it's probably was generally about their whitewash of Blanco, Nagin and concentration on rhetoric over lives. Someone that had a better feed can give you the precise details, but it seemed to come back loud and clear when he slammed the Times. LOL
I'm listening to Gypsy Jackson...Just damn.
Excellent advice- thanks:)
Let's don't pile on Peach...just reporting what was said.
keeps trying to deflect the blame!
I had to turn WWL TV off. Somebody get that pimp offstage...
She told a few stories and got a lot of responses, right?
Now she can't go? Dyammmmn....
They have to fix the 17th Street canal to get the pumping station back online - and so that they don't pump the water into the canal only to have it pour back in.
Greta is at the Astrodome. She would report it, if so. No doubt in my mind. Greta's reports have been very emotionally uplifting, I might add.
The Red Cross?
Like I said, someone else must know about these events. Why are they keeping quiet?
He used bus when the mayor let them sit, while all the time blaming everybody else that there were no buses. How many people died because there were no buses to evacuate?
No one remembers it took a while to mobilize help from around the nation after 9/11 because there was such strong leadership from Rudi and Bernie and their communication with the President was so close that no one seemed to ask where are the Feds?
Also didn't have to deal with all the racism crud because so many upper middle class black and whites were killed instead of poor blacks and whites. All of a sudden if they are poor then it's the Fed's fault.
Yeah -- the NOPD chief sounds like he at least has his head on straight, comparatively -- especially with the idiot press tossing him questions.
Did you hear the question that asked about the "cowards" that abandonded their post?
God Bless him..and I'm so happy people gave this year..
He lost a ton of his cortisone weight, but I don't know how well he really is.
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By TODD LEWAN
AP National Writer
HOUSTON
Some lessons learned by the new inhabitants of the Astrodome:
-It is pointless to wait for the stark, stadium lights to go out at lights out. (Or, for that matter, to expect one's neighbors to cease sobbing, giggling, gabbing or wailing during the wee hours.)
-It is not a good idea to allow children to wander out of sight for even a moment - unless four hours of continuous searching is in your plans.
-It is not recommended to leave cots unguarded. (They tend to disappear.)
Likewise, it is inadvisable to leave one's clothes on the wall peg outside the showers.
Torres Smith, 42, did, and "they stole 'em," he says. "All of my clothes. I had to walk out on the stadium floor with a towel around my waist, go to the table where they were giving out free clothes and get me some new ones."
Smith is - well, was - a machine operator at a New Orleans seafood plant. Now he sleeps maybe two hours a day, from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m., eats, showers, catches snippets of news on a TV in one of the concourses, minds his four kids with his wife, reclines on his cot, reads the Bible, or wanders his new home, trading numb stares with other aimless people.
Of course, to many who lived the horror of the Superdome in New Orleans last week, this old baseball stadium feels like the Taj Mahal.
It has lukewarm showers; 85 toilets that actually flush; hot grits, pancakes in the morning, Cajun dinners served on plastic foam trays at night; an operating air conditioner; complimentary socks, Twinkies, baby formula, flip-flops, tampons, toothpaste, Bermudas (with the big, stylish pockets), and Tom Wolfe and James Lee Burke paperbacks.
Most important, perhaps, it has a contingent of 500 uniformed, Texas lawmen who stroll the concourses, ramps and stands in white Stetsons, to make sure people behave.
But the Astrodome is also pervaded by a troubling air of unease - a sense of people turned inside out, of a shock too large to quite analyze.
Many folks here have lost contact with loved ones, and they worry if this will be permanent. They feel adrift, detached, anxious. What they did to deserve this, how long they'll stay, where they go - they've got plenty of time now to mull these questions.
Too much time, some say.
A Red Cross volunteer put Smith's name on a list for free and subsidized housing and a new job. Otherwise, he says, it's always the same routine.
"I got to get back to work. I'll do anything: cut grass, wash window, wax floors. When all you see is people lying around ... I don't want to be here any more than two, three months."
Selika Thomas, who landed here two days earlier, is getting out - in three hours. Her husband bought tickets on the 6:15 p.m. Greyhound to Atlanta, where they have family.
"I'm depressed," she murmurs.
"People stealing your clothes when you're sleeping, men peeking into the women's showers, people walking around, day and night, like zombies, afraid to sleep."
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