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Posted on 09/04/2005 6:14:35 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Check out the guy on fox, he just told em about how LA and NO screwed up,,,,,,
I asked myself the same question, after reading posts on the New Orleans Tourist Forum on VirtualTourist.com from a guy with a flight services business in Lafayette who claimed that he has been trying to offer assistance and keeps getting blown off. I can't post the link because the thread just got pulled; this pilot is very frustrated and his posts tended to turn into stream-of-consciousness rants that were somewhat hard to decipher. I only wish I had cut-and-pasted the pertinent parts of them earlier.
VirtualTourist.com seems to be pro-Red Cross donations only, so I have a feeling that the response I posted with specific local addresses will be pulled momentarily. But as long as one person sees it and is prompted to act, then my mission is accomplished!
LOL ... please explain the facts to her, if you can.
Hey--I ain't proud....if those two countries want to send us $$$$ I say bring it on !!!!
BTW, I just heard a few minutes of Alan Colmes radio show..and he played a tape of Barbara Bush down in the Astrodome today...she said something about how nice it was to be able to help the people from NO..and how for some of them, it would be a new start, because they didn't have much there, before.
Well, Alan just is going off on her...calling her insensitive, IMPLYING that these people NEEDED help. He just thinks she is awful... I feel like calling and telling him that Barbara Bush is speaking the TRUTH.
"This is one of these disasters that will test our soul and test our spirit, but we're going to show the world once again that not only can we survive but we will be stronger and better for it," Bush said after taking the microphone.
Blanco late Monday sought to tone down suggestions of a rift.
"We'd like to stop the voices out there trying to create a divide," she said. "There is no divide. We're all in this together. Every leader in this nation wants to see this problem solved."
Bush echoed Blanco's praise for rescue workers. "I hope that makes you feel good to know you have saved lives," Bush said, promising state, local and federal officials that he would fix anything that isn't going right. "This is just the beginning of a huge effort," he said.
The president, looking choked up as he finished his brief remarks, nodded at Blanco and kissed her on the cheek. She nodded back and both left the podium, headed for separate spots in the crowd.
Blanco has refused to sign over control of the National Guard to the federal government and has turned to a Clinton administration official, former Federal Emergency Management Agency chief James Lee Witt, to help run relief efforts.
Blanco was not told when Bush would visit the state, nor was she immediately invited to meet him or travel with him. Blanco's office didn't know Bush was coming until told by reporters. Bush spokesman Scott McClellan said the White House reached out to Blanco's office on Sunday, but didn't hear back. White House staff in Louisiana spoke with Blanco early Monday, he said.
Making his third visit to the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged states, Bush stopped first at the Bethany World Prayer Center, a huge hall half covered with pallets and half filled with dining tables. Blanco visited at the same time, but she and Bush kept apart as they walked around talking to people.
During his stop at Bethany, several people ran up to meet Bush and get autographs as he and first lady Laura Bush wandered around the room. But just as many hung back and looked on.
"I need answers," said Mildred Brown, who has been there since Tuesday with her husband, mother-in-law and cousin. "I'm not interested in handshaking. I'm not interested in photo ops. This is going to take a lot of money."
Bush, Blanco Reveal Strained Relationship
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How he's able to hold his anger before swine is just incredible. .... God bless President George W. Bush.
I try to talk to her, but she says "I'm not going to debate you" and when asked why she says "because you have an answer for everything...." my response to her was "and you don't...enough said"
Mr. Judkins is one of the officials in charge of evacuating the Hampton Roads region around Newport News, Va. These coastal communities, unlike New Orleans, are not below sea level, but they're much better prepared for a hurricane. Officials have plans to run school buses and borrow other buses to evacuate those without cars, and they keep registries of the people who need special help."
Great. But hey Howlin, are you ready to eat crow yet about your insistence that the city buses were planned for and used to evacuate the citizenry OUT of the city of New Orleans prior to Katrina's arrival?
A poster, early on, noted the many buses just sitting there in the water, and said: "There was no plan to get the people on buses out of the city."
You quickly and shortly replied back to the poster:
"You are wrong. They used city buses."And a little later insisted: "There were buses picking up people all over the city."
You have NEVER backed up your claim or offered that YOU might be WRONG, despite subsequent questions to you regarding it, and were clueless on where those city buses went after they evacuated the citizenry OUT of the city. You offered nothing else to your claim.
WOW ~~ how are the rats going to keep that covered up? Even with the punch Bush in the nose stuff, that will get out!
Alan better leave Barbara alone,,,,before she starts kickin butt and checkin names and I bet she could take him and his scrawny self too,,,,
:)
hmmmmmm---
I am wondering why Mildred Brown is so worried about the money...what did she lose, a mansion and five cars???
Was that when Pres. Bush was with T. D. Jakes? He has a humungous church about 30 minutes from where I live...my goodness...the parking lot is the size of a small town!
I am not sure how to take your comments.
It is good news to see them step up and help out.
Someone posted they saw the Nagin interview on CNN international. I think they said it was on in Japan.. It's not making any other MSM news, of course. The worm has turned. Nagin is turning on Blanco so this is getting very interesting...
What the hell are you talking about?
They most certainly did use city buses all day Saturday to evacuated people from neigbhorhoods all over NO. There were 10 collection points in the city to pick them up.
And since you're acting like such an A$$, I'll return the reply: it's completely bad form to drag arguments from thread to thread.
And with that tone, I'm not offering JACK CRAP to you. You sound like a bitter person.
No offense, just short circuiting any potential bigotry or the perennial "about time they paid us back" comment.
Get a load of this:
New Orleans Black Community Leaders Charge Racism in Government Neglect of Hurricane Survivors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
September 5, 2005, 3:30 p.m. CST
Press conference:
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
4:00 p.m. CST outside the Reliance Center at Kirby and McNee
New Orleans Black Community Leaders Charge Racism in Government Neglect of Hurricane Survivors
Press conference to announce plan to save lives and
demand role in rebuilding effort
HOUSTON A national alliance of black community leaders will announce the formation of a New Orleans Peoples Committee to demand a decision-making role in the short-term care of hurricane survivors and long-term rebuilding of New Orleans.
Community Labor United (CLU), a New Orleans coalition of labor and community activists, has put out a call to activists and organizations across the country to work on a peoples campaign of community redevelopment. Organizing efforts will take place across hundreds of temporary shelters.
The population of New Orleans is 67 percent black and over 30 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, reflecting the current demographic of hurricane survivors displaced all over the South.
While the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the White House, and Governor Blanco attempt to regain the publics trust by evading the question of whos to blame, a short and long-term plan for New Orleans hurricane survivors has remained in a political vault of silence.
This is plain, ugly, real racism, states Curtis Muhammad, CLU Organizing Director. While some politicians and organizations might skirt around the issue of race, we in New Orleans are not afraid to call it what it is. The moral values of our government is to shoot to kill hungry, thirsty black hurricane survivors for trying to live through the aftermath. This is not just immoralthis has turned a natural disaster into a man-made disaster, fueled by racism.
Leaders of CLU, in alliance with nearly twenty other local organizations and several national organizations will discuss their plan at a press conference on Tuesday, September 6, 2005, at 4:00 p.m. CST outside the Reliance Center at Kirby and McNee. The coalition will announce:
· The formation of the New Orleans Peoples Committee composed of hurricane survivors from each of the shelters, which will:
1. Demand to oversee FEMA, the Red Cross, and other organizations collecting resources on behalf of the black community of New Orleans
2. Demand decision-making power in the long-term redevelopment of New Orleans
· Issue a national call for volunteers to assist with housing, healthcare, education, and legal matters for the duration of the displacement
Tax-exempt donations for the Peoples Committee and the national coalition can be made out to: Young Peoples Project, 440 N. Mills St., Suite 200, Jackson, MS 39202 or visit www.qecr.org .
Community Labor United is a coalition of progressive organizations in New Orleans formed in 1998. Their mission is to build organizational unity and support efforts that address poverty, racism, and education. CLU organized in the areas hardest hit by the hurricane.
Curtis Muhammad is a veteran Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizer and co-founder of CLU.
For more information, please contact:
Curtis Muhammad
Community Labor United (CLU)
muhammadcurtis@bellsouth.net
Becky Belcore
Quality Education as a Civil Right (QECR)
bbelcore@hotmail.com
http://minorjive.typepad.com/hungryblues/2005/09/new_or...
They used the city buses to take people to "shelters of last resort." At no point did they use buses (or any other mass transit system) to try to get people *out* of the city.
EXACTLY.
Remember when Frist said he was going to call hearings about the slowness of disaster response? Some FReepers said he was turning against the President. Others said he was implicitly threatening the LA Democrats because he would also be exposing their corruption. Turns out the latter was true, according to the American Spectator's Prowler. It has shut up the Dems. They have stopped calling for an investigation.
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