Posted on 09/01/2005 12:02:28 PM PDT by Esther Ruth
In the top picture, I bet they weren't going fist class.
Maybe if the fathers of all those babies weren't shooting at rescue personnel, things would get going...
" but most people don't have access to a working radio"
What? No radios or batteries amongst all the stuff that's been looted?
" CNN's Chris Lawrence in New Orleans, Louisiana "
He about had a nervous breakdown and almost brought Kyra Phillips to tears.
CNN and MSNBC are portraying the Superdome as a mini Rwanda- babies dying, bodies stacked like cordwood.
It's a refugee crisis. Which it may well be.
Since it appears that Gov Blanco is incapable of handling this, she must be removed from the chain of command.
She has clearly botched her assets - the fine men and women of the Louisiana Nat Guard.
No matter how vile the situation at the Superdome , the media is making it worse by their hysterical reporting.
Blanco has lost control of the situation -I know that Posse Comitatus prevents this, but,it may be time to seriously discuss the legalities of federalizing this situation.
And the media has also lost control the past few hours.
They are all having a collective nervous breakdown.
Jack Cafferty on CNN is trashing President Bush up and down for being AWOL during this crisis.
The WH press corps was asking why the Bush administration was not pleading for international help.
By nightfall, expect the situation- as reported by the media, to have devolved into every 3rd world disaster comparison- possible.
Sounds like they just drop them where ever they change the baby. Put the nasty things in one pile some where.
What's wrong with these people, you ask. Psychologists call it learned helplessness.
What's wrong with these people, you ask. Psychologists call it learned helplessness.
95 + heat, flooding, no water, no money. Yeah, they should walk out of there-carrying there babies and the old who can't walk. This is a blemish on our country. I was proud of America's response on 9-11. I am horrified and embarrassed by our lack of response today.
I had the same thought. That's what I think our family would do: walk. We'd need the water and some nutrition, but I don't think you'd find us just sitting. Not to be heartless, but I would guess that many, many of these people are just USED to being taken care of via welfare checks, low-income housing, etc. Not to mention that they must surely still be in shock.
My hunch is that they can only show a tiny percentage of the footage being shot.
Cook what...there is no food, no water and no bathrooms.
O give it a break - you should be embarrassed at yourself.
You cannot compare the two, one was a localized event this occurred over 4 states and millions of people.
There are people with medical conditions-no medicine. There are children literally starting to die of dehydration and starvation....soon there will be dysentary if something is not done.
You are horrified by rescue efforts? I am horrified by the behavior of many of the people in New Orleans.
The terrorists are learning from this. Just stick a dirty bomb in a couple of inner city ghettos and let the thugs do the rest.
Come on now, I don't think the looters want to be rescued. It's the other folks that want the help.
" If these people wanted out they could've gotten out.<<
I agree. But "to hell with them, they got what's coming to them, let them die and rot where they are" is not an option.
IMHO
There will be when they get to Houston..And they do have water at least the ones that left and went to the stadium when they were told..
There is no excuse for this horror in New Orleans. I am horrified at the lack of response from our government-state and feds. Our enemies are watching...this does not present the American people in a good light. This situation makes our leaders look like idiots.
They have run out of water according to my friend who is there. They have nothing. I don't care what some of you think-flame away. The situation is intolerable and embarrassing.
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