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Mississippians Worry They're Forgotten
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| 9/3/05
Posted on 09/03/2005 5:20:40 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
Mississippians Worry They're Forgotten
POSTED: 7:42 pm EDT September 3, 2005
JACKSON, Miss. -- In Mississippi, there is misery and despair among victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Survivors are wondering how long it will take to get food, clean water and shelter. And they're more than angry at the federal government and the national news media.
Anger at the government stems from the belief that aid has been too slow in arriving.
There's also a feeling that Mississippi has been getting short shrift from the news media, which seem to be focusing most of their attention on New Orleans.
Mississippi's death toll from Katrina stands at 144. Along the battered Mississippi Gulf Coast, crews have begun searching boats for corpses.
President George W. Bush toured ravaged areas of the Mississippi coast on Friday with Gov. Haley Barbour and other state officials. They also flew over flooded New Orleans.
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: katrina
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Maybe Mississippians should start rioting, raping, looting and killing their fellow citizen. That will garner sympathy from the liberals, attention from the media, and pledges of billions in reconstruction aid from the politicians.
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
Maybe there are not enough undocumented consumers initiating their purchases with indefinite deferred payment plans, and other thugs committing mayhem for the media to want to bother...
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posted on
09/03/2005 5:23:27 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(Looters: undocumented consumers || Looting: purchases with indefinite deferred payment plans)
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
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posted on
09/03/2005 5:23:53 PM PDT
by
cwb
(Liberalism is the opiate of the *asses)
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
Mississippians will rise from this mess. They will care for each other and anybody else that they can.
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posted on
09/03/2005 5:24:27 PM PDT
by
stboz
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
If you're white you're gonna get overlooked.
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
Back on Tuesday, before the levee breaches began flooding NO, Mississippi was the major news story on FOX. But when NO started filling with water, everyone started heading in that direction, leaving poor Mississippi and Alabama in the dust (or mud in this case).
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posted on
09/03/2005 5:27:15 PM PDT
by
Stonewall Jackson
("Those who fail to study history are doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past.")
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
With all the clamor over New Orleans, I wondered if other communities might start to raise this issue. Can't say as I blame them. At least part of the reason they haven't gotten more coverage, is because their leaders were competent.
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posted on
09/03/2005 5:27:37 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
To: Minus_The_Bear
To: DoughtyOne
It is the old story of which kid gets the most attention... not the well behaved child...
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
They aren't forgotten, just better able to care for themselves.
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posted on
09/03/2005 5:28:37 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If you must obey your party, may your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders.)
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
The military is going in. I forgot which units but it was on the news about an hour ago.
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posted on
09/03/2005 5:28:59 PM PDT
by
MamaB
(mom to an angel)
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
Haley Barbour thought he did the
right thing when he put
Marshall Law into effect
right out of the chute,
guess he was wrong?
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posted on
09/03/2005 5:29:20 PM PDT
by
the Deejay
(THE LADY DEEJAY)
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
Just saw a aerial shot of the coastline on FOX.
Looks more devastated than anything I've seen in La.
The people and support groups are handling it very well...there.
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posted on
09/03/2005 5:30:00 PM PDT
by
evad
( PC KILLS..and so do liberal judges.)
To: cripplecreek
They aren't forgotten, just better able to care for themselves.BINGO! This is triage on a grand scale.
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posted on
09/03/2005 5:30:11 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
They are probably mad that there is not as much to loot as there was in New Orleans.
It is football season, so it is time to move on. The Frogs whipped the Sooners today. Now that is some news!
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posted on
09/03/2005 5:30:22 PM PDT
by
Archidamus
(We are wise because we are not so highly educated as to look down on our laws and customs)
To: MamaB
Fox showed the first units arriving at the SuperDome about four to five hours ago.
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posted on
09/03/2005 5:30:30 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
doesn't matter what the reality is, the media has already painted this natural disaster as "Bush against Black folks"
To: Uncle Joe Cannon
You are right.
The squeaky wheels get the grease.
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posted on
09/03/2005 5:32:03 PM PDT
by
Muzzle_em
(I'm an island awash in a sea of stupidity)
To: the Deejay
"Marshall Law into effect"
FYI, it is martial law, meaning a state in which all civil laws, rights and liberties are suspended and the military has direct rule.
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posted on
09/03/2005 5:33:33 PM PDT
by
Archidamus
(We are wise because we are not so highly educated as to look down on our laws and customs)
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