Posted on 09/04/2005 2:45:21 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Wouldn't regular people show up at the Convention Center with a few groceries and extra bottles and diapers?
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A video pan of the convention center deck after the last "guest" was airlifted out showed a row along the bulwark of stuff that wasn't taken on the copters. It looked like a lot of trash, but included a lot of Coleman-type coolers, either brought there by the people or airlifted in by the same copters.
True they could have and should have stocked supplies at the Superdome....didn't NO and Louisiana get millions of dollars for Homeland Security? Where did the money go if not for supplies, etc.
This is SOOO true. I heard a reporter say on Saturday that people were evacuated from I-10 after SEVEN days!! The levees didn't break until Monday NIGHT! And people didn't go to the highway until the followign day...Wednesday. DO the Math...Oh, that's right. Journalists don't have to know how to add!
I think the problem is that a lib gov can't and won't say please help!
"They're good to see," LaGarde said, with remarkable gusto as she waited to be loaded onto a gray Marine helicopter. She said they were sent by God. "Whatever he has for you, he'll take care of you. He'll sure take care of you."
And in the midst of this horror, a refreshing breath of the human spirit whose faith is in God. No whining or blaming....just gratitude and simple faith. May God bless this dear lady and may she be a lifelong example to her granddaughter.
Thought y'all might appreciate a small light in the darkness, the rest of the article notwithstanding.
Amen.
Hey, looters and rapists have rights too! < /sarcasm >
When the Jew squaters got kicked out of the Gaza Strip each one got from $350.000 to $500.000
When the Blacks were ordered out of New Orleans they got a bottle of water and a MRE.
Whats up with that.
Geraldo must be working on those dem talking points too.
On Friday, he was wailing about those people stuck in the convention center for 6 days!
At first I thought it was just his mistake, now I realize this is what is being pushed at us -- exaggerate by a couple of days the amount of time that elapsed.
The media -- how I despise most of them. They're lower than the snakes slithering through the NO floods.
I guess Nagin "forgot" to inform the public that the red cross would not enter the superdome because it was unsuitable as a emergency Shelter.
And Nagin figured, what the heck, it worked last time, people would show up, and go back home a few hours later. He wasn't expecting the levees to break.
Even still, Nagin KNEW the red cross would not supply the place, so he should have got Blanco to order in the National Guard, early as Thursday, so they could prepare the place, and getting as many people OUT of the city completely to lessen the demand on the Superdome. The guy is 100% responsible along with Blanco, both useless as leaders. What were they doing? Sitting at home watching tv on Sat. evening, doing NOTHING.
Only the blacks were ordered out? Or was everyone? Only the blacks were given a bottle of water and and MRE? Or was everyone affected given these items?? As it is, I guess it was just too much trouble to turn a tap and fill a few bottles of water for themselves while the taps were still working, and to prepare a few meals for themselves as well. What were they going to eat had there not been a storm?
It just so happens that the majority of people in NO are black. Don't try turn it into a race issue, because it isn't.
It is an example of what happens when the socialist system of dependancy falls apart, and how people become so dependant of 'the government" giving them everything that they just can't do anything for themselves.
One would expect in a city of that size, that on any given day more than ten people die, even during the best of weather.
Do people suddenly stop dying when a disaster strikes? Why are their deaths suddenly blamed on the disaster? It makes for more dramatic news I suppose...
When the Blacks were ordered out of New Orleans they got a bottle of water and a MRE. Whats up with that."
I hope you're being sarcastic.
Not to worry, the ACLU will be along shortly to extract their pound of flesh on behalf of the criminal element and the opportunistic socialists, and the raping and pillaging will resume.
Too bad the flood didn't happen on election day. The MAyor and his fellow Democrats would have had every black face in New Orleans on a bus headed to the polls.
I wonder if the murders will be fully investigated or will they be covered up?
"These people were warned and chose to stay and those going into shelters chose not to bring food or water despite being told to do exactly that. You can't save an idiot from himself."
The tough part for me would be eating in front of a child whose parents didn't bring any food or water for them. I don't think I could do it. I would end up giving what food I had brought to children.
Too bad more NO residents don't have such a positive attitude. Amazing what faith in God and what HE is capable of can do! And this woman has been around long enough to see the old days of in-your-face racisim and opression. Yet she chooses to be thankful for God getting her through this.
A lot of folks could learn a real lesson from this lady. God Bless Nita LaGarde.
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