Unrest Intensifies at Superdome Shelter

AP ^ | 9/1/05 | ADAM NOSSITER

[No Blue States]

"You mean, even those with money are stuck in NO? (sarcasm tag for those who don't understand sarcasm)"

Whoever is there now cant buy their way out.
I dont think money is worth much in NO right now.
But a gun and ammo is like gold. So is water.
I cant believe how far out of control this situation has spiraled.
Or how looters are being treated with kid gloves even as their criminal acts cost many lives of good citizens waiting to be rescued. It seems to be raining in the area, I hope those without water are are smart enough to find something to catch the clean water with.

[Fawn]

"I don't treat my dog like that," 47-year-old Daniel Edwards said as he pointed at the woman in the wheelchair. "I buried my dog." He added: "You can do everything for other countries but you can't do nothing for your own people. You can go overseas with the military but you can't get them down here."

Oh man.....the survivors in this are going to be very wealthy......

[Malacoda]

It reminds ME of "Dawn of the Dead."

*shudder*

[Nov3]

Remember: Never, EVER, let the government heard you into any kind of enclosed encampment of facility. You are better off on your own.

Amen,

[ridesthemiles]

or they didn't want to transport so many children on a trip to nowhere. ""

Can you explain to me who had a gun to the head of these mothers who "had so many children and no means to get them out of pending danger" and forced them to keep getting pregnant??????

[warchild9]

Eh...and what has W done? Oh, promised the oldsters a TRILLION dollars of welfare money in return for their votes (i.e.: Medicaide drug coverage).

[Truthsayer20]

We need to get Howdy Doody out of the White House, and put Guiliani in charge. His is proven leadership.

I'm beginning to agree. Giuliani is a real leader.

[syriacus]

[Dan Rather] used to piss me off with his self righteous and condescending attitude

Yes. Dan Rather wasted his life on Bush-bashing.

[warchild9]

Mrs. Warchild thinks that the middle class people ran while the running was good, and there's only welfare types left in NO, now, so who cares. From the rabid responses I've seen on FR, she might be right.

The problem is we have too many of our assets deployed outside the country, there's little or no leadership coming from Washington (despite the canned speeches in the Rose Garden), and NO ONE ever thought it would be this bad.

[warchild9]

I know. I type too quickly. Sorry.

[snowrip]

"We need to get Howdy Doody out of the White House, and put Guiliani in charge. His is proven leadership."

"And until you work middle management in a big corporation, as I have, YOU will have no idea of how corrupt these suits are. Only a fool lets his view of the world be formed by Faux news and Rush Limbaugh."

Are you retarded? Your arguments show you to be everything you rail so numbly against. Silence thyself, DUmmy.

[Nov3]

I didn't see the coverage but someone has seriously dropped the ball here. If private ambulances could get around the city initially there is no excise for the National Guard not getting into the city. The state leadership (Blanco) dropped the F'ing ball and things are exponentially worse now.

[HIDEK6]

"We must rebuild New Orleans, the city that gave us jazz, and music, and multiculturalism."

And we all know what a gift that multiculturalism thing was.

[syriacus]

It seems to be raining in the area, I hope those without water are are smart enough to find something to catch the clean water with.

Creative idea that deserves repeating.

[Alberta's Child]

Yeah, you're right. Sorry to be so short-tempered, but what the hell does that have to do with the Federal response to Hurricane Katrina?

If you've got complaints about George W. Bush, then fine. But don't sit there and pretend that Rudy Giuliani -- whose primary success in politics was his success in serving as the head of a police state that most Americans would find intolerable -- has anything to offer at this point.

In fact, I'll go one step further and suggest that Rudy Giuliani would be utterly incapable of dealing with the chaos and disorder in New Orleans right now. As a life-long resident of the New York metropolitan area and in his former roles as Federal prosecutor and mayor of New York, he's never had to deal with a situation in which more than 0.01% of the people in his jurisdiction were legally armed.

[warchild9]

More names. Are you sixteen years old? At least, emotionally?

[conserv13]

Brian Williams will be calling this our own Rwanda.

I was thinking more like Haiti.

[Deetes]

Think about it !

Welcome to FR

[warchild9]

I agree with your points. I was kind of thinking of kicking out the petulant mayor of NO and putting Rudy in her place. At least, he'd know to deploy police vans on the streets with loudspeakers to provide leadership on the spot. No one's telling anyone what to do, it's very obvious.

The people in charge there now have no clue, and true leadership would provide the overwhelmed police and Guardspeople with a serious force modifier.