Posted on 09/01/2005 10:37:44 AM PDT by NotchJohnson
It would appear like at least 80,000 people stayed in Orleans during the Hurricane...which doesn't make much sense. And I'd bet at least 3,000 are dead by the time they count those bodies...with another 200 dead shortly from disease or heart-attacks. Why the state didn't roll in buses or military trucks to get these folks out...or sue Amtrak to just get them over to Texas...makes one wonder. Of course, the same dimwits kept waiting for someone to pay for their flood protection, which wasn't that great.
But at this point...there ought to be 10,000 Guardsmen in the city...and not a single person ought to be remaining there after tomorrow. I doubt seriously that this will happen. It will be at least a week before enough Guardsmen arrive, and at least 10 days before everyone is forced out of town. I see the Guardsmen having to kill at least 40 robbers before things get right. And there will be senate meetings later to explain who gave the order and why "innocent" people had to die on the street with TVs in their hands.
"Remember: Never, EVER, let the government heard you into any kind of enclosed encampment of facility. You are better off on your own".
MSNC and CNN are hysterical over the situation. Absolutely hysterical.
" Babies are dying."
"Dead bodies everywhere."
The camera man seemed desperate to find a dying baby, but, I only saw sleeping babies.
But, if what the mothers say is true-they have no formula, no bottles, no diapers -
this could spin out of control very rapidly.
They must triage and get the mothers and children out ASAP.
The first time a camera man can find a baby that has died-the media will go beserk.
The security and flood situation they admit, is making help very difficult.
Buses are lined up- empty , but, MSNBC reports the drivers are refusing to come in, because of the looters.
But, something has to change on the ground very soon or by tonight ,
Brian Williams will be calling this our own Rwanda.
Mr. Edwards belongs to that cohort of useless able-bodied males who couldn't think their way out of a paper bag if left on their own.
Only an idiot counters scenes of people dying in the streets with "liberals," or any other mindless FR cliche: MSM/Clinton/blah blah blah.
Fact is, we got military help into the tsunami area within 48 hours, and $100,000,000 of MY money (and yours) on the spot in days.
The intellectual level of FR has fallen into the sink.
I would have stayed right in the hotel, which should have a good stockpile of booze.
Welcome Newbie.
So if I lived or was considering to move to San Francisco I would think twice. There is a paralel here. Both cities were the 2 main cities that were talked about.
Some refused, but I also heard a story tell of a teacher that spoke of students too poor for their families to get out. Don't know if it's a matter of opinion, or if they really were poor?
Something not much different than this occurred during that heat wave in France a while back. The final death toll for that little failure of the welfare state was somewhere in the range of 5,000 to 14,000, depending on the accuracy of various sources.
As I recall, it was August, and all the Doctors and nurses were on "holiday".
These people are starving to death. More people will die by suspending operations than by continuing even with a gunshot having been fired.
Well I am just assuming that other countries will help us out like we help them.
My God, it's unfathomable!
Everyone just needs to get the heck out of there! take your children, throw you grandma over your back if you have too... but GET THE HECK OUT OF THERE!
Don't wait one second longer, just LEAVE!
You can do everything for other countries but you can't do nothing for your own people. You can go overseas with the military but you can't get them down here."
.....what an ungrateful Ba$tard!"""
IF, I say IF this 47 y/o man ever votes, I'll bet it is straight Demo ticket.
I am 65 y/o. I live in rural circumstances. I take care of my own property and all my critters. I don't always do everything alone, but I have no trouble hiring neighbors to help me with something too big for one person to do. The bulk of it I do all alone. The last property I had had only a wood burning stove for heat- (which I loved and miss badly)- and I dropped and cut and split my own firewood.It was good exercise.
Oh yes, if only New Orleans had been white, the storm would have turned back.
We are witnessing the ultimate and inevitable consequence of liberalism.
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