Posted on 09/02/2005 2:22:21 PM PDT by joinedafterattack
Check out @201
what you are quoting that Bush ordered her is not in your link
not that i'd rather not believe you
whoops...I am wrong....should be using my 1.25s
sorry
I guess CNN just "forgot" to tell us this since Sunday!
Makes a good tagline, doesn't it? ;-)
The media are already doing their best, and if it were not for them, the thug/feral human underclass would not have grown so stout.
There are many other assistants - liberals all. Various professions who feed off the continuing misery of others, politians who need the festering underclass for power and re-election. It goes on and on.
There's the thug who actually stabs or shoots, and then there are the many who enabled said thug to be able to do his deed. It's a network. Doesn't mean that any of them does not share responsibility. They are all responsible, and each of them can at any point decide to be a different person.
But the longer they remain as they are, the harder to change.
There is not only one danger, one enemy, one problem. But they are related. Like a poison diamond with many facets.
If you had spent much time reading this forum over the last week, you'd know that what you just wrote is twaddle.
The only way to prevent the lower level of hell we've been reading about would have been to ruthlessly stop looting when it started. You can't stop it once it's out of control, and the looting soon turned to sniping, raping, arson and murder.
BTW, one of the first things the thugs went after were guns and ammo. Then liquor, then "pharmaceuticals" at drug stores. Then hospitals for drugs, and food... Nikes, TVs, jewelry. Sure, they took food, it takes fuel to go on rampages.
If honest citizenry needed food (which they did, primarily because of their own improvidence), SOME ONE or SOME ONES should have been in charge, taken food from stores in an orderly manner, and distributed it fairly. Instead of ruining it and hoarding it.
The local gov't screwed up so bad they are now complicit in the deaths of thousands.
I suppose for some it is about partisan politics right to the bitter end. I just like to think that all of that gets set aside during times like these. Don't know where you live Deb but I'll bet it ain't in NO. Never missed an election yet bye the bye.
CNN's weekend staff allowed this to slip through. It was posted to AP Wire, but the 100s of links to individual newspaper postings all share the "error 404 page not available message"
You can bet everyone at the NHC saved that forecast map to their hard drives. Thanks.
Just replayed Nagin's radio rant from Thursday on NBC
Jesse Jackson on NBC now : racial insensitivity, indifference, main focus relief, but we're still in the rescue mode. human chain formed around his bus to keep him from leaving them.
Lester: evacuation in NO some failure at the local level?
JJ's response: why are they sending people to houston, etc.
why can't we use military bases?
Lester: is this going to cause fundamental change and soul searching in this country when it's over
JJ's response: i don't know, focus on a few people in desperation - national rescue relocation has failed president has no plans for reconstruction we did philipines in 2 days haven't done it in 6 days here. open up gymnasiums - looks like the hull of a slave ship. i urge bush to get on the ground
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/28/national/main798819_page2.shtml
Bush Warns Of Katrina's Danger
(Page 1 of 2)
CRAWFORD, Texas, Aug. 29, 2005
Unease In The Big Easy
President Bush is handed a map by Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin, center, during a video conference with emergency management organizations on Hurricane Katrina at his ranch Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005. (AP)
"It's a very dangerous situation at this point. ...We're ready and awaiting landfall."
FEMA spokeswoman Nicol Andrews
Katrina, a Category 5 hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico, barrels toward Louisiana at 175 mph. (AP)
(CBS/AP) President Bush on Sunday urged people living in the path of Hurricane Katrina to take the storm extremely seriously and to move to safer ground. "We cannot stress enough the danger this hurricane poses to Gulf Coast communities," said the president.
"We will do everything in our power to help the people and the communities affected by this storm," President Bush said as Katrina bore down on a stretch of coastline that includes New Orleans, a city sitting below sea level with 485,000 inhabitants. "I urge all citizens to put their own safety and the safety of their families first by moving to safe ground."
In addition to packing winds of up to nearly 175 mph, the category five storm also carried a threat of a massive storm surge.
Mr. Bush spoke with reporters on his central Texas ranch shortly after New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered an immediate mandatory evacuation for all of New Orleans.
Late Sunday, President Bush pressed for an emergency declaration in Alabama, which would allow federal operations in. Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi were already declared disaster states, CBS News correspondent Mark Knoller reports.
Mr. Bush said he had spoken earlier Sunday with federal disaster management officials and with the governors of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
"I appreciate the efforts of the governors to prepare their citizenry for this upcoming storm," Bush said. "I want to thank all the folks at the federal level and the state level who have taken this storm seriously."
A day after declaring an emergency for Louisiana, Mr. Bush declared one for the state of Mississippi. Federal emergency workers were sending water, food and other supplies to staging centers in the Southeast expected to be affected by the powerful storm.
"These declarations will allow federal agencies to coordinate all disaster relief efforts with state and local officials," Bush said.
In Washington, Nicol Andrews, a spokeswoman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said, "It's a very dangerous situation at this point. ...We're ready and awaiting landfall."
Mr. Bush declared states of emergency in Louisiana and Mississippi to facilitate the emergency response.
The American Red Cross was mobilizing volunteers from across the country for what one official called its largest response to a single disaster in many years.
Bush Warns Of Katrina's Danger
(Page 2 of 2)
CRAWFORD, Texas, Aug. 29, 2005
Unease In The Big Easy
President Bush is handed a map by Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin, center, during a video conference with emergency management organizations on Hurricane Katrina at his ranch Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005. (AP)
(CBS/AP) "This is really an all-hands-on-deck scenario for the Red Cross right now," spokeswoman Carrie Martin said.
The Red Cross urged people, even those who think they are outside the storm's path, to prepare for an emergency.
"It could shift at any point. It's really a matter of not taking any chances, having the supplies in place," she said.
FEMA was moving supplies from logistics centers in Atlanta and Denton, Texas, to areas closer to where authorities believe the storm will create a need, Andrews said.
"The main priority right now is getting that stuff on the road and making sure that we have all the supplies that we have access to are in the right areas so that we can move in immediately," she said, adding that the agency knows "from 30 years' experience that these hurricanes are still largely unpredictable and can turn at a moment's notice."
The Red Cross encouraged people to turn to friends and family first rather than shelters because of the magnitude of the evacuation. Shelters should be for those who have nowhere else to go, Martin said.
...more at link
"Look. They're going to try and impeach this President. Mark my words. This isn't like the Clinton impeachment: the press won't provide cover this time, they will be on the hunt."
"My point is that what the Democrats are doing is shameful, and we have to stick together and get ready for a long fight."
You said it. I wanted to. They've been waiting for this. Couldn't get up quite high enough to reach their golden bar just by stepping up on Casey Sheehans' body. But now they've got plenty, thanks to Nagin. What a freaken party. What vermin. Maggots.
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Same here. On the front lines....
and no flak jacket except my research.
ping
bttt
"Anybody with any brains didn't wait." Beg to differ. They've got brains. They chose not to use them.
I saw a woman from Baton Rouge bawling, looking for and finding her 70+ year old dad after looking and looking thru the shelters. WHY didn't she go down and get him before the storm hit?
One nearby county to an affected area (not sure which sstate) has already enrolled 200 children in it's schools and is enrolling 400 more-
and there is one little kid at the dome (I've seen him a couple times spewing RATS talking points DIFFERENT ONES!!!)ON CAMERA SAYING THIS IS RIDICULOUS".
Yes, it surely is, when one considers some folks thought ahead.
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