Posted on 09/09/2005 8:35:58 PM PDT by Armedanddangerous
Did anyone just see the exchange between Anderson Cooper and Eddie Compass? He tried to pin the chief down on the evacuation issue and the chief about blew a circuit breaker.
Do you suppose anyone decided to tell him, "Hey, Chief, you might want to take a look at your badge?"
I heard it was the other officer who killed himself. Although I do hope it is not true at all.
It seems no one answered this one. The Mississippi River curls around about 3 sides of the city in the shape of a crescent. Lake Pontchartrain is on the other (north) side.
LOL, all I know is his mother is Gloria Vanderbilt.
Nobody's really asking the question, but the question that needs to be asked is, "Why did you wait so long to order an evacuation?"
By the time they ordered the evac, it was too late, and I think they knew it.
I think the heat will be on Blanco & Nagin. That's going to be hard to avoid.
All they would have had to do is to show those two clowns on TV and say "if you stay, these are the people who will be in charge and on whom your life will depend." The exodus would have been epic.
I think thousands recognized Nagin & Compass as being in the same boat and beat feet..throwin the gutless Gov and it was a record evacuation...
Bus drivers are irrelevant. Anyone who can drive a stick, can drive a school bus, and ALL city transit busses are automatic.
Any politician who would let the lack of correct paperwork on the part of the drivers hold up an evacuation should be lynched.
You really should ping someone when your talking smack about them.
And I'm sure anyone with a CDL could have driven them... any UPS driver, etc.
I live in Portland, Oregon. We were "supposed" to get 1000 evacuees last weekend. We set up a temporary shelter for them. It kept getting postponed. Yesterday, it was down to 500 people, supposed to arrive today. Today, it has been cancelled. FEMA says the need isn't there.
Setting up the temporary shelter and now taking it down, and all the preparations, supposedly cost $100,000. And of course we're going to ask for reimbursement from FEMA.
Nice waste of valuable money, eh???????? How many times/places has this scenario played out in the last week across the country?
Where is the Command and Control? Where are the Grown-ups? Who is in charge of this fiasco, even after all this time?
It's not that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing... the left hand doesn't even know the right hand exists.
Quote of the Day "If Sen. Mary Landrieu were as good at busing black people to safety as she was at busing them to the polls to vote, none of them would have died."
Compass makes Chief Moose look competent.
You also need to consider that once the refugees from the two cesspits got 3 squares and a shower, some were able to contact relatives and make arrangements to get as far away from a government sponsored anything as possible.
For mass evacuations you have to estimate large. I suspect some of the municipalities jumped the gun and took a stand-by request as a green light to proceed. To give Blank-o one tiny shred of support, I think there was someone with school buses turned back at the city limits and they whined, "we were told to come up with an inventory of what we had and a list of drivers." Somehow that morphed into an execute order and they showed up with an unairconditioned bus w/o rest room for a long-haul trip.
Finally, don't forget that past disasters gave the lesson that money will rain down from the heavens and that everything is reimbursable. I can't attribute the source but someone told me that when FPL was asked why they didn't do a better job of keeping the trees trimmed along the power line routes they said "why when FEMA will pay us to do it after a storm?" So no wonder your guys were so quick to spend 100K.
If he has AIDS he should steer clear of New Orleans. The flooding has exposed everything to dangerous disease. Already he has allowed his mind to be exposed to the pollution of the left; who are a dirty, filthy, lying, terrorist-sympathizing, communist, Nazi, racist, fascist, God hating, antisemitic, friend of Castro, bottom feeding, enemy of freedom, mutant rat, Kool Aid drinking, and virus that brings sickness to all people who want freedom. In short, this gay guy is toast!
LOL! That was pretty darn good!
Methinks they had designs on some of that budget in the confusion of the hurricane turmoil. It would be like these DemonRATS to divert some of that money into their favorite recreation fund. They are willing to expend some poor people and little babies to keep the good times rolling. Those DemonRATS have big pockets and pockets they mean to fill!
As New Jersey's own Jim McGreevy would say, "I am a gay AMERICAN!"
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