Posted on 09/28/2005 1:11:57 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 09/28/2005 3:09:04 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Hours before New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass announced his resignation, Tony relayed some hot information he had heard from his Capitol Hill sources. It regarded an FBI investigation currently under way.
You can go to the source above and listen to that segment of his radio show.
If Nagin was thinking about folding his phantom employees into the 10,000 dead number, he must have been quite shocked when FEMA explained that there was little likelihood of the "bodies" being washed out to sea forever. After all, it was not the World Trade Towers where incinerated people would leave no trace of their prior existance.
"10,000" did seem like a rather random number to pull out of thin air. Did he choose it because it's the number of body bags NO always keeps on hand? Did he choose it because it was a high enough to cover the rough estimate of the expected deaths plus, as you pointed out, a "phantom employee" count.
How does the mayor afford to run out and buy a new house in Dallas, anyway????
I'd like to know what Dr. Phil thinks about this.
Did anyone see Dr. Phil's interview with superintendent Compass?
Lol! Maybe a little farther than that. Never forget that sweet Mary Landrieu's Daddy, Maurice "Moon" Landrieu, started as a NO city councilman and served as the city's mayor. I'm laying money that Mary knows about anything that happens in NO. Graft and corruption are not only a tradition in LA, they appear to be almost hereditary.
Your figure of $24,000,000 is probably low. Remember, the average salary is heavily based on entry level salaries.
I feel confident that these guys were probably higher ups, receiving bigger salaries, since they were non-performing or non-existent, except on the payroll rolls.
You got to have seniority to be a ghost-policeman. :-)
Yes, that's true & I knew it. As I said earlier, I wondered. There's no way of knowing, without knowing, if you know what I mean.
I'm wondering what will happen and how much it'll cost when the next hurricane/Category 4/5 hits New Orleans and Louisiana, generally.
Because, there WILL be more Cat 4/5, it's just a matter of a year or so, and then we'll have another $100 billion (inflation for next year or thereabouts) and more deaths and suffering...
Why not force the "City of New Orleans" to rebuild somewhere else? I cannot understand the huge costs involved in rebuilding a city beneath sea level, surrounded by an ocean, the Mississippi River and a huge lake, by a manmade levee system. It's absurd to consider sinking these amounts of billions of dollars, time and construction into the existing area of N.O.
LOL! (really)
I wouldn't doubt that some of the deserter cops that the media has talked to might be hired actors, hired by NOPD to cover their butts.
LOL. Tony looks like some cheesy 80's era WWF (now WWE) wrestler in that picture.
Could be but one never knows whats around the corner. I wonder how much longer until I can be a phantom?
Check these:
http://results.gpponline.org/CompareSimple.aspx
LA doesn't look too bad...
Let's take a look at all states:
http://results.gpponline.org/CompareSimple.aspx
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
What i don't get is why these deserter cops would allow themselves to be interviewed in the first place. If they are real, why aren't they ashamed?
But the District of Columbia is controlled by CONGRESS, not the President..
There's a potential difference, as the President can appoint a Governor and THAT person can control Louisiana better than Congress overseeing a Marion Barry type Mayor.
Of the 700 "phantom" cops, how many are minorities?
This is a job for Dan Rather and Mary Mapes. They know how to report on fake stories.
If I were an elected official in New Orleans...I'd resign today and disappear. Things about to turn awful hot for these boys...and the money they want out of the FEDS...just went out the door.
When I need a doctored up birth or death certificate I used to go to Haiti. Now I save a lot of travel and money by going to NO instead! Who knew?
/we all knew, at least those that spent any time around NO.
So you're not on the N.O.P.D. payroll?
See how dumb I am. I thought you meant Marshall Plan, like how they rebuilt Europe after WW2.
I've been calling it The BIG Sleazy since we moved to Texas from there in 1989.
30+ years of watching up close. After Katrina, not one of my family is living in Jefferson/Metairie/New Orleans any longer. One flooded house(Metarie) and one Mom who can see no future for the place. Both in Texas.
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