Good Luck New Orleans
Posted by: Deane F on 29 August 2005
I seem to recall somebody on this forum having some connection to New Orleans - didn't a member post about a friend of his going missing there?
Anyway, how the hell an entire city that size can be completely evacuated is beyond me. What about the homeless? How will the less fortunate fare?
Good luck New Orleans and anybody else in Katrina's path.
Anyway, how the hell an entire city that size can be completely evacuated is beyond me. What about the homeless? How will the less fortunate fare?
Good luck New Orleans and anybody else in Katrina's path.
Posted on: 08 September 2005 by jwilkinsjr
quote:ust about as misleading as your blinkered attitude to the awful truth that you cannot face. But please do keep up the knee-jerk flagwaving. The US needs all the patriots it can get given the circumstances that prevail in the US today, yesterday and tomorrow.
The world's bully has just droppped its underpants and we can smell the bullshit from right across the (US globalised) world.
Where's the love? Aren't we all God's children?
I thought this thread was titled "Good Luck New Orleans".
Posted on: 08 September 2005 by Wolf
Well, if our bushmeister would quit spinning and obfuscating he might just have to realize that invading Iraq was just plain wrong and realize that the reason we don't have the resources and budget to work with is that we're just stretched too thin.(But I doubt he has that ability, it's always that Alfred E Newman, "Who me?" look and attitude) I truly hope this is the crowning event to bring him and cronies down. We have an amature appointed head of FEMA who's sole qualification is heading an Arabian Horse Association. That just has to be addressed. And in a new statement he said "Brownie, you're doing a great job." with that little smirk on his face. UGH!
One of my friends said that the New Yorker magazine is going to be the hot ticket item on the stands next week, they do great reporting on these inside issues. They love to roast the shrub and associates.
I too have a friend that retired and sold out from San Francisco 5 years back and relocated to N'awlins and became a bartender. Haven't heard a peep out of him. Hope he knocks on my door soon. Tho he had the money to go anywhere and friends with larger places than my 1 bedroom apt.
The papers are full of amazing stories and insights. I'm sorry for my flippant initial statement not taking into account the many issues involved.
One of my friends said that the New Yorker magazine is going to be the hot ticket item on the stands next week, they do great reporting on these inside issues. They love to roast the shrub and associates.
I too have a friend that retired and sold out from San Francisco 5 years back and relocated to N'awlins and became a bartender. Haven't heard a peep out of him. Hope he knocks on my door soon. Tho he had the money to go anywhere and friends with larger places than my 1 bedroom apt.
The papers are full of amazing stories and insights. I'm sorry for my flippant initial statement not taking into account the many issues involved.
Posted on: 09 September 2005 by fred simon
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Don't hold your breath waiting for this to happen, Jim. They used to call Reagan the "Teflon President," but President Junior is professional grade Calphalon by comparison. If he was given a pass on the equally egregious ineptitude of pre-9/11 "intelligence," not to mention the evidence of outright complicity, he will probably skate by on this, too.
Fred
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quote:Originally posted by Exiled Highlander:
However, that said, the current situation in New Orleans and the inept handling of it by FEMA and all the other agencies involved and compounded by the absolute lack of leadership by the "Commander in Chief" has been extensively covered and reported on by the US press so hopefully, if nothing else, this devastating catastrophe seems to have helped the US press get it's balls back and that can only be good for the rest of the world it they manage to manintain the momentum and succeed in separating journalism from "patriotism".
Don't hold your breath waiting for this to happen, Jim. They used to call Reagan the "Teflon President," but President Junior is professional grade Calphalon by comparison. If he was given a pass on the equally egregious ineptitude of pre-9/11 "intelligence," not to mention the evidence of outright complicity, he will probably skate by on this, too.
Fred
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