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Good one.
There is a thread about the short and long term effects Katrina will have on future oil prices, which went up about a dime today across the country.
There is also a thread following the rapidly degenerating conditions in the New Orleans and lower Louisiana, Mississippi area.
...but has anyone ELSE noticed hints of racial bias reporting on some new stations....for instance..
Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area in New Orleans, Louisiana.(AFP/Getty Images/Chris Graythen)
Compare and Contrast:
A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Flood waters continue to rise in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina did extensive damage when it made landfall on Monday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Black or White, Isn't everyone just trying to survive? Shouldn't they relax 'borrowing laws', especially in Grocery stores in the area for everybody?
Good one.
exactly
you figure they would just drive their Tahoes somewhere
That bread is worthless after being dragged throught that contaminated water.
"Terrorists have just flown a plane into the other World Trade tower"
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"Mr. President, New Orleans is sinking and possibly lost"
doesnt he look like the greatest leader of all time?
so stong
a man of conviction
I hear he had prior warning that a Katrina was determined to strike New Orleans.
if only he could run in 08...
he could base his whole campaign on hurricane katrina
That's OK they'll just blame Clinton.
Meanwhile, the Singing cowboy is touring New O"leans, or what's let of it, on Friday
You guys are so out of control, so unhinged with your hatred for Bush that no one can take anything you say seriously and you do a disservice to all leftwing moonbats everywhere.
Pretty pathetic, even for you Dan.
we are facing a new enemy, an enemy that has many faces. This war won't end quickly but we must strike back. We didn't start this war by we will finish it.
DAMN YOU MOTHER NATURE!!!!
I feel a pretty good point in the original post in this thread has been tarnished by Dan's propensity to post non-sequitous pictures of the President.
Bush did it.. they just installed his Weather Machine at the ranch.
He was gonna make it rain on Cindy Sheehan but didn't want anyone to film the chrome beam when it comes out of it's underground bunker to fire.
I think the Katrina thread in the Club covered the original point of this thread pretty completely. Besides, there are a lot of behind-the-scene politics that are going on right now as everyone tries to play the CYA game.
This thread will get plenty of action.
Common Jelly, we're just having a little fun. We could bore you with boring articles about how W cut funding for the New Orleans Army Corp Of Engineers, Or how W cut ]Clinton's Emergency Mitigation Program that would have taken measures to minimize damage from this type of natural disaster in the New Orleans area.
We could also post you about how W cut funding for Hurricane and flood protection in the New Orleans area including a study that would have determined ways to protect the city from a CAT5 hurricane, but what's the point? You'll just say its left-wing bloggershere hysteria.
Huffington PostNew Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin just told WWL TV in New Orleans that the project to fill the breach in the 17th St Canal flood wall with sandbags didn't fail -- the sandbags were never tried. Nagin suggested that, after repairing the breach had been made the top priority in discussions with state, federal and Orleans Parish Levee Board officials this morning, someone had apparently "reprioritized" the helicopter earmarked for the sandbag assignment. The result: unless somebody thinks of something in the next 12 to 15 hours, Nagin said, currently dry areas of New Orleans, including the French Quarter and the Garden District, will be inundated to a point three feet above sea level.
Incompetance at the highest levels.
If Dubya can change the minds of Nagin and Blanco (both Demo's) about rebuilding on the current site, I'll change my admittedly low opinion of our Prez. I might even drive Yoni to Mt. Rushmore for the new face unveiling.
He'll have to buy the beer, though, if I have to spring for gas.
Incompetence? Did you see the size of the hole of the levee? The sandbags weren't going to stop that.Incompetance at the highest levels.
Meanwhile, those choppers they diverted contributed to over 3000 people being plucked from the roofs of their homes and delivered to dry land.
Yeah, totally incompetent.
It's the mayor.. he's on crack... first he wanted "attention and a national eye"..
Now he's lashing out at the military and stupid sandbags..
Water in volume is VERY powerfull... sandbags are not designed for mega breeches.
Even a cop joins in the looting
Mike Perlstein and Brian Thevenot
Staff writers
NOLALaw enforcement efforts to contain the emergency left by Katrina slipped into chaos in parts of New Orleans Tuesday with some police officers and firefighters joining looters in picking stores clean.
At the Wal-Mart on Tchoupitoulas Street, an initial effort to hand out provisions to stranded citizens quickly disintegrated into mass looting. Authorities at the scene said bedlam erupted after the giveaway was announced over the radio.
While many people carried out food and essential supplies, others cleared out jewelry racks and carted out computers, TVs and appliances on handtrucks.
Some officers joined in taking whatever they could, including one New Orleans cop who loaded a shopping cart with a compact computer and a 27-inch flat screen television.
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“The police got all the best stuff. They’re crookeder than us,” one man said.
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This thread has long been flooded with irrational thoughts.
There is no doubt in my mind that you have proven racial profiling has been committed here!There is a thread about the short and long term effects Katrina will have on future oil prices, which went up about a dime today across the country.
There is also a thread following the rapidly degenerating conditions in the New Orleans and lower Louisiana, Mississippi area.
...but has anyone ELSE noticed hints of racial bias reporting on some new stations....for instance..
Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery store after Hurricane Katrina came through the area in New Orleans, Louisiana. (AFP/Getty Images/Chris Graythen)
Compare and Contrast
A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Flood waters continue to rise in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina did extensive damage when it made landfall on Monday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Black or White, Isn't everyone just trying to survive? Shouldn't they relax 'borrowing laws', especially in Grocery stores in the area for everybody?
Why must there be a political angle to any of this? I'm not a Republican by any means, and I don't support George Bush in much, but this isn't a situation about political decision-making or finger pointing. The story is that cities like New Orleans, Biloxi, and Gulfport, and countless burgs between them, are devastated and facing months (if not years) of suffering. That's not a red state or a blue state story -- it has nothing to do with who is President. Political gainsaying at this time about this issue is just unseemly to me. We should be laser-focused on finding solutions to the problems that face the Gulf States, because those problems are already significant and they aren't resolving themselves.
end of rant.
NBADan= Robert F Kennedy?
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