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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:33 am
Marysafan, I LOL with your post about Charley Gibson laying into you ! no doubt... the former director of FEMA is on the news as well!! Yeah Anderson Cooper (I've been watching his reports!!) The rescuers have become victems Mr President. The Coast Guard talking about temporary infrastructure... we're going to work with them from the water to help them, that's what we do sir"
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:34 am
No, the truth is, Reader, the Gov of New Orleans is seethingly angry with him--and laid into him on air. They told him NOT to come there. So that is why he is not meeting them.
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:35 am
WOw! Just was switching around trying to get off of President Bush's PR opportunity and went to CNN headline news. Caught the tail end of a phone call from Mayor Nagin calling for the end to press conferences in very strong language (no bleeping). He basically said he doesn't want to see one more GD press conference until something is happening. Don't talk about how 40,000 people are coming to help when they're not there. Don't tell him about what is going to be done when people are still without water and food and help is not there. He was VERY angry. I have to admit, it was refreshing given the glad-handing we've been hearing from most politicians.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:35 am
HP: I wondered about the prioritizing of the evacuees myself. I was thinking a parent and 3-under first, along with the elderly, sick, and special needs; then a parent and 4-8 year olds; then the remaining parent and children 8-12. Then all remaining parents and teens with parents. Then single women and then--on a separate bus--single men. That was just off the top of my head last night, while I was watching people board schoolbuses. That would also reduce the number of rapes and assaults. ::snort:: It is going to be better than it was before. Too bad he didn't consider that in 2002 when he was told about the problems with the levees...and instead diverted the funds to Iraq. I am about to gag...My dad and Bill Clinton are going to raise money. He sounded like a little kid..."We're going to make it go exactly right."
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:36 am
Like Cathie stated yesterday, a helicopter lands to take one critical, on life support,patient from Charity Hospital, this is in the poorest area btw... they are flooded, and have to float people to the parking garage, carry them up 8 flights of stairs, all while pumping by hand oxygen, life support... then when the helicopter lands, more people rush the copter, and so they take them too... (some are diabetics and are definately in need) They transport these people now to the airport where they are just doing triage, it is not a MASH unit yet (no surgical facilities) they said they have at least 2 - 3 thousand people that dont need any help.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-25-2003
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:36 am
quote:Tim Russert said on the Today show this morning that most likely people are going to be fired.
Who's gonna fire Bush? What I'm seeing and hearing on NBC now (Bush and other gov officials) makes me wanna puke.
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:38 am
Re: Mayor of NO. Now THAT is leadership for his people. When Bush and Congress turned down the money for the improvements in the levees, the admin in NO should have been vocal and fighting til they got it somehow. But I am glad to hear him getting angry. This is the welfare of the people, to whom he has a sworn obligation--and a moral one, as well.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:39 am
Max, I've been saying that too!! Talk is cheap, I do like that the President cut off those that the Fema guy is introducing to him, and said, ok, I need to say something now... he is talking off the cuff, and he is telling a good story, I like what he is saying and how he is saying (and I'm no fan of Bush!! ) "Violence will not be tolerated" OK just lost my respect, he told the Fema Director "you're doing a helluva job"
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:40 am
Gawd! Bush is such a . . . I can't even say it in civilized company. He's sitting in the middle of a disaster zone and says, "Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- this guy lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch." ARGH! Of course this is said with a smug smile on his face. This guy has NO CLUE!
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:40 am
I also like what I think Azriel posted about the levee damage, she said to blame the voters that didnt increase the funds, she said "blame me"\ That is powerful. I think we all are Americans, and taking blame, pointing blame is not necessary. Action is needed, we need to gather, and bolster up and move forward... imho
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:41 am
LOL, Reader. That's when I got upset! Max: I loved that he can't wait to sit on its fantastic porch! His compassionate look actually is so forced it's similar to the look I get when I'm constipated.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:41 am
no, he didnt Max!! I missed that, thank God!
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:43 am
Yes, he did, Reader. I backspaced on my DVR so I could get the quote exact. 
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:45 am
Firefighters cant fight the fire, no water pressure, buildings on fire. Ransacked cars, ransacked buildings... menacing people are around, its broad daylight this is a scary place to be... you see firefighters just watching the building burn... obvious vandalism to the cars in this lot, not sure what started the building on fire. Trucks are coming in, great to hear, but what we see is a gap, whatever assitance we see, a convey, a firetruck, but there is a gap in the connection...
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:47 am
So once again, the medias attention is on the President in the Gulf Coast, while New Orleans is still in horrific state... Baton Rouge medical facility, crisis, thousands of patients need help, medical crisis... need help. They have put porta potties on I 10...
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:48 am
a lot of diabetics with open sores, no medicines... its a crisis a medical crisis. The people of Baton Rouge have opened up their arms, but they need help, now. The tempers here from the medical personnel is "quite problematic"
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:48 am
The bulk of the money needed to improve the levees was federal, not local.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:54 am
They're finally loading the injured onto C17s.
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:54 am
Here's a link to the CNN interview with Mayor Nagel. It's pretty powerful. Language alert -- this guy is angry (rightly so) and they didn't edit his expletives.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:58 am
The black caucus has asked the media to stop using the term "refugee" quote:A refugee is a person seeking refuge (or asylum) in another country in order to escape persecution.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 9:00 am
Shots heard at the W hotel... rifles pointing out the window, 2 firetrucks with no water, 50 armed officials, rifles drawn, their hands are on their rifles... more police came in "This looks like the wild west, buildings burn in the background, and police have guns drawn" I cant believe what I'm seeing.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 9:01 am
I'm staying right here where there are police. It doesnt look good. I see a heavy armed presence, but its not a presence that inspires, a young man next to me has a knife, he says, you have to carry a club around to make sure no one jumps you, esp at night.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 9:03 am
Live update, the reporter is saying the buildings are close together, one burned, another is now on fire, there is a W hotel, a Sheraton, a pricey real estate area, and I see no way that they are going to stop these fires, they are just watching them burn, from one building to another. (Cant the firetrucks fill water from the river?)
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Max
Moderator
08-12-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 9:05 am
I urge you all to listen to that audio clip from Mayor Nagel. It's very powerful. He talks about how the folks causing a lot of the violence are folks who are drug addicts and now cannot find drugs; instead, they found guns. He says all they can do is form a perimeter and hope they don't get overrun by these folks because the manpower just isn't there. He's VERY frustrated that help has not yet arrived in sufficient numbers to make much difference.
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 9:10 am
Max, I couldn't get it to run, so I read the transcript. It is very powerful. One thing that is not helping is that we do keep hearing about all the food, water, and people there to help, and it turns out it is BS. If it makes me angry 1,000-plus miles away, it has to make those in the center of this totally PO'd. Reader, don't think so. With all of the chemicals in the water, it could be more dangerous. Astrodome has its own zip code: 77230 so that people can write and see if their loved ones are there.
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