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Serious Problems are Afoot in New Orleans (pg. 8)
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| LazFX |
I grew up there in the Katy Ft Bend Area. Good people.
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| George Smiley |
| quote: | Originally posted by LazFX
Well save it for use there, some people might think you are a total idiot. But then if they read your posts, then you still come across as an idiot. ha ha ha
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Why? Don't you understand English? |
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| LazFX |
| quote: | Originally posted by George Smiley
Why? Don't you understand English? |
awe shucks meester, yous sees wees here in da SOUTHSIDE!!!! of the USA, wees speaks er own.
you simpleton |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by Yoepus
I also saw on the scroll-news bar of MSNBC that the Germans have offered aid to the USA. It looks like the countries that have most recently been effected by natrual disasters have kinder hearts than Georegy.
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Hmm you dont have any list of what countries are giving out aid? |
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| Aiwendil |
Yes, serious problems afoot. Consider this eggheads...
Question: How far is it from New Orleans to Mogadishu? (Answer below.)
Item: Officials note with concern that weapons are missing from the sporting goods department in a looted WalMart -- all of them.
Item: There are reports of gangs of armed men roaming the streets of New Orleans. Gunshots echo through the city at night.
Item: Police officer shot in head during firefight with looters.
Item: Fox News reporters, evacuating New Orleans, are confronted by a Ryder truck loaded with armed men, one of whom brandishes and fires an AK-47. (In some parts of the world, vehicles like this are called "technicals.")
Item: Truck carrying food and medication to hospital is hijacked by gang of armed men. Hospital forced to evacuate.
Item: Helicopters evacuating refugees from the Superdome are waved off because of ground fire.
Thus, we learn the functional definition of "oppression" of our "lower classes": that there is a large population of people in our cities who feel that they would prefer to live under a system of tribal feudalism, living off what they can take from the land, and when that fails, from other people.
Answer to the question: two days.
Taken from random internet forum. Pretty interesting view I must say. All the items are true, though I neither have the time nor the patience to look them up on CNN.com. |
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| Yoepus |
| quote: | Originally posted by DaveSZ
I'm sure that you are correct about this, and I also wonder myself if that is the reason why aid is taking so long to reach those on the Gulf Coast.
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The reason is simple: people outside of the area simply were not aware of how bad the damage was until practically yesterday.
I believe I was one of the only ones here crying out that people are not mobolizing with enough force quick enough yesterday and the day before then. The rest of you --- like the government were silent. I think it is very hypocritical for you then to go ahead and convict the government of some grand-standing conspriacy of in action when you yourself were not aware of the real impact that Katrina left.
Three reasons:
1) There web site is slow and in active, and I can't access the "Donate now" page.
2) The red cross has a history of using monies elsewhere unless specifically donated to a specific fund. The fund they are advertising on the front page is their "Diaster Relief Fund" this is not the same as the "Hurricane fund".
3) I like amazon - all I needed to donate was login and make one click. |
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| occrider |
| Jesus christ, the news just keeps getting worse and worse, and the headlines on CNN are getting ridiculous. How are 40,000 people still stuck in the superdome? They can't even evacuate hospitals much less the superdome. Has the FEMA budget become so gutted that they have no command&control/organizational capabilities? What is taking so long for the national guard to deploy?? |
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| St_Andrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
Jesus christ, the news just keeps getting worse and worse, and the headlines on CNN are getting ridiculous. How are 40,000 people still stuck in the superdome? They can't even evacuate hospitals much less the superdome. Has the FEMA budget become so gutted that they have no command&control/organizational capabilities? What is taking so long for the national guard to deploy?? |
Yeah, seriously, they knew that this was most likely gonna happen since saturday, it happend on monday, and they still havent got things under control. Also, in an area like that where things like this will happen every now and then, how can there possibly be no good plan?! Or at least it doesnt seem like they have one!!!
Perhaps LA doesnt have any plan for big earth quakes either?!
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| hardcore trancer |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
Yeah, seriously, they knew that this was most likely gonna happen since saturday, it happend on monday, and they still havent got things under control. Also, in an area like that where things like this will happen every now and then, how can there possibly be no good plan?! Or at least it doesnt seem like they have one!!!
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No plans because they are spending load of money in Iraq and most of the troops are fighting in Iraq for the war on terror on and to bring freedom the country.:haha:
America is truly a lucky country with such great leader like Bush!! |
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| donnybrasco |
| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
Jesus christ, the news just keeps getting worse and worse, and the headlines on CNN are getting ridiculous. How are 40,000 people still stuck in the superdome? They can't even evacuate hospitals much less the superdome. Has the FEMA budget become so gutted that they have no command&control/organizational capabilities? What is taking so long for the national guard to deploy?? |
It's going to get a LOT worse in the coming days. There are thousands of people trapped in New Orleans whom no amount of government response will save, nor will they likely survive much longer. It will be getting really ugly soon.
This disaster will affect the whole country soon too, economically. I wouldn't be surprised if this put us in a recession soon. Lost ports, a lost source of major transit (the Mississippi and I-10), the loss of refineries and oil wells in the gulf, 100% completely destroyed cities, the loss of millions of jobs, and the shear cost of providing aid to those now refugees, etc........whatever 9-11 did to us in terms of destruction can't even compare to this...and look what 9-11 did to our economy at that time! |
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| tiesto14 |
| quote: | Originally posted by hardcore trancer
No plans because they are spending load of money in Iraq and most of the troops are fighting in Iraq for the war on terror on and to bring freedom the country.:haha: |
I am really glad you can laugh at a situation such as this...maybe you need to lose some of your family members, be trapped on a highway overpass for 3 days with no food or water and no sign of rescue, your home gone, your car gone, your worldly possesions gone and whatever else those people are dealing with ...maybe then you wont find it as funny as you do.
you always were a ing twirp. |
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| kush paintings |
| Please... please... don't bring Bush into this, while I am not a supporter of his by any means, every time I hear 'well Bush could've' or 'great leadership by Bush' I just want to smack some bitches up. Yes, the hurricane was bad, but what has caused so much damge was the fact thaqt the levee broke. There are hurricanes every year, and they don't anticipate levees breaking and emptying out the ing ocean into all areas below sea level. Why suppilies haven't gotten there quicker is because, a) transportation is nearly impossible, I believe there is only one road that is somewhat functional into New Orleans and sadly, b) nobody realized just how bad it was. |
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