They Really Dropped the Ball..

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by dissention

I think it just adds more to the valid argument that these career politicians are out of touch with the reality that we live in.

Honey, I sat in a meeting tonight with a woman who was a nurse, a labor and delivery nurse and she was yapping away about "Why didn't they just leave?" If it wasn't business, I would have told her off but instead I just went into calm voice and tried to explain why they didn't just leave. She was from Colorado Springs, home of Dobson, et al, so I shouldn't be too surpirsed.

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by dissention

More:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...,4144825.story

While federal and state emergency planners scramble to get more military relief to Gulf Coast communities stricken by Hurricane Katrina, a massive naval goodwill station has been cruising offshore, underused and waiting for a larger role in the effort.

The USS Bataan, a 844-foot ship designed to dispatch Marines in amphibious assaults, has helicopters, doctors, hospital beds, food and water. It also can make its own water, up to 100,000 gallons a day. And it just happened to be in the Gulf of Mexico when Katrina came roaring ashore.

The Bataan rode out the storm and then followed it toward shore, awaiting relief orders. Helicopter pilots flying from its deck were some of the first to begin plucking stranded New Orleans residents.

But now the Bataan's hospital facilities, including six operating rooms and beds for 600 patients, are empty. A good share of its 1,200 sailors could also go ashore to help with the relief effort, but they haven't been asked. The Bataan has been in the stricken region the longest of any military unit, but federal authorities have yet to fully utilize the ship.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by macfanken

They just don't get it... how does a poor person, without money or a car, evacuate a city? Our government is completely out of touch.

You're right. We've got to figure out a way to make this country whole again.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

This country is becoming more and more of a facist police state.I have walked around spontaneously crying this past week and prior to this catastrophy I had cried maybe a grand total of 2 minutes in my entire adult life.It seems to me that this is not the America I thought it was and the realization of that is horrible.This country has been guilty of slavery in the past as well as mass genocide .I thought we had moved past that.All the progress I believed had been made was stripped away to me when I looked into the faces of these people ,these Americans in New Orleans.I think real empathy and compassion are not part of the agenda in this current political climate here .I just have this sinking feeling that the heart and soul have been ripped out of my country and it will never be the same.

December 12, 2000. They took it from us that very day.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

Honey, I sat in a meeting tonight with a woman who was a nurse, a labor and delivery nurse and she was yapping away about "Why didn't they just leave?" If it wasn't business, I would have told her off but instead I just went into calm voice and tried to explain why they didn't just leave. She was from Colorado Springs, home of Dobson, et al, so I shouldn't be too surpirsed.

You're a strong person, because I don't know what I would have told that woman.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by markolas

Have we already discussed Barbara Bush's comments?

I think so. But I'll say it again. Like mother, like son.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by dissention

Have you been reading about the documents that were leaked about Brown and Chertoff? Shocking.

What dear?

[dissention]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

What dear?

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...aster_response

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by dissention

You're a strong person, because I don't know what I would have told that woman.

Even if every person there was someone who actually refused to leave (that is absurd and of course I don't believe it in the least) I still can't understand why someone would be yapping about it. Who cares, lady? You think they should be left there because of that? Is that what you're getting at?

Yeah, Chris, I don't know how you were able to take that.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

Bastard. An independent entity should investigate this. We should hire a firm that can be neutral. Is that a pipe dream? Probably. The government shouldn't even touch it, they've proven time and again they can't do anything effectively.

This is quite apropos:

A little piece of you
The little peace in me
Will die
For this is not America

Blossom falls to bloom
This season
Promise not to stare
Too long
For this is not a miracle

There was a time
A storm that blew so pure
For this could be the biggest sky
And I could have
The faintest idea

Snowman melting
From the inside
Falcon spirals
to the ground
So bloody red
Tomorrows clouds

A little piece of you
The little piece in me
Will die
For this is not America

There was a time
A wind that blew so young
For this could be the biggest sky
And I could have the faintest idea

This could be the biggest sky
This could be a miracle
This could be etc

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

There is that and then also the death toll may be 3x as great. Let's hope not.

They're talking about mass graves Suze. If they do that, we will never know the true death count.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

not to mention it is widely rumored that corpses were removed from the Convention Center behind peoples' backs so FEMA could say only like 10 died there.

Its like a river - neverending.

*GRAPHIC*









What about all the bodies they found in the freezer?

[dissention]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

*GRAPHIC*









What about all the bodies they found in the freezer?

From what I've heard, they're still in there (the freezer isn't working, obviously) and there are between 30-40.

[amber]

Originally Posted by dissention

More:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...,4144825.story

While federal and state emergency planners scramble to get more military relief to Gulf Coast communities stricken by Hurricane Katrina, a massive naval goodwill station has been cruising offshore, underused and waiting for a larger role in the effort.

The USS Bataan, a 844-foot ship designed to dispatch Marines in amphibious assaults, has helicopters, doctors, hospital beds, food and water. It also can make its own water, up to 100,000 gallons a day. And it just happened to be in the Gulf of Mexico when Katrina came roaring ashore.

The Bataan rode out the storm and then followed it toward shore, awaiting relief orders. Helicopter pilots flying from its deck were some of the first to begin plucking stranded New Orleans residents.

But now the Bataan's hospital facilities, including six operating rooms and beds for 600 patients, are empty. A good share of its 1,200 sailors could also go ashore to help with the relief effort, but they haven't been asked. The Bataan has been in the stricken region the longest of any military unit, but federal authorities have yet to fully utilize the ship.

If I was one of the people in NO, i swear I would riot upon hearing this.

[amber]

Originally Posted by dissention

This is quite apropos:

A little piece of you
The little peace in me
Will die
For this is not America

Blossom falls to bloom
This season
Promise not to stare
Too long
For this is not a miracle

There was a time
A storm that blew so pure
For this could be the biggest sky
And I could have
The faintest idea

Snowman melting
From the inside
Falcon spirals
to the ground
So bloody red
Tomorrows clouds

A little piece of you
The little piece in me
Will die
For this is not America

There was a time
A wind that blew so young
For this could be the biggest sky
And I could have the faintest idea

This could be the biggest sky
This could be a miracle
This could be etc

what's that from?