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Category 1 Hurricane Passes City, But Storm Surges Still Threaten; Canal Overtopped But Holds
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- I have no issues with NO just the way it has been presented It will never be the same again that%u2019s a given and if im eating breakfast at 7:00am at an outside table and one of those beggars starts blowing a horn in my ear im going to wrap that horn around his head.
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- Regarding the comments of people talking about "their" tax dollars going to pay for the Gulf Coast, look at it this way. Your tax dollars went to pay for health care for Iraqis while I can''''t afford premiums for my wife. I want my tax dollars to go toward helping Americans in need.
Well said patriot - Reply to this comment
- Posted by poopus123 at 02:23 PM : Sep 01, 2008
anyone taking bets on when the Jesse and Al show will be there? I''m sure someone there has been discriminated against. My guess is, when King George goes to the East coast and gets their aid before NOLA. - Reply to this comment
- fishinfool43,
Thanks for the concern. Let''s have some for the people in the middle of the storm right now.
Nagan is a 2-bit politician and his incompetence and politicizing still burns my butt too. But then so does Bushes incompetence and comments and lack of concern even after the fact.
Let''s try to put aside the partisonship and be honest, officials from both parties screwed up and made terrible decisions and put their own agendas ahead of the needs of the people.
Regarding the comments of people talking about "their" tax dollars going to pay for the Gulf Coast, look at it this way. Your tax dollars went to pay for health care for Iraqis while I can''t afford premiums for my wife. I want my tax dollars to go toward helping Americans in need. - Reply to this comment
- "the chocolate city comment, but yes he made alot of other stupid ones. Should have been more specific.
Posted by fishinfool43
No problem at all. I figured that was it. I always get a kick out of that one. Did not happen did it? Not going to happen is it? I think they changed the code name to Dark Side of The Moon - Reply to this comment
- Posted by lewiston14 at 02:16 PM : Sep 01, 2008
the chocolate city comment, but yes he made alot of other stupid ones. Should have been more specific. - Reply to this comment
- I must say, this one in NOLA has been handled better than 3 yrs ago. At least they were doing things to help themselves be prepared, and evacuating the areas affected. Maybe they did learn something.
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- "Nagin''''s comment 3 years ago still burns my butt. Talk about a racist"
Which one? - Reply to this comment
- Why do they insist on having a city that is below sea level, by the sea?
They should have moved the historic parts 50 miles inland and leveled the rest after Katrina.
This is stupid, since sea levels may be rising. - Reply to this comment
- Posted by realpatriot1 at 02:02 PM : Sep 01, 2008
Maybe we better get Mother Nature to schedule natural disasters to "Only during election years". Seems thats the only time politicians are intrested in doing anything. Gotta get that almighty vote.
Nagin''s comment 3 years ago still burns my butt. Talk about a racist.
Hope you make it thru your upcoming disaster.
During these events people need to remember, proper prior planning prevents pizz poor performance - Reply to this comment
- Since the Katrina year was unprecidented,and there were no plans in place to deal with 4 hurricanes in rapid succesion, I say that this evacuation,while proving to be unecessary went very well. When you first burn your hand on a stove, it is because you don''t realise what will happen,there after you use a oven mitt. Good job,glad things were better than expected and lets hope the next 3 coming along are also gentle. Now we just gotta get everyone home ,and it is their resposibility to behave in a decent manner,not the government.
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- The casinos are a fun topic. The church made them have to float off shore if only by a few feet then when they all washed up a few streets over on dry land NO was losing alot of money. So now they build them on land to keep that money flowing. Who said NO is not forward thinking. FINALLY and the churches were told where to stuff it.
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- fishinfool43,
You can fully expect that the response will be different because we''re in the midst of an election.
Nagan should call upon the federal government for help just as the Mayor''s in the midwest rightfully did.
One of the projected storm tracks for Hanna has it headed right for hwere I live in the Raleigh atrea but i''m not worried about federal assistance because we''re a battleground state. Call me a cynic! - Reply to this comment
- Not long. It''''s the only way homey''''s can get anything for free besides looting and pillaging.....
I hear that. I''m still waiting for my free credit card and FEMA trailer. LOL - Reply to this comment
- wonder how long it will be before Nagin will be whining for help to rebuild his "chocolate city" again.
Here in the midwest, with our flooding, we were told FEMA and Red Cross were broke, and saw little assistance. Lets see how this will play out. Keeping in mind, Hannah is still on her way. Better be prepared for the "sorry about your luck" speeches.
Remember, Bush don''t give 2 hoots about anyone but himself. - Reply to this comment
- Wow, so nice to see Americans thinking so highly of their neighbor.
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- That picture is bonnner city.
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- I keep hearing about all the rebuilding yet I was in New Orleans just a couple months after Katrina. Didn''t see any physical evidence of any disaster. Going back in two weeks ---- gotta love the Big Easy!
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- txgrouch,
Why do we have to blame anyone? If Bush & Nagan do their jobs right this time we can give them the credit they didn''t deserve before. - Reply to this comment
- defras,
Fine. Then let''s stop pouring fed funds into that metro area called LA tha''s built on a fault line or Boston which has its downtown floating on landfill in the harbor with an earthquake predicted to happen at any time. Let''s stop sending fed funds to that island called Florida or to NYC(another island awaiting the rising sea levels from global warming).
There''s no truly safe place to live and those tax dollars are everyone''s tax dollars, including the citizens of the Gulf. - Reply to this comment
