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No, Bush had to yell at the Gov of Louisiana
Read this, dumbass:
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf? base/news-18/1125239940201382.xml&storylist=louisi ana
Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.
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Re:Where are the Guardsmen?
Yes, they had advanced warning. That's why Bush personally called the Louisiana governor and asked her to evacuate New Orleans.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.
The commander of the Army Corps of Engineers says even if certain water and flood-control projects in New Orleans had been fully funded, they would have been no match against Hurricane Katrina. -
Heartbreaking
I am not easilly be moved, but those stories left me speechless:
http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/index.ssf?/mtlogs /nola_nolaview/archives/2005_09.html#076287 -
google maps and locate people dying/needing help
what about cross referencing
the google map there:
http://www.scipionus.com/
and these stories :
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/artic le_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001054091
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Re:Police doing the looting...Government SNAFU
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083105/
a 5.pdf
its quite possible this officer was returning the loot taken by said looters. Having a picture shown to you and then something written under it means nothing.
Maybe he was taking the DVDs to one of the evacuation points to show to children to ease in this time. Maybe its anything... the truth is
Jebus people.... pull your head out of your ass for a moment, and stop bitching. Do something or shut the fuck up. -
Re:Police doing the looting...Government SNAFU
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083105/
a 5.pdf
More likely, a lot of both. What ppl seem to be forgetting here, is that NO police department about 5 years ago, was considered the most corrupt in the nation. In fact, during a federal probe of the city, they had to call an early end to it, because they had to stop a murder. Apparently the chief of police (or possibly an assistant chief) had ordered a hit on somebody for not paying up.
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where was the "loot" aquired?This is the problem with using photos for evidence, or even videos.
Yes, we see what appears to be a white woman (although she could be hispanic) with some food.
What the picture does not show, and what we do not see, but presumably the photographer did, is how she aquired the food. Did she break in to a grocery store and take it? Did it float out of the store and she grabed it as it was floating?
Notice it says "finding from" not "finding at" which does imply that they found the bread and sodas outside the store, not inside.
But maybe that's just my interpretation. Maybe they did go into the grocery store and take the bread and sodas. Mayhap the difference between finding and looting is in what was taken? Food (bread and soda) vs. liquor? We don't know what the young man took, presumably the photographer does, and maybe that's the difference.
Nah, gotta be racism.
RACISM!
btw, check out the NO newspaper for some interesting stories on the looting. Six foot pallets full of liquor, basketball goals, jewelry, DVDs and more are being looted now.
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Round up of New Orleans News Sources
- Nola.com: Good news source.
- New Orleans LiveJournal Bloggers
- Long, devestating helicopter flyover of the disaster. (Someone grab a mirror of this, as it's long and will certainly be swamped. And that was before the worst of the flooding had arrived.)
- Yahoo's photo roundup.
-Crow T. Trollbot
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Re:Not a first for Louisiana
Not that we're know for corruption down here or anything, but Roger Villere is also the chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party.
There were those who thought there might have been a connection between the florist licensing thing and him, but I dunno. There was also the home inspector license thing initiated a year or two ago, and now this shit. They're always whining that they need more money.. There was the "temporary" business tax-thing that got "renewed" because they need more money. And the Stelly tax joke.
How about instead of trying to suck us dry, we try to get all these fuckers to keep their hands out of the pot ?
It's no wonder nobody wants to do business in our state.
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Re:Not a first for Louisiana
Not that we're know for corruption down here or anything, but Roger Villere is also the chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party.
There were those who thought there might have been a connection between the florist licensing thing and him, but I dunno. There was also the home inspector license thing initiated a year or two ago, and now this shit. They're always whining that they need more money.. There was the "temporary" business tax-thing that got "renewed" because they need more money. And the Stelly tax joke.
How about instead of trying to suck us dry, we try to get all these fuckers to keep their hands out of the pot ?
It's no wonder nobody wants to do business in our state.
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Re:Not a first for Louisiana
Not that we're know for corruption down here or anything, but Roger Villere is also the chairman of the Louisiana Republican Party.
There were those who thought there might have been a connection between the florist licensing thing and him, but I dunno. There was also the home inspector license thing initiated a year or two ago, and now this shit. They're always whining that they need more money.. There was the "temporary" business tax-thing that got "renewed" because they need more money. And the Stelly tax joke.
How about instead of trying to suck us dry, we try to get all these fuckers to keep their hands out of the pot ?
It's no wonder nobody wants to do business in our state.
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track the crooks to their next haul
It's not "misplaced luggage" that's the problem, the industry is being coy and cute, it's more like stolen luggage, or luggage broken into, then purposely "lost" to hide evidence of the theft. Happens all the time, been a dodge they been underplaying for years now. Over the years in the US, you are more likely to have your luggage stolen and broken into by airport employees than from random people just taking luggage. Here's a recent example of some of the trusted "homeland security personnel" in action.
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that's a lot of steal
The article calls it "the Navy's ship", but it's leased from an Australian shipbuilder for $21M. Per year? With the Navy, more like per mile, nautical or otherwise. And why does the US government not just buy it, rather than assume the cost of financing? Is it corporate welfare, or more Bollinger pork? Yet another tax cheat? Or just a worthwhile diversion of money to offshore allies in Iraq War Jr, while bankrupting American promises to "support our troops"? Maybe Halliburton's got an Australian shipyard to catch some of the bankrupt US Treasury money that somehow escapes the Iraqmire...
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Re:Horseshit
You don't mind being shot at? If not, Haliburton is offering 80-100k (tax exempt) for their positions in Iraq:
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Re:Why, they might be... beneficial!
Mercury: Overplayed or Overstated?
DDT: Controls Malaria which kills over a million people per year. and is a major killer of children under 5.
Dioxin: A baddie, But was it truly necessary to evacuate people?
Asbestos: Only things I saw was people complaining about others getting money for 'exposure' while showing no detrimental health effects. -
What Repercussions?
No, the guy still didn't comply.
The Copeland mentioned above is Al Copeland. Has anyone ever eaten at a Popeye's Fried Chicken. Al Copeland started Popeye's. http://www.popeyes.com/popeyesstory.html
He then bought Church's Chicken, and wound up loosing them both. He still owns the company the supplies the spice for Popeye's.
He also owns the more upscale Copeland's Restaurant, which is actually quite good. http://www.copelands.net/And yes, this is the same Al Copeland that had Anne Rice sending out the Vampire Lestat out to talk to him about the color of his neon light. http://www.kicon.com/law/cases_e/annrice.html and http://www.nola.com/haunted/?vampires/021297stray
a a So if you want to see some Real Christmas Lights, go the the end of Transcontinental drive by the lake in Metairie, La, just outside of New Orleans. He has around over a million lights. Yes, he has his own transformer. He used to hire college engineering students to help put them up. It is really something to see. http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/remodeling/article/0,179
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What Repercussions?
No, the guy still didn't comply.
The Copeland mentioned above is Al Copeland. Has anyone ever eaten at a Popeye's Fried Chicken. Al Copeland started Popeye's. http://www.popeyes.com/popeyesstory.html
He then bought Church's Chicken, and wound up loosing them both. He still owns the company the supplies the spice for Popeye's.
He also owns the more upscale Copeland's Restaurant, which is actually quite good. http://www.copelands.net/And yes, this is the same Al Copeland that had Anne Rice sending out the Vampire Lestat out to talk to him about the color of his neon light. http://www.kicon.com/law/cases_e/annrice.html and http://www.nola.com/haunted/?vampires/021297stray
a a So if you want to see some Real Christmas Lights, go the the end of Transcontinental drive by the lake in Metairie, La, just outside of New Orleans. He has around over a million lights. Yes, he has his own transformer. He used to hire college engineering students to help put them up. It is really something to see. http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/remodeling/article/0,179
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Re:This Flo Fox?
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news
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It's a news story that covers her gumbo, and seems to confirm your post.
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When it rains. . .Four actual impacts since May, an unverified fifth impact, plus sky flames and now this latest item. And that's just the reported stuff.
Link-O-Rama. .
Oakland County [detnews.com] [detnews.com]
Mount Vernon [komotv.com] [komotv.com]
English garden, (possible). [thisislincolnshire.co.uk] [thisislincolnshire.co.uk]
New Orleans [nola.com] [nola.com]
And of course, India [abc.net.au] [abc.net.au] two days ago.
Fireball.
About 4 or 5 years ago there was a bit of noise around the scientific community about a mysterious very big object being detected around the vicinity of Pluto's orbit. An object travelling on an eliptical orbit around the sun which had been predicted by numerous astronomers trying to explain anomolies in the orbits of the various planets in the solar system. As the object came to its closest point a few years back, a bunch of disinfo was thrown up to distract the public. --Calming bullshit reports on the various 'Learning Channels', plus a bunch of culty nonsense from the 'Planet X' contingent. All horseshit designed to keep the public quiet or confused while the global elite prepared for the approaching calamity, (and for which they seem to think the proper preparation includes building a one-world government, killing a ton of people, and managing the whole affair from underground. Or some Dr. Strangegloves nonsense to that effect. Either way, nonsense stories clouded the issue with almost perfect success. --Including the interestingly sudden reassurances (which I never heard when I was a kid), from governments and government owned media that, "No, No. Rocks are constantly falling into the atmosphere. This is all perfectly normal." --Well sure, stuff is always falling, but there are certain scales of averages which are being ignored here. .
Works like this. .
Basically, every 3600 years we go through a cloud of rocks, and every 360,000 years, that cluster is replenished thanks to said big object, (a ball of hydrogen which never got quite big enough to ignite, but which plays binary to the sun), which passes through the Kuiper belt and knocks new debris down to the Earth's orbital plane. The last year or so of comet stories and such were, I suspect, elements of the old cluster, and now we're beginning to see the first arrivals from the new one.
The pattern expected is that it will be like a rain shower. A few drops here and there as it begins. Then a short pause where everybody half-relaxes. Then the downpour.
Should be interesting, to say the least! --Espeically in conjunction with the dozen or so other massive things going on. So much to do, so little time!
Keep alert, folks! You don't get to experience stuff like this every lifetime!
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Actually, a lot of stuff has been falling recentlyFour actual impacts since May, and an unverified fifth. Plus this fireball thing.
Link-O-Rama. .
Oakland County [detnews.com]
Mount Vernon [komotv.com]
English garden, (possible). [thisislincolnshire.co.uk]
New Orleans [nola.com]
And of course, India [abc.net.au] two days ago.
About 4 or 5 years ago there was a bit of noise around the scientific community about a mysterious very big object being detected around the vicinity of Pluto's orbit. An object travelling on an eliptical orbit around the sun which has been predicted by numerous astronomers trying to explain anomolies in the orbits of the various planets in the solar system. As the object came into 'view' a few years back, a bunch of disinfo was thrown up to distract the public. --Calming bullshit reports on the various 'Learning Channels', plus a bunch of culty nonsense from the Planet X contingent. All horseshit designed to keep the public quiet while the global elite prepared for the approaching calamity, (and for some reason they seem to think that proper preparation is to build a one-world government, kill a ton of people, and manage the whole affair from underground. Or some shit like that. Either way, bullshit stories clouded the issue with almost perfect success.)
Works like this. .
Basically, every 3600 years we go through a cloud of rocks, and every 360,000 years, that cluster is replenished thanks to said big object, (a ball of hydrogen which never got quite big enough to ignite, but which plays binary to the sun), which passes through the Kuiper belt and knocks new debris down to the Earth's orbital plane. The last year or so of comet stories and such were, I suspect, elements of the old cluster, and now we're beginning to see the first arrivals from the new one.
The pattern expected is that it will be like a rain shower. A few drops here and there as it begins. Then a short pause where everybody half-relaxes. Then the downpour.
Should be interesting, to say the least! --Espeically in conjunction with the dozen or so other massive things going on. So much to do, so little time!
Keep alert, folks! You don't get to experience stuff like this every lifetime!
-FL
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Oh my!Interesting, isn't it?
There is no concensus yet to which I am privy at this point, but the whispers, (and my suspicions,) say that the power outages are linked to the increasing number of breakdowns, bleedthroughs, and the general de-stabilizing of the current physical paradigm. This has been an increasing issue over the last couple of decades. There are whole patches of the Earth's surface which exist now entirely on other planes of existence, and those spots are expanding. Military controlled tracts of land.
Anyway, the big outage in '65 was accompanied by several significant UFO reports over the power installation at ground zero. This kind of activity is often 'observed'.
Expect more as things continue to accelerate. All of this stuff is a reflection of the human experiential cycle. (That is, as humans heat up their activities through war and such, the rest of the Earth and solar system likewise heats up. We are all mirrors of each other.)
One of the more interesting aspects is the cluster of comet debris the Earth is just now entering. Every 3600 years we go through a cloud of rocks, and every 360,000 years, that cluster is replenished thanks to a big object, (a ball of hydrogen which never got quite big enough to ignite, but which plays binary to the sun), passes through the Kuiper belt which knocks new debris down to the Earth's orbital plane. And guess which end of that 360,000 year period we're on at the moment? Exactly. We just won the galactic lottery for 'interesting times'.
Anyway, space-rock impacts are on the increase, and will be for a time. Since spring, these stories about actual impacts have appeared. .
Oakland County
Mount Vernon
English garden, (possible).
New Orleans
And of course, India two days ago.
The pattern expected is that it will be like a rain shower. A few drops here and there as it begins. Then a short pause where everybody half-relaxes. Then the downpour.
Should be interesting, to say the least! --Espeically in conjunction with the dozen or so other massive things going on. So much to do, so little time!
Keep alert, folks! You don't get to experience stuff like this every lifetime!
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Re:Happened in New Orleans last week
Direct link to story
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obligatory position notes
How odd to see so many posts from the
Yes, ebooks are sucky. Yes, the nicest fonts on the most optically undemanding monitors are still no substitute for the feel of the dead-tree edition in our hands. But isn't this just a thinly disguised cousin to the decades-old analogue/digital debate? Am I the only one who is sick of vinyl die-hards and their "CDs have no warmth" rhetoric?
The current problems with ebooks, as Cory Doctorow says, is the ever-present spectre of DRM.
"I believe that the electronic publishing models that have been tried -- especially those that rely on restricting readers' freedom with "Digital Rights Management" software -- are dead ends. There are lots of ways that electronic texts are inferior to paper (every discussion of "e-books" has to involve at least one paen to the smell of old books and another to the wonder of reading a book in the tub), but there are also lots of ways in which they are superior. You can carry a lot of them around in a small device. You can back them up. You can email them to friends. You can convert them to your favorite file-formats, you can search them, you can copy-and-paste them. When we turn to use-restriction technology, we foreclose the possibilities that make electronic text superior to printed text." (source)
Ebooks, once sites like this one go the way of napster et alia, will become as common as MP3.Some journalistic follow-ups from this article:
"Demand for e-books has been growing quickly, but remains relatively tiny. According to the Open eBook Forum, a trade organization, e-book sales totaled about $5 million in the first half of 2003, compared to $3.8 million in the first half of 2002.
"One bookseller dropping out will have no impact on Random House's commitment to e-books," said Random House Inc. spokesman Stuart Appelbaum.
Open eBook Forum executive director Nick Bogaty said he has no individual corporate statistics, but believes Barnes & Noble.com had just a small percentage of sales. Palm Digital Media, OverDrive, Inc., and Amazon.com are among the leading e-book competitors, Bogaty says.
Barnes & Noble.com had been quite active in the market, even starting its own digital imprint in 2001 and releasing an original work by Dean Koontz.
"We all believe there is a future for e-books," Goldman said. "It's just not here yet."
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Re:I want cameras in New Orleans
Too late.
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Re:Think of the porn applications!
No need for fancy new toys:
live feed from Bourbon St
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Re:Thanks to the Bush administration's stance ...*yawn*
Ah a walking, talking tragedy... To think, I spent four years in the Army defending your freedom. Such is the state of public education in the nookyooler power known as 'merika. I mean, really--if you're going to lay flamebait on me, at least make it worthy of response.
Ken Lay (or as prezitend george likes to call him "kenny boy"), has a long history contributing to the prezitend.
I'm talking about Enron executives, not Enron. Get it? I'm talking about people directly responsible for creating the California energy crisis, who were responsible for stealing the retirement of thousands of hard working aging people, who are still walking free. I'm talking about Ken Lay in particular. A person who has been working closely with the Bush family for over a decade.
I'd invite you to discuss this, but I'm sure you'll just cry some more. It's okay, you can cry, just don't expect me to listen.
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WHERE MAH REPARASHUN AT, BITCH!
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WHERE MAH REPARASHUN AT, BITCH!
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WHERE MAH REPARASHUN AT, BITCH!
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WHERE MAH REPARASHUN AT, BITCH!
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WHERE MAH REPARASHUN AT, BITCH!
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Re:Venus Transit next year, June 2004
Hey, why not, Iran will probably be a colony of the US by that time, and probably Turkey (Wolfowitz demands a Turkish apology for not helping the US) as well. Hey Bush, you're not president of the world, so don't act like you can tell a sovereign country what to do, you piece of shit.
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Re:First problem with this solution:
"Hell, there is nary a US provider that will carry a major spammer."
Then explain to me how this guy manages to make all his money. Or is Louisiana no longer part of the US?
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Re:Trusting a Priest?
dont forget this priest: http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/neworleans/index.ssf
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Re:Shocked> Its precicely this attitude that promotes "white flight"
> Okay, I am white, but it really pisses me off to think that you
> would assume that all the white people leaving magically creates
> a BAD system.I didn't invent the term "white flight" which is why I put it in quotes. In the rest of my post I went out of my way to portray disparity in schools as a function of both race and economics.
I don't assume that white people leaving public schools creates a bad system. I know it does. I spent 13 years in New Orleans Public Schools, which are 96% non-white. The few white people left in the system stay in a few diverse schools which have remained somewhat successful academically. The rest of the system has turned to utter garbage. A recent state of Louisiana report shows 91 out of 103 NOPS schools are below average; 50 were "academically unacceptable." This is from the state of Louisiana (as is the school mentioned in the ID story), a state with one of the lowest standards in the United States. Not to mention the low standards of the US in general.
Schools need families that are interested in and able to help improve schools. Active parents. Those happen to be the ones with enough money that they can afford to worry about their kids' school, not worrying about whether they're going to be able to feed their family that month. When they leave a school, and its only the poor kids left, or the ones that "probably deserve to be in prison" as you said in a previous post. I contend that they're the ones that need quality schools the most. But they're the ones that really get the least education. Thus, the cycle of poverty and crime continues.
You're right in that the problem isn't as simple as just "white flight", though I don't think the term "white and a few upper class black and asian flight" is going to catch on any time soon. The bottom line is, its about money, and for the most part, where I live at least, the White people are generally the ones with the money.
As I am white but without big bucks, I find that I generally side with the "black" side, at least when it comes to public education debates. But it seems that the upper middle class blacks tend to side with the whites. I think that will tell you if the issue is really racial, or economic.