The Mayor of NO Goes Ballistic

KMA

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and it is about time!!! Soledad Obrien skewers the director of FEMA and it is about time. Reporters report having been in these communities for 4 days and only seeing RED CROSS for the first time and visibly show their frustration, a mirror of the frustration we all feel and that the victims fee, and it is about time!!!

rescue is...about time. Our Government has been too preoccupied spreading freedom at the point of a bayonet in foreign lands to be able to respond to a National crisis in our own Country.

and we all know that Al Qeada is taking notes.

Here is who should be fired:

Dierctor of Homeland Security - Abolish him and his entire Department. It is a smokescreen for dinosaur.
The idea was extinct from the start.

Director of FEMA - he's a political hack

Director of RED CROSS - failure, failure, failure

The Head of the Army Corp of Engineers- Any idiot knows you cant plug a hole with SAND. Get some pleasure boats in there and sink them..get highway medians in there and sink them...then drop bags of CLAY against them...and build a ****ing reef for God's sake.

Who Should be Impeached-

the Gov'nuh of Lousianna-Probably the worst public official in the history of our Country.

The President of the United States - failure in leadership again and again and again. He will go down in history as the worst President this Country has ever had.

kudos to NO Mayor for telling it like it is...
Howo horrible to watch your city crumble and your citizend die while the Feds discuss howmany school bus drivers they need to evacuate people.

Bullets for:

looters, rapists, murderers who prey on the weakness of others.

where are our military rapid response forces? which Country are they deployed in? If they are rapid, why werent they moved to where they are needed?

and our poor National Guardsmen..sent to Iraq to fight the Army's fight...when their true need is here in our own Country.

I will work tirlessly to get all these people removed frm Office...from public service...and into jail. Better yet, just drop their asses in the heart of New Orleans and let them fend for themselves.
 

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What the ****, The FEMA DIRECTOR didn't KNOW there were people in the Superdome until YESTERDAY??? What's THAT all about???
 

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You have to be kidding me about the Fema director, he should have pulled his head out of his ass a few days ago. I'm glad that the mayor has finally said something though. I would be fuming mad (understatement) if I was still waiting after 4 days without food/water and NO WORD of what the hell is happening.
 

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He was amazing!!! Icaught the interview when I got home from work. What a man!!!
When his voice cracked and the tears came I felt terrible, simply terrible. What the **** is Bush doing? SO says that Bush looked exactly the same in an interview on TV tonight as he did when he was told of 9/11. Remember his face as he was told??? Like a scared rabbit, well, he looked the same tonight when he was being questioned about what he was going to do for those poor people.
His terms in office have been horrific!!!
 

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So it's the Presidents fault...unbelievable. The Mayor of NO and the state of LA have zero responsibility in this disaster?? Then you give kudo's to the mayor of NO where was his plan it's his city.
 

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Listen, there's really nothing anyone can do, right now.

We all say, "Help them!", but what can be done at this point, that isn't being done?

I think the joke of this is the fact that our leaders don't tell us anything!


How hard is it to stand in front of a camera and say, "Right now, we can't do much in that area, and that is a fact. We are doing what we can, and redying resources for immediate assistance as soon as we can get in there."

That's just a simplified version, of course, but in my eyes......it just looks like nothing is being done.
 

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Yah ryson, at this point??? Yah I do blame him. And as for the mayor??? He should have gone ballistic before the hurricane hit, and maybe he is grandstanding out of desperation, but dude it needed to be said and said loud. Woman and children are being raped, people are being shot and killed, the cops down there have been working for days straight and are passing other cops that have drowned or been shot trying to help. Someone had to have the balls to finally stand up and ask what the general population is wondering. There are still thousands of people that have not been rescued yet from 3 days ago!!! The biggest superpower in the world, and the officials don't know what to do??? Inexcusable!!!
 
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Blaming the feds is absurd. NO didnt do what was necessary beforehand. Not a single one of these people should ahve been in NO if they had gotten out as instructed, or at least gone to a shelter as instructed. Or if NO citizens hadnt refused the taxes necessary to spend the money to be ready or prevent sucha disaster. I am sick and tired of everything being the governments fault. Let me guess -these are the same ****ing people theat bitch about every penny of their taxes, every law that gets passed on so on. The attitude always seems to be "no government unless it is needed by me."
 

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This is pretty damned simple. I said it before the hurricane hit. Every school bus and Greyhound bus and Army transport available could have gone into N.O. to evacuate people that had no transportation otherwise.

Part of this is definitely La and N.O. fault. Part is FEMA & Fed fault.

It is obvious to anyone NOT living in ivory towers that there are large segments of poor in ALL large urban areas that depend on city busses to get around. How are they going to evacuate?

Additionally, put yourself in their place. You live in a crime-ridden area. You figure: "If I evacuate, some of my low-life neighbors will be over here 5 minutes after I'm gone taking the little I do own". I know there will be some flooding and the power will go out but it'll be okay in a few days or a week. Better to stay."

And for the ones that did evacuate, they don't have money to stay in hotels. This is a huge humanitarian disaster.

I believe a good way to mitigate this kind of stuff in the future is to unconditionally disallow human habitation within a half mile of the coastlines (should be limits along riverbanks also). And as for N.O. - don't rebuild there.
 

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Blind support of an incompetent and possibly corrupt administraion is not defending the USA. What I want to know is when will you right-wingers stop waving OUR flag in OUR face???

Maybe yah didnt see the refugee hold up a tattered and dirty USA flag while sitting in a boat full of mud on the NEWS last night. That's your countryman, right there. He needs water and food, clothing and shelter.
It's Friday. Where are the supplies???

Ther is no excuse for not getting basic supplies of blankets and water the people in need. There is no excuse for incompetence.

There has always been a limit to what Government can do for its people. We place those limts on our governmment. But the most BASIC responsibility of any government body is to PROTECT the health, safety, and welfare of its people.

The Federal Government, the State government, and the City government failed to meet their responsibility to protect their own citizens.

George Bush cut funding two years ago for the levee system to be improved. It might not have made a difference if he had kept funding at the erquested amount-but we will never know.

Four days and no supplies. 4 years since 9/11 and no plan for a major attack. We are sitting ducks for Al Qaeda, dear friends. sitting ducks.

I love the USA!!! It is time WE THE PEOPLE take it back.
 

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And as for N.O. - don't rebuild there.

exactly right Ocelot.....i cant believe they're already talking about rebuilding assistance that is the worst possible thing you can do....you need relocation assistance....but no matter what administration is in office they would never say or do that because its political suicide
 

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i am with the fact they knew it was coming why the hell did they not leave. dont feel sorry for new orleans feel more sorry for mississippi who had the storm shift there way. i dont want to hear about how people did not have the goods to leave because of this and that if you would have told the same people that there was a million dollars in a bag in texas all they had to do was get there to pick it up they would sure have found a way they just thought the weather people were being overzealous and they would ride out the storm bad gamble they took. the only people i feel sorry for are the kids of the stupid a s s parents who stayed and they ahd to stay and sit on the roof because the parents are idiots. oh by the way people were trying to help and some of the great residents of new orleans were shooting at them dont blame the govt for everything.
 

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KMA, interesting points; I agree with several of them. I think we're all upset about this situation. I would have liked to see more of the residents take more responsibility for themselves and their families and clear out, but since they didn't and are now having to live like third-worlders, they need help.

"Bullets for:

looters, rapists, murderers who prey on the weakness of others."

I agree whole-heartedly with this statement.

I think your most valid point is the one made about potential terrorists taking note. I'm not sure how they could plan a natural disaster like this, but there's no telling what they might be cooking up.

I'm also growing more frustrated with our endeavors militarily in Iraq and Afghanistan. We just need to a-bomb the sobs when they threaten us and quit fartin' around. They're never going to see any way but their own, so when they become a threat, we just need to go in in a high-tech way and kick their asses back into the stone age and get out. FOCK REBUILDING THEM!! More money for our countrymen who were affected by Katrina or any other future homeland disaster.

How would you feel about our authorities starting to profile? I think that's the biggest failure in the fight against terrorism in our homelands. Let's profile these ethnic groups and catch these guys pre-emptively. Let's start by denying all requests for school visas from these Arabic Muslims and so disallow any more of them from coming in. Wouldn't hurt my feelings one bit. I'm sure there are plenty of Asians and Indians who would love to come to our country to go to school, so let's deny the Arabs and welcome the Indians and Asians who have proven to be very valuable members of society (most notably in Medicine and computer sciences).

You know, most people hear the word "profile" and they get upset. Well, how about this analogy. If you had some ham in your refrigerator that had green spots and a rotten smell, would you get rid of it, or would you randomly sort through your meat drawer and pick out the pastrami to dispose of?
 

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I think your most valid point is the one made about potential terrorists taking note. I'm not sure how they could plan a natural disaster like this, but there's no telling what they might be cooking up.



No I don't think they can plan or cause a natural disaster, BUT, they sure can take note of how a disaster or an attack will reduce and cripple Americans!!!
 

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scott4:

You are clueless son, and don't know what you are babbling. So you think that without cars they could have just walked out of N.O.? Yeah, that would've worked. You've never been near a hurricane have you?
 

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Sun Tzu, you wrote: "I am sick and tired of everything being the governments fault. Let me guess -these are the same ****ing people theat bitch about every penny of their taxes, every law that gets passed on so on. The attitude always seems to be "no government unless it is needed by me."

Those people you are talking about would be the Right-Wingers that are always complaining about the government wasting tax dollars and taxes are too high?

KMA is right, IT IS THE GOVERNMENT'S JOB TO PROTECT THE SAFETY AND WELFARE OF ITS CITIZENS. Now if that includes saying NO, you are not going to build your house in a bowl below sea-level - fine.

Funny, but it seems to me a lot could be done by the Insurance companies. THEY could say "NO, we are not going to insure your home". But no, they can't resist those high premiums but then when disaster does strike they want to point to the fine print and say you aren't covered.

Now I'm going to get a little off topic here but:
Here is what they did to my neighbors here in Florida. They sell you a add-on to your homeowners insurance that they call HURRICANE INSURANCE. Now with this policy you understand that if your home is damaged by a hurricane you must pay a higher deductible than normal. No problem. BUT, when the Ivan comes through here people discover that even though they had purchased HURRICANE INSURANCE THAT IT DID NOT COVER THEM AT ALL IF THEIR HOME WAS DAMAGED DUE TO STORM SURGE OR FLOODING!!!!! That little detail was buried somewhere in the FINE PRINT. Excuse me, but hurricanes by their very nature involve storm surges and flooding.
 
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