Jayne ,'The Message'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I don't understand why a boat flotilla wasn't already organized to take people out/off of the flooded houses?
During 9/11 in NYC, NJ private boat owners ferried thousands of people off of Manhattan. Granted, this was only across a river, whereas getting into NO is a quite a bit more complicated. But there are Zodiacs that can be brought in, inflated, and put to use very quickly.
Most of the boats in the NOLA vicinity would have been destroyed, along with the docks.
I'm so tired of being ashamed of our president. It's not just that he can't or won't solve important problems, it's that he doesn't even see that the problems exist.
When Andrew struck we had truck loads of water in beer bottles being delivered by Miller Beer. They shut down their beer production and filled bottles with water.
A-B did this a couple days ago. They sent down close to 900,000 cans of water.
Bush's new nickname after this needs to be Emperor Nero.
Words fail me when trying to describe how appalled and disgusted I am with the utter cluster-fuck this has all been.
I'm so tired of being ashamed of our president. It's not just that he can't or won't solve important problems, it's that he doesn't even see that the problems exist.
There was someone in his administration (I forget who) - he said that every administration has a political team, in addition to a policy team and other stuff, but he was amazed that the Bush administration only had the political team, a political POV. (I'm totally explaining this poorly.) He called the Bush adminstration the "Mayberry Machiavellians."
Obviously, he was punnished for this.
Also, Tom, please email me your phone number at my profile addy. I'd be happy to call and chat at you for a bit as well.
A-B did this a couple days ago. They sent down close to 900,000 cans of water.
Ah, that's good to hear. No doubt there are a lot of private individuals and businesses doing a lot of good. It is just the people at the top who have spent untold dollars studying what to do in a disaster that are failing us.
Bush is speaking. Wonder if he'll mention Lott's beach house?
"If the networks could figure out getting all their people and supplies in by Saturday night, why is it taking the federal government until Friday?"
You know, I work for a publisher -- we publish a monthly journal with subscribers all over the world, but mostly in the US. We don't mail the journals out from our offices; we have a company that does that for us.
My point? Our mailing company called today and said that they've already gone through our mailing list and pulled the addresses that are in Louisiana/Mississippi/Alabama, for the upcoming mailing.
If our mail service (NOTE: I don't mean the USPS; it's a private company that prepares the journals for mailing) can do that before the Feds get food and water to the survivors, that is fucking fucking SAD.