CNN corrected the story and said contractors were not shot. Who knows?
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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.
le nubian - Sep 04, 2005 6:15:05 pm PDT #4653 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
DavidS - Sep 04, 2005 6:16:27 pm PDT #4654 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Sounds like they closed they breach at the 17th Street Levee. Which, as I now know from 60 Minutes, is not actually a levee but a floodwall. All the old levees made out of dirt did just fine.
dw - Sep 04, 2005 6:26:37 pm PDT #4655 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
If you say so. Everytime I see him, he seems really surly and a Bush administration apologist. But at least he's keeping his cool.
Yeah, he is a shill, but unlike his "boss" he's been out front all along.
I understand some MS residents aren't too happy for him because he didn't call for mandatory evacuations. Granted I don't know this for a fact, just something I read from a MS resident.
MS issued evacuation orders but lacked the manpower to enforce them all along the coast. And a lot of people stayed, thinking that since their house had survived Camille it would survive Katrina. Unfortunately, a lot of them were wrong.
And Washington is taking 2000 evacuees, all going to Puget Sound area counties. [link]
Trudy Booth - Sep 04, 2005 6:36:09 pm PDT #4656 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I wonder how many of my old bosses will be housing refugees in their weekend/summer homes.
None I bet.
DavidS - Sep 04, 2005 6:46:15 pm PDT #4657 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I've got to say, Dana, Houston's doing a damn good job of taking people in. San Antonio too. Go Texas.
Trudy Booth - Sep 04, 2005 6:48:00 pm PDT #4658 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Go Texas.
You notice how Katrina didn't mess with it...
le nubian - Sep 04, 2005 6:50:52 pm PDT #4659 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Apparently, the governor of TX is asking that some of the evacuees be moved out of TX to other states because TX has become over-burdened.
le nubian - Sep 04, 2005 6:52:44 pm PDT #4660 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
DavidS - Sep 04, 2005 6:55:58 pm PDT #4661 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Okay, this is how they're going to respond. They're going to say that racism (and/or classism) is simply impossible. It's not a factor. La la la I can't hear you....:
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[Condi Rice's] visit came as some black leaders, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, have complained bitterly about the slow response to the disaster, whose victims have been disproportionately black and poor. They have said racial injustice was a factor in the government's slow relief effort.
"How can that be the case? Americans don't want to see Americans suffer," Rice said. "Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race."
le nubian - Sep 04, 2005 7:03:26 pm PDT #4662 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
...and then she swallowed her tongue.
"Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race."
So what was the basis, Condie? Socioeconomic class? Is that really better? People were unattended. So please explain WTF the reason was.