Katrina - Page 54

Mad4stevie · #**796** 09-02-2005, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Dreammms

is this hurricane relief show live? kayne west just said "george bush dont like black people" something like that and they had to cut him off.

Yes. It's live.

Mike Myers looked a bit uncomfortable when he said that. They did cut him off really fast.

Faith Hill looks really worn out. Her face is alot more lined than usual.

macfanken · #**797** 09-02-2005, 07:59 PM

This is intense...

http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/ind...09.html#076307

Mad4stevie · #**798** 09-02-2005, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by macfanken

This is intense...

http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/ind...09.html#076307

This one kills me . . .

Elderly/mentally disabled trapped at 1226 S. Carrollton Ave

Name: Lecta Bourgeois

Home: 337-264-1414

Email: lectaboo@bellsouth.net

Subject: My Hurricane Story -- ELDERLY/MENTALLY DISABLED TRAPPED IN APT
ON CARROLLTON AVE

Story: THERE ARE ABOUT 40 ELDERLY & MENTALLY DISABLED CITIZENS TRAPPED IN AN APT COMPLEX AT 1226 S. CARROLLTON AVE . 90+ YEAR OLD FATHER OF A FRIEND HERE IN LAFAYETTE..NAME IS DELERY LANDRY HE IS IN APT 315..NO FOOD OR WATER & THEIR CAREGIVES LEFT THEM PRIOR TO STORM...THEY MAY NOT HAVE ENOUGH INSIGHT TO MAKE THEMSELVES NOTICEABLE TO RESCUERS...MATER DESOTO APTS NEXT TO CHURCH ON 1226 S CARROLLTON AVE. 10 RESIDENTS PER FLOOR..4 STORY BUILDING..PLEASE HELP THEM QUICKLY...DAUGHTERS NAME IS SUSAN LANDRY CHIQUELIN FROM LAFAYETTE SHE HAS LOST CONTACT WITH HIM A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO....ELDERLY & MENTALLY DISABLED RESIDENTS....

Dreammms · #**799** 09-02-2005, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by macfanken

This is intense...

http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/ind...09.html#076307

very heartbreaking. all these people should have been saved by now.

Sugar · #**800** 09-02-2005, 08:22 PM

Go City of Brotherly Love...

PHILADELPHIA -- Mayor John F. Street has offered to take in 1,000 families displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

"We will be prepared to receive our brothers and sisters, our fellow Americans as soon as they can be brought to the city of Philadelphia," Street said. "It is our belief that we can do no less."

Street on Friday said he had been in contact with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Street said that the city can use homeless shelters, public housing units and some private housing. He says a task force is looking at the viability of using two vacant hospitals, a closed hotel, four empty schools and several recreation centers.

The mayor said that the families would have food, transportation, medical attention and counseling services in Philadelphia.

Mad4stevie · #**801** 09-02-2005, 08:24 PM

Why don't they use all the abandoned military bases to house some of these refuges? Wouldn't that make sense?

dissention · #**802** 09-02-2005, 08:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Dreammms

is this hurricane relief show live? kayne west just said "george bush dont like black people" something like that and they had to cut him off.

I almost **** bricks sideways when he said that.

And did you see the look on Mike Meyers' face? I think he actually did **** a brick. I've got to hand it to Kanye West, he's got my respect for saying the things that he said, especially about how he's a hypocrite for turning away from all of the disaster coverage and how he went shopping before even donating any money. It was refreshing to hear such honesty.

stargazer99 · #**803** 09-02-2005, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

?????
WTF!!!

okay, my political guy and I were having a convo today - he said, although he doesn't think Bush et al were in the planning of 911, that they let it happen on purpose. He also said he believes there was a similar agenda for Katrina - which is bearing out - the lack of response and the lack of preventative actions point in that direction...

It almost seems that way, doesn't it? I just don't understand why FEMA isn't taking advantage of the resources being offered! And Mayor Daley offered these resources before the hurricane even hit!

- Mary

amber · #**804** 09-02-2005, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by macfanken

Yeah, that theory is out there... in the late '90s, the Neocons knew they would need a "Pearl Harbor" to justify an invasion of Iraq. Whether they knew about 9/11 or not, I don't know. That theory is a little too "out there" for me... I tend to think the Bushies were just incompetent.

*just back from getting MRI*
I don't. Knowing what I have learned throughout my life about political corruption and machinations, I don't doubt it at all.

But - what channel is the hurricane relief show on?

dissention · #**805** 09-02-2005, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

*just back from getting MRI*
I don't. Knowing what I have learned throughout my life about political corruption and machinations, I don't doubt it at all.

But - what channel is the hurricane relief show on?

It's over now, but it was on NBC. The Kanye West video is here:

http://buttlands.net/kanye.avi

Pretty much everyone was getting their claws out during the telethon, I was quite surprised.

gldstwmn · #**806** 09-02-2005, 08:48 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

Condi Rice went shopping for shoes on Fifth Avenue yesterday, was approached by someone asking her why she wasn't working on helping the people down South, and security whisked him away. She went to a Broadway show afterwards. What is she doing? Where's Cheney?

No one's seen him.

gldstwmn · #**807** 09-02-2005, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

?????
WTF!!!

okay, my political guy and I were having a convo today - he said, although he doesn't think Bush et al were in the planning of 911, that they let it happen on purpose.

It's commonly referred to as LIHOP.

gldstwmn · #**808** 09-02-2005, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by macfanken

Yeah, that theory is out there... in the late '90s, the Neocons knew they would need a "Pearl Harbor" to justify an invasion of Iraq.

You can read all about it here, if you haven't already:
http://www.newamericancentury.org/

Brwn_eyes0511 · #**809** 09-02-2005, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Mad4stevie

Yes. It's live.

Mike Myers looked a bit uncomfortable when he said that. They did cut him off really fast.

Faith Hill looks really worn out. Her face is alot more lined than usual.

Oh I missed all this...I would have watched...just for Faith though ( I don't know the rest of the line up). I can't believe Kanye made such a statement...

gldstwmn · #**810** 09-02-2005, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Dreammms

is this hurricane relief show live? kayne west just said "george bush dont like black people" something like that and they had to cut him off.

Well, considering how he's disenfranchised them in two elections...