Sometimes you simply amaze me with your tunnel-vision. You see most of life from your own middle class perspective and don't get it - when people are poor, they have serious limitations. The people in NO, had NO WAY to evacuate. They had no cars, no money, nothing.

Here - read some of what went on down there.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was also criticized for failing to implement his evacuation plan and for ordering residents to a shelter of last resort without any provisions for food, water, security, or sanitary conditions. Perhaps the most important criticism of Nagin is that he delayed his emergency evacuation order until less than a day before landfall, which led to hundreds of deaths of people who (by that time) could not find any way out of the city.[2] Adding to the criticism was the broadcast of school bus parking lots full of yellow school buses which Mayor Nagin refused to be used in evacuation. When asked why the buses were not used to assist evacuations instead of holing up in the Superdome, a lack of insurance liability and bus drivers were given as reasons.

The rest of the article can be found here: [en.wikipedia.org]

Sep 5 1921

Undiscovered actress Virginia Rappe somehow ruptures her bladder during actor-comedian Fatty Arbuckle's party at the Saint Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Three days later, the feverish woman is checked into a maternity hospital, where she dies from peritonitis. Arbuckle is eventually tried for murder, but acquitted.

Sep 5 1949

A former sharpshooter in World War II, pharmacy student Howard Unruh kills 13 neighbors in Camden, New Jersey with a souvenir Luger. He later tells a reporter "I'm no psycho. I have a good mind. I'd have killed a thousand if I had enough bullets."

Sep 5 1972

Five Palestinians armed with machine guns sneak into the Olympic Village in Munich. There they take nine Israeli athletes hostage, killing two others in the process. Later, they demand safe passage out of the country and the release of 200 Palestinians from prison in Israel. Ultimately, none of the athletes makes it out alive.

Sep 5 1975

Manson Family member Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme almost assassinates President Gerald Ford with a .45 automatic in Sacramento, California. But Fromme is tackled by a Secret Service agent before she can remember to rack a round into the firing chamber.

Sep 5 1989

During a televised speech from the Oval Office, President George HW Bush holds up a bag of crack cocaine purchased across the street at Lafayette Park. Three weeks later, a DEA official admits to The Washington Post that crack dealers don't actually hang out in Lafayette Park, so they purposely lured one to the spot. "We had to manipulate him to get him down there. It wasn't easy." Reportedly, the seller's first question was: "Where the fuck is the White House?"

Sep 5 1990

In his testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, LAPD chief Daryl Gates opines: "Casual drug users should be taken out and shot."

Sep 5 1991

Disgraced children's television star Pee-wee Herman returns to the public eye for the first time after his masturbation arrest, appearing on the MTV Video Music Awards. He opens with the line: "Heard any good jokes lately?"

Sep 5 2001

Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, a regular of the Howard Stern "Wack Pack" and a midget alcoholic, died yesterday at the tender age of 39. Sleep well, little souse.

Sep 5 2003

One Disneyland guest is killed and 10 others injured when the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad coaster jumps the tracks in Frontierland.

ire, Hurricanes hardly happen.

Septin in June through September.

Ex

It is I da ex cop and war veteran.

Yep, I yam just dat, wether da Slimer believes it or not.

On another note, my tailess cat is obsessed with the laser light.

I split my sides laughing at her antics.

I shone the light on the end of the dog's nose and Ziva contemplated wether to pounce and risk being bitten or wait for it to move.

She chose the latter.

Well, it's off the church for now.

Ex

While the news media does hype these hurricanes to the point of nausea, it is the politicians that call for a "state of Emergency" so they won't get caught flat-footed if the storm does actually hit.

This is due to the outrageous hype that was done after Katrina hit and the people although warned and told to evacuate didn't. This coupled with the lack of planning by the local authorities has made politicians gun shy.

Gone are the days of people relying on their own "common sense" and their ability to get out of harm's way on their own. Now, the Nanny State has to tell them what to do and when to do it because they are too stupid to take care of themselves. So the blame is not all the fault of the news media, it is also the fault of Americans who look to government to "take care of them" wiping their noses and arses for them because they are incapable of doing it themselves.

[www.nypost.com]

Here - try to read this story with an open heart and then maybe you will understand WHY I love my birth mother - no matter what. Take a good look at this woman's face. Does she look stupid to you? I think she looks blessed - beaming with love and joy.

She's nobody's sucker and neither am I.

[www.nydailynews.com]

You got it - people were forcibly evacuated - vacations cut short - hotel rooms paid for and not used - children disappointed and denied the last few days of Summer - all because these news people like to salivate all over the place for any reason.

You ever watch that horrible lady Nancy Grace? She does her entire tv show about things like Casey Anthony killing her daughter or similar stuff and sure, there should be attention given to these sick women but Nancy Grace? She LOVES this stiff. You should see her salivating all over herself whenever there's a new, horrible story about some young kid being harmed.

The media is like a horse with the bit in its mouth. They're a powerful beast with no direction and out of control.

[www.thesun.co.uk]

an osprey in the basket

[www.capecodonline.com]

and they'll stop hurting you

[www.abc.net.au]

Trying to get my ire is like putting your head thru 15 foot of cement. Men like you and myself have nothing in common so why comment to me? U geeky impecunious, negative dog, get back into your kennel and lick your wounds. ID yourself knat!

the biggest LOSERS on the face of the earth . . . ain't nothing more pathetic than pretending one has been in wars when one has not . . .

(LimeyAlan wanders off..Pondering.."But never a liar..Never that" )

Never Allllla nnnnnnnn????????


NOt even once??????


Not ever Allan
never told a lie
Braggin bout the g stains on his tie.


EX

How's tings in Olde Moldy??


Been 2 da Loo terday???


NO comeback??


LOLOLOLOLOL\\\\
Ex

Dear All,

Plus the fact?

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland.

"Brits" is not a word used there

Dear All,

I think it is symbolic that protesters in Dublin threw shoes at Blair.

Bush suffered the same treatment.

Both lied about Iraq.

Which cost the lives of many folk.

ocean, I wonder if a slick would be created from all that grease and dirt.

Limey

Dear All,

getting egged at a book signing.?

Even better.

They also threw shoes.

Going to celebrate Labor Day with a family vodoo ritual sacrifice tonite. Already lined up the chickens and the male side of my family from my dog Rex to great grandpa Pavel is set to have ritual butt sex with my wife lorena. We finish off with a Dominos Pizza and then watch Ghostbusters. Man I love Labor Day.

getting egged at a book signing. Looks like the Brits are not so distinguished after all.

Dear All,

8.22pm

Let me get this straight--this storm didn't hit ANYWHERE at all? . . . Goddamn the like to turn up the HYPE on us! . . .

Awwhhh Slimer
Gittin up at ate in da AM to check the PC to see watt Ex's sayin bout U?


Say AAAAALLLLLLAAAAAnnnn. What ex something are U?

U soitanly aint an ex drunk. Cause U is one.

Slimer da Timer
headin 2 da LU
Gonna swab some heads
Till
His head toins brightly BLUE


luv
Ex

(LimeyAlan wanders off..Chuckling.." Full post as the ex-police officer and war(?)veteran usually requests.. )

Dear All, Good Evening!

Slimer da Timer
headin 2 da LU
Gonna swab some heads
Till
His head toins brightly BLUE



(LimeyAlan wanders off..Pondering.."But never a liar..Never that" )

naughty naughty naughty

Gittin up at ate in da AM to check the PC to see watt Ex's sayin bout U?


Say AAAAALLLLLLAAAAAnnnn. What ex something are U?

U soitanly aint an ex drunk. Cause U is one.

Slimer da Timer
headin 2 da LU
Gonna swab some heads
Till
His head toins brightly BLUE


luv
Ex

if you skipped posting all these negative stories and even quit reading them if your frame of mind might be a whole lot better. You seem to always start your day with a lot of negative vibes.

wildbill

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[www.miaminewtimes.com]

[articles.sfgate.com]

of their many friends and their church.
Is that so?

[www.thedenverchannel.com]

YES!!!

[www.dailymail.co.uk]

but THIS is something that calls for life in prison. There is no excuse for any adult to behave this way.

[www.suntimes.com]

what a crock of carrappe this hurricane was. It didn't even DRIZZLE last night.

I don't wish for destruction mind you, but a nice strong rain would have been pretty good - wash the city down real good after one of the hottest, dustiest, nastiest Summers I remember.

I SWEAR on all that is dear and holy to me - if I had the money I would MOVE away from here so fast - like lightening strikes, I would be gone.