Hurricane Katrina

[Zack DLR]

poor people... criminals.

Theyre all the same to you Millers.

 

[millersnose]

now were did i say that zack

you want political correctness you should put me on ignore

i dont do PC

 

[Zack DLR]

the majority that stayed i would venture to say are the unemployed and the drug community

You said it there Millers.

You are prepared to categorise the people that didnt leave as criminals.

Not everyone owns a 4wd Millers.

You dont care about poor people and you see them as criminals.

 

[millersnose]

i said it because its a fact

go on deny it

and nowhere did i clasify anyone as criminals - thats your wishful thinking so you can demonstrate who politically correct you are

 

[Zack DLR]

Oh sorry Millers.

Foolishly, when you called poor people members of the "drug community" I saw it as an inference that they were criminals.

I will re-phrase my claim.

Poor people.... Druggies......

Theyre all the same to you Millers.

 

[Rexxy]

I'd do fondue for you Mystery....But not if Pando was around. Fondu being the food of love, can cause friction.

I simply cannot understand how a community can evacuate while leaving nursing homes full, and babies in hospitals. It appears to be everyone for themselves, and bugger the rest.

The ultimate Dog eat Dog. Or as Jimbo would say as he was running down the poor in his datsun 120Y, greed is good

In a population of 1/2 a million, you only need to have 1 in every 6 people take an extra, and the town is empty

Now they are saying more have died after being abandoned than were killed by the initial force of the hurricane.

LOL!

I guess that is something I'll never know.

 

[MysteryGirl]

It WOULD be fair to say, however, that those left behind who may have wanted to leave were the poor.

It would also be fair to say that there were those who chose to stay right where they were - because they felt the knew so much more than the experts who were telling them to leave.

Given the fact that sheer percentages would indicate that it would be likely that resident "A" that went to the superdome was black and resident "B" who made a choice not to leave was also black - which deserves the first response? Those who are in a relatively safe, albeit dirty environment or those who are in a possibly unsafe environment? Can someone explain how there was going to be a "right" choice in any of these decisions?

I still think it is absolutely ridiculous and closed minded to choose to only view the events over the past week in light of the negative things that occurred. It was a very small minority of the people who participated in any crime but it gets the largest majority of air time.

You'd swear it was sweeps week or something.

Why are we so afraid that we might minimize that bad that happened to the extent that we not just minimize - but rather IGNORE all the good that happened. All the hours that medical professionals put in. All the assistance that everyday people gave in their neighborhoods to those around them. All the police and firefighters that stayed in the city even though their own families were evacuated and even though many of them lost all they had.

Glorifying rapists and a few idiots with guns sells magazines and keeps people watching the news but they are so NOT the majority of the people.

 

[millersnose]

getting a little desperate zack

by the way you didnt deny my claim did you

maybe you agree with it afterall but would be appalled to actually say it

i dont envy you your duplicity

 

[MysteryGirl]

I'd do fondue for you Mystery....But not if Pando was around. Fondu can cause friction.

Your fondue is starting to frighten me.
Considering it has been recommended by Millers - it also makes me wonder about this odd relationship.

 

[CanadianSteve]

Should the government have brought buses in before the storm hit, to evacuate those without cars? It seems that those left behind either chose to stay, or didn't have transportation to leave.

Should people have been forced to leave?

 

[Zack DLR]

I would not be so stupid as to suggest that people who are too poor to have left must be druggos.

Maybe saying things like that would make me feel better? I guess if their druggos, it doesnt matter if they die?

 

[millersnose]

I would not be so stupid as to suggest that people who are too poor to have left must be druggos.

rewriting my quotes zack

you must be on the ropes

Maybe saying things like that would make me feel better? I guess if their druggos, it doesnt matter if they die?

go for it

but you still cannot deny my original quote

i dont envy leftists when their brain tells them one thing and their idealogy another

 

[MysteryGirl]

Steve:
How do you FORCE people to leave?
It is their home. It is their property. This is not a dictatorship. You can tell them and warn them and suggest - but where do you FORCE them to go? Who pays for this place that they are going to? It wasn't the hurricane that was the problem - remember. People thought they'd be safe because the huricane took a turn during the night prior to it hitting. People were under a false sense of security not realizing that the water table was about to level out and the levy fully break.

 

[ibeme]

I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that emergency organisations could have been on standby with a means for providing fresh water and food for those remaining in the affected areas. The risk was identified in advance, but the expectation that everyone would be in a position to get the hell out of there was niave to say the least.

 

[Rexxy]

lucas heights is a tiny yield research facility not a power station

if it melts down i will have a coffee

Will you be having a piece of Yellow Cake with your coffee sir?

 

[CanadianSteve]

MG, I agree, I was just posing a hypothetical. If they had "forced" people to leave, and then the hurricane missed and there was no levee break, the government would've been blamed for any damage or looting to homes while people were absent.

 

[Mr Angry]

So the plan is to rebuild and have approx the same population?

 

[millersnose]

Will you be having a piece of Yellow Cake with your coffee sir?

fondued yellowcake

mmmmmmm

 

[Mong]

i stand by my comments in this thread mong

Its a pity your hero Bush has said otherwise..

Then again we know he'a a little dim so its highly possible he is way wrong..

It amazes me you think it was handled well.. I can't for one second imagine a similar event would happen here.

 

[griff]

MG, you can force people to leave, that is partly what declaring states of emergency etc are all about, it means that people have to obey directives like that from the authorities. Obviously at the end of the day though you don't have the resources to
drag hundreds of people kicking and screaming from their homes.