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Where to get information on missing people, enter data to let people know you’re okay.
Pirolette – a custom-turned object of your profile
Interesting; a custom-turned wood piece to imitate your profile.
It’s about a nuclear terrorist attack, stupid.
Forget about who did or didn’t fix the levees, how long we knew about Katrina coming, people who refused to evacuate, building below sea level; forget all of that — because it’s just noise from the Republican spin machine.
In the event of a nuclear terrorist attack, your President and Republican-run federal government would do what they did this past week. AND YOU WOULD DIE, like the people in New Orleans.
In the event of a viral biological terrorist attack, your President and Republican-run federal government would do what they did this past week. AND YOU WOULD DIE, like the people in New Orleans.
There would be no warning, there would be no evacuation, there would be no preparation, there would be no one to help you when it happened. The total break down that happened in New Orleans, which is apparent when you listen to the accounts from people first hand; where they didn’t know whether the police were there to help them or hurt them, when they didn’t have information or directions, or any idea how to care for themselves or others, or where to go — that would be YOU IN THAT SITUATION.
And the terrorists, the REAL ones, led by Osama bin Laden, not the fake ones in Iraq, are trying to get nuclear capability or a viral biological capability, while your President is playing war games with our national guard as toys in a foreign country, when they should be here, preparing for a disaster so we don’t all get killed.
Schwarzenegger will veto equal marriage rights bill
Apparently, the will of the people won’t prevail after all. Governor Schwarzenegger is promising to veto the equal marriage rights bill that was just passed in the California legislature.
So let me get this straight… we can’t take our civil rights issues to court, because when the courts make a ruling, they’re called “activist judges” and we’re told that we have to refer to the legislatures to make the laws.
When we go through the legislatures to make the laws, we’re vetoed by activist governors who defy the will of the people.
So basically, there’s no civil rights justice for gay people in America, at all.
I was saying last night that I don’t want to live in America anymore. I don’t feel safe here, either from natural or man-made disaster, or anti-gay attack.
Indiana Lt. Governor Becky Skillman’s Van, parked in a handicapped spot
From Taking Down Words:
8 great lies the Bush Administration is telling
Media Matters examines the facts surrounding each of these bogus Republican claims.
1. Bush: “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees”
2. Chertoff strained credulity in defense of Bush, claimed levee breaks and massive flooding came as a surprise — more than 12 hours after local media reported them
3. Brown: “We’ve provided food to the people at the Convention Center so that they’ve gotten at least one, if not two meals, every single day”
4. Chertoff: “Apparently, some time on Wednesday, people started to go to the convention center spontaneously”
5. Chertoff pointed fingers: “New Orleans officials and the state officials … called for the Superdome to be the refuge of last resort”
6. Chertoff falsely minimized federal government’s role in Katrina response as subordinate to states
7. Wash. Post, Newsweek, Gingrich falsely claimed that Blanco did not declare a state of emergency
8. Gingrich falsely claimed that Nagin could “have kept water pumped out” of city had he ensured that pumps worked
More Media Censorship
Brian Williams of MSNBC talks about the military threatening reporters and restricting what they can and can’t put on the news.
The lie they’re telling now is that they don’t want people to see their dead relatives on the news.
I’d rather see my relative on the news than never find out what happened to them at all, which is what is really going to happen, because they’re going to suppress the information.
When people don’t want to play the blame game, they’re to blame
To quote one of today’s great minds, Jon Stewart. The press hammers Scott McClellan for the second day in a row.
As I pointed out, I can volunteer, donate and hold people’s feet to the fire all at once. I don’t need to “wait until the crisis is over” to identify who is responsible, and the “Resmuglicans” as Eric Alter called them are trying to imply that if I’m asking questions, then I must not be doing the work. I AM doing the work, and asking the questions at the same time. I am capable of multi-tasking.
Paramedics give their account of being stranded in New Orleans
From Metamute comes this story; please read it…
by Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky
Two paramedics stranded in New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina give their account of self-organisation and abandonment in the disaster zone
From a woman with a battery powered radio we learned that the media was talking about us. Up in full view on the freeway, every relief and news organizations saw us on their way into the City. Officials were being asked what they were going to do about all those families living up on the freeway? The officials responded they were going to take care of us. Some of us got a sinking feeling. “Taking care of us” had an ominous tone to it.
Unfortunately, our sinking feeling (along with the sinking City) was correct.Just as dusk set in, a Gretna Sheriff showed up, jumped out of his patrol vehicle, aimed his gun at our faces, screaming, “Get off the fucking freeway”. A helicopter arrived and used the wind from its blades to blow away our flimsy structures. As we retreated, the sheriff loaded up his truck with our food and water.
Once again, at gunpoint, we were forced off the freeway. All the law enforcement agencies appeared threatened when we congregated or congealed into groups of 20 or more. In every congregation of “victims” they saw “mob” or “riot”. We felt safety in numbers. Our “we must stay together” was impossible because the agencies would force us into small atomized groups.
In the pandemonium of having our camp raided and destroyed, we scattered once again. Reduced to a small group of 8 people, in the dark, we sought refuge in an abandoned school bus, under the freeway on Cilo Street. We were hiding from possible criminal elements but equally and definitely, we were hiding from the police and sheriffs with their martial law, curfew and shoot-to-kill policies.
The next days, our group of 8 walked most of the day, made contact with New Orleans Fire Department and were eventually airlifted out by an urban search and rescue team. We were dropped off near the airport and managed to catch a ride with the National Guard. The two young guardsmen apologized for the limited response of the Louisiana guards. They explained that a large section of their unit was in Iraq and that meant they were shorthanded and were unable to complete all the tasks they were assigned.
A first-person account of the New Orleans convention center
This is a story being passed along through e-mail. I don’t have any information on whether it’s true or not, but it rings true. It’s the account of a woman trapped at the convention center and what really happened there. From her account, the people “looting” and running around with guns were helping people and getting food for children, and they were firing at police because they believed, with some good reason due to massive miscommunication, that the authorities had brought them to the convention center to die.
From: Lisa Moore
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 10:13 AM
Subject: a survivor’s story: Katrina in New Orleans
i heard from my aunt last night that my cousin Denise made it out of New Orleans; she’s at her brother’s in Baton Rouge. from what she told me:
her mother, a licensed practical nurse, was called in to work on Sunday night at Memorial Hospital (historically known as Baptist Hospital to those of us from N.O.). Denise decided to stay with her mother, her niece and grandniece (who is 2 years old); she figured they’d be safe at the hospital. they went to Baptist, and had to wait hours to be assigned a room to sleep in; after they were finally assigned a room, two white nurses suddenly arrived after the cut-off time (time to be assigned a room), and Denise and her family were booted out; their room was given up to the new nurses. Denise was furious, and rather than stay at Baptist, decided to walk home (several blocks away) to ride out the storm at her mother’s apartment. her mother stayed at the hospital.