Hurricane Katrina
Bane~Child:
Quote from: kim on 2005 September 03, 03:13:21
'sokay though, pescado's truck prolly runs on something from a Montana open pit mine that used to be a mountain. nothing touches him.
No he uses completely natural sources of Methane - It runs on all that crap with which he entertains himself.
JM, You are such a Gun-Ho, why don't you go have a field day and organize with the KKK or some of your fellow Wyoming militants?
For the love of whatever God you don't worship - It's OK to show and receive compassion without inflicting PAIN - Really it's OK
I just thought of something and I am truly not trying to be funny, as most of you know I am incapable of that anyway, however - Do you realize those poor people are actually living out the Email Challenge? A Cell with no walls and no toilet!
bluecatvon:
Reggikko, sorry for not posting to this thread sooner cause I only go online once every 2 or 3 weeks. Though I don't know all of you very well, I do think secretly of us as a family, hope i'm not only fantasizing this :) I'm so glad that you and your family are ok, and i'm also sorry for the others that weren't.
I come from Malaysia, one of the areas where the tsunami of 26 december struck. A tragedy isn't easy to get by, but after 8 months, the people in the south asia area have gone on with their lives, and i'm sure everyone in the affected area of Hurricane Katrina will do so soon.
I'm not very good with words, so i'll just wish everyone good luck
ZephyrZodiac:
To blame the ordinary people living anywhere for not making their city safer is ridiculous! Ordinary people have no say in these things - the ballot box these days merely replaces one lot of self-seeking opportunists for another lot! Did the people of Chernobyl have any say in the state of the Nuclear Power Plant near their homes? Do the people of Bangladesh have any choice but to continue to live on the world's largest flood-plain! And the poorer the people, the less say they have!
Any large multi-national company could have afforded the cost of reinforcing the defences of New Orleans, any government which cares about the safety of it's people could have extracted a one-off payment from those companies which choose to use the Port of NO as a base of operations to pay the cost of protecting what is, after all, their investment as well, but if you have a city with a large poor population, you cannot expect them to be able to pay such huge costs!
And Reggikko, just because one or two people posting here seem to think this is just another opportunity to bolster their own ego or that of their "wonderful" president, it doesn't mean that most of us don't genuinely care about the plight of all the people for whom New Orleans has been home for so long!
ElviraGoth:
What I find totally amazing is that here in North Carolina, the power companies were on standby and ready to respond BEFORE Katrina hit. The morning after, we saw convoys of power co. trucks headed south out of town on their way to NO. But the troops at Fort Bragg here and the marines stationed on the coast weren't called out to go there until Thursday or Friday.
And with all the looting they've been showing on the 24 hour news coverage, wouldn't you think troops could have been sent in earlier? Why weren't they on standby for a national emergency? Guess "our" oil interests in Iraq are more important than the people in our own country and the oil off our own coast.
(I heard that that idiot Rush Limbaugh said that this just shows we should be finding more places to drill for oil. Get a clue, RL. Like JM said, get a horse! Personally, I'd like to see more solar-powered vehicles or steam/water powered.)
I just can't believe how horrible the devastation is there. My heart goes out to everyone who lives (lived?) there or who has friends or relatives there. We are doing what we can here in the way of donations to try and help those who are in need. Wish we could do more.
It is the people who care - because we know that something as devastating could happen to any of us at any time. And I would hope that if an act of God (or any other event) happened here, the rest of the country would be willing to help us, too. Look at 9/11. I only hope as much, if not more, can be done for NO as was done for NY.
Danni:
Reggikko- I'm glad you're ok, and I hope your family is too. I'm not going into politics right now (though I'm a socialist so you can try to guess my views) but I wish help had gotten there quicker. I heard the Mayor blasting off on the radio - good for him!
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