Katrina fall-out

john smith wrote:

They liberated antibiotics from the CVS across
the street and gave everyone a dose to protect them from the waters they
would have to wade through.

Nice way to say they looted a drugstore.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

George Patterson wrote:
Nice way to say they looted a drugstore.

Yes, but it was done professionally.
They took only what they needed.
;-))

The President signed declarations enabling Federal disaster relief
before Katrina hit the Gulf coast. Unless you expect him to be driving a
Humvee full of water into town, it really doesn't matter where he is
located as he always retains full Presidential authority.

"Philip S." wrote in message
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Okay, if it'll stop you obfuscating the matter with semantics, I'll
clarify
my remarks:

Nobody expects the President to prevent a natural disaster. What
reasonable
people should expect from the President (especially one who ran on a
platform of "homeland security") is a competent, timely response to
perhaps
the worst natural disaster to ever strike this country. They should
expect
that he not wait until two days after the scope of the disaster became
apparent to end his vacation. They should expect that the Secretary of
State
(who happens to be in charge of coordinating relief efforts from other
countries) not spend Wednesday evening taking in a Broadway show and
Thursday shoe-shopping. They have a right to expect that the head of
FEMA
know more about the situation than a CNN reporter.

Oh, and this just in--a Senate Republican is co-sponsoring a full
investigation into the whole thing. Good. The apologists are rapidly
dwindling, and I'm thinking most of them can be found on this
newsgroup.

and a couple of Snikers bars, a few bags of potato chips, and a few
bottles of diet coke. ;^)

Pixel Dent wrote:

You have me bewildered.

Find another place to troll...

*PLONK*

Dave Stadt wrote:

It has been a week since we up here in IL got word NO was likely to get hit
bad and still the NG is not there in any significant numbers. Doesn't the
military have a better communication system than relying on commercial
telephone. It's pretty sad.

Do you think every NG soldier gets a field radio when they sign up?

George Patterson wrote:

The last time Louisiana attempted to stop being a State, the Federal
government used it as an excuse for war.

Well that parish (Sheriff) is just south of New Orleans, that was over
integration, just that parish wanted out of the union. Feds got scared
because he could have closed the mouth of the Mississippi river to
shipping... Oh your typing about me being a son of the Confederacy...
otay...

"Darrel Toepfer" wrote in message
...
Dave Stadt wrote:

It has been a week since we up here in IL got word NO was likely to get
hit
bad and still the NG is not there in any significant numbers. Doesn't
the
military have a better communication system than relying on commercial
telephone. It's pretty sad.

Do you think every NG soldier gets a field radio when they sign up?

I don't know what they get but it is nuts that the NG relies on the
commercial phone system to gather its troops. If terrorist knock out a few
phone company exchanges I guess they win because the NG can't call its
troops to come perform their duties. Pretty lame way to guard the nation in
my book.

Dave Stadt wrote:

I don't know what they get but it is nuts that the NG relies on the
commercial phone system to gather its troops. If terrorist knock out a few
phone company exchanges I guess they win because the NG can't call its
troops to come perform their duties. Pretty lame way to guard the nation in
my book.

Actually they use the phone, broadcast radio and teevee. When you don't
have any of that working, they'll have to come knock on your door I
suppose...

Darrel Toepfer wrote:

Oh your typing about me being a son of the Confederacy...

No, I'm not typing about *you* at all - just explaining to Dylan that Louisiana
doesn't have any choice about being a State. Not any more.

George Patterson
Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to
use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.