HURRICANE KATRINA - Destroys New Orleans

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danyet wrote: I am not saying anything different that some Black spokesmen themselves have already said such as the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson.
Read this:
http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46440
Funny, this is the same person who spoke about this guy in other topic,

"Rev. Jesse Jackson is a controversial figure in the USA. He does not speak for all Blacks. Many Americans of African herritage think that he has done a disservice to the Minority cause in America on countless issues. He, for a Reverand, has shown himself to be hypocritical in his personal life especially in the treatment of his own wife. He is not a good role model for the people he professes to stand for. Personally I think that he just like to be a "celebrity"."

Now you're taking his words or posting his words? What really is your intention behind all this, huh? I'm sensing something fishy here.
Lenny this is a different guy. His name is Jesse Lee Petersen (NOT JACKSON). :?
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shazzam1452 wrote: Lenny this is a different guy. His name is Jesse Lee Petersen (NOT JACKSON). :?
Oh yeah, just reading the article and checking the names. I saw Jess and i thought they were the same guy. I didn't pay attention to the last names. Okay, I'm taking whatever I said earlier back. Sorry Danyet for my mistake. Sorry. Sorry guys for the confusing. Heheheheh... how embarrassing! Heheheheheh... And thanks Shazzam to point out my mistake, by the way. I owe you one. :wink: :wink:
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LennyeTran wrote:
shazzam1452 wrote: Lenny this is a different guy. His name is Jesse Lee Petersen (NOT JACKSON). :?
Oh yeah, just reading the article and checking the names. I saw Jess and i thought they were the same guy. I didn't pay attention to the last names. Okay, I'm taking whatever I said earlier back. Sorry Danyet for my mistake. Sorry. Sorry guys for the confusing. Heheheheh... how embarrassing! Heheheheheh... And thanks Shazzam to point out my mistake, by the way. I owe you one. :wink: :wink:
:lol: I thought it was better I tell you than Danyet. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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shazzam1452 wrote: :lol: I thought it was better I tell you than Danyet. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Sometimes, he could be a pain in the... , but I'm gonna give him some benefit of the doubt that he wouldn't throw me in mud and laugh at me for this mistake. Or would he???? :?: :?:
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No I wouldn't. I knew that some would confuse the two. Peterson is not popular amongst Liberal Democrat crowd and therefore media does not cover him as much as Jackson.

Peterson is amongst a growing minority of Black speakers. I like this guy. He is from the "roots". He is not as articulate or slick as Jackson. His message is not well received by those who expect things to "fall into their lap" . He says that Black Americans must build strong families again and that Jackson has set bad examples, by his treatment towards his own wife.
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We heard on the news last night that Hurricane Rita has now hit texas and the New Orleans was underwater again; as the levies broke.

Does anyone have any further updates? :(
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No. Still the same old "donation for victims of Katrina." One thing really annoys me is why they have to name all the frigging storms and hurricanes as girl's names? :x
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LennyeTran wrote:No. Still the same old "donation for victims of Katrina." One thing really annoys me is why they have to name all the frigging storms and hurricanes as girl's names? :x
This is an old tradition of the English language. It goes along with referring to ships in the feminine and such. A few years back some women complained about the tradition of storms being given feminine names that they started to name some storms with mens names. I find storms with mens names to be irritating.
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LennyeTran wrote:No. Still the same old "donation for victims of Katrina." One thing really annoys me is why they have to name all the frigging storms and hurricanes as girl's names? :x
This is an old tradition of the English language. It goes along with referring to ships in the feminine and such. A few years back some women complained about the tradition of storms being given feminine names that they started to name some storms with mens names. I find storms with mens names to be irritating.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I would say that the storms themselves are more irritating than there names. :lol: :lol:
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LennyeTran wrote:No. Still the same old "donation for victims of Katrina." One thing really annoys me is why they have to name all the frigging storms and hurricanes as girl's names? :x
:lol: :lol: Ahh!~look at the power we women have! :lol:
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shazzam1452 wrote:
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I would say that the storms themselves are more irritating than there names. :lol: :lol:
I would say the men are more irritating than the storms. Storms don't drink beers on the sofas or nag for sex.
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the best thing to do is pray for them... its the biggest help we could ever give.
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hedwig14 wrote:the best thing to do is pray for them... its the biggest help we could ever give.
Praying is great; but i'm sorry I don't believe that it is the best thing we can do for them. These people need, food, clothes, medical supplies and money to assist in the clean up and rebuilding of their homes. We need to help with these things.
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Once again the storm has passed and so has the news coverage. :( We aren't getting any information in Australia about how the clean up and rebuilding is going. Does anyone have any news on how things are in New Orleans now that the storm has passed? :?:
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I have just finished watching a program called 'Frontline' on television. They had a documentary on the situation with Hurricane Katrina (late response).

What a mess. The Clinton administration set a new director into FEMA after the "OLD BUSH" administration had totally failed (by giving jobs to mates). With the new director in place (who had specialised in emergency/disaster relief) Fema was doing well and was able to handle many large scale emergencies.

It would appear that under "JNR BUSH" Fema has been taken back to 'Daddy's' ideal (jobs for the boys, no qualifications required). :twisted:

FEMA has now lost all rights and Bush has set up a larger scale department that includes HOMELAND SECURITY, FEMA etc. etc. There were just so many departments that I couldn't grab all of their names. :roll:

It was a very interesting program, I really think at the end of the day the BUSH administration has totally stuffed up! AGAIN! :roll:
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Shazzam wrote: I really think at the end of the day the BUSH administration has totally stuffed up! AGAIN! :roll:
What else is new? :lol:
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But you have to understand that Frontline is a television program produced by Bush and Republican haters in the first place. They do their job well!
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danyet wrote:But you have to understand that Frontline is a television program produced by Bush and Republican haters in the first place. They do their job well!
And here I am wondering why... :roll:
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danyet wrote:But you have to understand that Frontline is a television program produced by Bush and Republican haters in the first place. They do their job well!
Yes I do understand that happens everywhere in the world (media sensationalism) however, most past and present members of Fema were interviewed together with the footage from the media coverage during the Katrina crisis. You just can't deny that no one knew what they were doing. :? Locals say that they asked for defined help; FEMA says that they didn't. Why should you have to define the help that you require if this is an organisation set up to deal with disaster relief. :shock: :? In addition tabled reports with setup disaster situations were never completed as the White House withdrew funding. The project name was HURRICANE PAM. :roll:

The other obvious fact is that FEMA was run so well under the Clinton administration and has collapsed under the Bush administration. The obvious reason is staff placement. :roll:
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I think that part of the problem is that FEMA is looked at by many as a prelude to "Big Brother" organizion and is feared by the far Right. This may have something to do with Clinton funding the program so well since the Democratic Party is the party of Big Brother.
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danyet wrote:I think that part of the problem is that FEMA is looked at by many as a prelude to "Big Brother" organizion and is feared by the far Right. This may have something to do with Clinton funding the program so well since the Democratic Party is the party of Big Brother.
At the end of the day I just don't think political preference should enter into a debate about an organisation setup to help American people with disaster relief. It doesn't matter who is in government; what matters is that the funding is kept up to these organisations to provide the services that they were designed for. :roll: America has large populations living in areas that are prone to, earthquake, flood, tornados, etc. You would have to be a foolish person to think that all these natural disasters are just going to go away; so that you no longer have to look at the fiscal issues. :roll:
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Arale wrote:More terrible, all people who gather what's left are shot immediately.
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That is not true. People are taking whatever they need. They are not being shot. However, the situation is made worse by another element that I have no explanation for. The people are being kept against their will in that superdome that is on the news. They want to get out and go to safety outside the city but they have been LOCKED INSIDE by so-called athorities. There is only one road that now leads out of the city BUT a check point or road block has been set up there to prevent anyone from escaping.
A group of tourists who had to leave their hotels tried to walk out of the city but police fired warning shots over their heads to make them turn around. Those police are lucky that I was not there..... because I would have shot back.

This is very disturbing. Why is government taken citizen rights off these people? On whos' athority? Who is in charge? I want his name.
Bush is athority or u are athurity?
I know u are a kind-hearted person.
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I think Bush is a racialist.
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funnyboy wrote:I think Bush is a racialist.
Hi Funnyboy!

It is better to say in English, "Bush is a Racist."
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I really don't believe the BUSH is a racist! :roll: I don't believe that he sat back and did nothing in the hope that black-americans would die. I just think he has poor organisational skills and makes bad choices. I mean lets face it the guy can hardly string a sentence together without help. :(
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Shazzam wrote:I really don't believe the BUSH is a racist! :roll: I don't believe that he sat back and did nothing in the hope that black-americans would die. I just think he has poor organisational skills and makes bad choices. I mean lets face it the guy can hardly string a sentence together without help. :(
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060302/ap_ ... rina_video

He was warned about this, but he refused to acknowledge it.
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LennyeTran wrote:
Shazzam wrote:I really don't believe the BUSH is a racist! :roll: I don't believe that he sat back and did nothing in the hope that black-americans would die. I just think he has poor organisational skills and makes bad choices. I mean lets face it the guy can hardly string a sentence together without help. :(
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060302/ap_ ... rina_video

He was warned about this, but he refused to acknowledge it.
I don't know if I agree with that. A natural disaster is a very hard thing to assess.
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Stop! I can't take it anymore! ......It was me . I did it. I was the one resposible for Katrina! I knew there was a big storm comming. I saw all the weather reports but I did nothing. Sorry!
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danyet wrote:Stop! I can't take it anymore! ......It was me . I did it. I was the one resposible for Katrina! I knew there was a big storm comming. I saw all the weather reports but I did nothing. Sorry!
You're going to hell! :twisted:
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danyet wrote:Stop! I can't take it anymore! ......It was me . I did it. I was the one resposible for Katrina! I knew there was a big storm comming. I saw all the weather reports but I did nothing. Sorry!
Danyet is lying. It was me! I went out to the Caribbean and started stirring the ocean with my trusty spoon!
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Shazzam wrote:
LennyeTran wrote:
Shazzam wrote:I really don't believe the BUSH is a racist! :roll: I don't believe that he sat back and did nothing in the hope that black-americans would die. I just think he has poor organisational skills and makes bad choices. I mean lets face it the guy can hardly string a sentence together without help. :(
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060302/ap_ ... rina_video

He was warned about this, but he refused to acknowledge it.
I don't know if I agree with that. A natural disaster is a very hard thing to assess.
He was supposed to respond, but he did not. This is what the whole video is about. And when he actually did, thousands people had died. Even the whole thing was a natural disaster, the U.S was one of the nations that can detect this kinda thing coming. If the government had responded with proper care, the loss of deaths could have been less.
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danyet wrote:Stop! I can't take it anymore! ......It was me . I did it. I was the one resposible for Katrina! I knew there was a big storm comming. I saw all the weather reports but I did nothing. Sorry!
Baby, are you still trying to defend for Bush? Because if you are, we're gonna have a big fight about that idiot.
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Bush's biggest problem is himself and the way he is unable to keep that silly grin off his face when delivering a perfectly good idea. He is not a leader, I'll admit but neither was John Kerry.
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danyet wrote:Bush's biggest problem is himself and the way he is unable to keep that silly grin off his face when delivering a perfectly good idea. He is not a leader, I'll admit but neither was John Kerry.
How can you assure that Kerry wouldn't be a better man than Bush for the position? To me, if a president tried to disable the best diplomacy system, it would be the end of his presidency. Bush had done it in his last term. I thought it was the moment Americans should wake up and stop putting their heads in their pants. Obviously, I was wrong; he won the second term. The whole night I had my TV on and was praying for his loss. Too bad too many idiotic people in the mid-western states. :roll:
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LennyeTran wrote:
danyet wrote:Bush's biggest problem is himself and the way he is unable to keep that silly grin off his face when delivering a perfectly good idea. He is not a leader, I'll admit but neither was John Kerry.
How can you assure that Kerry wouldn't be a better man than Bush for the position?
It's a "guy thing". A real man, such as say....me, can tell these things.
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danyet wrote: It's a "guy thing". A real man, such as say....me, can tell these things.
Whatever! :roll:
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Shazzam wrote:I really don't believe the BUSH is a racist! :roll: I don't believe that he sat back and did nothing in the hope that black-americans would die. I just think he has poor organisational skills and makes bad choices. I mean lets face it the guy can hardly string a sentence together without help. :(
bush...so badly....actually he didn't any power to become a president...he's the worse president in the americans ....sometime I hard to know why american' s people would choose him ....I don't know if right or wrong for americans...
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ANDYTAN wrote: bush...so badly....actually he didn't any power to become a president...he's the worse president in the americans ....sometime I hard to know why american' s people would choose him ....I don't know if right or wrong for americans...
That bold part I can assure you it is right.
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I think should have Jessica Simson for president .......and Britany Spears for vice P. ..........They're both a couple of airheads!
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danyet wrote:I think should have Jessica Simson for president .......and Britany Spears for vice P. ..........They're both a couple of airheads!
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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danyet wrote:I think should have Jessica Simson for president .......and Britany Spears for vice P. ..........They're both a couple of airheads!
Why Jessica Simpson? It's because she loves Bush, but she's officially turned down his invitation to the White House???

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/03/ ... 9127.shtml

Why Britney? It's because she always shows her stomach even when she's pregnant or not? And right now she's pregnant again... :roll:
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LennyeTran wrote: Why Britney? It's because she always shows her stomach even when she's pregnant or not? And right now she's pregnant again... :roll:
Really? :lol:
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Dixie wrote:
LennyeTran wrote: Why Britney? It's because she always shows her stomach even when she's pregnant or not? And right now she's pregnant again... :roll:
Really? :lol:
Yeah, she is again with that useless husband of her. Actually, not husband since they're separating. I don't understand why she spent money to fix her bosom and not her brain. :roll:
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