Re: Katrina cont > today

Janet, where've you been?
Sometimes it takes awhile for serious details to reach Fart Wayne IN.  Maybe
we've been "very kind" because we weren't fully informed.  I think more and
more people are getting angrier and angrier over what has happened as the
details come to light.

Kitty
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jw.laytham@att.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Katrina cont > today


> You're all being  very kind compared to the front page story in the Wall
Street Journal.
>
> -------------- Original message from "David Franzman"
<dfranzma@pacbell.net>: -------------- 
>
>
> > Did you folks see the thousands stranded at the convention center?
Nobody
> > had gotten to them yet...we're talking thousands of people. They are
> > dropping dead on the sidewalk. No water, no food no FEMA. How difficult
is
> > it to set up a mobile kitchen and start to feed folks? They can feed
> > thousands of soldiers in an airlift why can't they do it here? They
should
> > have done it three days ago.
> >
> > There are towns in Mississippi that haven't seen anything of a federal
> > presence. Where are they? It has been days. I think that the
> > Administration has really blown this. They tried to take a back seat to
> > state and local governments somehow not understanding that those
entities
> > are completely overwhelmed. This has to be a national effort. Why don't
> > they get that? The leadership must come from the top. Enough of the
> > platitudes they are days late already and each day more people die. How
> > long with they wait?
> >
> > David
> > http://www.atouchofthetropics.net
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "james singer"
> > To:
> > Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 4:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] Katrina cont > today
> >
> >
> > > Don't want to sound picky, but if you are hungry, thirsty, and
> > > disenfranchised, "sending in National Guard troops" doesn't quite cut
it.
> > > National Guard troops are what the Fox News thumb suckers say they
need.
> > > What the folks really need is help. Real help. Food, water, and a way
out
> > > of that mess. Now. Not when Haliburton gets a contract. Now. Now. Now.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sep 1, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Chapel Ridge Wal Mart National Hearing
Center
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> They are sending in National Guard troops, Jim, but it's a shame so
many
> > >> of
> > >> our NG are on the other side of the world instead of here where we
need
> > >> them. We are just spread soooooooo thin. Yeah, be patient. I bet many
> > >> of
> > >> those people feel so lost and abandoned.
> > >>
> > >> Kitty
> > >>
> > >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > >> From: "james singer"
> > >> To:
> > >> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 12:56 PM
> > >> Subject: Re: [CHAT] Katrina cont > today
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> The drama that is unfolding in NOLa today is mind-blowing. Dead
bodies
> > >>> piling up in the streets, tens of thousands of people isolated
without
> > >>> food and water, the mayor sending out a national SOS--while his
> > >>> excellency and his bureaucrats tug at their underwear and keep
saying
> > >>> "Be patient." Absolutely incredible.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Island Jim
> > >>> Southwest Florida
> > >>> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> > >>> Hardiness Zone 10
> > >>> Heat Zone 10
> > >>> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> > >>> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
> > >>>
> >
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> > > Island Jim
> > > Southwest Florida
> > > 27.0 N, 82.4 W
> > > Hardiness Zone 10
> > > Heat Zone 10
> > > Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
> > > Maximum 100 F [38 C]
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