Re: Katrina cont > today

David & Kitty,

I've been around.

Today's LA Times has a much briefer story covering the same territory the Journal did yesterday.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-katrina2sep02,0,152176.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials
The bottom line is that such a scenario (hurricane plus levee breach)
was repeatedly predicted by numerous sources, including FEMA. Yet Bush
said they didn't know the levees would be breached. I predict that there
will be no Congressional investigation on this. It would be too
embarrassing and self-incriminating.


The last few years have been great for me. Thanks for asking. I became a
first time grandmother finally, retired, adopted a sweet dog from the
pound, and am stretching my reduced income by traveling.

Janet


-------------- Original message from "David Franzman" <dfranzma@pacbell.net>: -------------- 


> Janet? Is that you? Where have you been these couple of years??? How's 
> everything in the beltway? Tell me what's going on with you. What did the 
> Wall Street Journal say? 
> 
> David 
> http://www.atouchofthetropics.net 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: 
> To: 
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 5:20 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" 
> > : -------------- 
> > 
> > 
> >> 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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