09-12-2005, 05:20 PM | #181 | |
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Here is more on Michael Brown
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09-12-2005, 06:30 PM | #182 |
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R. David Paulison will replace Brown.
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09-12-2005, 08:46 PM | #183 |
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Place this in the many hard to comprehend facts that we will see more and more of after this tragedy: The city of Baton Rouge doubled its population in a week. The city of Baton Rouge is not a small city to begin with. It is after all the Capital of Louisiana.
This begins to show just the colossal size of the impact from this storm that we are talking about. A million people pushed out of their homes in a matter of days. The largest sudden mass exodus since the great depression. How will the infrustructure and social services in the surrounding regions be able to adapt to this kind of exodus?
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09-15-2005, 02:36 PM | #184 | |
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If this doesn’t pull at your heart strings you must be dead…
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09-15-2005, 09:02 PM | #185 |
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Hi, you guys. I don't feel like debating here, but I just thought you all might like to know that Bush is gonna give a really important speech from Jackson Square, in a few minutes. You can access it if you go to your local NPR supported radio station, I would think. Oh - He's on now, gotta go...
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09-15-2005, 09:26 PM | #186 |
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Well, that was a beautiful speech. Wonder who his speechwriter is?
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09-15-2005, 09:30 PM | #187 | |
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09-15-2005, 09:45 PM | #188 | ||
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09-15-2005, 09:53 PM | #189 |
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Oh, I hope the dolphins will be O.K.! Thanx 4 telling me about them, Lief; now I can keep track of their progress online. Now I gotta tear myself away from entmoot and get dressed; I'm going to a friend's art opening tonight in downtown L.A. somewhere at some posh gallery. Meh. That means no beanie, no blue jeans, no hoodie, plus now I gotta wear makeup. Ah, well, at least there's art involved, that's the important thing.
If Bush actually means all the things he said in that speech, what a wonderful world it could be. Hmm.
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09-16-2005, 12:04 AM | #190 | |
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09-16-2005, 12:22 AM | #191 |
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thanks for the animal updates, IRex.
I couldn't even read the pet one, though *goes off to hug her dog*
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09-16-2005, 09:15 AM | #192 |
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We are maybe looking into adopting a pet from there.....because our cat ran away. He's been gone 11 days now.
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I know the hurricane was a while ago, but I just read this article.
I'm really shocked. I had no idea. I hope, if there ever is another large-scale disaster, that the response is much more timely and humane than this and other articles and news stories have suggested.
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11-24-2005, 08:11 PM | #194 |
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what, like the response to the pakistan earthquake?
the shocking difference was a first world country, that had advance warning and had it's various organisational infrastructure chiefs all wandering around thirstily in the brewery, like so many little lost bo-peeps, trying to organise a piss-up .... they got it just ever so slightly wrong and ended up instead of organising a piss-up with an alimighty cock-up ... Last edited by Butterbeer : 11-24-2005 at 08:12 PM. |
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