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Religions > Atheism |
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"Mark K. Bilbo" |
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09 Sep 2005 01:03:48 AM |
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OT: Outta site, outta mind, part II |
Hm...
"Someone else points out on television as I post this: the fact that the
National Guard now bars entry (by journalists) to the very places where
people last week were barred from LEAVING (The Convention Center and
Superdome) is a kind of perverse and perfectly backward postscript to this
awful chapter in American history."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9216831/#050907c
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Mark K. Bilbo
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"We're angry, Mr. President, and we'll be angry long
after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have
been pumped dry. Our people deserved rescuing.
Many who could have been were not. That's to the
government's shame."
http://makeashorterlink.com/?F2D511CBB
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Outta site, outta mind, part II |
15 Sep 2005 11:26:56 PM |
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On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 20:03:48 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<alt-atheism@org.webmaster> wrote:
Hm...
"Someone else points out on television as I post this: the fact that the
National Guard now bars entry (by journalists) to the very places where
people last week were barred from LEAVING (The Convention Center and
Superdome) is a kind of perverse and perfectly backward postscript to this
awful chapter in American history."
What else can you expect from the massive incompetance called the US
Gov't.?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9216831/#050907c
Making the Quarter rounds
Anchor & Managing Editor
We are just back from the French Quarter... checking up on the
condition of some old haunts... Arnauds, Brennans... and most of the
landmarks that people would remember visiting from even a single
Convention-attending visit to New Orleans. We are happy to report that
the Quarter is slowly drying out (while the Ritz Carlton hotel, for
example, remains surrounded by rancid water that appears to be 30
percent oil) and cleaning up. There are a few random businesses open.
It will be a long time before it resembles anything close to New
Orleans.
An interesting dynamic is taking shape in this city, not altogether
positive: after days of rampant lawlessness (making for what I think
most would agree was an impossible job for the New Orleans Police
Department during those first few crucial days of rising water,
pitch-black nights and looting of stores) the city has now reached a
near-saturation level of military and law enforcement. In the areas we
visited, the red berets of the 82nd Airborne are visible on just about
every block. National Guard soldiers are ubiquitous. At one fire
scene, I counted law enforcement personnel (who I presume were on hand
to guarantee the safety of the firefighters) from four separate
jurisdictions, as far away as Connecticut and Illinois. And tempers
are getting hot. While we were attempting to take pictures of the
National Guard (a unit from Oklahoma) taking up positions outside a
Brooks Brothers on the edge of the Quarter, the sergeant ordered us to
the other side of the boulevard. The short version is: there won't be
any pictures of this particular group of Guard soldiers on our
newscast tonight. Rules (or I suspect in this case an order on a whim)
like those do not HELP the palpable feeling that this area is somehow
separate from the United States.
At that same fire scene, a police officer from out of town raised the
muzzle of her weapon and aimed it at members of the media... obvious
members of the media... armed only with notepads. Her actions
(apparently because she thought reporters were encroaching on the
scene) were over the top and she was told. There are automatic weapons
and shotguns everywhere you look. It's a stance that perhaps would
have been appropriate during the open lawlessness that has long since
ended on most of these streets. Someone else points out on television
as I post this: the fact that the National Guard now bars entry (by
journalists) to the very places where people last week were barred
from LEAVING (The Convention Center and Superdome) is a kind of
perverse and perfectly backward postscript to this awful chapter in
American history.
We're putting a lot of material into the broadcast tonight, including
(in part in response to a flood of e-mail requests) a story about the
pets of this region like Cain/Storm my colleague Heather Allan blogs
about below. They are often the last to be evacuated and the last to
hold on. On any walk through this region you will see dogs without
owners. It's heartbreaking to see... then again, there's a lot of that
going around here these days.
/end
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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