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rushmc 23
QuoteQuoteThe Fed gov did not fail in NO …
Yes they did. Bush even admitted it. He just failed to accept responsibility for the failure as he promised to do.Quote… the local govs did [fail].
That also occurred.QuoteWhy? that is an easy one.
Okay, please share. Why?
blame game, nothing more
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it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
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if we falter and lose our freedoms,
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SkyChimp 0
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I'm trying to figure out why some people pull the race card..... We are just commenting on the difference of two locations in the country. Unless someone feels there might be different cultures. Kinda like how Maine and Georgia have two different cultures. What are the race ratios between the two?
There's really no doubt that Iowa is a mostly white state, while NO is a mostly black urban city. It seems rather suspect that you claim to not know, but giving you the benefit of the doubt:
Iowa -
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/19000.html
just under 3M people, 94.6% identified as white. 2.5% identified as black.
New Orleans -
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/22/2255000.html
470k people, 67.3% black, 28.1% white.
WOW... it really is a big difference between the two. Thank you for being objective in giving me the benefit of the doubt as I did not know the ratios. I still think there is no excuse to behave in that manner. Raping, killing, looting, etc.....
Does anyone else find it funny that we made a SPORT out of an EMERGENCY PROCEDURE?!?!
Andy9o8 2
A quick Google search makes it clear that the "OP" is a copy & paste of one of those usual horseshit blogs that get e-mailed around. It would have been good form for you to give a cite attribution, instead of presuming we're too stupid to realize it's not your original writing.
Oh by the way, Obama is still not under 40, he's still not a Muslim, and Sirhan still isn't either.
Oh by the way, Obama is still not under 40, he's still not a Muslim, and Sirhan still isn't either.
SkyChimp 0
QuotePerhaps that's because the people in Iowa got much quicker and better assistance than the victims of Katrina did. I wonder how many of the unarmed Iowans have been shot in the back by police.
Blues,
Dave
Dave, New Orleans behaved horrible. Rape, killing each other, and looting..... Although the possiblity of an officer firing at someone in the back can exist. I think the difference in elements between what New Orleans police and Iowa police had to deal with are 180 degrees apart. Especially when it came to the community's behavior.
Does anyone else find it funny that we made a SPORT out of an EMERGENCY PROCEDURE?!?!
billvon 3,078
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>The governments (local and fed) learned their lessons by the screw ups
>during Katrina and got on this one in a quicker and more organized
>fashion.
Agreed, that was another factor! (Warning - your posts will now be considered BS by people who can only see race as the cause for everything.)
Some other factors -
All of New Orleans was under water because the levees failed. Most of the levees along the Mississippi held.
A Class 5 hurricane prevented aid from getting to NOLA. High water doesn't prevent aid from getting to the Midwest.
1800 people died in Katrina due to the flooding. 26 died in the Midwest floods. So the scale was a bit different.
Iowans had about a week of warning that the floods were certainly coming. New Orleaners had 3 days of warnings that the hurricane _might_ hit them.
>during Katrina and got on this one in a quicker and more organized
>fashion.
Agreed, that was another factor! (Warning - your posts will now be considered BS by people who can only see race as the cause for everything.)
Some other factors -
All of New Orleans was under water because the levees failed. Most of the levees along the Mississippi held.
A Class 5 hurricane prevented aid from getting to NOLA. High water doesn't prevent aid from getting to the Midwest.
1800 people died in Katrina due to the flooding. 26 died in the Midwest floods. So the scale was a bit different.
Iowans had about a week of warning that the floods were certainly coming. New Orleaners had 3 days of warnings that the hurricane _might_ hit them.
mnealtx 0
QuoteIowans had about a week of warning that the floods were certainly coming. New Orleaners had 3 days of warnings that the hurricane _might_ hit them.
Iowa activated their emergency plans. NO did not.
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1,000,000 people displaced, never knowing if their city will ever drain, or if they are going to get help, and not knowing if they will have a place to work again either. The disparity of losing everything combined with the anger and frustration of everything else related to the dumb politics around it .....well, the mind can only take so much. I can't even imagine what it was like and I've heard stories directly from my friends brother who was in the Superdome during the storm. I can see how mob mentality set in rather quick; not sure how anyone who wasn't there can sit back and judge them. It's much better to sit back and be righteous on the Internet about how much better you are.
Cedar Rapids is at best 100,000 people and not all of them are displaced. Plus they only had the flood to deal with, not Cat 5 winds that level your entire region. The POTUS was on site shortly after and ordered troops onsite the next day. The police never left the Cedar Rapids area either, maintaining a level of security during the entire flood.
Cedar Rapids is at best 100,000 people and not all of them are displaced. Plus they only had the flood to deal with, not Cat 5 winds that level your entire region. The POTUS was on site shortly after and ordered troops onsite the next day. The police never left the Cedar Rapids area either, maintaining a level of security during the entire flood.
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you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me....
I WILL fly again.....
you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me....
I WILL fly again.....
QuoteQuoteIowans had about a week of warning that the floods were certainly coming. New Orleaners had 3 days of warnings that the hurricane _might_ hit them.
Iowa activated their emergency plans. NO did not.
Clearly the evacuation plans in NO would have prevented the destruction of the city. The tragedy came after the storm, not before hand.
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you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me....
I WILL fly again.....
you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me....
I WILL fly again.....
QuoteI've heard stories directly from my friends brother who was in the Superdome during the storm.
Quotenot sure how anyone who wasn't there can sit back and judge them.
So were you there or not?
Muff #5048
QuoteQuoteI've heard stories directly from my friends brother who was in the Superdome during the storm.
Quotenot sure how anyone who wasn't there can sit back and judge them.
So were you there or not?
I wasn't there, nor am I judging anyone that reacted to the situation they were in either. I had and still do have a high level of compassion and sympathy for them.
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you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me....
I WILL fly again.....
you can burn the land and boil the sea, but you can't take the sky from me....
I WILL fly again.....
jcd11235 0
QuoteQuoteSorry, no, it wasn't a racist post.
You are correct, it wasnt, It wasnt anymore than the one the poster was refering to
Correct. The post that was replied to was much more so.
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SkyChimp 0
If we not judge that behavior... then we should let the vicitms of the looted stores, the ones raped in the Super Dome, and the surviving family members of those killed by the mobbers to judge that behavior. There were people effect by the storm and by the inexcusable behavior. I wonder what someone who was effected by Katrina's fury AND by the rape and looting would say.... food for thought. Blue ones!
Does anyone else find it funny that we made a SPORT out of an EMERGENCY PROCEDURE?!?!
Does anyone else find it funny that we made a SPORT out of an EMERGENCY PROCEDURE?!?!
What she said. Just so it's clear she's not alone.
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