Nobody's coming for us
New Orleans is still in terrible shape. Dead bodies all about, more bodies soon to be.
The water is rising. People are still drowning. What the hell?
What can you do? This isn't enough. Nothing anyone's doing is getting anything done quickly enough.
What good are food and blankets to the people trapped in a city that is slowly being covered completely with water?
What good is it?
Senator Mary Landrieu, who Anderson Cooper railed on live TV, blasts George W. for "his phony, stage managed promises of action."
"Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment. The good and decent people of southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast - black and white, rich and poor, young and old - deserve far better from their national government."
"Yesterday - yesterday - FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards and said no one is getting near these lines.
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His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, “Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?” and he said, “Yeah, Mama, somebody’s coming to get you.” Somebody’s coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Friday… and she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night! [Sobbing] Nobody’s coming to get us. Nobody’s coming to get us. The Secretary has promised. Everybody’s promised. They’ve had press conferences. I’m sick of the press conferences. For god’s sakes, just shut up and send us somebody."
Read/Watch this:
"One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever."
See the video of above interview. [.wmv file]
I'm told my hometown is flooded with people from New Orleans, as probably is the rest of Louisiana.
And they are running out of gas and food. There's severe over-crowding. Can't something be done?
The water is rising. People are still drowning. What the hell?
What can you do? This isn't enough. Nothing anyone's doing is getting anything done quickly enough.
What good are food and blankets to the people trapped in a city that is slowly being covered completely with water?
What good is it?
Senator Mary Landrieu, who Anderson Cooper railed on live TV, blasts George W. for "his phony, stage managed promises of action."
"Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment. The good and decent people of southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast - black and white, rich and poor, young and old - deserve far better from their national government."
"Yesterday - yesterday - FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards and said no one is getting near these lines.
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His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, “Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?” and he said, “Yeah, Mama, somebody’s coming to get you.” Somebody’s coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody’s coming to get you on Friday… and she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night! [Sobbing] Nobody’s coming to get us. Nobody’s coming to get us. The Secretary has promised. Everybody’s promised. They’ve had press conferences. I’m sick of the press conferences. For god’s sakes, just shut up and send us somebody."
Read/Watch this:
"One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever."
See the video of above interview. [.wmv file]
I'm told my hometown is flooded with people from New Orleans, as probably is the rest of Louisiana.
And they are running out of gas and food. There's severe over-crowding. Can't something be done?