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  Journalist predicted Katrina's effects on New Orleans over three months ago

  by Neo in

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  yes, we knew the disaster could be predicted and indeed it was.

  here's one more piece of evidence: journalist chris mooney wrote an article in may, 23rd, that described in detail what we're seeing right now in new orleans.

  he didn't have to be an expert to figure that the city was in serious danger.

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  Informative -- and disturbing. The charities link is excellent.

  Thanks, Neo.
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  20 year old commandeers school bus-picks up New Orleans refugees

  by doodle-v in

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  -- got a BIG lump in my throat after reading the story.

  Thanks for posting that, DoodleV
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  Would you bend over to pick up a penny on the ground? Or maybe a nickel?

  by JH in

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  yesterday evening i was taking a long walk, and then i saw a nickel (5 cents) on the sidewalk, so i didn't even bother to pick it up.

  then walking away i was surprised that i didnt even pick it up.

  i know that i would never pick up a penny, but a nickel, usually i do pick that up.

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  I pick up any change I see -- it isn't a self respect issue for me...Having lived through some hard times, I guess I'm just thrifty that way
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  New Orleans: Day Six- Is this how the Nazi's dealt with Jews?

  by CaptainSchmideo in

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  what is the government's plan here?

  is this a convenient way to remove several thousand undesirables from the welfare rolls?

  i watch what is going on at the superdome and the convention center, and it looks like some backwater african nation you see on sunday morning on a feed the children special.

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  Is this how the Nazi's dealt with Jews?

  No. The Nazi's would have been picking off the survivors with their rifles.

  I think I understand the point you are trying to make, though -- The frustration in your post is palpable. You aren't alone in that feeling -- a lot of that going around, in addition to the overwhelming sense of grief. (CS))

  Thanks so much to the many here, and elsewhere, who have expressed compassion for those suffering from Katrina -- in both their words and their actions.
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  Guy at Mcdonalds I wanted to punch

  by professor in

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  yeah, so yesterday i'm at mcdonald's with my kids.

  this guy walks in all full of dried paint on his hair and clothes.

  he sits down with his food, and then starts preaching out loud to the entire restaurant about how the hurricane is god's way of punnishing the whores and the homos who are now paying the price for their sins.. .

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  Obviously this man was in need of anti-psychotic medications.

  He's not the only one:

  Rev. Bill Shanks, pastor of New Covenant Fellowship of New Orleans, also sees God's mercy in the aftermath of Katrina -- but in a different way. Shanks says the hurricane has wiped out much of the rampant sin common to the city.

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  “New Orleans now is abortion free. New Orleans now is Mardi Gras free. New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion -- it's free of all of those things now," Shanks says. "God simply, I believe, in His mercy purged all of that stuff out of there -- and now we're going to start over again."

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  Shanks heeded warnings to evacuate New Orleans, and is currently staying with friends in the Jackson, Mississippi, area.

  "Now we're going to start over again"?

  It'd be interesting to find out whether or not this nutjob will even be welcome back to N.O...
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  History repeats itself (re current events)

  by Leolaia in

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  the tragic disaster new orleans is now experiencing is not exactly unprecedented in our nation's history.

  there are some lessons to be learned about what happened in 1927 in the great mississippi flood.

  here is what the wikipedia states about this event:.

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  Watched an interesting report by Amy Goodman today which dealt a bit with some of the parallels between Katrina and the 1927 Mississippi flood and how it was one of the catalysts for northern migration for many black folks...

  Thanks for the post. Very informative.
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  More than beads and boobs

  by wanderlustguy in

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  new orleans

  funny i keep seeing so many references to the beads and the boobs, i guess i never realized how much about new orleans people dont consider.

  there is so much culture there the normal person is in awe at just the surface.

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  I thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing those wonderful memories, Wanderlustguy and Lawrence
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  Katrina Aftermath - whatever happened to personal responsibility?

  by EscapedLifer1 in

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  ok, all you "bleedin' hearts" get ready to flame me..... i have been watching the developments in the devastated areas like everyone else, and something has begun to strike me.

  there seems to be tens of thousands of people who are just sitting around waiting for help to miraculously drop out of the sky, and the longer they sit idle, the madder they get that the government hasn't swooped in and immediately solved all their problems.

  i have a few questions about this mindset:.

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  Thanks so much for posting that, (Abaddon))
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  We've lost an ex-JW from Missouri in Iraq

  by keeshah in

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  he was from my congregation in missouri.

  i remember him well.

  he was 6 yrs younger than me.

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  Very sad news -- my condolences
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  Flood Buckets (if you aren't to pure to get nasty with the Harlot)

  by SixofNine in

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  http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/print/kits/floodbucket.stm .

  the united methodist church sends these buckets to places that suffer loss, and will no doubt be sending them to la, ms and other places in need.

  it's a simple project that you can do, or a group can do, to help make a difference.. .

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  <--just got "nasty with the Harlot", LoL...Thanks for posting that, Six