US planes have already delivered aid to Georgia. Did you folks in NOLA hear that?

[Bozita]

Just saw it on NBC's nightly news.

[geckosfeet]

1. Come on. They may be eastern european, but they are white and have an oil pipeline.

:mad::puke:

[cliffordu]

3. Fuckin' A'

Who needs NOLA when we can have OIL....

The response times here say all that needs to be said.

[intheflow]

10. Really, it's only the white part.

NOLA was and is still a major port city for big oil. Clearing out black people and ignoring rebuilding just made it easier for them to conduct their planet-raping business practices down there, kind of a bait-and-switch. :grr:

[file83]

19. Yup, if the folks in Darfur were white, that plane would have landed long ago.

:grr:

[nc4bo]

2. that *was* super fast. ain't that somethin', we were doing our own version of ethnic cleansing.

Hell isn't good enough for the lot of them.

[stillcool]

4. I'm worried about that 'aid'...

I hope there is no 'freedom' involved.

[malaise]

5. I'm more worried about what's in those crates

NOLA who? :sarcasm:

[Swamp Rat]

6. No, we're too busy cleaning up a huge toxic fuel spill in the Mississippi River.

If the spill had occurred a mile up the river, New Orleans would be a ghost town right now.

http://www.neworleansoilspill.com/go/site/1794



_______________________________________
Reopening of River Remains Days Away
Friday 25 July 2008
Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune
Long stretch of Mississippi closed for attempted oil cleanup.

http://www.truthout.org/article/major-fuel-spill-endangers-mississippi-river

"A 100-mile stretch of the Mississippi River remains closed indefinitely to ship traffic this morning, as salvage workers drafted plans to remove a split fuel barge from beneath the Crescent City Connection in New Orleans and a half-dozen emergency spill contractors continued efforts to corral hundreds of thousands of gallons of thick, smelly fuel oil as it floated toward the Gulf of Mexico.

Meanwhile, residents of Algiers remained skeptical of the assurances given by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Sewerage & Water Board officials that their water is safe to drink, with many choosing to drink bottled water instead.

"We don't want to give a date right now" for reopening the river, said Coast Guard Capt. Lincoln Stroh, who controls shipping on the river as captain for the Port of New Orleans. "We're still talking in terms of days."

The reopening requires both removal of the barge from its precarious position at the edge of the shipping channel and the cleanup of a significant portion of the 419,000 gallons of No. 6 fuel oil that was spilled during the early Wednesday collision between the 590-foot Liberian-flagged tanker Tintomara and the barge being pulled by the tugboat Mel Oliver."

(snip)

http://www.truthout.org/article/major-fuel-spill-endangers-mississippi-river

[northofdenali]

14. Swamp Rat, my darlin' -

If they can do an Exxon Valdez in Alaska, they can do a spill anywhere and, because they are Big Oil

NOBODY FUCKIN PAYS.

Except the folks that live there, and are trying to make a living there.

And the wildlife.

And the fish.

And the turtles.

And the frogs, toads, shellfish..............................

But.........

They can't TALK.

And they sure as shit don't have oil money. Take it from a long-term Big Oil-owned state.....

Just gotta take it, right?

:grouphug: and :loveya:

Depression is the pits. We DO NOT have any control any more.

[hedgehog]

7. Glad you posted it. I couldn't believe the film myself!

Makes you wonder if they advance notice that humanitarian aid would be needed!

[DFW]

8. FEMA doesn't cover THAT Georgia. No wonder.

[librechik]

9. sorry--no tv in the FEMA trailer. n/t

[Franc_Lee]

11. Dispicable!, a hald a world away, and NO. had bodies flosting in streets before Bush decided to help

and, McBush wasn't smiling for pitures with Bush because it was his birthday, -> traitors, both of them.
That flat out left them to die because they were poor and black.

[Justitia]

12. You read my mind. My first thoughts were of NOLA & the appalling difference. -eom

[Norrin Radd]

13. No aid to S. Ossetia?

Innocents suffering on both sides.

[Snarkturian Clone]

15. So because of the fuckup with NOLA the gov. has a time limit

for aid to anywhere else?

If they had given aid to Georgia in the same exact amount of time they gave it to NOLA, would you be satisfied, or would you have started a thread saying "See, the US waited waaay to long to give aid to Georgia, just like with NOLA!!! Arrr!!!" ?


The whole Katrina fuck up was just another example of gross incompetence of the Admin, the LA state gov, and NO city gov. We shouldn't use it as some kind of measuring stick for aid, because aid came waaaay to late.

[marauding liberal]

16. freedom and democracy to follow

[Az_lefty]

17. Wow, it's almost like they were expecting this...

:shrug:

[Javaman]

18. "money trumps peace" - Moron* 2/14/07 nt

[Frisbee]

20. Now seriously....

NOLA was God's setting things right for all the gayness down there, it wouldn't do to try to minimize God's wrath by sending those people aid, would it? Just THINK what that might force The Big "G" to do! :sarcasm:

[Dangerously Amused]

21. Here comes US freedom and democracy! Be afraid, Georgia, be very afraid.