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2005-09-01 Home Front: Economy

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Posted by Dan Darling 2005-09-01 03:07|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ""I've got six grandchildren. We didn't know this was going to happen. The water is off. We're trying to get supplies we need.""

File this one under hte DUH file.

Didnt know it was going to happen? WTF!?!?

This was only on the news for the previous 3 days, everyone talking about it, and the mayor and gov ordered an evac a couple days ahead. This moron has a working car and a non-working brain. You live in Nawlins you dummy - it FLOODs - and has done so for the past few centuries.

I feel sorry your 6 grandchildren are hungry becasue you are too dumb to get out before the biggest hurricane in decades, so get them the hell out now, so you can stop stealing food. You might get shot - and that would be the reward stupidity invariably brings in nature: death.

Morons.

Posted by Oldspook 2005-09-01 05:19|| 2005-09-01 05:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Looters deserve to be shot on sight. That said, this ought to be a wakeup call to all those damned idiots who think that protecting themselves is someone else's responsibility.

The veneer of civilization is extremely thin in our society and it doesn't take much stress to have it break down. The situation in NO is way past that point. If you live in NOLA now and you have anything you want to keep, you better have guns and be willing to use them because that's the only way you're going to have a hope of succeeding. NOLA's housing projects have been a ripe source of fodder for Angola prison (one of the toughest, if not the toughest in the US)for a long time. Bet on it that there are lots of Angola graduates among the ghouls terrorizing NOLA today. Those reasty folks aren't even going to think of backing away from anything less than a 12 gauge loaded with buckshot.

This is nothing new, either. Ask someone who lived through Andrew down in Homestead. For quite some time afterward the only effective law was what the residents could enforce with their own weapons. After dark it got REAL ugly.

Posted by mac 2005-09-01 05:47|| 2005-09-01 05:47|| Front Page Top

#3 "The veneer of civilization is extremely thin in our society..."

True of all human societies, IMHO, where there is a semblance / pretense of civilization. I think of it as the thin candy shell... Civilization is merely the suspension of normal self-serving activities - under duress. The presumption that it should be anything other than this is rooted in the moonbattery that there are no really bad people and that those who behave badly (looting, killing, procrastinating, etc.) were temporarily forced by circumstances of some sort. Uh, huh, right.

I've always thought this fit rather well:

If a man once indulges himself in murder,
very soon he comes to think little of robbing;
and from robbing he next comes to drinking
and sabbath-breaking, and from that to
incivility and procrastination.
-- Thomas DeQuincy

Posted by .com 2005-09-01 07:56|| 2005-09-01 07:56|| Front Page Top

#4 I understand if someone 'liberates' food and bottled water. I'd turn a blind eye to that.

Flat-screen TVs, computers, and jewelry? Shoot them.

Some people were not able to get out. The poverty issue is a real one, and one can rightly ask how, in the future, we're going to help the poor folks when there is a mandatory evacuation. Looting isn't the answer.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2005-09-01 11:10|| 2005-09-01 11:10|| Front Page Top

#5 You live in Nawlins you dummy - it FLOODs - and has done so for the past few centuries.

There was a prog on PBS some years back that looked at the effect on the Mississippi River by flood control measures. It was mentioned that New Orleans was below sea level, and that it was only a matter of time before a catastrophic flood would inundate the city.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-09-01 11:17|| 2005-09-01 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Yep, PBS was right, turns out New Orleans has the topography of a bowl. Yep, a bowl.

Posted by Shipman 2005-09-01 11:34|| 2005-09-01 11:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Article: Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said she was "furious" about the looting.

"What angers me the most is disasters tend to bring out the best in everybody, and that's what we expected to see," Ms. Blanco said at a news conference. "Instead, it brought out the worst."

I find it amusing that Democrats consistently pretend to be law-and-order advocates without actually saying what punitive steps they will take to deter or punish criminals. It would have been a little more effective for her to have said, for example, that she has instructed law enforcement officials to shoot looters on sight. Cops and the like are not going to risk being brought up on murder charges - the governor needs to provide explicit authorization.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-01 11:41|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-01 11:41|| Front Page Top

#8 ZF,

Spot on. Kind of like the second verse of "We'll issue a subpoena and arrest Osama Bin Laden." Okay, and how exactly are you going to do that?

Posted by Dreadnought 2005-09-01 13:05|| 2005-09-01 13:05|| Front Page Top

#9 #4 I understand if someone 'liberates' food and bottled water. I'd turn a blind eye to that.

Flat-screen TVs, computers, and jewelry? Shoot them.

Just WTF good is a flat screen TV going to do someone in the next few days. I can understand the looting for food and water. But when your life is hanging by a thread and all you can think about is Nike's and DVD's you deserve to got shot.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2005-09-01 15:22|| 2005-09-01 15:22|| Front Page Top

#10 The lawless in New Orleans aren't much different than the lawless in Great Britain or Baghdad or Mogadisha, or Afghanistan, or etc, etc, etc.

Posted by Fleck Hupomoter1523 2005-09-01 17:31|| 2005-09-01 17:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Now here's a cause worth donating to.

Posted by Chris W.">Chris W. 2005-09-01 21:12|| 2005-09-01 21:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Just a few,

Volcano eruptions , Lahars , Earthquakes

Peru,
Boliva,
Chile,
Japan,
Italy,
Philippines
Alaska
SF

etc.

Been in one myself where all of us helped shared each others food, water, aid and comfort etc.

Collectivly many thousands of folks have been killed or isolated and left homeless but the people all helped each other and there was no looting! *** most of them were all poor folks but rich in character.***

Posted by Red Dog 2005-09-01 21:29|| 2005-09-01 21:29|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm sitting here next to another New Orleans evacuee who just got off the phone with her brother, a National Guard MP currently re-deployed from rescue operations in Plaquemines Parish to law enforcement in Orleans. His orders are if he sees a weapon, shoot the carrier. He's already smashed a face into the pavement today. But he says that for right now the city is run by the gangs. Groups of armed young men wandering the streets, they've run out of stores to loot so are starting on the homes.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2005-09-01 22:20|| 2005-09-01 22:20|| Front Page Top

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