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2005-09-05 Home Front: Economy

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Posted by Fred 2005-09-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Times of India quoted a Sri Lankan, where 30,000 were killed in last Decemberâs tsunami. âItâs disgusting. Not a single tourist caught in the tsunami was mugged. We can easily see where the civilized part of the world population is.â
True enough. Certainly makes me cringe, as the truth hurts. I think this is why I'd like to think that terrorists are to blame. The truth of the matter though, is that it's just americans for reasons still unclear to me shooting raping and behaving badly.

Posted by Jan 2005-09-05 00:23|| 2005-09-05 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 It's pretty clear to me. Listen to some of the people they are interviewing on the news. It's always somebody elses fault they didn't leave or get picked up or whatever. Their is a definite lack of personal responsibility in a lot of the urban parts of our country.

This is the result of leadership creating a perpetual victims class where anything bad that happens is to be blamed on "the man" or "whitey".

Posted by Texican">Texican 2005-09-05 00:47|| 2005-09-05 00:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, in Sri Lanka, they were selling children into the sex trade or into slavery (indentured servitude). I don't think we have that problem, yet.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-05 00:57|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-05 00:57|| Front Page Top

#4 The "leadership" is long on talk about "rights" as if "rights" entitle you to more than being treated fairly and with human dignity. They never talk about responsibilities.

Posted by Sock Puppet OÂ´ Doom 2005-09-05 01:54|| 2005-09-05 01:54|| Front Page Top

#5 âThird World America,â ...Until now, such a hellish vista could only be imagined in a Third World disaster zone. But this is Americaâ¦â

Yeah yeah. There's another difference between the 3rd world and America: the 3rd world will remain the 3rd world, whereas N.O. will recover.

Posted by Rafael 2005-09-05 02:09|| 2005-09-05 02:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Damn, there goes the neighborhood.

Posted by Captain America 2005-09-05 02:09|| 2005-09-05 02:09|| Front Page Top

#7 New Orleans is/was the third world of the U.S.A. It's had a very high murder rate for years. (No Link) the NOPD did some kind of psychological research a few years back by firing off 300 blank rounds in the middle of the night in a NO neighborhood. No one called 911....

Posted by Crairong Omomotch6492 2005-09-05 04:48|| 2005-09-05 04:48|| Front Page Top

#8 For all the talk of looting and other acts of violence in NO has th region around Mobile and Boloxi degnerated into chaos. No it hasn't.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2005-09-05 09:45|| 2005-09-05 09:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Of course,opening the jailhouse doors and walking away had nothing to do with it.

Posted by raptor 2005-09-05 10:03|| 2005-09-05 10:03|| Front Page Top

#10 CO - even worse, it was 700 blanks and nobody called 911

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-09-05 10:41|| 2005-09-05 10:41|| Front Page Top

#11 Here's a link to the crime rate in NO.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8999837/

I've heard stories of some areas unless you're a "local" aren't safe and that some cops don't go into those areas either. Hell I got lost without the street signs and the roads weaving every which way. For as many thugs, there certainly were alot of wonderful folks down there too. Part of the charm in this neck of the woods are the very friendly down to earth families, the do anything for ya kind of folks. Then there are probably alot of neighborhoods with different flavors like that eh?

Posted by Jan 2005-09-05 11:47|| 2005-09-05 11:47|| Front Page Top

#12 NO was a French colony. It has a strong French heritage. Just like Haiti.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-09-05 12:17|| 2005-09-05 12:17|| Front Page Top

#13 I'm withholding judgment on the 'bodies everywhere' meme until I actually see some. The official toll is 260 or so, with dire warnings of 10,000...but so far, very few actual bodies. I think the final toll will be less, probably much less.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-09-05 14:15|| 2005-09-05 14:15|| Front Page Top

#14 After 9/11, estimates were of 10,000 dead. That went to 5,000. And much, much later, to 3,000.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-05 14:16|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-05 14:16|| Front Page Top

#15 Plus or minus 3,000 is about what I think will be the final. But the 10,000 victims meme will linger in public memory.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-09-05 14:44|| 2005-09-05 14:44|| Front Page Top

#16 Keep in mind that some -- just some -- of the bodies reported may be those who were dead before the hurricane. NO's past has been marked by floods that dislodged cemeteries.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-05 18:24|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-05 18:24|| Front Page Top

#17 Sea-
Sadly, that will eventually be the figure that the LLLs use to beat the Administration over the head. Given that we have already heard straight-faced charges of 'racist' cannibalism, it's likely that no matter what the final official count is, the LLLs will say the 'true' count is 10,000.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-09-05 18:59|| 2005-09-05 18:59|| Front Page Top

#18 Keep in mind that some -- just some -- of the bodies reported may be those who were dead before the hurricane. NO's past has been marked by floods that dislodged cemeteries.

water wrapture, we must be in the Age of Aquarius.

Posted by Red Dog 2005-09-05 19:09|| 2005-09-05 19:09|| Front Page Top

#19 LOL! Um most rocklike emableers locked in caskets not float well. If the bods have already rotted in their assigned places then you got bones, wet bonz but bones. Some of this is a rekindled urban legend.

Posted by Shipman 2005-09-05 20:11|| 2005-09-05 20:11|| Front Page Top

#20 Odd.

My brother-in-law helped rebury caskets and bodies after a hurricane (Floyd?) hit North Carolina. He was down in New Orleans until he bunged up his knee; while the DMORT organization is mostly focused on handling mass casualties, they also deal with reburials.

Note I also said "some". If someone saw a spot that was downstream of a washed-out cemetery, would they be able, or willing, to distinguish between the day-old dead and the month-old? Particularly when they've been mixed together, coated in mud, and tangled in brush?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-05 20:51|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-05 20:51|| Front Page Top

#21 Last number reported on local TV was only 147 NO'ers confirmed dead, yet the MSM, includ FOXNEWS, still goes on about 10,000 or more as if it was fact. 147 or 147 + is tragic enough without any numbers having to be sensationalized.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-09-05 22:06|| 2005-09-05 22:06|| Front Page Top

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