Wondering about Drince88

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Yes, along with Andrew Card.

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by SacTown Chronic

I am an antichrist
I am an anarchist
Don't know what I want
But I know how to get it
I wanna destroy the passerby




Is the Vice President of the United States still on vacation?

He's in a bunker under the White House, hooked up to an EKG machine.

Drince and Sam, so glad you are both okay, and also glad Sam's friends are okay as well.

I am so astounded at this travesty, and on so many levels. The lack of preparedness, the lack of response, the lack of leadership, and the lack of accountability. We'll get our coast back in shape, but it will be us, regular Americans, who do so. It's not the Federal Government who goes galloping to the world's rescue- it's us. They get the credit, but we pay for it in blood, sweat and dollars. The politicians can all go to hell, as far as I'm concerned. New Orleans will be rebuilt, and I fully intend to play tourist there when it is. Until then, I'll contribute whatever I can toward that end.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Maybe this guy can get something done. Could there possibly be a leader here finally. He doesn't look like someone to be messed with.

CNN) -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin calls Lt. Gen. Russel Honore a "John Wayne dude" who can "get some stuff done."

"He came off the doggone chopper, and he started cussing and people started moving," Nagin said in an interview Thursday night with a local radio station.

The three-star general directed the deployment of an estimated 1,000 National Guard troops from a New Orleans street corner Friday, making it clear that it was a humanitarian relief operation. Getting food and water to the people at the city's convention center was a difficult process, Honore said.

"If you ever have 20,000 people come to supper, you know what I'm talking about. If it's easy, it would have been done already."

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by SacTown Chronic

I am an antichrist
I am an anarchist
Don't know what I want
But I know how to get it
I wanna destroy the passerby




Is the Vice President of the United States still on vacation?

Who is the Vice President again?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Prudence

You know, I actually wouldn't begrudge someone a night of entertainment -- even if I disagreed with their politics. Sometimes those are great opportunities to solict donations. And sometimes when I'm in problem-solving mode I go do something totally unrelated and let my brain start to free-associate.

If it weren't a national disaster, if there weren't a failure at every single level from the top down, if the President of the United States weren't admitting that it was a failure (do you realize how BAD things have to be BUSH to say there was a mistake?? Even if he still hasn't taken any personal responsibility), if people are dying and their bodies rotting in a location they were told to go for shelter food and water, you don't go see a freaking play.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

If it weren't a national disaster, if there weren't a failure at every single level from the top down, if the President of the United States weren't admitting that it was a failure (do you realize how BAD things have to be BUSH to say there was a mistake?? Even if he still hasn't taken any personal responsibility), if people are dying and their bodies rotting in a location they were told to go for shelter food and water, you don't go see a freaking play.

Or at least not be seen at one

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

If it weren't a national disaster, if there weren't a failure at every single level from the top down, if the President of the United States weren't admitting that it was a failure (do you realize how BAD things have to be BUSH to say there was a mistake?? Even if he still hasn't taken any personal responsibility), if people are dying and their bodies rotting in a location they were told to go for shelter food and water, you don't go see a freaking play.

Sorry -- I'm dead tired and I'm not expressing myself well. I meant it more in a hypothetical sense -- I could see a hypothetical situation where it would be appropriate -- or at least not glaringly inappropriate -- for someone in her position to go to a Broadway musical. Something along the lines of one of the NBC relief concerts -- "After 5 full days of personally filling sandbags, the Secretary of Bed Linens hosted a special $50,000 seat fundraising performance of the Tony award-wining musical Spamalot."

In this specific situation, I think we're agreed that those in power positions should lay off the public funtimes.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Prudence

Sorry -- I'm dead tired and I'm not expressing myself well.

Hmm, seems I was even more dead tires as I managed to completely overlook or not comprehend the second half of your post. Umm, yeah, what you said.

[Drince88]

Originally Posted by Motorboat Cruiser

Maybe this guy can get something done. Could there possibly be a leader here finally. He doesn't look like someone to be messed with.

They showed him walking around New Orleans - ordering the National Guardsmen to point their weapons down, to not look like they were walking in a war zone - AND he ordered the NOPD to do the same. One guy kind of looked at him, and decided that order was a good idea and complied with it. He did look like a 'kick butt and take names later' kind of guy.

Oh, and I found this on the WWLTV.com Katrina blog. THIS is the kind of fundraiser that's appropriate to do for New Orleans!

11:55 A.M. - NEW YORK (AP): The Big Apple will raise its glasses to the Big Easy -- not for toasts, but to collect money for more than 80,000 hospitality workers from the hurricane-ravaged city.
In addition to New York, bars around the country also have promised to mix cocktails to help the Louisiana bartenders and hotel, casino and restaurant workers facing unemployment.
Four New York-based cocktail experts are spurring the "Save New Orleans Cocktail Hour" -- a two-hour nationwide drinking session scheduled for next Saturday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Each $10 drink -- Big Easy classics like the sazerac, the ramos gin fizz and the Pimm's cup -- will be served with a set of free Mardi Gras beads.
New York bartenders stepped forward first, with dozens of establishments from Soho's tony new Pegu Club to the Central Park's Tavern on the Green and the lively Havana Central, agreeing to participate in the fundraiser.
Organizers said the effort is spreading quickly and now includes the Sierra Gold tavern in Las Vegas, a half dozen businesses in Washington, D.C., and more in Arlington, Va., and Silver Springs, Md.

[lizziebith]

One weird thing a friend of mine noticed on another board is the sudden lack of meds for those "self-medicating" (many of you know the term) and how that might help explain much of the violence and lack of self-restraint we're seeing. There are a lot of alcoholics and addicts out there needing treatment for that, in addition to food and water.

The situation just keeps getting more complex; my heart goes out to those people...