Wondering about Drince88

[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."

[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...