This is totally sick

[Tequila Zaire]

The more you read about what's really going on in that city the more you see what a slice of hell it really is...can't say I ever had the romantic visions of New Orleans others had so I was not all that shocked it fell into chaos all that fast. It's no secret that the poverty is high, the cops are corrupt in epic ways, and it's administration from the city to state level is highly questionable.

Really this was the LAST place in the country you'd want to be stuck in a disaster like the one unfolding...too much of the recipie for ruin was already cooking so to speak.

My earlier notions of "things will turn out all right" are dead and gone. It's sad that an Iraqi city gets better support than a major U.S. metropolis. The support heading their now is clearly a bit too late for many...especially with the reports of beatings, *****, murder, carjacking, looting, and gunshots...

I've heard commentary on this situation I won't repeat here since it's not something I buy into and it's less than what I would call "enlightened" but one thing was said that did bug me...and in some ways it seems rather true...

With the majority suffering at the moment in New Orleans being poor, has this played into the reasoning for the slow response by emergancy services?

[Mirren]

With the majority suffering at the moment in New Orleans being poor, has this played into the reasoning for the slow response by emergancy services?

That just crossed your mind?

[Tequila Zaire]

That just crossed your mind?

Yes and no...yes in that it's the first time I've paid it much mind and no in that I'd heard it before...just didn't want to buy into it seeing as in these cases people usually try to band together. I tried to play naive about the situation is all...didn't want to be cynical about it so I hoped for the best.

Boy was that a mistake.

[Chaotika]

Foamy's take on the situation...

[Tequila Zaire]

Foamy's take on the situation...

Dammit I was gonna post that! :P

Nailed it dead on...as usual. So much wisdom in a little squirrel.

[Chaotika]

Dammit I was gonna post that! :P

Nailed it dead on...as usual. So much wisdom in a little squirrel.

I'm just quick like that lol
I love Foamy! I want to get him added to my left arm- It's not enough of a cluttered, cartoon-y mess, yet lolz

[Tequila Zaire]

I'm just quick like that lol
I love Foamy! I want to get him added to my left arm- It's not enough of a cluttered, cartoon-y mess, yet lolz

haha...I dig it though. I'll tell you why too, cause I love those kinda tattoo's. I'm more into cartoon characters than more of the intricate designs people normally get mainly cause I'm more attached to such characters than say a really cool lookings japanese dragon. So anytime I see people with such ink I know they got it cause that character really meant something to them...and to me that means way more than a normal tat design. But I'm odd like that and I know it ties into my artistic tastes.

[grebo]

im wondering whos gunna be the 1st religion to claim its "gods wrath" on a city (or country) of sin.

[keiko]

I can see stealing guns for one reason. The waters are 40 ft high in places and there are lots of gator out cruising. When trying to escape the disaster area the last thing i want to worry about is how to fend off a gator wiht my bare hands whie trying to keep my head above water, so while I'm helping my self to fresh water and an inflatable raft or two I swipe a gun and a box of ammo. Makes sense. The fuckers who are shooting at cops who are trying to rescue the ill and infirm, the fuckers that are shooting down helicopters trying to rescue children, the people that attacked a medical convoy, the assholes that are stabbing and raping people to increase their chances of being the first one on the bus out, the douches that are shooting the people that are trying to help them escape, I'dshoot them back. In short, and I know this is kind of tactless considering these peoples' current state of affairs, but some of them are asking for the cops and military to shoot back, if only in self defense.

I agree that people looting food and blankets and other things more or less considered "lost" are only trying to survive and really don't deserve to be jailed. The people that had the means to evacuate BEFORE the storm and chose not to, subjecting children to this horrible existance should be jailed.

Some part of me hopes that by reducing the tragedy to the trivial and selfish "I'll never get to go", the pain will some how diminish. How could even I be so wrong? The lost City New Orleans is fantastic in its horror as it was in it's glory. And the people that could have been helped to evacuate but were left to fend for themselves becasue the Mayor decided not to use city buses to help his city (the people not the buildings) their deahts should be on HIS head.

Gods, I have so much to say about this but the magnitude of this event discombobulates me to no end.
K

[gothic rose]

What's the purpose of stealing a T.V. if you don't have a house?!

[Pull~My~Hair]

What's the purpose of stealing a T.V. if you don't have a house?!

to watch the news ...hehe sorry