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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:00 AM
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CNN: FEMA says typically it can take 6 days for food to reach localities.
Okay how many people just buy a gallon of milk and loaf of bread for bad weather?
:wow:
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:01 AM
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1. 6 days?
That is bullshit.
Total bullshit.
They are fucking just making excuses for their ineptness.
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:03 AM
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5. I have to agree.
They can deploy troops faster than that, complete with all the "stuff" they need.
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 04:09 AM
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23. Absolutely. It has never taken FEMA that long. I have lived through
enough hurricanes to know that.
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:02 AM
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2. Bad weather? Hurricane prep is a little more than that.
The trouble is, some people can't afford it. So they get the bread and milk.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:03 AM
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6. If your power goes out, what difference does it make?
Spoiled milk and moldy bread?
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:06 AM
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12. We ate, just not a whole lot of popsicles and milk,
if you catch my drift. I think even us poor people are smart enough to buy p-nut butter and koolaid, and fill up some milk jugs with water. :)
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:02 AM
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3. People will die in three.
"Six days" is unacceptable.

Revamp all plans that include a six-day period.
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:03 AM
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4. It didn't take 6 days to reach Florida
Oh that's right, bushies brother isn't governor this time is he.
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:04 AM
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8. Jeb did somethig despite "little bro"...
Edited on Thu Sep-01-05 03:10 AM by madeline_con
I think. If we'd waited, we'd be dead. :(
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:04 AM
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9. Nope. It's a female Democrat.
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:08 AM
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13. self delete
Edited on Thu Sep-01-05 03:08 AM by madeline_con
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smurfygirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:03 AM
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7. this is bullshit
it has never taken this long.

6 days when chimp is ruler..that's what they probably meant to say
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:05 AM
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10. I don't understand.
Filling a truck in Little Rock, say, and driving down would take a day, tops.

????
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madeline_con Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:11 AM
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14. This is not for the thinking among us....
but for the ignorant FREEKER support groups who are supposed to vote for Cheney in '08.
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expatriate Donating Member (853 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:58 AM
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22. Hell, there are places with food a lot closer than that!
Baton Rouge is pretty much unscathed - it's an hour away. Lafayette? Two-three hours. Jackson, Mississippi? Three hours. Towns in Florida that weren't affected by the storm? Three hours or so.

This is so much bullshit. This is those rotten useless peckerheads trying to cover their asses. The food should have been organized BEFORE the friggin' storm even hit, ready to go wherever it was needed.
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:06 AM
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11. liars! It can be flown out the instant winds slow down enough n/t
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:17 AM
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15. People won't survive 6 days without drinking water.
FEMA may take 6 days, but others could have gotten water over there. Why didn't they make it clear they would not act so that people in surrounding areas could have done something themselves. There are civilians willing to make efforts to save the people of New Orleans.
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Child_Of_Isis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:20 AM
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16. What do you do but Loot?
The fucking criminals. Oh, sorry, I should have said the fucking black criminals. Terrorists. The lot of them. For hitting Winn Dixie.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:22 AM
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17. but news media copters are up all over!!
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Child_Of_Isis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:30 AM
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18. Right!
Their copters can take pics of black folk trying to get diapers for the young uns, but I bet they didn't offer their copter up to a black folk to pull them up out of there.
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:40 AM
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19. supposedly god created the earth in six days
so what the hell is fema doing? and the army? the air force? the marines?

gee--i guess bushie is nothing like his "higher father" after all.
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Garbo 2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:46 AM
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20. In bush's gov't maybe. in the real world, we can do much better than
that and have done in the past.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:50 AM
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21. sure, "shed pounds the FEMA DIET way"
x( six days to a new you
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