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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 06:41 AM Original message |
watching GMA covering the victims of the CA fire, I'm struck by several things |
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Kutjara (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 06:46 AM Response to Original message |
1. self delete. |
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Uben (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 06:49 AM Response to Original message |
2. Sorry,but......... |
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whistle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 07:48 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. I recall that also, not thousands but certainly a lot and news helicopter fly overs |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 09:40 AM Response to Reply #2 |
18. we have differing memories. |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 07:01 AM Response to Original message |
3. I recall lots of tearful african americans talking about dead loved ones. |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 09:38 AM Response to Reply #3 |
17. I'm mainly talking about GMA |
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BrklynLib at work (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 07:27 AM Response to Original message |
4. The REAL co ntrast is the way the people in QualComm Stadium are being treated as opposed to the |
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Marrah_G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 07:32 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. It is also a very different situation |
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Rockholm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 07:36 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Finally. An accurate comparison. |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 09:16 AM Response to Reply #5 |
13. Thank you! nt |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 07:37 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. A lot of the help at QualComm Stadium is from private citizens |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 07:35 AM Response to Original message |
6. Yes, I remember many interviews with black familes, mexican families, etc. |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 09:41 AM Response to Reply #6 |
19. AS it was happening, or afterwards? |
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Breeze54 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-25-07 06:53 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. Well, no! Not as it was happening because no one could |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 07:54 AM Response to Original message |
10. Pretty simple, America and Americans weren't sorry for any losses in Louisiana |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 09:13 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Actually, I recall Americans donating TONS of money that just seems to have vanished. |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 09:41 AM Response to Reply #10 |
20. quite a broad brush there |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 09:15 AM Response to Original message |
12. I remember quite a few actually. |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 09:16 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Stop it. |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 09:43 AM Response to Reply #14 |
22. Or, we're talking about different points of time in the story. |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 09:43 AM Response to Reply #12 |
21. Proportionately, I don't. |
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NorthernSpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 09:34 AM Response to Original message |
15. the Katrina news stories turned into impersonal "social issues" reporting pretty quickly... |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 09:38 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. and (what turned out to be false) stories of looters and lawlessness |
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NorthernSpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 10:26 AM Response to Reply #16 |
23. the false stories were the ones that didn't sound even remotely plausible to begin with... |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-24-07 10:27 AM Response to Original message |
24. Has Blackwater trained its machine-guns yet on Californians? Any moved to camps in Utah? |
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