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SofaKingLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 09:59 PM
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McCellan - Do not loot food and water
Edited on Thu Sep-01-05 09:59 PM by SofaKingLiberal
Sorry about another looting thread, but I ust couldn't believe my f*king ears.


"We have ways to get them the supplies they need, looting is not the answer."

YES HE ACTUALLY F*KING SAID THAT!
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NYC Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:00 PM
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1. "We have WAYS"???
Well is sure doesn't SEEM LIKE IT!! How about putting those "WAYS" into action NOW!!
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bloom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:01 PM
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I'd be like - you get me the food and water first
and then I MIGHT listen to you.
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expatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:00 PM
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2. That was Bush, or at least Bush said that too. nt
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:01 PM
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3. What do you want from a guy that never missed a meal in his life?
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GRLMGC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:01 PM
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4. Ugh
Edited on Thu Sep-01-05 10:01 PM by GRLMGC
If people (most anyway) had the supplies they needed they wouldn't be looting. He's a pig.
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puddycat Donating Member (884 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:02 PM
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6. most of the looters were hauling around tvs, puters, dvds, alcohol etc.
the vast majority of looters are just criminal thugs. The decent people who are left are dying alone and afraid in the attics of their homes.
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GRLMGC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:04 PM
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11. This is true
Edited on Thu Sep-01-05 10:05 PM by GRLMGC
but a lot of people were also going into stores to get food and water. I mean, the other looting is inexcusable but after days w/o food and water, its only natural that people will go into survival mode. Also, the original post was referring to the looting of food and water, not commodities.
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txindy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:09 PM
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20. There's a story on CNN about a hotel telling guests to loot for food
From a store next to their hotel. There's no food in the hotel. So, the guests did just that. What was the alternative? Starve and let the food rot?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/katrina.trapped.tourists.ap/index.html
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GRLMGC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:10 PM
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22. Exactly
you have to do what you have to do to survive.
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:05 PM
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12. That's bullshit. Where's your proof?
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Zenlitened Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:07 PM
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15. Really? All the footage I've seen has been of people carrying...
... food, water and clothing. I may have seen a few frames of video with someone carrying what appeared to be beer. But I haven't yet seen anything to suggest "most" people are "hauling around TVs and computers." Just the opposite: Most people are taking what they need to live.
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SofaKingLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:08 PM
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17. someone posted this in another thread


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wellstone_democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:09 PM
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18. bullshit
I have people I know working there and they say different---not only that, my law and order conservative friend working search and rescue says exactly the opposite. Criminals, addicts and thugs are out there but in the minority and show me a picture of anyone looting electronics that was over 25 after day one of this mess.

I believe him, he's on site with police and been there since Monday afternoon. Decent people are all over that city and he himself saw "thuggish looking young men" (his words) pull a plywood board of food and drinks to stranded families they obviously didn't even know. We aren't hearing nearly all of what is going on in any sense but I'll take the word of the man on the scene who is a devout Baptist conservative Republican. When he says it, I believe it. As he said: "show me any place without criminals and here there are drug addicts on day 4 of withdrawal---they'll do anything"

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txindy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:13 PM
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26. Thanks for sharing that story
I believe your friend, too. Anyone who would loot for electronics or other luxury items after the first day is delusional in thinking there's anywhere to put the stuff. They're in survival mode, now. They've seen the bigger picture. Too bad this admin. hasn't - or refuses to bother.
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Rude Horner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:01 PM
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5. Easy to say
when you've got all the food and water you need. This stuff coming out of the administration is absolutely disgusting.
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:03 PM
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7. Ways? If so why haven't they DONE IT?!
These people are so out of touch.
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:03 PM
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8. Have him do his reporting from the convention center. What a dope.
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sub.theory Donating Member (293 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:03 PM
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9. Burn in Hell, Scott
The Devil take you. You are absolutely diabolical.
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:03 PM
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10. Proof that compassionate conservatism is an oxymoron...
and that somewhere several years ago a pig screwed a snake and the product of that coupling was Scotty.
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txindy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:06 PM
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13. Scotty has quite obviously never missed a meal or snack in his life
He needs to shut his jowls. His complicity in all of this is going to come back and bite his mother in her well-fed posterior when she tries to run for governor here in TX.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:06 PM
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14. Easy for the smug freshly showered well fed arrogant POS to
say as he knows where he will be sleeping tonight, in a bed with clean sheets after eating a hot meal. Ah crap! :argh: I want them to keep on saying these callous things! More they talk the more people are going to see them for what they are! Evil callous pricks!
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:08 PM
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16. He may as well have told all those people at the Convention Center
Please, just die.
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mondo joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:09 PM
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19. What a fucking moron. Honestly.
It's perfectly evident that even if SOME are, most are NOT getting food OR water.

In the Convention Center they've had 2,000 people with NONE.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:10 PM
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21. Take away his cafeteria card
and make him shit in the bushes for a week. I'll bet he'll want to revise and extend his remarks by then.
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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:12 PM
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23. Because Bush needs Body Count! Body Count! Body Count!
Let the bodies hit the floor! Let the bodies hit the floor! Let the bodies hit the floor!

1) Nothing Wrong with me.
2) Nothing Wrong with me.
3) Somethings got to give.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOW!

Let the bodies hit the floor! Let the bodies hit the floor! Let the bodies hit the floor!
UUUUURRRRRRAT!


:mad: :grr: :banghead:
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:12 PM
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24. I guess they better go arrest every NOLA and LASP officer in the city then
because they've HAD to loot their own food and water to survive and do their jobs.

This whole administration can just go fuck themselves. :nuke:
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:12 PM
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25. Moron. Total. F'ing. Moron.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:14 PM
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27. 'Ve haf vays of makink you drink'
:banghead:
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:15 PM
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28. Hey Scotty.
FUCK YOU, YOU SCUM, YOU VILE PUTRID PUSBAG.

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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:16 PM
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29. Said the doughy little man whose hands have never known a callus.
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linazelle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:16 PM
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30. Well why don't they fucking get it there then? nt
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spuddonna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:18 PM
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31. McClellan - Kiss my bright white heiny...
"We have ways to get them the supplies they need, looting is not the answer."

Hey, Scotty, I might have believed you if I hadn't heard on WWL that 100 people died in St. Bernard today from dehydration, exhaustion and illness related to this mess...

:mad:

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fishwax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:19 PM
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32. they have ways, they're just not using them
assholes!
:grr:
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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:28 PM
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33. How about McClelland and B* not eat or drink until these people get the...
Edited on Thu Sep-01-05 10:31 PM by I Have A Dream
supplies that they need from the government. Maybe then they'd change their tune and be more empathetic.
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