LiberalVoice
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Mon Sep-12-05 10:40 AM
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A problem with this weeks Top 10 Conservative Idiots |
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Edited on Mon Sep-12-05 10:44 AM by LiberalVoice
In like 8 or 9 of the Top Ten there was mention of "Thousands of dead". Isn't it a little too soon to be saying stuff like that? :shrug:
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Bluzmann57
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Mon Sep-12-05 10:43 AM
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1. Don't know the answer to your question |
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but another problem is that it's only a Top Ten list. So many idiots, so little time...Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, Beck, all the right wing extremist "broadcasters" who are beating the drum for the bush "administration".
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Mon Sep-12-05 11:05 AM
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2. The death toll will be in the thousands... |
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the only question is how many tens of thousands it will be....
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LiberalVoice
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Mon Sep-12-05 04:21 PM
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3. Well it wont be in the tens of thousands. |
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So far its only at about 400.
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Mon Sep-12-05 04:42 PM
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"So far its only at about 400" Says who?
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LiberalVoice
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Mon Sep-12-05 05:38 PM
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6. Says all the news I've seen or read. |
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Mon Sep-12-05 05:47 PM
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Mon Sep-12-05 05:59 PM
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Tue Sep-13-05 07:46 AM
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9. If you think the death toll will top out at 500 |
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then you've got your head in the sand.
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Tue Sep-13-05 05:57 PM
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Funny I dont remember saying anything evewn remotely like that. I wonder where you could have possible gotten that idea from.
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Tue Sep-13-05 06:29 PM
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12. your post just makes it sound like you misread some news items |
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there are already 400-plus CONFIRMED dead in louisiana alone with many thousands left to collect & identify
there are additionally many hundreds CONFIRMED dead in mississippi with probably another thousand left to collect & identify
yr post makes it sound like you heard the latest count of confirmed, identified dead from louisiana, which is 400-plus, and just assumed that this was the total
not even close
please don't forget the heart-breaking death and devastation on the coast
there is no doubt whatsoever that thousands have died
ppl are touchy about this esp. if you do have a friend or family member who died
it's hard you know?
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Tue Sep-13-05 06:33 PM
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13. One number is the confirmed dead and the others are estimates |
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There is a number for the confirmed dead, where they have identified the bodies. That is slowly creeping up, but it still way below where it will eventually be as they find more bodies in the floodwaters.
I don't know if it will end up in the tens of thousands -- those were the original guesses from computer models and what the local authorities feared. Hopefully, it will turn out to be much less. But I think "thousands" is a safe assumption at this point.
However, I can't begrudge someone who would prefer to wait for the confirmations. I don't think anyone thought 9/11 would "only" be 2,900.
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Tue Sep-13-05 06:37 PM
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My only question was, with the death toll having been around 400 when I posted this, isn't it a bit too soon to be saying thousands dead?Initially estimates had it around 10,000. all im saying is that people shouldn't be saying there are thousands dead until we know there are actually thousands dead.
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Mon Sep-12-05 04:45 PM
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5. Has CNN done anything with it's great "win" in that |
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lawsuit yet? No? Has ANY outlet even mentioned St. Gabriel or projected figures, or how the accounting is to be done? No?
Some legitimate, unanswered questions here.
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Tue Sep-13-05 06:27 PM
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thousands of dead is thousands of dead
1,500 known dead if not collected yet & their names taken in st. bernard parish alone
1,000 dead in biloxi alone
thats "thousands" right there without even counting nawlins or any of the other many hard-hit towns & cities like gulfport
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