On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Alma J Wetzker wrote: > Lonni J Friedman wrote: > > Wow, that's quite a propaganda piece. Cute how they based their > > conclusions off of what they're seeing on Dubya^H^H^Fox News. > > > > Now for anyone interested in reading the other side of the story, from > > people who are actually going through this disaster, skim through all the > > entries on BoingBoing related to Katrina: > > http://www.boingboing.net/ > > > > And before someone says it, yes, i know, boingboing hates the Bush > > administration (hell, there's an "Impeach Bush" banner ad on the site). > > However, at least they're providing first person sources, rather than crap > > from the media which has a very obvious slant. > > > > My wife's comment on listening to NPR the other day was, "Things must be > getting better, they are using personal accounts now for news."
She must be listening to a different NPR than I do. Every report i've heard has been nothing but grim reaper misery. > I am not pointing to the piece that Bruce posted, but something > significantly different is happening in NOLA from what is happening in > other parts of the disaster area. It is also considerably different > from what has happened in other disasters. I can't explain it. Other parts of the disaster area aren't under 15 feet of water. I don't see why any of this is so puzzling. If your city was decimated over night, you'd see mass chaos too. When civilization is destroyed, society breaks down. > > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Bruce Marshall wrote: > > > > > >> > >>You make your own decision. > >> > >> By Robert Tracinski > >> > >> > >> > >> It has taken four long days for state and federal officials to > >> > >> Source: TIA Daily -- September 2, 2005 > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > Unsub/Pause/Etc : http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] Unsub/Pause/Etc : http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
