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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:09 PM
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I am AGAIN reduced to tears by what I am seeing
A woman was just shown on MSNBC, holding a child of perhaps 1 year old. The woman is crying and saying "My baby is not waking up easily. He needs water. This is not about rich or poor, black or white (she was white). This is about people. We need help now."

I am literally crying as I type this.

GOD PLEASE HELP THESE PEOPLE
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:10 PM
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1. Reporter now saying the police have left the convention center
Said Harry Connick Jr went and told the people he would do whatever he possibly could. The reporter described Connick as the 'only form of any authority whatsorever'.

People dying in their chairs.

babies dead

Reporter (cameraman actually) crying and saying he will NOT air what he's filmed.
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:11 PM
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2. Watching this
God Help Us All

Please please please
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:12 PM
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5. Tony Zumbado, NBC News cameraman
He is PISSED ... and rightly so
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:13 PM
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11. They're not looting
They're trying to SURVIVE ... said the cameraman
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info being Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:12 PM
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4. self-delete
Edited on Thu Sep-01-05 12:12 PM by info being
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:12 PM
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8. Live now on MSNBC
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:13 PM
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9. Harry Connick Jr ?
What the hell is going on?!?
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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:18 PM
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15. He cares
Unlike the government who stole our country, Harry Connick is doing whatever he can ... and maybe even by just being there he's helping a bit. I don't know what he's doing, specifically, but he is there on the ground .... unlike our GOVERNMENT
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:21 PM
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18. This show how low the state of our gov't is.
sad times :-(
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:15 PM
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13. But he needs to air it!!!
If that's what it will take to get them help, he needs ot. :cry:
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Saphire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:27 PM
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20. how will the people know unless he does?? this needs to be on
every front page of every newspaper in every country!!!
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:12 PM
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3. Me, too, my dear.
:cry: I can't stand it!!! They're just being abandoned. GAWD!!!
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Emit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:12 PM
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6. I saw a similar thing last night w/ a 5 day old baby! Breaks my heart!
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:12 PM
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7. me too
I'm sitting here balling:cry: This is so heart-breaking!
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Justyce Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:13 PM
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10. The media has
helicopters, vans, etc., and obviously they've gotten their reporters there since they are talking to the people & interviewing them. Are they pitching in & trying to help get people out at all??? I know they're worried about getting their story, but that would make a good story too... :(
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oldtime dfl_er Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:14 PM
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12. The mSNBC reporter on now
is heartbreaking. He said he couldn't even film some of what he saw -- the sanitation issues, the lack of food, the dead bodies. "Overwhelming" he said. And he added there were no authorities there. WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE AUTHORITIES? He said HARRY CONNICK JR was the only "Authority" in evidence.

This is killing those of us watching. We give money and give blood and wish we had helicopters so we could bring them water. IT'S SICKENING.


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William Bloode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:18 PM
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14. I thought i had a hard heart.
What i saw and the desperation of those people, my own frustration at the lack of action......i could'nt take it i cried, am crying like a baby.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:19 PM
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16. Ugh! Little chance of rain in NO after today
http://www.weather.com/activities/homeandgarden/home/weather/tenday.html?locid=70119&from=36hr_fcst10DayLink_home

The zip codes in the area are 7011# if that link doesn't work.

I certainly don't mean this as a sick joke. If it were to rain at least some water would be available. They could use buckets, shoes, their hands SOMETHING.

This is sad and amazingly sad to watch and I am just reading about it.

Pray hope dance whatever you can for rain.
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Bonhomme Richard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:21 PM
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17. What Fucking Country Do I Live In Anymore????
This is absolutely criminal.
I have no other words.
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bearfan454 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:25 PM
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19. This dimwit asshole bush is letting US citizens die !
Edited on Thu Sep-01-05 12:26 PM by bearfan454
WE WANT HELP NOW !!!!!!!!!!!! Fuck your rich friends this time George. Do your goddamn job you fucking idiot. What's the problem ? Is Karl not there to tell you what you are supposed to say and do ?
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 12:30 PM
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21. I cannot fucking bear this!
Drop water! Take them out!

This is NOT NECESSARY!!!!
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