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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 02:57 PM
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God damn it, just put ME in charge!
Edited on Thu Sep-01-05 03:09 PM by Redstone
Give me the authority, give me a staff of ten people, and a communications center with a staff of twenty, and I'll have those people flying out of New Orleans by the planeload within eighteen hours. And ALL of them out forty-eight hours after that. And food and water for the ones who are waiting. I'm dead serious.

And I'll bet every cent I own that out of the 70,000 DUers, there are five thousand other people who could do it every bit as well as I could.

It ain't fucking rocket science. What is WRONG with those "authorities" down there?

Redstone
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Sugar Smack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:02 PM
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1. In a perfect world, my dear Redstone.
:hug:
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:05 PM
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2. A sense of urgency is needed.
The federal government doesn't have that. The hospital ship is leaving Baltimore TOMORROW.

So many people are dying while the federal government dallies. We all saw this hurricane coming.

What is being done to the people of New Orleans?
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:23 PM
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9. It hasn't left yet??? WTF???? I thought it was supposed to be there
tomorrow.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:08 PM
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3. Oh, one other thing...
I'd need some amphetamines, too.

Redstone
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ohio_liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 05:52 PM
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12. I could hook you up
:hi:
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 05:54 PM
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13. Thanks. Now where's my airplane and staff?
Edited on Thu Sep-01-05 05:55 PM by Redstone
I'm ready to go now. I'll stop by on the way for the Black Beauties.

Redstone
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Not Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:15 PM
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4. I've been saying the same thing...
Like him or not, in NYC, by noon it was clear on 9/11 that Rudy was going to be calling the shots...coordinating FEMA, National Guard, etc. And Pataki, *ush, et al stood back and let him lead.

Where is the leadership here????
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:19 PM
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5. Anybody who's ever run a company or division of a company, or even a
decent-size construction project (not to mention a lot of people who have been military officers - there have been plenty of good ones) could do it.

Like I said, it isn't rocket science. It's logistics.

Redstone
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mtnester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:20 PM
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6. This is what happens when adults are NOT in charge
I agree with you 150% on this
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lildreamer316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:22 PM
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7. Lett's f*&king go.
As soon as I can get my baby to my family to take care of him.
I wish this were true..........
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 05:51 PM
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11. Would that we could. We could kick some ass and save some people.
Redstone
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libertypirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:22 PM
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8. When you elect managers instead of leaders...
This is the end game in a emergency... Managers don't think, leaders do...
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 03:31 PM
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10. But even managers can organize! These people can't seem to find their
asses with both hands!

Redstone
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Just Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 06:00 PM
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14. They're dependent on the all-powerful feds who don't give a fuck.
The local and state authorities provided notice. The scientists provided notice. The engineers provided notice.

The BushCO/neoCON run feds waited, weighing materialism and cost to their profiteering against human life.

And, yes, I HATE those evil pricks!!! I wish GOD would strike them down with the suffering and death they have delivered to others.
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