CNN's Jean Meserve pointing out section of NO not searched for bodies

Interviewing someone who said that even though the govt claims the homes have been searched and they "just ran out of paint" to mark them, he can smell the bodies as he goes past the homes, and there are other indications that the homes haven't been searched. This is in the 9th Ward, a section with over 100 homes.

And scarce resources have been diverted to the Bush photo-ops.

that is a densly populated ward with lots of poor less mobile people and it will add a lot to the body count. ran out of paint my arse.

Now I am sarcasticly laughing.....Pathetic.

Where can I send $50.00.......that will by 5 gallons of paint and brushes............

They are going to bulldoze those homes and get rid of the eveidence.....Where is Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton,.....why are they not making NOISE......

fema, just say where, there are plenty of people who can deliver some damn paint

this is bullshit

:sarcasm:

African Americans as less than human. Why spend good money searching for their dead?

I so detest * and all his minions.

Gawd knows I wouldn't defend FEMA.

However, I did read yesterday that residents coming back to New Orleans were beginning to deal with refrigerators and freezers that had sat for a month in high temperatures.

I'm guessing that some of the smells may be due to that. I can't recall where I read the article- it was either CNN or MSNBC- but one doctor was quoted as saying that the stench from the rotting food was worse than any smell from the autopsies he'd performed on bodies that had been found floating at the height of summer (in whatever city he happened to be working in -- he wasn't commenting on the floating bodies from New Orleans).

refrigerators were still closed? I remember a story about a restaurant owner who needed a gas mask while cleaning up his restaurant, but I was assuming he noticed the smell only when the appliances were opened, when he started to clean.

After a month, yeah. Plus, some of the appliances were likely upended in the flood waters, opening some of the doors.

Honestly, it isn't a smell I'd like to experience.

after this length of time (actually a much shorter length of time), appliance doors could very well have "exploded" with the swelling of the rotting food.

- 15 years in property management - and I can state that with a clear conscience - I always looked forward to the day that I didn't have to open the refrigerator ever again - it never happened.

You could walk into a "ready" unit and not know if the fridge was clean without opening the door - it had to be done just to make certain there wasn't something rotting in there.

The doctor may be correct in that the stench from the food was worse...but the smells are completely different.

Haven't had reason to personally confirm it. But I was thinking this as I read this thread.

Well of course my dear you are not smelling dead bodies it is the rotten peas, now, now, don't trouble your pretty little head about it. It is all over now and you need to think happy thoughts and stop fretting about FEMA withholding help, all those dead people (they did bad things don't you know) and the nobid contracts. ARGGGGGGGG!

:sarcasm:

is like no other smell. Horrible in a unique way.

C'mon people, priorities, priorities.

and who cares about poor people anyway, they're not worth counting when you run out of paint. Don't want to tip the dead body count over 1,000+ in NO. The governments of this country become more disgraceful and disgusting with each day.

... he's from there and went to take care of some relatives. He said the stench begins around Mobile and continues thru Louisiana. In his opinion there's "thousands" of bodies that haven't been found yet.

the recovery of the dead bodies and provide the actual number of dead.

is probably coming from domesticated and wild animals, but no doubt there are many more human bodies to be found.

its the poor and black section of town, they will pick them up and throw them away with the trash. DIRTY BASTARDS

so those people apparently hadn't evacuated.

and the involvement of those people in NO body collection and burial. May be worth pursuing with some of the more sympathetic of corporate media.

burial folks will get paid for bodies they bury if these bodies were not in the public body count?

Otherwise they might have had an incentive to actually find them.
And ACCOUNT for them, all of them.

bulldozed to begin the rebuilding? A simple way of hiding bushie's sins.

It is past time that some missing lists are posted so the disposition of those 10,000 or so can be determined.

"rescuers arrested for looting paint" :sarcasm:

first they let hundreds, likely thousands, of poor people either drown or suffocate by not sending in an army of rescuers with axes and chainsaws to open every residential attic within days of the flood . . . now they ignore the remains of the people they killed, because they're only poor and black and not really worth the effort, don'tcha know . . .

it really IS inhuman . . . seems the true meaning of compassionate conservatism really is "kill 'em all and let God sort it out" . . .

Michael Moores letter today? He has been in New Orleans for a month and he says that lots of people still have not seen FEMA or Red Cross......it's as if Katrina victimes are no longer important.( I read that Hurricane Andrew had 28,000 destroyed and Katrina had 350,000......)it shows you what type of society we are....on to the next non story....don't want KATRINA NEWS ....it just reminds us all of all the fuck ups.....we should be demanding the media to cover it! They are still chasing that friggin Aruba story!!Katrina news would remind people that there are people who still need help and lots of it and remind them that the government is not taking care of you!!!!

Anderson Cooper... let's email him and suggest he crank it up a notch or two. Perhaps Moore should get in touch with him too. Not a bad idea, showing Anderson what's still REALLY going on down there since Anderson left.

The comments from the lady were also very interesting.
Edit -sp.

Very few people are calling in to clear names from the lists now. There is no centralized list. No money has been spent to try to consolidate and cross reference the lists. No efforts have been made to remove duplicate record or collect information for incomplete records. No follow-up calls have been made to clear names.

The government is AWOL. The amount of money the government has spent on this is about $0.00.

and finding bodies of their families where they died. the walls say they searched the place and found no one but they are finding their loved ones inside, dead. God help us all for the shame and horror of this.

I have changed my religion. I can't be a Christian anymore until this whole business is fixed and sanity returns.

of even IDENTIFIED bodies - with subsequent refusal to admit they exist - collected in this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4949027
thread title: LAT: "Families Lose Loved Ones Again- in a Bureaucratic Mire" BODIES TAKEN

Remember, the morticians were told to expect up to 40,000 bodies:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4674804

they were going to bulldose the homes there..wonder if that is before they search them or after...gosh..this just makes me so sick..what has this country become..i never in all my life thought i would see such criminal activity in my nation...my heart is ripping apart!

and these damn bastards have the nerve to call themselves christians...what freaking nerve!

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