Positive News

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   jobiuspublius

   September 2, 2005 at 11:10 am

   Joe backed up his arguments with a lot of good information. His heart’s in the right place and being an cop/ex-cop his opinion carries weight doe to experience and training.

   And i resent you awarding the honorary title of “(the resident spammer) to post all of his off topic rants” to anybody but me. :P

   www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=616&topicId=125…

   FSU-Miami game to force storm victims out of Tallahassee hotels
   Times staff writers
   kat+

   TALLAHASSEE – Hundreds of refugees from Hurricane Katrina say they are being forced to leave Tallahassee hotels to accommodate fans coming to town for the Miami-Florida State game Monday night.

   “There is absolutely no compassion here whatsoever,” Lynne Bernard wrote on a bulletin board on the Web site of the Times-Picayune of New Orleans. “The Hampton Inn in Tallahassee is pretty much throwing us out because of a football game.”

   Hoteliers said they had to honor long-standing reservations for the football weekend. At the Courtyard Marriott near the Capitol, evacuees were in 15 of the hotel’s 154 rooms on Wednesday. A Quality Inn had several dozen of its 90 rooms filled by storm refugees.

   Antwan Hinkle, front desk manager at the Quality Inn, said it would be unfair to people who have planned trips for months if they were told just days before the game they no longer had rooms.

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   yet another jeff

   September 2, 2005 at 11:17 am

   Hey, that’s unfair…I live in Tallahassee and I know that there will be buckets for Red Cross donations at the game, so people that booted the folks out of their hotels will have a funded shelter.

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   jobiuspublius

   September 2, 2005 at 11:19 am

   today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2005-09-02T141637Z_01_N0…
   ~35 minutes ago:

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   Carnival Cruise mulls US request for Katrina help
   Fri Sep 2, 2005 10:17 AM ET
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   NEW YORK, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Carnival Cruise Lines (CCL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Friday said it was weighing a federal government request to use some of its 21 ships to help victims of Hurricane Katrina.

   Public relations coordinator Irene Lui could not comment on whether the company had been asked to turn them into floating hotels off the U.S. Gulf Coast or sail into New Orleans.

   One of the worst problems New Orleans faces is evacuating thousands of stranded and desperate people under chaotic and dangerous conditions.

   “Although to undertake such an endeavor would involve many complicated issues, we are actively taking a look at it,” Carnival Cruise said in a statement.

   One of its ships, which will return to its base in Mobile, Alabama, tomorrow, can hold as many as 1,452 people, Lui said.

   Other bigger ships can hold as many as 3,000 people.

   The cruise line also has two ships that normally dock in New Orleans. “They’re not there at this time, obviously,” Lui said. It has two ships based in Galveston, Texas, she added. (Additional reporting by Jui Chakravorty)

   ~19 hours ago:

   Cruise lines debate use of ships to house Katrina victims

   By Tom Stieghorst
   Business Writer
   Posted September 1 2005
   The government asked South Florida’s cruise industry on Wednesday to consider housing storm victims in New Orleans, as the humanitarian crisis there intensified and many routes into and out of the city remained under water.
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   salvage

   September 2, 2005 at 11:19 am

   very cool, still depressed as hell but that is heartening.

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   Mr.Ortiz

   September 2, 2005 at 11:27 am

   Since this is an open thread…

   This is disturbing: Click on Mr. Bill

   Note: this is from early 2004, so don’t go writing nasty emails to the webmaster.

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   ppGaz

   September 2, 2005 at 11:31 am

   Through the smoke, the flowing sewage, the hospital that is just letting the sickest die for lack of ability to care for them, the dehydrated and desperate hordes, the human calamity …..

   Look, everyone! Someone in Texas brought donuts! That’s positive news!

   Positive news to me would be that the entire potatohead government has resigned, and along with it, the municipal government of New Orleans, and the government of the State of Louisiana.

   Oh, and FEMA director Brown has been fired by Donald Trump, and dropped into the Superdome to minister directly to the people trapped there.

   I’m watching Bush being briefed down in Mobile.

   Brown: We just got hit by a worst case situation here.

   This is worse than a bad made-for-tv movie at this point. These idiots are doing a prolonged PR and photo-op here and saying to each other things that CNN was saying 4 days ago.

   Your tax dollars at work.

   —-/

   To the brotherhood, I say again, don’t pay any attention to those who want to dissuade you from saying what you think is the truth about this giant clusterfuck. I went along with that for 2 days, and I was wrong. I wish I had those two days back to pour it on these incompetant, self-serving crapheads.

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   BinkyBoy

   September 2, 2005 at 11:31 am

   Wow Ortiz, thats just…. ummm, something.

   Hmmmm makes you think, eh?

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   Mr.Ortiz

   September 2, 2005 at 11:41 am

   Same link as above: the alligator and catfish videos are also … instructive.

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   Jim Caputo

   September 2, 2005 at 11:58 am

   I’m watching Bush being briefed down in Mobile.
   This is worse than a bad made-for-tv movie at this point. These idiots are doing a prolonged PR and photo-op here and saying to each other things that CNN was saying 4 days ago.

   I came on to comment about the same thing. I’m watching them point out the obvious to each other as if it’s breaking news of which the president hasn’t yet been made aware.

   And does anyone really think he’d be briefed on this stuff alone? Wouldn’t he have the government people who are going to head up relief efforts in different areas there? Or is Bush going to brief those people?

   As ppGaz said, this is nothing more than a photo-op. It’s embarrassing. At this point in the process, Bush should be telling us about what’s being done to relieve the suffering. This late in the game he’s just being told what the damage is??? We’re supposed to believe that??? We’ve all known that for days. But considering that FEMA just found out yesterday that there were thousands of people in the Superdome waiting for relief, I guess it’s understandable.

   Meanwhile, poor Condi had to cut her vacation short. Not because of the hurricane and the disaster, but because it got reported in the media that she decided that Broadway and 5th Avenue shopping were the best things she could do during the worst natural crisis this administration has faced.

   Oh, and Dick Cheney…remember Dick?…he was on vacation in Wyoming when the hurricane hit. Guess where he is now? STILL ON FUCKING VACATION IN WYOMING! Yeah, no reason to hurry on back to Washington, Dick.

   This administration is not just inept, immoral, and incompetent; they’re also the most arrogant and insensitive bunch of elitist pieces of shit in our nation’s history.

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    jobiuspublius

    September 2, 2005 at 1:05 pm

    I think I have finally found some positive news. I dont believe my self. In anycase, it comes from my imagination. We’re being offered help from around the world. We can use it. For instance, europe is willing to loan us some oil from their reserves. But, nothing in life is free. Maybe, the cost of the aid will be that we share Iraq. That could help us get out. I’m sorry. I’m trying.

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    mac Buckets

    September 2, 2005 at 4:25 pm

    What are the odds that Florida State would have the LESS offensive team name in Monday’s game?