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On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:31:07 GMT, slim <pickin's@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

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>felton wrote:
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>> On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:09:07 -0400, Phil <dogglebe@yahoooo.com> wrote:
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>> >Here's a portion of the Katrina timeline, as per CBC News:
>> >
>> >http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/katrina/katrina_timeline.html
>> >
>> >Aug. 28, 2005
>> >Katrina grows into a Category 5 storm with 260 km/h winds, and heads
>> >for the northern Gulf coast. Mayor Nagin orders a mandatory evacuation
>> >for New Orleans, but 10 shelters are also set up, including the
>> >Superdome, for those unable to leave. Evacuation orders are posted all
>> >along the Mississippi coast. Alabama Governor Bob Riley declares a
>> >state of emergency.
>> >
>> >Aug. 29, 2005
>> >Katrina, now a Category 4 hurricane with 230 km/h winds, makes
>> >landfall near Buras, La., at 6:10 a.m. CT (7:10 a.m. ET). U.S.
>> >President Bush makes emergency disaster declarations for Louisiana and
>> >Mississippi, freeing up federal funds. Katrina rips two holes in the
>> >Superdome's roof, with some 10,000 people inside. At least eight Gulf
>> >Coast refineries shut down or reduce operations. Airports close in New
>> >Orleans, Baton Rouge, La., Biloxi, Miss., Mobile, Ala., and Pensacola,
>> >Fla. Hundreds of flights are canceled or diverted.
>> >
>> >Aug. 30, 2005
>> >The death toll in Mississippi rises to more than 100. Two levees break
>> >in New Orleans and water pours in, covering 80 per cent of the city
>> >and rising in some areas to six metres deep. Many people climb onto
>> >roofs to escape. Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco says everyone
>> >still in New Orleans - an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 people - must be
>> >gotten out. Crowds swell at the Superdome and the convention centre in
>> >New Orleans. Rescuers in helicopters and boats pick up hundreds of
>> >stranded people in New Orleans, and reports of looting begin to
>> >emerge. About 40,000 people are in American Red Cross shelters, not
>> >including in New Orleans. President Bush cuts short his vacation.
>> >
>> >
>> >Read August twenty-ninth carefully.  The day the hurricane reached New
>> >Orleans, Bush took action.
>> >
>> >
>> >Phil
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>> 
>> Oh please.
>> 
>> Here is a much more detailed timeline that reflects just how much
>> "action" the Bush administration took.
>> 
>> http://www.thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline
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>Don't tell Phil the facts.
>
>He's only interested in beer and hero-worship.
>
>The truth just RUINS his buzz as he drools over his
>"Ghoulee At Ground Zero" and "Bush on Carrier with Codpiece"
>photos.


It's funny, Mike, how you slammed Giuliani over how he should've
waited before sending anyone in to Ground Zero so soon after 9/11, and
how you now slam Bush for not immediately jumping into New Orleans.

Decide now:  should the government jump in blindly, or should it wait
and look over the situation when disasters happen?


Phil
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