Folks,

[USP45usp]

Let's sit back, take a breath, and think. With everything going on in my life right now, I'm thinking on many things right now.

Yet we need to get off some of the things that we've been posting, in relation to New Orleans.

Some of the replies, some of the posts, are not TFL material.

We lost a city. We lost many people, fellow American's. We have been hit hard by mother nature. We've lost many things and people.

We need to direct our time, our resources, and ourselves to the task at hand. We need to come together and help where we can.

Lets leave the blame games, behind. N.O. and the people are doing much better now, they are getting out. Let's put our energies toward that and then figure out the other things later.

Wayne

A slip, I have more then one window open at a time, maybe not good in some areas of when one is posting.

 

[Al Norris]

Some of the replies, some of the posts, are not THR material.

Thank goodness this isn't THR....

(Sorry, couldn't resist! )

 

[USP45usp]

Anti,

Good catch, my bad.

TFL, THR... only a few charactors apart, and both known to me.

Wayne

 

[butch50]

You are right Wayne.

Now is a time for positive action. Later when the dust is settled, and our neighbors have been taken care of, and we have a data base of factual information, then we can figure out how to do better next time. For now, there isn't enough solid factual information to make informed judgements, or even good guesses.

Let us leave the hatred, and the racisit remarks, and the bitterness, for lesser people on lesser forums. Right now Americans need help, and that is all that we need to know. Helping them is all that we need to do.

 

[Al Norris]

Anti,
TFL, THR... only a few charactors apart, and both known to me.

As well, to me. (what else I have to say about that... nuff said.)

You are right, though. There will be enough time to place any blame, after the immediate S&R is done.

 

[animal]

true words. I concur.

 

[Capt. Charlie]

Well put, Wayne!

 

[Ptown Beretta]

I agree that positive action is in order. I plan on purchasing the necessary materials and supplies to survive at least one week before authorities show.

 

[Sulaco2]

I concur BUT. The enemies of freedom are on the march using the storm as ammo for their side. No rest for the wicked or us for that matter. This is no time to take a rest, snooze and we all loose to the leftists who are determined to institute a socialist state. Do what we can to help but keep in mind that not all those moving to action are our friends or friends of the US.

 

[Rebar]

You should tell Hillary that:

With many blaming the growing scope of Katrina's devastation on the Bush administration, Sen. Hillary Clinton called yesterday for a 9/11-style probe into how the federal government responded to the crisis.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/343489p-293306c.html

 

[Pointer]

Maybe we have all taken the same track as the Mayor of New Orleans?

I think NOT

Perhaps we have been too critical?

The people who have survived, need to be brought out and housed and clothed and fed and given water and whatever else they need.

However, I would be a lot more motivated... if I could tell the difference bewteen the deserving and the undeserving, and if I could believe that they would do the same for me.

BUT the majority of faces I saw being given "airtime", were cussing everybody else. Seeking to blame anybody else. And generally turning me OFF.

New Orleans Mayor, "what's-his-name" was typical and the news media and "national organizations" who claim to be "representative" of these people, have done absolutely nothing to help, except to stir up a whole lot of crap.

Perhaps they will learn from all of this;
"You can't stir it up without getting some of it on ya."

You are right! we must be magnanimous and charitable and help all of them because we cannot descriminate between the hard-working decent folk and the rotten ones.

God bless those poor "broken" people...
there will be time enough to curse the rest.

 

[AndrewTB]

Lets not just focuse on New Orleans. Lets not forget about Bilouxi and Gulfport. The folks there have also been days without food and havent complained nor pulled the race card. The only difference is NO is under water. Either way all the places hit should be treated as one. A very bad hurricane victim!

 

[Eghad]

I plan on donating some clothes that I dont need and some money that I can spare.....

FYI Rebar you left out the parts about John not to mention Kyl, Collins calling for an investigation and Trent Lott's comments also Republicans aren't they

"Her call echoed statements of Republicans such as Arizona's Sen. John Kyl, chairman of the Technology and Homeland Security Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, who plans a hearing and has said the catastrophe in New Orleans could have a lot in common with a terror attack."