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The Misery

By Jeralyn, Section Huricanes Katrina and Rita
Posted on Sat Sep 03, 2005 at 05:39:14 PM EST
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We should never again in our lifetimes have to see pictures like this in our country.

[Source: the Guardian]

New Orleans has been left to the dead and dying.

Update: John Amato of Crooks and Liars expresses his thoughts on the devastation here at Huffington Post.

Update: Hunter at Daily Kos: Unforgivable.

The Sunday Observer:

It is clear from talking to survivors that what happened in New Orleans last week was far more extensive, bloody and terrifying than the authorities have admitted so far.

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    The Misery | 13 comments (13 topical)
    Re: The Misery (none / 0) (#1)
    by aw on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:10 PM EST
    Bush surprised that "there are white folks here, too."

    Re: The Misery (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:10 PM EST
    Damn!! That is not something you would ever expect to see here! The Guardian huh? Didnt' find it on a U.S. paper then. Wonder if there is a reason for that.

    Re: The Misery (none / 0) (#3)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:10 PM EST
    deleted

    Re: The Misery (none / 0) (#4)
    by Che's Lounge on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:10 PM EST
    Mother nature does not discriminate. Are we not yet humbled and chastened by her power? Will we respect our planet now?

    Re: The Misery (none / 0) (#5)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:10 PM EST
    Possible gasoline gouging probed Attorney general checking into possible price hikes following Katrina.
    State Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Friday launched a probe into possible price gouging by gas and oil companies following Hurricane Katrina. He said the investigation was prompted by complaints from California residents about rising gas prices after the hurricane, which destroyed oil platforms and damaged refineries along the Gulf Coast. "Hurricane Katrina has broken families, devastated communities and destroyed lives," Lockyer said. "To unjustly profit from tragedy is unconscionable." The investigation will examine whether oil companies or retailers violated antitrust or unfair business practice laws. It also will examine whether they broke a state law that bars retailers from raising prices more than 10 percent during government-declared emergencies.
    Some people have no empathy?

    Re: The Misery (none / 0) (#6)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:10 PM EST
    What a great pic for the mix. Damn foreigners.

    Re: The Misery (none / 0) (#7)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:10 PM EST
    deleted

    Re: The Misery (none / 0) (#8)
    by wishful on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:10 PM EST
    Caption: We are too blind to see, too deaf to hear the cries of agony from our brothers and sisters.

    Re: The Misery (none / 0) (#9)
    by Edger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:10 PM EST
    New Orleans Left to the Dead and Dying Sep 3, 8:34 PM (ET) By ALLEN G. BREED NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Thousands more bedraggled refugees were bused and airlifted to salvation Saturday, leaving the heart of New Orleans to the dead and dying, the elderly and frail stranded too many days without food, water or medical care. No one knows how many were killed by Hurricane Katrina's floods and how many more succumbed waiting to be rescued. But the bodies are everywhere: hidden in attics, floating among the ruined city, crumpled on wheelchairs, abandoned on highways...

    Re: The Misery (none / 0) (#10)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:11 PM EST
    What I read the woman on the left actually said was, "My patient is not dead, my patient is not dying, she just needs oxygen!" That photo is devastating. ("deleted"? That's the best thing I think I've heard PPJ say lately!)

    Re: The Misery (none / 0) (#11)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:11 PM EST
    Che wrote:
    Mother nature does not discriminate. Are we not yet humbled and chastened by her power? Will we respect our planet now?
    Che my friend, don't you know that we don't have to respect the planet! Sky god is going to rapture us magically away before things get too bad! And as for those unusually warm 85 degree temps in the Gulf of Mexico that sustained Katrina as a catagory 5 until landfall, that's not a sign of global warming, it's a liberal commie trick to get you to drink soy milk and not bathe! Just keep repeating to yourself, "Economic growth is good, conservation of finite resources is bad", until you've breathed in enough carbon dioxide to make you believe you're floating away, wa'la, the rapture!

    Re: The Misery (none / 0) (#13)
    by Che's Lounge on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:12 PM EST
    DA, The women in the picture are not muddling through. How can you breathe with your head so far.... ...into the sand.

    Re: The Misery (none / 0) (#14)
    by wishful on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:12 PM EST
    Che, Unfortunately, extreme free market capitalists think that exactly what is supposed to happen is happenng. In their puny minds, we are indeed muddling through. Money talks and ****** drown and die of dehydration and disease in the face of an act of their G*d, and we (the royal we) are not responsible for helping them. The free market will take care of all things in the only acceptable way. It is a force whose destruction is not to be ameliorated.

    The Misery | 13 comments (13 topical)