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| A week ago Sunday, the 5th, I caught the front end of Russerts 'Meet The
Press' and he had Jefferson Parrish, LA president Aaron Broussard on there
delivering an emotionally charged message about a friends mother that
finally succumbed to drowning after pleading for help for 4 days, he was
wailing and sobbing uncontrollably. It was something else. He blamed FEMA
over and over.
Now I'm no fan of FEMA, and Broussard's words kinda got to me.
But now the Blogs have done what they do best, reveal the truth.
Aaron Broussard is a big fat lying fuckhead and should be brought up on
charges.
The mother that Broussard spoke of died the previous Monday, 4 days BEFORE
the son spoke to her and said she died.
I felt sorry for that guy, I felt sorry for the friend/son, I felt sorry for
the mother that supposedly pleaded for help for days, I wanted to beat some
FEMA XXX.
And now this.
The truth came out and the guy is a fucking liar.
Anybody wanna buy a TV, real cheap?
It only has 3 bullet holes.........
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"Don" <one-if-by-land@concord.com> wrote in message
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>A week ago Sunday, the 5th, I caught the front end of Russerts 'Meet The
>Press' and he had Jefferson Parrish, LA president Aaron Broussard on there
>delivering an emotionally charged message about a friends mother that
>finally succumbed to drowning after pleading for help for 4 days, he was
>wailing and sobbing uncontrollably. It was something else. He blamed FEMA
>over and over.
>
> Now I'm no fan of FEMA, and Broussard's words kinda got to me.
> But now the Blogs have done what they do best, reveal the truth.
>
> Aaron Broussard is a big fat lying fuckhead and should be brought up on
> charges.
>
> The mother that Broussard spoke of died the previous Monday, 4 days BEFORE
> the son spoke to her and said she died.
>
> I felt sorry for that guy, I felt sorry for the friend/son, I felt sorry
> for the mother that supposedly pleaded for help for days, I wanted to beat
> some FEMA XXX.
>
> And now this.
>
> The truth came out and the guy is a fucking liar.
>
> Anybody wanna buy a TV, real cheap?
> It only has 3 bullet holes.........
You can see the lyin' fuk right here:
http://tinyurl.com/7j2p5
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| RicodJour 2005-09-15, 2:21 am |
| Don wrote:
> A week ago Sunday, the 5th, I caught the front end of Russerts 'Meet The
> Press' and he had Jefferson Parrish, LA president Aaron Broussard on there
> delivering an emotionally charged message about a friends mother that
> finally succumbed to drowning after pleading for help for 4 days, he was
> wailing and sobbing uncontrollably. It was something else. He blamed FEMA
> over and over.
>
> Now I'm no fan of FEMA, and Broussard's words kinda got to me.
> But now the Blogs have done what they do best, reveal the truth.
>
> Aaron Broussard is a big fat lying fuckhead and should be brought up on
> charges.
>
> The mother that Broussard spoke of died the previous Monday, 4 days BEFORE
> the son spoke to her and said she died.
>
> I felt sorry for that guy, I felt sorry for the friend/son, I felt sorry for
> the mother that supposedly pleaded for help for days, I wanted to beat some
> FEMA XXX.
>
> And now this.
>
> The truth came out and the guy is a fucking liar.
>
> Anybody wanna buy a TV, real cheap?
> It only has 3 bullet holes.........
1). I saw that on the tube, too. If that guy was lying, he makes
Robert DeNiro look like a grade school actor.
2). The reports I've read say that Broussard was referring to that
nursing home where 34 people died. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9337631/
3). Information and disinformation are both in abundance. I wouldn't
put more credence in an unattributed blog than what I've read in
papers, probably less as I don't know the writer's slant.
4). If you've hit on what you think is a credible blog with new
information, share it.
5). There's enough blame to go around on this one. Moving infirm old
people long distances is inherently life threatening. Three died on
one of the first rescue buses out of NOLA.
R
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| "RicodJour"> wrote
> Don wrote:
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> 1). I saw that on the tube, too. If that guy was lying, he makes
> Robert DeNiro look like a grade school actor.
Indeed, it was stellar.
You can't even believe your own eyes anymore.
> 2). The reports I've read say that Broussard was referring to that
> nursing home where 34 people died. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9337631/
Yep. She died on Monday when the hurricane first hit. But Broussard said she
died the following Friday.
> 3). Information and disinformation are both in abundance. I wouldn't
> put more credence in an unattributed blog than what I've read in
> papers, probably less as I don't know the writer's slant.
I'm the exact opposite, except for the unattributed part.
I try to cross check everything.
> 4). If you've hit on what you think is a credible blog with new
> information, share it.
It started out at the site below, then hopped around to various other
places.
The msnbc link was involved.
I don't take the word of any one blog so I jump around to various.
www.newsnow.co.uk
I posted the above link awhile back, it is sort of a portal for lots of
blogs and I check it out everyday.
Amazingly I just now tried the link and it didn't work.
Got this message:
An internal server error has occurred.
Please try again later.
If the problem persists, please tell us.
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| RicodJour 2005-09-15, 4:21 am |
| Don wrote:
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> It started out at the site below, then hopped around to various other
> places.
> The msnbc link was involved.
> I don't take the word of any one blog so I jump around to various.
> www.newsnow.co.uk
>
> I posted the above link awhile back, it is sort of a portal for lots of
> blogs and I check it out everyday.
> Amazingly I just now tried the link and it didn't work.
> Got this message:
> An internal server error has occurred.
>
> Please try again later.
>
> If the problem persists, please tell us.
It still persisted. You're fired.
I've just done my due diligence and there are definite questions of
timing re: Broussard's account. A couple of things. I do believe the
man was near hysteria from the shit that was going on. Understandable.
The media certainly wasn't helping with their the-world-is-ending
coverage. I wouldn't get too worked up about one guy lying when a
camera is stuck in his face. It's not like he was lying about WMDs.
One guy is being singled out as a scapegoat. Did he lie or get his
facts wrong? Apparently so. Does that mean that there wasn't a HUGE
delay in getting help where it was needed on local and federal levels?
Of course not. The spin doctors are working at full throttle trying to
shift some blame and further political agendas. (Turn, retch, resume
reading)
It's a question of if, and how many, of the nursing home residents
would have died if things had gone differently. People would have died
no matter what.
The nursing home owners decided not to evacuate the people, so they're
first in line for the blame as they're the defacto legal guardians at
the time. Local officials would/should have been on the scene most
quickly, so they're next in line.
To sum up. On the one hand you have one guy lying either because he
didn't know what he was talking about and went for an emotional appeal
and/or he was working his own agenda. On the other hand you have
wholesale unpreparedness/incompetence (your choice). Which side is
"more" right? I'd say any group that has "emergency management" in its
name should be good at handling emergencies!
It's all about the greys.
R
PS Guy did tell a convincing story, though. D'ja think it might have
been a reason he got into politics in the first place?
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| Night_Seer 2005-09-15, 12:21 pm |
| RicodJour wrote:
> Don wrote:
>
>
>
> 1). I saw that on the tube, too. If that guy was lying, he makes
> Robert DeNiro look like a grade school actor.
> 2). The reports I've read say that Broussard was referring to that
> nursing home where 34 people died. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9337631/
> 3). Information and disinformation are both in abundance. I wouldn't
> put more credence in an unattributed blog than what I've read in
> papers, probably less as I don't know the writer's slant.
> 4). If you've hit on what you think is a credible blog with new
> information, share it.
> 5). There's enough blame to go around on this one. Moving infirm old
> people long distances is inherently life threatening. Three died on
> one of the first rescue buses out of NOLA.
>
> R
>
Exactly, if you have the blog link, I'd like to see it.
--
Night_Seer
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| > he was wailing and sobbing uncontrollably
In High School we had one of those mandatory time wasters that have nothing
to do with education. This one was a presentation by SADD (Students Against
Driving Drunk)(their campus supervisor was my guidance councellor. Useless.
Eventually fired for Guidance Councelling While Drunk). And somebody took
the stage and showed the slides and named the numbers. And somebody else got
on the stage and talked about some other angle. And some little high school
chick got up and did a teary story about her best friend getting wrapped
around (excuse me sniffle sniffle) a tree and (sniffle)... You get the
picture.
About a week later Mom comes back from a women's club gathering. They were
sitting around drinking tea and chatting and Missus Jones starts in on how
proud she is of her little Betsy who gave this speech for SADD last week and
how she can just turn on the tears right there when she needs to. No idea
how she does it. That girl is so talented.
I've pretty much filtered most public speaking through that ever since.
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| > The nursing home owners decided not to evacuate the people, so they're
> first in line for the blame as they're the defacto legal guardians at
(I'm talking generally here, not any specific case)
Thing that bugs me is that they are required to guess right and if they
guessed wrong it is assumed that any other guess they could have made would
be right. "You stayed in the frying pan and got burnt. You're going to jail
and losing all your money and licenses etc. because you didn't jump in to
the fire. You wouldn't have got burnt jumping into the fire. This is
obvious. Everybody knows that."
Often these situations involve people thousands of miles away saying "should
have known".
Yeah, well you should have told them.
One wonders what such armchair critics would do if dumped into a triage
situation. I wonder if that's maybe the best service that MASH did, putting
the reality of triage before the public's eye. Now, if only the public
understood analogy...
> wholesale unpreparedness/incompetence (your choice). Which side is
> "more" right?
The people who took care of themselves, who teamed up with their neighbours
to take care of their own. ;-)
> I'd say any group that has "emergency management" in its
> name should be good at handling emergencies!
They reason they're emergencies is because they aren't easy to handle? ;-)
> It's all about the greys.
Oh, gods, no. Not another Whitley Streiber freak....
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| > Yesterday, in brief snippets, I heard Bush, Blanco and Nagin *take
> responsibility* for their actions, or non-actions.
But there won't be any hangings, will there?
> Responsibilty is one more word in the American english that has been
reduced
> to meaninglessness.
My peeve is re: "sorry."
"Well, I said I was sorry, what more do you want?"
"I want you to _be_ sorry."
"Responsibility"
The car manufacturer is 20% responsible.
The vodka manufacturer is 20% responsible.
The bar/barkeep is 35% responsible.
The public utility company is 20% responsible.
The weather is 15% responsible.
That's 110% responsibility accounted for. It appears that Billy who went
out, swilled a litre of vodka in half an hour and drove his undermainted old
car into a telephone pole is -10% responsible. Apparently his death was
forced on him by exterior agents.
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| Aaron Broussard will probably run for gov at some point. He was the guy
who let people back into his parish within two or three days after
Katrina. The head cop down there was against it for several reasons,
but they did it any way. Broussard was hell bent on getting people back
into the area, which I thought was stupid. But what do I know.
On the blog deal, I saw an ariel picture of a school bus parking lot
full of buses. This was on a conservative blog, which they were
hammering the gov and locals about the shortage of buses to move people
out of the dome. I later came across the same picture on another site
which also had a "day after" picture of the same buses and lot, only
this picture showed the water almost covering up the front fenders.
It's pretty sad what some people will do for politics
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| All that stuff is ancient news by now Noel.
Try to keep up.
Or.
Get on with your own life.
Nagin was negligent for sure but that didn't stop him from dropping $900k on
a new crib in Dallas.
Move on.
What, did you think they'd slam 90k worth of nigga's in ta public school
buses?
Please.
You know better than that.
History backs me.
The smart boyz bought their way out and the rest fended for themselves, as
it should be.
Its called, *The Culling Of The Herd*.
Do you have a problem with that?
"noel" <nakins@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Aaron Broussard will probably run for gov at some point. He was the guy
> who let people back into his parish within two or three days after
> Katrina. The head cop down there was against it for several reasons,
> but they did it any way. Broussard was hell bent on getting people back
> into the area, which I thought was stupid. But what do I know.
>
> On the blog deal, I saw an ariel picture of a school bus parking lot
> full of buses. This was on a conservative blog, which they were
> hammering the gov and locals about the shortage of buses to move people
> out of the dome. I later came across the same picture on another site
> which also had a "day after" picture of the same buses and lot, only
> this picture showed the water almost covering up the front fenders.
>
> It's pretty sad what some people will do for politics
>
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