On Jan 14, 3:48*pm, Loogypicker wrote:
On Jan 14, 2:31*pm, Jack wrote:





On Jan 14, 11:04*am, Loogypicker wrote:

On Jan 14, 2:10*am, wrote:

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:56:46 -0800, "nom=de=plume"

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On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:55:39 -0800, "nom=de=plume"
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I believe one of the US ships is going to leave for Haiti shortly.

We are sending a hospital ship and the carrier Carl Vincent with a
bunch of helicopters.
I think they also should send a cruise ship or two to evacuate all the
foreigners. The airport is still basically down although they are
still taking some flights.

I was thinking that they should send a cruise ship also, but not for
evacuation necessarily nor at first. I believe cruise ships volunteered
during Katrina... if I'm remembering that right.

Actually these Haitians are more resourceful than the people in NOLA.

And they are getting aid quicker to Haiti than they did in NOLA

The leaders of Haiti are smarter than the leaders of NOLA were. *Plus
there's no pesky federal law concerning state's rights to be obeyed by
the feds in this case.

Oh, yes, you can tell by their stringent building codes, their
excellent work in getting their economy back on track, their work on
keeping crime in check and their work in erradicating AIDS.

That's mainly driven by lack of money, which of course has nothing to
do their intelligence or the speed of getting aid from the US in this
disaster. Of course, you knew that.

The US offered, and the Haiti leaders immediately accepted. The NOLA
leaders did not, and failed to follow the guidelines that would
*allow* the feds to even come into the state quickly. With all the
money, technology, communications, and modern transportation
advantages that that the NOLA leaders enjoyed, the fact that they
screwed it up so bad is criminal. Nagin and Blanco belong in federal
prison.