Some really believe he was instrumental in securing the release of POWs. What a joke. Leaders of nations that are hostile toward us WANT him to look good. They would love nothing more than to have him in power, especially as president.

Evacuees, displaced persons, refugees, all the above are correct. But since Jesse complained, it’s REFUGEES for me.

Sorry, mixing threads… I know you’ll find the message anyway.

Maria, thanks for your wisdom and appreciation. I appreciate you and your discernment, too.

Ruth, thanks also. I’m guessing it was an effort to reduce congestion.

And to All at Camp Buzz, here’s a little love for a change. We could all use some about now, eh?

The horror . . . the horror . . .

We are indeed strangers in a strange land.

Get out of my face. We can call ourselves what we want.

The author that wrote that claptrap obviously was never trapped in that Superdome. Too bad.

Oh, well, then that’s okay. Carry on shooting!

By the way, a lot of schools are taking in students from the evacuation without the usual requirement of records. See:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/01/AR2005090102132.html

Sounds like a quite good description of some NO citizen, who had to flee from the impact of Katrina and the flood and who is now in another state. What’s wrong with that? National pride doesn’t concede that there are refugees in the US?

Pat Robertson has sent more aid to the evacuees then Jessie and Al have and he didn’t go grandstanding down to Louisiana to do it, either. Perhaps Jessie and Al can come back when they get the water out of NOLA, they will need alot of hot air to dry the place out.

The only black people in Louisiana who like Jessie and Al are the elites. The average working folks see them for what they are-con men who make a very good living off of tossing around The Race Card(TM).

Jesse Jackson may be a pinhead, but he has a point.

It takes a sick mind to wax poetic garbage like this.

As for “refugees,” there is a legal definition in U.S. immigration law, and a summary is here: “Refugees and asylees are applicants for admission who claim to be fleeing their homeland due to persecution or the fear of persecution. Refugees apply from abroad and are subject to a numerical limit. Asylees apply from the within the U.S.”

So, while “refugee” is not the legally correct term, I propose that we use it just as a way of telling Jesse where to stick it.

….who worked with the poorest of the poor in pre-disaster New
Orleans. Submitted without editorial comment:

“May I add that having lived 15 years in the low income, black Treme
area of New Orleans for 15 years, that the armed looters you see on TV
are people who never, ever had any power in pre-catastrophe New
Orleans. They didn’t have the power to stand up to crooked landlords
who charged them high rents to live in uninhabitable housing. When
they tried to stand up they always lost. Always. I saw it every day
I lived there.

These are people who never thought they would live to age of 20. (I
quote several kids I know) and who yet longed to “be somebody.” And
now, for a period of about 48 hours, they were Somebody. They had
guns. They knew they would never be rescued, who ever cared about
them? No one at all. They have no trust that anyone would ever care,
but for now, they have power for the first and the last time in their
young lives, as Gov. Kathleen Blanco orders National Guard troops to
shoot to kill. They knew it was going to end this way from the moment
they were born. But for a few days, they were kings.”

If the report is accurate, I’m not sure what else you can call people who have been shooting at relief workers since Wednesday, making the rescue and repair efforts even more dangerous and time-consuming than they already are.

Maybe they mean this:

OMG. Report now on WWL of a cheaper hotel that still has victims stranded inside (the reporters waded through hip-deep water)–and 10 NOPD “officers” who looted and then commandeered the upper floors. On camera, one of the men brandished a pistol and admitted to being NOPD.

These things are all just rumors right now. Someday there are going to be a lot of stories to tell, and not all of them are going to be pretty.

BTW, I am picking this stuff up here. I suggest you all go pay a visit.