"This is America? This is an outrage."- Page 6
"This is America? This is an outrage."
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#125re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 2:33pm
and the point of all that is?
#126re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 2:34pmshould've known it was RodneyK !!! Thought the posts sounded familiar.
#127re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 2:35pmI knew there was something that bugged me about JackBobbies
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#128re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 2:35pm
Though the spelling seems to have improved!
Hooked on Phonics?
#130re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 2:37pmI was wondering why my hemorrhoids were inflamed !!!!
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#131re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 2:47pm
Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha. Ha ha ha ha ha.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#133re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 2:52pm
Plum, that sock puppet is too cute.
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#134re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 2:57pm
That sock puppet looks like it's about to spark a doobie.
Not such a bad idea, if ya ask me!
#135re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 2:58pm
I just keep hearing in my head, "The trash heap has spoken..."
Not wholly inappropriate coming from RodneyK.
robbiej
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#136re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 3:04pm
Oh God, I LOOOOOOOVED the Trash Heap.
Fraggle Rack was way existential.
#137re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 3:04pmI did a search and it comes up with this thread every time. Someone even posted a response to it. Then it disappeared.
#138re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 3:06pm
Fraggle Rock was an allegory for our time.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#139re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 3:24pm
More international aid offers:
The State Department said offers so far had come from Belgium, Canada, Russia, Japan, France, Germany, Britain, China, Australia, Jamaica, Honduras, Greece, Venezuela, the Organization of American States, NATO, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, South Korea, Israel and the United Arab Emirates.
The United Nations has offered to coordinate the effort.
Info from Reuters. And this after a certain asswipe wanted to assassinate the Venezuelan President.
Alertnet
Updated On: 9/2/05 at 03:24 PM
WindyCityActor
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/13/03
#140re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 3:59pm
It appears that the "spin" isn't working....
"The official version; then there's the in-the-trenches version"
"Diverging views of a crumbling New Orleans emerged Thursday. The sanitized view came from federal officials at news conferences and television appearances. But the official line was contradicted by grittier, more desperate views from the shelters and the streets."
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.response/index.html
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#141re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 4:00pmWCA - I read that story. Brown needs to be fired.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#142re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 4:03pmNice to see that this time around, the press has been mostly on top of things. This is how the big media conglomerates, with all their money and resources, are supposed to function.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#143re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 4:08pm
What this demonstrates clearly is that news that comes from sources that are "embedded" or "in bedded" with official government stoolies is not news, it is infomercial.
What this demonstrates is exactly what the job of the Fourth Estate is supposed to be: SHOW US THE DISCONNECT. Hell, show us the connections.
Putting a byline above a government press release does not a news story make.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#144re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 4:33pmMister Matt, your post was not deleted. It's still there at the top of page 5.
#145re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 4:47pm
Re: Mr. Matt's post... this has happened to me before. If you go to pg. 4 and click on "next page" then you see it, but for some reason if you just click on pg. 5 you don't.
*back to the regularly scheduled discussion*
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. - Randy Pausch
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#146re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 5:09pm
Anyone else feel very very odd by the fact that, when you see these images on TV, you're looking at America. We've grown so accustomed to being such a major power that we forget what it's like over in disadvantaged countries, to the point where it's almost like they're fictional or don't exist.
I mean, I've never heard ANYONE refer to Americans as "refugees".
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#147re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 5:21pmI think that's an...uncomfortable, if not outright inappropriate term to use here. These people are American citizens looking for help within America. I know "displaced persons" seems awfully PC, but it's all I can think of.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#149re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 5:56pmI know. And like I said, it doesn't seem like the right word to me. If you want to stick to one word, isn't "evacuee" better?
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#150re: 'This is America? This is an outrage.'
Posted: 9/2/05 at 5:57pmWhat's wrong with the term Rufugee??? That is exactly what they are, they are. I mean, the definition of refugee is someone who flees in search of refuge. That is what these people doing. I think it's an appropriate word.
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