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Fw: [Mellotronists] Re: OT: How big a story (overseas) is the hurricane/New Orleans flood?

2005-09-01 by jonesalley

Not trying to be argumentative, I can only say that watching cable news 
coverage of ordinary people trying to cope somehow with the sudden 
catastrophe that has befallen them, many of whom have lost everything they 
owned with no hope of recoup, I have yet to see anyone carrying a computer 
or a television set and I can't help but wonder about a media (I'm sorry, 
that should be "liberal media") that films people trudging through 
chest-deep water that is filled with agitated displaced wildlife, hidden 
obstacles, assorted poisons, dead things, sewage, and who knows what else, 
and who are carrying a gym bag packed with loaves of bread, bottled water, 
and packages of Pampers, damaged goods which will only end up in a landfill 
otherwise, stuff that they scavenged from a washed-out WalMart that they 
made it to without dying, and which has enough insurance coverage to 
actually profit on the corporate level from this kind of event...

... and refers to them as "looters."



> Unbelievable, the scale of this disaster.
> Unbelievable also, the looting.

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