Hurricane Katrina

[Temanin]

*looks around* Is there already a thread on this? One would think it would have crept up by now.

Pretty simple here: thoughts, feelings, speculations, etc.

[RandomJester~RLV]

chaos (entropy) is a law of the universe, it's only to be expected that we would act like animals and loot, rape, murder. It' writen into our human minds, like our finger-print, it's on of those things we can't rise above. As for the storm it' self, I haven't been following it that closely, but I've been paying more attention to the after-math and rebuidling stages.

Although I doubt there is much we could do at this point, besides "clean" the streets, of both gangs and water/toxious matter. I too was suprised that there was no thread for this, I wasn't going to create one because it would die rather quickly. But, something good may come of this, although I do doubt it, all I see is the slow and bloody collapse of both our country and the world. That is average though, I kinda allways see "doom & gloom" in the distance.

[Quibly]

There are, in fact, things we (by 'we' I mean the government [here we go again, with some stupid rant]) could do, that we are not doing.

1st, I do not believe that there is any excuse for the people in New Orleans to be going without food and water for four days. At the very least we could be dropping food baskets, like we did in Iraq/Afghanistan.

2nd, we could accept the hurricane aid that France has offered us, instead of ignoring their offers, and pouting because 'they didn't support us in Iraq'.

3rd, I read a very interesting editorial in the Tribune today on the topic of looting. I thought it was very interesting:

From CHRISTINA PAZZANESE: A friend alerted me to these two images of the Katrina aftermath published online by Yahoo News today. What we both found very disturbing was how two photographers taking shots of people searching for food while battling the flood waters decided a white subject "found" bread in a store, while a black subject had "looted" his meal.

Seems to me the national "crisis mode" coverage of Katrina in a predominantly black, poor part of the country presents a number of professional challenges for everyone in the media around the subject of racial and economic sensitivity.

I am curious how one photographer knew the food was looted by one but
not the other. Were interviews conducted as they swam by? Should
editors, in a rush to publish poignant or startling images, relax their standards or allow personal or regional biases creep into captions and stories?

Perhaps these photos will stimulate a media "gut check" as we race to
tell the stories of the thousands who lost their lives and livelihoods


in case you would like to go to the website yourself, the links to pictures should actually work there.
poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=10186

[Faceless]

Just curious, any of you read 'Lord of the Flies'?

It's the same thing, just different place and people. Well written and points out a lot about human nature.

[Temanin]

I've read Lord of the Flies. The book irritated me, but that's beside the point.

Quibly, your response doesn't surprise me in the least. But we both knew that would happen, ya? ^^

[Tony]

If you have a GameFAQs account and you have been there recently, you might see a lot of topics about Katrina being manmade. How could this happen? Well, let me explain the rumor. Supposedly the government was making some kind of bomb that they code named 'New Orleans'. And someone had said that this bomb would, "come like a hurricane" in force. Well, people thought, "OMG teh government tested teh bomb in New Orleans!" And the bomb the was tested was suppose to make hurricanes form really fast, hence the size of Katrina growing so fast.

[RandomJester~RLV]

I'm all for conspiracy theories but that is alittle strange, but I guess possible. It would explain why we haven't taken any of the help the other goverments of the world offer(d).

[Temanin]

*slams head into desk* Tony...shut up. *sigh*

Also, if anyone here believes that the slow Federal response is due to race, I no longer respect you as a rational-thinking individual.

[Tony]

I'm just relating what the morons from GameFAQs are saying. And I think a bomb could make a hurricane. I can't see how an explosion could do anything unless there was something that was released that could somehow cause one.

[Quibly]

Just in case there was confusion on my race statement, I wasn't saying that that is why the government was being slow.

temanin said:

I've read Lord of the Flies. The book irritated me, but that's beside the point.

Quibly, your response doesn't surprise me in the least. But we both knew that would happen, ya? ^^

Eother is fine, I just would like to clear this up, are saying that we bopth knew I would say something like that, or that what I said would happen?

[Temanin]

I'm not surprised at your response, and we both knew that I probably wouldn't be. I think.

Oh, and I didn't figure you thought it was race reasons. I was just watching Wolf Blitzer at the time, and he was beating that idea.

[Quibly]

Phew...*wipes brow*

I just didn't want to send out the wrong...vibes? That's not right.

[Tony]

Victor gave me a link to an article on the internet. It would about one school's unique idea for raising money for Katrina victims.

First off, their school is small. It's only 600 kids. Second, they wanted to do something not normal. So they decided to play a song over the speakers in the morning, between classes, and lunch. This song would play over and over again and to get the song to stop they needed their set amount of money they wanted donated, which was $3000. The song they chose was Hanson's "Hmmbop". Now, you think this song isn't that annoying. But hearing it day after day will get annoying. The school even had the teachers donating just to make it stop.

I think that is awesome and every school should do that.