dead bodies everywhere

[xfer]

 

[xfer]

this is your street

 

[xfer]

 

[minxnim]

jesus these are awful

 

[avi]

fuuuuuuuuuuck

 

[minxnim]

i can't believe how devastated this place is. i don't even know what to do.

 

[xfer]

heard the first reports of rapes a little bit ago, and I'm sure more is going to come out.

Armed gangs attempting rapes, police warn

 

[xfer]

I just talked to my college roommate who went to law school at Tulane and she is understandably devastated--she has literally DOZENS of friends who are homeless and own a backpack and that's it; one of her friends was last heard from the day of the flood telling her "I don't have the money to leave, so I'm just going to sit on the front step of my shop with a gun and try to keep looters away"

 

[minxnim]

 

[goatschool]

a frightening scene from early on in this whole ordeal was watching some tourists wandering around the city, lost, with luggage in tow.

i shudder to think where those people are now.

 

[goatschool]

"They have M-16s and they're locked and loaded," Gov. Kathleen Blanco said of 300 National Guard troops who landed in New Orleans fresh from duty in Iraq. "These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so, and I expect they will."

 

[avi]

lovely.

if a hurricane wiped out a city in Canada, what would happen?

 

[azal]

I'm not gonna lie, I laughed at the third pic.

 

[lizard]

I know I'm horribly naive, but I never thought I'd see this in this country.

not the disaster itself; the amazing clusterfuck that is the so-called relief effort.

 

[avi]

George W: bringing America to new levels of shame

 

[lizard]

a small bit of good news: Fats Domino has been found!

 

[lizard]

first, our president puts photo ops before returning to DC, days after the disaster.

Cheney stayed in his Jackson Wyoming vacation home for days after the disaster.

Condi Rice was attending Spamalot and running up thousands of dollars worth of shoe purchases in NYC but publicity has forced her to return to DC.

don't these people have a fucking clue?

 

[lizard]

Wolf Blitzer:

Wolf Blitzer on CNN, just now: "You see that picture [of people stranded on roofs or wading through water] over and over and over again but no matter how many times you see that picture, you simply get chills every time you see these poor individuals ... almost all of them are so poor, and so black..."

 

[avi]

it's not like they knew about it days in advance or anything

 

[lizard]

aside from the tragedy of it...this is really, really embarassing for the entire nation. I mean...we're handling this like a bunch of Serbs or something.