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To: DizzyG who wrote (699002)	9/1/2005 8:05:25 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Mayhem hampering hospital evacuations CNN ^ \| Wednesday, August 31, 2005 A private ambulance service says it is being hindered in its efforts to evacuate patients from New Orleans hospitals by the lawlessness in the city and appealed to President Bush to activate the military. "If we don't have the federal presence in New Orleans tonight at dark, it will no longer be safe to be there, hospital or no hospital," Acadian Ambulance Services chief executive officer Richard Zuschlag told CNN. Acadian, based in Lafayette, Louisiana, is trying to evacuate some 2,000 patients from hospitals before nightfall Wednesday, including dozens of critically ill babies at medical facilities with no electricity or water. The firm's priority is getting out 25 critically ill infants from Children's Hospital and 100 babies from Touro Infirmary, said spokeswoman Julie Mahfouz. Zuschlag said part of the reason Touro requested the evacuation of its 175 patients -- including 100 babies -- "is the unrest in New Orleans." He said his workers have been victims of the looting and mayhem across the city. "My people are in harm's way," he said. "They are scared. Our command station about an hour ago had the generator stolen off the back of it. We've had an ambulance turned over. "Things are not good in New Orleans. It's very serious now." An Alabama medical team helped evacuate four babies from Ochsner Hospital's neonatal intensive care unit Tuesday and planned to get two more out Wednesday. It may also help evacuate newborns from Children's Hospital. The main reason for the evacuation is that the floodwater has knocked out electricity, and backup generators have been rendered useless because there is no way to get fuel. The hospitals Acadian is evacuating include Tulane, Charity, Veterans, Memorial, Children's, Touro and University. Mahfouz said calls were coming in every minute. (Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...

To: DizzyG who wrote (699002)	9/1/2005 8:10:26 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 769667

Critics fiddle as Gulf Coast drowns Boston Herald ^ \| September 1, 2005 \| Editorial It must be nice for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to have a dry, air-conditioned office in which to pen a navel-gazing think piece blaming Republicans for the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. As dead bodies floated in the flood waters of Louisiana and Mississippi and tens of thousands of people sat in humid shelters wondering how to piece their lives back together – or just hoping for a drink of water – Kennedy saw an opportunity to wax eloquent about . . . global warming. And the environmental activist took it one shameful step further – blaming Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and his views on global warming for, essentially, bringing the hurricane down on his own people. This from Kennedy, on a memo the Republican Barbour wrote to President Bush questioning the Kyoto protocol: ``In 1998, Republican icon Pat Robertson warned that hurricanes were likely to hit communities that offended God,'' Kennedy wrote. ``Perhaps it was Barbour's memo that caused Katrina, at the last moment, to spare New Orleans and save its worst flailings for the Mississippi coast.'' Kennedy's screed was posted on a Web site Monday. Let's hope that like the rest of us, he had yet to realize the full force of Katrina – the dozens of deaths, the billions in damage, the survivors left in utter, unspeakable despair. But as insensitive and opportunistic as his piece was, Kennedy isn't the only one to see in Katrina an opportunity to sharpen his sword for a political duel. An opinion piece in Tuesday's Boston Globe echoes Kennedy's hand-wringing over the (disputed) role of global warming in strengthening hurricanes. After dubbing Katrina ``Nature's Revenge'' on Tuesday, The New York Times backtracked yesterday, calling it the ``wrong moment to dwell on fault-finding.'' Still, they managed a cheap shot at President Bush, noting that it took Katrina to ``pry (him) out of his vacation.'' Meanwhile, the media echo chamber is reverberating with talk of whether and when (criticism implied) the president should tour the affected area. He'll get there, folks. Think they should find a place to land the plane, first? The recovery from Katrina will take years, and there will be plenty of time for Robert Kennedy and his friends to play the blame game. Could we at least get the bodies counted before they start? ______________________________________________________________ Vultures, same as the looters.