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To: tejek who wrote (249586)	9/5/2005 3:26:25 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571928

Blacks have it much worse than Hispanics. This is bull, Ted. Unless you are hispanic and black, both in the same person, no way you could know this for sure. Or possibly, if you married a hisp woman, maybe you could know better. Taro

To: tejek who wrote (249586)	9/5/2005 4:53:56 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571928

New Orleans mayor fears CIA to take him out Nagin says he has been yelling at governor, president Posted: September 3, 2005 7:00 p.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said he's feeling better about his city, he feels confident he has gotten the attention of Gov. Kathleen Blanco and President Bush, but he said he fears the Central Intelligence Agency may take him out because he's been yelling at these officials. He didn't say it once. He said it twice. Last night he told a reporter for the Associated Press: "If the CIA slips me something and next week you don't see me, you'll all know what happened." Today he told interviewers for CNN on a live broadcast he feared the "CIA might take me out." Nagin resorted to vulgarity and profanity yesterday in his pleas for help. But he was actually calmer today, despite the hyperbole. Nagin said Bush gave him a "hearty" greeting and did not seem at all offended by Nagin's earlier outburst. "I do think the pleas for help basically got the nation's attention, and the nation's attention got everybody to stop and re-evaluate what was going on, including the president. ... He basically said, 'Look, our response was not what it should have been and we're going to fix it right now.'" Nagin said evacuation has been hampered by officials' difficulty grasping where state authority ends and federal authority begins and he said he very frankly urged Bush and Blanco to get a clear chain of command straightened out immediately.

To: tejek who wrote (249586)	9/5/2005 4:56:58 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571928

I think that part of the reason NO didn't get the help that Florida did is that Jeb Bush was a more effective governor than that of Louisiana. In addition, I have been reading about a lot of resue workers who tried to get in and were shot at or were worried they'd be murdered and waited until they could get a proper armed escort. So the chaos itself hampered the relief efforts, whereas in Florida there was a lot less wanton crime, so rescue and relief efforts were quicker and more effective.