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Journal js7a's Journal: "Black people loot, white people find?" 14

Journal by js7a
BAH! If I hear the word "loot" one more time for subsistance salvage in a disaster area from flooded stores I'm going to barf all over my keyboard and it's going to seep into the internet so you'll all end up smelling it!

Seriously, what have we come to when the police are kinder to nominal criminals taking essentially abandoned property to survive than the so-called liberal news media?

Via jwz, who has more crap news for your crap distaster viewing crap pleasure.

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  • I think the President's new nickname should be "Nero".

    Oh, the hardship of having to cut your 5-week 'vacation' short by two days while a good sized hunk of the US Gulf Coast goes to Hell in a handbasket.

    (PS why the heck isn't every single flyable Federally owned transport helocopter already in the disaster area?)
    • http://slashdot.org/~Stargoat/journal/114757 [slashdot.org]

      (Response to PS - They had to fly everything fliable out of the Gulf Region when the hurricane came. I should imagine it's all moving back now. Did you see they are sending an LPH, in addition to the USS Comfort? If I understand the situation correctly, I should imagine that the LPH will be making water for the next six months.)

  • I don't have too much of a problem with people raiding grocery stores for food stuffs. You do what you need to in order to survive. But police and national guard still need to maintain order.

    Grabbing a few boxes of serial is very different from grabbing a fistfull of jewlery or stealing someones car becuase you feel you need it more.

  • I found out last night that Amtrak shut down early, stranding passengers in New Orleans. You would think they would have just gone on super accedlerated schedule and hauled people out, maybe even using just boxcars.

    Despite knowing about hurricanes, and leaky levees, the prior coordination appears to be pretty dismal. They even cut funding for repairing the levees two years ago, diverted the resources to you know where istan.

    As to the looting, I have mixed feelings about it. the original looting was obviousl
    • Regular unleaded went over $3/gallon in the DC area today. Local news was interviewing people. One customer said "I would understand if this price increased in a week or in a month, but just a day after? That just shows that someone is profiteering."

      Of course, the person crowing the loudest was driving the GMC Yukon. Solo. And the back looked empty to me.

    • I think that fuel should be regulated like a utility now, with the way it is bought and sold looked at with a critical eye.

      No!!! That's what causes gas lines!

      Unfortunately, right now, gas is in short supply. That's why the wholesale gas prices [bloomberg.com] are so high right now. That means we're going to have to pay a lot more for gas until things get back to normal. If the government puts in price controls or something, then instead of paying for gas in dollars, we'll pay for it in hours spent waiting in gas lines.
      • I think it's time to admit reality and transportation fuel is just as much a utility as electric service and piped in natural gas and water/sewer service. Just because the delivery method is different doesn't mean it's not a civilization utility now. Right now middleman skimmers are drastically upping the prices. Speculators, gamblers, gougers.. Would you like speculators to be setting the price by the hour for your water? How about not knowing if your electric bill would be doubled tomorrow? We have public
        • I completely agree that gas is a necessity -- the thing is, food is even more of a necessity, and there's no price controls on food (unless they're trying to artificially raise prices, but that's another topic) nor do there need to be. If a grocery store charges too much, someone else will build another grocery store and compete -- in fact, Walmart/Sam's Club/Costco have been doing exactly this in cities all over the US. Electric service, water, etc. is regulated because it's a "natural monopoly" (i.e. th
    • With that said, where are all the boats?? There has to be hundreds of thousqands of bassboats in louisiana, they should all be down there hauling people away.

      And quite possibly getting themselves killed in the process. Powerlines, gaslines, submerged vehicles and debris... I really wouldn't send in a fleet of well meaning amateurs right now.

      • I understand what you mean, but a lot of those bayou rats are probably better boaters than some of the 'pros' out there.

        Also I think things are bad enough that officials are thankful for the help as long as the boater isn't a complete idiot.

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