CNN Breaking: Between 25 to 30 bodies have been found in a nursing home

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/

> BREAKING NEWS Local officials: Between 25 to 30 bodies have been found in a nursing home in St. Bernard Parish outside New Orleans. Details to come.

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[sabra]

3. stop playing the blame game! jeez

[Born Free]

51. Blame Game or accountability?

If this happened in any other country the White House would be at the UN calling for action against the leaders of that country, but in good old bush country all they can say is stop playing the blame game. This may not be as bad as the genocide of some people in other countries , but almost the same - what's the difference if you gas them or let them rot? At least with the gas they may not have suffered so long. For the sake of humanity the people at the white house need to be held accountable for this atrocity to the American people. This should be consider a criminal offense, not an accident, it was no accident! They KNEW what they were doing , they KNEW what was going on and they ALLOWED it to happen. Americans sat back when they allowed 9/11 and Americans ignored the massacre of the innocent in Iraq and now some want to ignore this - how long before people of America stand up? Will they wait until it hits there own neighborhood? It's not a question of partisan it's a question of moral value, true moral value, not the kind they peddle for elections.

[Maple]

2. Is that the one

in Chalmette?

[sabra]

8. I believe so.

[onenote]

4. How will the blame the victims crowd handle this news?

onenote

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

6. It was their decision to get old and infirm?

http://leftandrightfight.com/

It wouldn't surprise me if some wing nut says it.

[melody]

31. Ebenezer Scrooge was the first neocon

``If they would rather die,'' said Scrooge, ``they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Besides -- excuse me -- I don't know that.''

``It's not my business,'' Scrooge returned. ``It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!''

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

35. Well said, Melody...

You are spot on!

[tblue37]

56. Libertarian, actually.

[goforit]

5. America can not be at their lowest of lowsPlain and simple INHUMANE!!

[flamingyouth]

7. Is this the facility Aaron Broussard was talking about on MTP?

:(

[PA Democrat]

27. Yes, CBS news confirmed this. N/T

[aaronbees]

45. Dear God...

That is awful. :( :grr:

"The guy who runs this building I'm in, emergency management, he's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St Bernard nursing home, and every day she called him and said, 'Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?'," Broussard said on NBC's Meet the Press.
"And he said, 'Yeah, Momma, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday' and she drowned Friday night."

[slackmaster]

9. Get used to this kind of story, and worse

You'll be reading a lot of news like this over the next several weeks.

[Cooley Hurd]

10. Charge Brown, Chertoff, Bush with negligent homicide!

If these are the same nursing home patients as the ones described by Aaron Broussard, they died on FRIDAY! There is NO excuse whatsoever why these people weren't evacuated. They weren't looting, they CERTAINLY didn't have firearms!

Jeebus!:grr:

[americanstranger]

11. The story is no longer on the home page.

Guess it never happened.

-as

[bertha katzenengel]

13. Well, I have the email from CNN. It says the same thing. n/t

[sabra]

18. hmm, not sure where they buried it either?

[NeoConsSuck]

29. CNN.COM will put it back..

between 3:30AM and 5:30AM Eastern Time. Sheeple, sleep tight. Your country is going down the toilet.

[RamboLiberal]

12. Radio Station KDKA 1020 Pittsburgh was reporting at 3:00

on that story and that 100 bodies had been found in a warehouse where they were waiting for rescue when they died. I hope the latter was a false report though KDKA news is usually fairly careful IMHO.

But their asshole RWingnut Fred Honzberger made me crazy today (I was in car so that's why I listened). God was he and his callers ugly. They were so damn jealous of the $2,000 the victims were getting. And Fred said station management sent a memo not to call them refugees, so of course that is what Fred kept calling them refugees. One asshole caller was actually mad plumbing apprentice jobs were being offered locally to any victims that settled in Pittsburgh by a company. He was whining he heard someone said they didn't want to fix a toilet, and why wasn't these jobs being offered to white middle class guys. You could just hear the sarcasm dripping that all these victims were nothing but welfare mooches.

After listening to this I felt like I just got dunked in the stinking, filthy waters of NO.

Times like this, I really do hope there is a God and I hope I'm there at the end times to see these jerks tossed in to the foul bowels of hell.

[donco6]

16. I heard the same type of thing from my boss yesterday.

"Those people really know how to 'work the system'" she said.

She's my boss. I just went back to my office. Ugh.

[renate]

30. it must be awful to work for someone like that, but....

just remember that karma will take care of people like her.

[jwirr]

42. My daughter works in a coffee shop and heard a

Baptist minister say that. She had a hard time not dowsing him with hot coffee. PIG.

[Dem2theMax]

46. I'd be fired right now if I were your daughter.

That so called 'minister' would have been wearing the whole pot of coffee. :mad:

[donco6]

53. It's amazing people just don't see anything wrong

with saying it. Boggles the mind.

[ElectroPrincess]

57. No it doesn't ... no disrespect to you but some people were born "nasty"

and "selfish." I've known some really sweet and kind hearted people who have one child that just "turns ugly".

It's a mixture of temperament and greed. Many of us learn young what it feels like to help someone without asking. It's one of the most beautiful feelings in the world - to give of oneself.

Unfortunately, Right Wing Republicans think the above sentiments are "weak" and "worthless." They swagger and seemingly destroy everything around them through their insatiable greed and sense of entitlement.

I have to work really hard not to HATE Right Wing Republicans.

[tabasco]

17. Just for those who don't know who Honzberger is ...

he is even fatter than pigboy by a hundred pounds and equally as vile.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

19. Separated at birth...

[tabasco]

20. OMG he must have had the stomach stapled !

Still a bloated gasbag and poor excuse for a human being.

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

21. Why, yes he did...how nice of you to notice

He'll pork back up...don't worry....between the gluttony and windbag gasses, he'll blow right through those staples.

[corporatemedia]

22. "Honsberger Is A Liar" - great Pgh. blog. Link......

http://honsmanlies.blogspot.com/

[sandnsea]

28. Hey, it's NOT about race

So just stop saying that. :sarcasm:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

39. Gee, I'd be willing to lose everything I owned in the whole world and

possibly a few relatives just so I could get $2,000, wouldn't you? :sarcasm:

[saigon68]

49. THIS IS EVIL SCUM ROVE'S PLAN

Energize the base of rustic red-neck fools into believing that

"Black fat Lazy welfare Queens" are getting a handout while their 50 cent look alike gang member sons are stealing plasma TV's in broad daylight.

ITS CALLED RACISM FOLKS

Its the staple of Southern politics and has been since bedford forrest and his night riders did their thing in 1870

[DoYouEverWonder]

50. Ugly isn't the word for these people

Before the storm the freepers were posting such nasty things. The worst one I came across was saying, 'Let them all drown'. Nice christian folks those freepers are, not.

[Child_Of_Isis]

14. They wouldn't leave due to the

expectation of a government check around the first of the month. That is what Hardball is saying about those who stayed behind.

[tabasco]

15. Let's hear the repugs scream: "Why didn't they evacuate?"

I'm am despondent.

This could have been prevented.

:cry:

[Tempest]

23. 100 bodies found in a warehouse

http://www.abc15.com/news/morenews/index.asp?did=21273

[jazzjunkysue]

26. Yep. These are the people who cheated us.

These people ripped us off. Amazing.
A nation of toddlers, some, in uniform.

[Synnical]

24. Soledad reporting on it now

Sheriff says 30+ found dead in flooded out nursing home. Unsure what happened to staff. Sheriff thought 40 about forty people had been successfully evacuated. Water clearly higher than 8 feet high.

Edit to add details.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

25. LISTEN, this is but the start. there were thousands of infirm there.

nawlins was warm, quiet, and humid, great for arthritis and other problems. It was cheap. It was alive. It was home.

this is but the first of many similar findings. there will be many more.

But Bush says, "What problem?" I only wish that I could spend some time with him.

[maxsolomon]

32. Is it fair to say that this one "didn't go right?"

how bout it president sociopath?

[David Zephyr]

33. The George Bush Memorial Nursing Home

Forever may he live in infamy.

[Lori Price CLG]

34. Great comment, D. Zephyr! n/t

[Synnical]

37. Zephyr - that's my dog's name

Just posted because . . . it's a cool name. :) And I need to smile right now.

He's black dog - don't ask me what breed - have no clue - was glad to have him - courtesy of the Humane Society. They named him "Pepper" and tattooed a smiley face and number on him. I re-named him Zephyr.

[leftchick]

36. How about CNN Breaking Tens of THOUSANDS DEAD in NO??

and it will happen and CNN and the rest will never report it. Never.

[KakistocracyHater]

38. GOP pulled New Orleans' feeding tube

Where's your compassion now?! Oh wait, that's only for fetuses & the brain dead. They denied waking people water & food FOR DAYS! It is beyond words, what I feel; the GOP & anyone else that ennables them are our destroyers, these things are very busily working-even now-on their next destruction project. & now king georgy is gonna investigate himself-I am beyond words, I've been so outraged....

[Lydia Leftcoast]

40. On today's Oprah, a young mother was telling about how

she went into a damaged K-Mart to get supplies for her baby, and there were bodies inside the K-Mart. :-(

[rooboy]

41. I guess things have worked out very well for them.

:sarcasm: :mad:

[lonestarnot]

43. The bushitler society preys on the weak, ill, old, and babies!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

44. Fine them for not leaving.

That's what Santorum says.

[cyr330]

47. Chalmette

Chalmette is one of the lowest parts of the New Orleans metropolitan area. I believe it was disastrously flooded by Hurricane Betsy in 1965. I wonder if those folks in the nursing home were caught unaware by a wall of water? The water must have risen very, very quickly down there, or the staff would have done something to get them out.

[cyr330]

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[SillyGoose]

52. This is especially upsetting. My Mom was in a nursing home

for the last 3 months of her life and my Dad and I spent everyday in that nursing home with her (she passed away 2 months ago). The vulnerability of these elderly patients is so profound. They are completely dependent on others for the most basic of care. There are so many who are unable to feed themselves or get up from a chair without help. To imagine what these poor people went through after the storm is just absolutely heartbreaking.

:cry:

[ElectroPrincess]

54. Fire BROWN now! It's called accountability ... get a better "idiot" than

Ole' Brownie! :puke:

[Orion The Hunter]

55. For all the relatives of those poor dead folks...

..why don't you tell them to just suck it up and not "play the blame game" - what a joke!