Teresa, if those had been white cops, they'd have just "found" those DVDs.
Avram, that kind of crap really isn't helpful right now. There are white people looting too.
If desperate people need to break into a grocery to get food, water and diapers, I look the other way.
If people are stripping local stores of their inventory of non-essential items, wheeling away TVs (where the feck are you going to put them or plug them in?), jewelry, etc. ... all I can do is boggle.
If people are roving in armed gangs, hitting private homes (as my youngest sister's father-in-law saw and heard before he finally fled the city yesterday) and carjacking people ... that's got to be stopped by whatever means.
The New Orleans police are practically alone. They have no food and water, just like the refugees. It's Thursday. Why aren't they airdropping troops and supplies to the foot of Canal Street where it's dry.
My family's all out, but they lost everything. Now my sister, who's a nurse, is determined to go back today to help, but due to the armed anarchy I am completely sick with worry.
Oh, and Stephen in Liverpool ... you can survive without being a barbarian. You need food, get food -- that's fine. But if you were there and threatening my family, I'd hope they'd shoot you.
The only thing I’d add is that in the summer you should have a little tube of that zinc-and-petroleum-jelly ointment they use to keep babies from getting diaper rash. It’s very effective protection against the kind of chafing that’ll peel your skin so raw that you can’t bear to walk.
My favorite brand of this is a proudly home-grown product from back in Louisiana: Boudreaux's Butt Paste. Works like a charm, and it's fun to say, too.
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