In These Times

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• • 23 Oct 05
  • 7:53 pm

  Here's the story from another perspective: Denise Moore, 42, from the Convention Center: "Lots of people were dropped off, but no one was picked up. We thought we had been left there to die. There were young men with guns, but they were the only ones who people could count on. They were the ones that brought us food and water. Nobody had eaten in days. They got the food and water for the old people and babies. Cops would come by, then speed off. The National Guardsmen rolled by with guns, they never brought us anything. They left us there …

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• • 23 Oct 05
  • 8:15 pm

  Actually, "The Ant and The Grasshopper really ends like this: When winter came, the grasshopper was cold and hungry and the ant, who had worked and prepared all summer long, was warm and plump. So the Grasshopper ate the ant. The End

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• • 23 Oct 05
  • 8:16 pm

  BTW...there's a lesson in there somewhere, but I am pretty damn sure you'll miss it.

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• • 25 Oct 05
  • 8:25 pm

  And then the Cat ate the Little Red Hen. And then the Dog ate the Cat. And then another Dog ate that Dog. The End A lot of Katrina's victims had jobs...some more than one. And they still couldn't afford to get out of there. Meanwhile, some wealthy person charters an airplane to evacuate DOGS out of the way of danger. Of course the moral of the story is... that you can work as hard as you can and still get eaten in a dog eat dog world...or treated worse than a dog. Such as it is, Bill Cosby can afford …

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