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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / September 2005New Orleans is Saved!
Oprah Winfrey is taking her show there for 2 days... I'm not making this up, it was just on the late news. :p Who'll be next, Howard Stern? Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha ============ http://www.jhedge.com > Oprah Winfrey is taking her show there for 2 days... Is she going to pump water out?  SignatureVictor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam here: uce@ftc.gov Email me here: pistorLITTER@BOXaustin.rr.com >> Oprah Winfrey is taking her show there for 2 days... > > Is she going to pump water out? Maybe she'll be helping locate dead bodies. Sheesh, what is it with celebrities, anyway? She should send a million or two for the relief effort and keep her a.s at home. >>> Oprah Winfrey is taking her show there for 2 days... >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > celebrities, anyway? She should send a million or two for the relief > effort and keep her a.s at home IMHO I expect Oprah is using this appearance as a fund raiser to benefit all victims of the hurricane. She is smart and is a good hearted person. MLB >>>> Oprah Winfrey is taking her show there for 2 days... >>> [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > benefit all victims of the hurricane. She is smart and is a good > hearted person. MLB I HOPE so. She's known to be very charitable, but then again I don't know the woman. This going down there thing won't hurt her ratings, either. She can ride on the good tide of having "helped" when all she really needed to do was put out a statement about sending aid and stay at home. Jill >>>>> Oprah Winfrey is taking her show there for 2 days... >>>> [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Jill Be fair. You really don't know what she personally needed to do. Isn't she from that part of the country? Sometimes there is no substitute for being there if it is at all possible. There are a lot of people, like it or not, who practically worship at the church of Oprah, and when she tells them it is a good idea to do something, they most likely try to do it. She has a lot of power, and if she can use it to make life a little easier for those impacted by these two disasters, great. Just as an aside, I really think of the situation as two disasters. One natural and one manmade. I wish there were more news coverage of what is happening to those outside the New Orleans levees. Jo >>>>>> Oprah Winfrey is taking her show there for 2 days... >>>>> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > Isn't she from that part of the country? Sometimes there is no > substitute for being there if it is at all possible. She is from Arkansas. I guess you could consider it "that part of the country". > There are a lot of people, like it or not, who practically worship at > the church of Oprah, and when she tells them it is a good idea to do > something, they most likely try to do it. She has a lot of power, > and if she can use it to make life a little easier for those impacted > by these two disasters, great. I agree, but I don't know why she had to be on-site or practically on-site to do so. Maybe she felt compelled; I truly don't know. > Just as an aside, I really think of the situation as two disasters. > One natural and one manmade. I wish there were more news coverage of > what is happening to those outside the New Orleans levees. > > Jo Me, too. It only just occurred to me yesterday, my ex-fiance might have been down there. He is a carpenter by trade, Louisiana Cajun by birth. Most of his remaining family - a few of his sisters, his uncles & aunts, cousins, nieces/nephews - lived in Bay St. Louis, MS. I understand Bay St. Louis is another one of those places that is "gone". When we were still together, *any time* there was a hurricane in the gulf he'd pack up his truck with his tools, supplies and drive down to offer his services to help rebuild. If he drove down before the storm hit then he was there when it slammed ashore. I don't have any way to contact him at all. (sigh) Jill >> Isn't she [Oprah Winfrey] from that part of the country? Sometimes there is no >> substitute for being there if it is at all possible. >> >She is from Arkansas. I guess you could consider it "that part of the >country". According to a biographical article published in 2004 by _Business Week_, available online at http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2004/nf20041223_3331_db078.htm, Oprah Winfrey was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi. That town is in central Mississippi, not down on the coast, but she probably knows people from the coastal region. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria This is true. And I hope Oprah will be moved to help when she sees the state of the evacuees. What they've lost is huge. And the practical help she could give could do a LOT for them. So I will think charitable thoughts of her. Yes. This was a multi-state disaster. Mississippi and Alabama deserve more coverage. And Help. Melissa >>> Oprah Winfrey is taking her show there for 2 days... >> [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > celebrities, anyway? She should send a million or two for the relief > effort and keep her a.s at home. Did you watch the show? They went in with many large semis loaded with food and supplies. It was eye-opening experience -- much better than the evening news. Watch tomorrow's show. It is worthwhile. MLB >> Oprah Winfrey is taking her show there for 2 days... > >Is she going to pump water out? She's got a big enough mouth on her; I think she's going to *suck out* all of the water..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Life without cats would be only marginally worth living." -TC, and the unmercifully, relentlessly, sweet calico kitty, Kenzie. How you behave towards cats here below determines your status in Heaven. - Robert Heinlein Life is very difficult. Once you understand that, life becomes easier. -Buddha >>> Oprah Winfrey is taking her show there for 2 days... >> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > Life is very difficult. Once you understand that, life becomes easier. > -Buddha Grandalf, what have you done? >Oprah Winfrey is taking her show there for 2 days... > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Who'll be next, Howard Stern? They had the George and Kathleen Show there yesterday. I don't think Oprah or Howard will top that for sheer entertainment. :P SignatureWayne M (indulged by Will and Heidi) > Oprah Winfrey is taking her show there for 2 days... > > I'm not making this up, it was just on the late news. I've tried searching for info on this and can't find a link to a story about it. Has anyone found a link about this? Not that I don't believe Jeanne :) I would just like to read whatever rationalization, if any, Harpo Productions might be offering to explain this. A local radio station, who is decidedly anti-PETA, talked with a PETA representative on the air this morning about what the organization is doing to help. The rep indicated they are working with "on the ground" organizations like the SPCA, Noah's Wish, etc., and said they had 3 people lined up to go down and help rescue pets but they weren't sure they could get their people in. They can't get 3 people in, but Oprah can get her entire crew in? What's Oprah going to do, the usual tragic interview, "Oh gosh, how does it feel to have lost everything you own?" If it's true, makes me ill. Jill > > Oprah Winfrey is taking her show there for 2 days... > > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Jill http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2005/09/hurricane_katri_5.html Hugs, CatNipped <---- Totally Disgusted! SNIP > > A local radio station, who is decidedly anti-PETA, talked with a PETA > > representative on the air this morning about what the organization is [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > > > Jill http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2005/09/hurricane_kat ri_5.html > Hugs, > > CatNipped <---- Totally Disgusted! If she REALLY wants to help NO, why doesn't Oprah send some supplies of food and water down there. She can afford it, and donations of that type would be a real help right now. Or invite some evacuees home to live with her at her house and treat them royally for the duration? Otherwise, for goodness sake, stay OUT of the way of the rescue and salvage crews! This is not a time to stroke egos. Melissa > SNIP > > > A local radio station, who is decidedly anti-PETA, talked with a PETA [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > > > > > Jill http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2005/09/hurricane_kat > ri_5.html > > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Melissa I agree, Melissa. Criminey. She gives HOUSES away. Can't she afford to supply the red cross or the shelters with a few million? If I had that much money I'd help everyone I could. kili > SNIP > > > A local radio station, who is decidedly anti-PETA, talked with a PETA [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Melissa They should send Bob Geldof out to visit Bush - "give us your fuckin money" - not that he actually said that apparently. >> Oprah Winfrey is taking her show there for 2 days... >> [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > >Jill This has got Oprah beat, but not surprising.: From salon.com: Geraldo Rivera arrives in a Fox News truck. An elderly woman with blond hair grips his elbow. She's wearing thick dark glasses and a pink shirt. He carries her small white dog in his arms. He's wearing thigh-high waders unzipped to below his knees. We shake hands. "Her relative called one of our stations," Geraldo tells me, explaining how that call went to another station, and then another, and finally to him. The woman had been stranded in her home for six days. Geraldo picked up the woman and her dog and brought them here. The woman looks frail on his arm, though not as bad perhaps as a lady collapsed on a chair nearby, unable to move. Or a woman in a wheelchair being lifted from the truck, carrying her prosthetic leg on her lap. "That's the second time he brought her here," one of the doctors tells me, nodding toward Geraldo. "What?" "They did two takes. Geraldo made that poor woman walk from the Fox News van to the heliport twice. Both times carrying her dog." "Are you serious?" I ask. He says he is. Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh My Blog: http://www.humanitas.blogspot.com > > Oprah Winfrey is taking her show there for 2 days... > > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Jill I saw on the news this morning that she was in Texas going to visit the refugees in the astrodome. She wanted to hear their story. Perhaps from there she'll be in NO. I don't know. kili Well, unlike Oprah, Howard will probably have the good sense to arrive armed.... Mathew, Chablis & Muscat Ps. Saw something on the news about the flooding, could take up to 80 days to get the Big Easy drained... What a horrible gong show. |
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