Claudine
Sep-03-2005, 10:34 GMT
IP:
France
 | My thought is going to New Orleans and Mississipi. I don´t speak english very well (I take my dictionary) for crying my anger.
I knew that USA whas a very great country but not like that : 5 days to arrive to New Orleans ! which way did you go Mister Bush ? Bush, move your backside (it´s correct ?)
I had a dream : to visit Louisiana, that will be stay a dream !
Shame on you M Bush ! It´s a desaster !!! You are the first for making war but the last for giving somebody help !
I´m so sad for Louisiana and Mississipi!
Paul, if you listen to me, could you include a track about New Orleans in your next album ?
Music will be never die and my heart leaves in Louisiana.
To sorrow I´m listening Graceland ......
Could somebody mark my text, I would be very happy ( e-mail in fandatabase)
thanks !!! |
Ans
Sep-03-2005, 12:48 GMT
IP:
Netherlands
 | It´s very sad what happened over-there. What now counts is to help these people in any possible way. I´m glad our government changed their mind and send a ship which normaly stays at the Antilles to New Orleans to help out there. |
toki71
Sep-06-2005, 13:02 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
 | Posted on Tue, Sep. 06, 2005
´Suffering on a Biblical scale´
BY PAM FIRMIN
Sun Herald
BILOXI - Singer Paul Simon arrived in Biloxi on Monday to initiate Operation Assist, which immediately put two mobile medical clinics into underserved areas of storm devastation.
He termed The Coast´s fate " ... suffering on a Biblical scale" and said he is going to participate in a national telethon starting at 7 p.m. Friday to raise money for Hurricane Katrina disaster relief.
"I believe it is to be simulcast on all networks," Simon said. "It will be similar to what was done after 9-11.
"I´m not down here as a song writer," Simon said, "but as someone to call attention to it, particularly in the smallest communities."
One of the mobile clinics comes from the Mississippi Children´s Health Fund program in Clarksdale and the other from New York City.
"They are going to stay here for a long time," said Simon, co-founder of the Children´s Health Fund, an advocacy organization that provides health care to medically underserved communities around the united States.
The fully equipped mobile medical units will treat people of all ages and take care of virtually all problems except surgery.
One will operate at the Division Street site of Coastal Family Health Center, just east of Main Street in Biloxi. It´s executive director, Joe Dawsey, was in the crowd around Main Street Baptist Church that welcomed Simon and Dr. Irwin Redlener, CHF president, a pediatrician and and public health expert.
Dawsey said his center is inoperable and the area is in desperate need for medical treatment.
The team also is considering needs in D´Iberville and Long Beach for the second medical clinic and may have it travel from place to place.
"We will stay as long as the project needs us," Redlener said. He is associate dean at the Mailman School and director of its National Center for Disaster Preparedness.
"It´s very important that availability of medical services begin now," Redlener said. "It can´s wait for bureaucracy" to untangle itself.
Redlener said the fund raised more than $1 million in 24 hours for disaster relief here.
The units are here at the bequest of Vickie Hearn-Moses, wife of the Rev. Edward Moses, pastor of St. Paul United Methodist Church in Biloxi. Hearn-Moses is affiliated with the Mississippi fund in Clarksdale.
That connection is what made this happen so rapidly.
"You want to help and you have the equipment to help," Simon said, "but you have to connect to the infrastructure.
Responding to a question about lagging aid to the area, he said, "Let´s just focus on doing things right when we´re down here. I´m still trying to absorb the enormity of this. It´s simply mind boggling. If I´m stumbling for words, it´s because I´ve never experienced this before."
Simon said he has family who fled New Orleans and lost everything in Katrina. They´re now at a Ramada Inn in Pearl. That´s as far as their gas took them."
"I know it´s a drop in the bucket," he said of Operation Assist, "but it´s a start."`
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Micky
Sep-06-2005, 18:13 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
| Well...I´ve been watching for Pauls name to pop up about this. I was in no doubt that he would do something. And unlike Mr Bush, Paul has gone to the heart of it.
I´ve just watched our 6pm news and nothing mentioned at all, so I´ve emailed them all.
Idiot Bush has now called for a investigation about what went wrong...I already have that answer..he did and he´ll do everything he can to pass the buck.
Now I´ll stop before I get onto a political rollercoatser...lol
Blessings
Me |
