Just when you thought it couldn't get worse
Guess who shows up for dinner? Big Salute to AllahPundit who risked life, limb, and close encounters with King Kong, Mothra and other radioactive monsters just to take this photo.UPDATE: Just for shits and giggles, we're going to re-attribute this photo to retired PO Lester Rumowski. Lester had retired to New Orleans, but at last report, his property was under 13 feet of water. Lester has been contacted and was headed back to the windy city. Godspeed Lester, glad you're OK.
posted by SCC at 10:30 AM
24 Comments:
It's time for Illinois and Chicago to pitch in to ease the aftermath of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. What better way than provide for evacuees. Mayor Daley and Governor Blagojevich know that we can accomodate at least 250,000 of the Katrina refugees.
Yeah thats what Chicago needs more lawless thugs.
post your address and we'll send your way.
Lead by example.
As far as the first poster's proposal, I believe Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe and the North Shore could easily handle the evacuees from New Orleans.
Maybe you can just send your $100 check to the Red Cross and come up with another brainstorm.
Don't forget Lincoln Park and Streeterville.
What a grand idea!
Jazz and Cajun zydeco music on the North Shore. Beignets and chicory coffee for breakfast, gumbo for lunch and crawfish etouffee for dinner.
On Fat Tuesday, we could toss beads at the breast-baring debutantes on Sheridan Rd.
New Orleanians must have THE RIVER--the mighty Mississippi.
Minneapolis-St. Paul would be ideal. Only problem is that before Lent, it's pretty NIPPY in the Twin Cities. The buxom ladies would have to flash their Mardi Gras boobies from beneath snow parkas.
Pass on Chicago.
More Importantly..............When are we going to have "The worst boss" thread?
Tuesday
usatoday.com
Suicides, resignations hit New Orleans' thin blue line
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — There may be no better way to explain the desperation on the city's ravaged streets than this: In the past few days, two police officers took their lives with their own weapons and dozens have turned in their badges.
New Orleans' thin blue line has ruptured.
Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley on Sunday identified two officers who committed suicide as Sgt. Paul Accardo, the department's spokesman, and Patrolman Lawrence Celestine. He called both "outstanding cops" and friends.
Asked how they died, Riley put a finger to his temple, then paused.
"Both of them," he said, shaking his head slowly. "Used their own guns."
Several dozen of the city's 1,600 police officers have failed to report for duty, and some have turned in their badges.
Published reports put the number as high as 200, but Riley declined to comment on those figures, saying more than 100 officers may have been trapped in their own homes or unable to reach command centers.
"We just don't know," he said, standing outside a downtown command center set up in the driveway of Harrah's casino.
But a moment later, Riley motioned back in the direction where several dozen heavily armed officers milled around, eating and smoking. He said he didn't care — not at the moment.
"We still have at least a thousand policemen out here trying to rescue people and take back the city. I don't know what's in their minds. I don't know what gives the others out here their adrenaline, what gives them their push."
On top of the burdens of law enforcement, officers have had to forage for food and water and even for places to relieve themselves.
"Our officers have been urinating and defecating in the basement of Harrah's Casino," Police Superintendent Eddie Compass said last week. "They have been going in stores to feed themselves."
They also have had to deal with personal losses.
"What's affected most of our officers is they don't know where their wives or kids are. They don't have homes ... they don't have anything," Riley said.
That sentiment was echoed by Capt. Kevin Anderson, commander of the Eighth District, which includes the fabled French Quarter.
"It hurts to the heart, but I don't have the luxury of dwelling on who's not here. "We'll welcome them back with open arms maybe someday. But that day ain't today."
Exhaustion was evident in the officers' faces and even their dress. Many were wearing T-shirts and blue jeans brought in by fellow officers.
"We're having to find clothes for some," Riley said. "The only reason I'm dressed in a uniform is that I didn't lose my house."
Some police who remained on the job expressed outrage that some of their fellow officers abandoned the city when it most needed law and order.
"This is our area," said one officer, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified because he feared retribution from commanders. "I was raised in this town. I'm not giving this city up. Police are turning in their badges and running away."
Officers also have struggled with the emotional impact of the devastation.
"The most stressing part is seeing the citizens we serve every day being treated like refugees," Riley said. "There were cops walking through the crowd at the convention center and people were coming up to beg for food. Not being able to help is a difficult thing. People were calling our names because we know them and to not be able to help, man, that's stressful."
Riley told of one officer who tried to rescue an elderly woman from an attic but could not reach the window from his boat. Another rescued a man who had punched a hole in the roof of his house to escape but the man lost his daughter in the swirling floodwaters.
"Imagine what that does to somebody," he said. "And I'm sure when the 911 tapes come out, there'll be stories more horrific than that."
SUBJECT: "Mnemonic" possession (or- Can u please just leave me 2 my own "devices"..? ;->
Our "M" - "S.C.C." originally wrote: "...UPDATE: Just for shits and giggles, we're going to attribute this photo to retired PO Lester Rumowski. Lester had retired to New Orleans, but at last report, his property was under 13 feet of water. Lester has been contacted and was headed back to the windy city. Godspeed Lester, glad you're OK...."
Oh.My.Frickin'.GAWD!!!
5th-W-Rep. Chet the Jet-Horatio-Hornblower?!?!?
DAMN! If you're givin' a shout out to your old homey the HORN-DAWG ... this narrows down my guesses as to just who thee might be, oh esteemed blogging ressurector of SCCN's gone by...
(Envision my guess as though you were watching the old "What's My Line" 60's tee-vee game show... and I, a somewhat hairier and fatter Arlene Francis finally get down to "brass tacks"...)
"Oh Mystery Blogmeister General...
could you be P.O. A****** A****, aka "T***, formerly Web Guru of the "B*** W***"... ? ? ? ? ? (still of "Heaven 17"???)
(a hushed audience waits with Baited Breath and poised hands- the "APPLAUSE" sign still not flashing... oh the tension you could cut with a knife!) ...and knowing me... I'm "just a half-beat off"... ;-) (Don Pardo- tell him what he's won already...???)
..."Suicides, resignations hit New Orleans' thin blue line"...
Thanks for that article post, whoever found it... intense, sad, depressing... but some hope too... man... rough. We'd better learn from this tragedy- if only just for OUR SAKES!
What did you win? How 'bout asshole of the year.
SCC is providing a service. Attempts to "out" officer SCC should be subject to derision and you should be ashamed. Who cares who is who. Let the truth be told though the heavens may fall. If the truth ain't posted here, I'm sure it'll be corrected. but if people are afraid of being involuntarily identified, the free flow of information will cease.
Not sure if you intended any harm, and if you didn't I apologize. But people can step forward and say if they are. If they don't, so be it.
Great idea. Golly. Gee. I think we can get the homicide rate back up again
no harm intended- maybe it was dumb- hey SCC- delete that guess quick- nobody needs to know you're Peter Parker, or Clark Kent, Tony Stark... etc... I just couldn't resist taking a fun stab at it what with the whole horn-dog allusion and such- I took it as a challenge- and I guess I may have made my guess too "informational" regardless as to it's accuracy... so like the Harold Washington portrait in panties from back in the day... I guess "IT SHOULD BE SNATCHED DOWN- NOW!!!" ;-) (hell, half of my overlong article cut-n-paste jobs get `86'ed anyway- I'm growing accustomed to it! - Sorry for the inanity (hope I guessed right though!) ;-) * ydahS *
Mayor Daley stated today:
If I knew Chicago could get rid of 500,000 welfare roll people and felons with a flood, I never would of plugged the Chicago River when the hole appeared.
He asked John "Quarters" to start drilling tonight at midnight.
The last comment (#31) in the "Shoveling BS" thread was talking about an old time copper who had retired to New Orleans and was back in town. That reminded us of Lester Rumowski, and we hoped that the retired guy referenced was him as we know Lester from way back. We didn't even think about Lester rhyming with Chester and Rumowski rhyming with Hornowski. Nice catch!
Too bad it's only coincidence, but thanks for playing! Just add it to the "unresolved conspiracy" category along with whoever your A***** A**** guess may be.
From "Itchy & Scratchy" (via his Blue Network- namely W.C.S)
***OFFICER SAFETY ALERT***!
MS-13 a.k.a. "Surano 13" or just "13s"
We are not sure if this threat is on a National level or just in the Virginia area, so we are passing it along.
Below is the email we recieved:
MS-13 Threat on Law Enforement.
Mark your calanders 10/30/05 is MS-13 kill a Law Enforcement Officer Day
(which will be an annual event)
Last month a C.I. told Newport News, VA police officer Steven Drackert, (NNPD)
that local members of MS-13 intend to kill a member of law enforcement on
10/30/05, and on the anniversary every year threafter. According to
Drackert, the CI has provided reliable information in the past.
Send it along - Thin Blue Line (-Thanks!)
How come leftisthebest has been strangely silent the past few days while his comrades on the left have appeared on tv telethons to raise the race factor? I'd think he'd be all over the President these days.
Maybe sweetbabyray and Bushboy have talked some sense into that boy/girl.
Believe it or not there are Serano 13's in 016. I think there is a faction in 025 and some in 017. I don't know about any other districts.
Leftisbest is in a hospitasl trying to get the rape condom off his dick.........
Maybe you can kiss it better. Sounds like you're another member of his homo love/hate fan club.
the 13's are getting big in the western suburbs they havent organized in the city much to much competiton from esstablished gangs
MS 13's are in 010. They are interacting w/ the latin kings.
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