Well, its been two years since Katrina put the City of New Orleans down for the count, with a lot of help from clueless local and state officials like Mayor Ray Nagin and Governor Kathleen Blanco. The American people, as is their custom, opened up their hearts and wallets to the City to help it [...]
When I woke up this morning at 6:00 a.m., all of the streets here in San Antonio were iced over. In fact, the bridges on the local highways were so bad that most of them were closed to all traffic. My own car was so iced over that it took me twenty minutes of running [...]
Turns out that one of the reasons that the levees in New Orleans failed during the Katrina mess was because the land beneath them was sinking at the rate of 1 inch per year: WASHINGTON (AP) – Everyone has known New Orleans is a sinking city. Now new research suggests parts of the city are [...]
In Ted Rall’s latest unsupported and uninformed hit piece on the Bush Administration, he repeats several of the rumors that were circulating at the time that Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, but offers no evidence whatsoever that any of them are credible: There it was, right there on CNN the afternoon of December 6. Ishmael [...]
Ray “School Bus” Nagin has struck again, proving his soaring incompetence in the handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster was not a fluke: Katrina turned New Orleans into an auto junkyard and the flooded cars are still everywhere, mementos of the storm and of the city’s continuing failure to clean itself up. Almost seven months [...]
In one of the silliest statements since Pat Robertson’s meltdown a couple of weeks ago, Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans says that God is punishing America: “Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it’s destroyed and put stress on this country,” Nagin, who is black, said [...]
I’ve added a new link in the blog roll today for Camp Katrina. It is a site maintained by SPC Phil Van Treuren, Legal Specialist, Ohio National Guard JAG Corps. It has a lot of stories about the soldiers who have been stationed in New Orleans the past couple of months, as well as a [...]
As many people stated in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a House committee found Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco was responsible for dead bodies going uncollected for over a week around New Orleans: Bodies of people killed by Hurricane Katrina went uncollected for more than a week in the New Orleans area as the federal [...]
It seems that all of those poor evacuees from Hurricane Katrina had an urgent need for your tax dollars: Hurricane Katrina evacuees hastily handed $2,000 in federal relief money last month have been living it up on Cape Cod, blowing cash on booze and strippers, a Herald investigation has found. Herald reporters witnessed blatant public [...]
It seems that John Kerry and John Edwards, the Democratic Presidential ticket in the 2004 Election, still think that they are out on the campaign trail. WASHINGTON — Two Democrats who might seek the White House again in 2008 criticized President Bush for his response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, assailing the suspension of [...]
America’s Grief Pimp™ is at it again: One thing that truly troubled me about my visit to Louisiana was the level of the military presence there. I imagined before that if the military had to be used in a CONUS (Continental US) operations that they would be there to help the citizens: Clothe them, feed [...]
John Hawkins of Right Wing News let us all know what Mike Brown was up against when he tried to help the local and State authorities with Hurricane Katrina: “By Saturday afternoon, many residents were leaving. But as the hurricane approached early on Sunday, Mr. Brown said he grew so frustrated with the failure of [...]
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