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Reporting from Egypt, the New York Times simply recycles its earlier Hurricane Katrina coverage:
... a government widely considered to be driven by corruption and favoritism ... the government’s delayed and limited response to the emergency ... “There is no government and there is no rescue. They are treating us like animals ... The rescue is a lie. We are sitting here — no tents, no water. They are giving the people the dirtiest treatment.”
Yeah, the NYT requires everyone to register. I’m always forgetting my latest registration so I can’t give you mine.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 02 12 at 10:12 AM • permalinkPakistan, will not take kindly to the Walter Duranty Times, speaking of them in such a way.
On a serious note...those that have known nothing but a dole, can’t be blamed...well they can, if they are given the chance at better things and turn away toward the ‘dole’, once again.
Those that are elected by them and line their pockets with a little bit of the money here and there, that is designated for things such as: Levee’s that are constructed to rigid standard, as they were to be, instead of getting a little bit of that money for cutting corners. Buses that could have been used to move most or all, instead of lying in water to the window line of the bus. Those that were told by all, that the State, Parish and City had plans to make them safe, and then did NOT insitute that of thos plans.
Those that allow themselves to be used as votes only, by the same takers and liners of their own pockets and are told and have been for generations...and to this day, that to better themselves, is against their human dignity.
The people that are elected by these poor huddled masses with the promise of ‘something better’, not knowing or understanding that the ‘something better’ will be and always has been for those that are elected, are the ones that really should be tried, convicted and hung for crimes against those poor, huddled masses.
A President, regardless who that person is, is a president of a NATION, not a State. That’s why there are things or beings called, Mayor, Governor, State Representative, State Senator, etc., ad nauseam.
Addendum
Damage and destruction having been done....
Would these souls allow instant bulldozing of their once abode?
Would they like their lives to beas they were, with the wave of a wand?
Would they choose to watch the funds that are to go to them directly, be handed to them and make sure a little bit here, a little bit there, does NOT find another pocket, first?
Would they choose, once those funds are handed to them, to reconstruct those lives, or shall we get down and party, cause it Mardi Gras?...Bare you breasts and I shall toss you beads...give me the money I just gave you, first...PLEASE.
"Laissez les Bon Temps Rouler"
(Damn tough to type with ones tongue out...geezuz, bite mine at least three times.)
Geez, I could go on and on...but won’t.
El Cid — Call me a South Park Conservative, but I’m perplexed by the way so many folks seem to conflate Mardi Gras with the failure of government in New Orleans. The problem with that city is not that once a year a lot of drunk coeds come to town and take their tops off, the problem is that their elected officials and civil servants chose to abandon their posts in a time of emergency. I doubt you’d see the Governor or Hizzoner the Cable Guy dancing for beads on Bourbon Street… but they didn’t do their jobs either. That example has always seemed to me about one step above a Falwell or Robertson calling disasters God’s punishment for sinners.
Here in LA, during the Northridge quake, there were plenty of people who just ran out into the nearest handy field and waited for someone to come do something for them, even while others were turning to and cleaning up or fixing whatever was in their immediate power.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 02 12 at 11:44 AM • permalinkrichard mcenroe
I do believe I laid enough of the wrong at the right feet, with both of my posts...of course the blame and wrongs can be laid at many more feet, and for many, many years or months or weeks, past and there will be for future.
Guess I’m confused...are you equating what I stated about Mardi Gras, to something above, near, around, or within a lot miles of the words of a Falwell or a Robertson? I wouldn’t shake either of these persons hands, if paid handsomely to do it.
For if it is, it is as close as equating the chance of al-Sistani or al-Sadr being elevated to King of this years parade, would be. Not to be repetitive, but....I wouldn’t shake either of these persons hands, if paid handsomely to do it.
NOLA needs money...better...NOLA now needs hands, backs, sweat to go along with the tears… people need to get on with building what they once had, better....More, NOLA and LA the State, need to by action not word, show the people that because they have been elected to an office of trust, ‘they’ are going to do just that, by being the first with shovels and brooms.
Even Benson the N.O. Saints owner what to drop this area and the people like a bad habit...ridiculous.
I spent a whole year in NOLA, one week, foxy city, great food, great music and great ladies....and in my travels, I try my damndest to get close enough to swallow a hurricane and a muffuletta. I don’t think Falwell, Robertson, al-Sistani, or al-Sadr would have approved.
"Let the good times roll” is not just the motto of Mardi Gras, Richard, but has been taken as the political motto of the entrenched, corrupt political machine of Louisiana as a whole. The good times referred to are the rakeoffs the pols and their clients take from, among other things, the money allocated for flood protection projects.
The whole place would be healthier if all the welfare payments were cut off, and a thorough housecleaning of the political culture of Louisiana were done. Root out the corruption.
As for the famous waste of the New Orleans busses, I suspect it never occurred to Mayor Nagin that there was a need to move people out of the city. He knew they were all Democratic voters, so I expect he thought they were all dead and buried in the cemetaries already.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 02 12 at 05:30 PM • permalinkMichael Lonie — I guess in that case, when they talk about the Dem voter base eroding, LA takes it literally…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 02 13 at 02:33 AM • permalink
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