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From Anne Rice, NYTimes 9-4-05
If you read one link, read this one: Open letter to the President, Times-Picayune 9-4-05. For those of you who aren't familiar with the T-P, please note that they are NOT a liberal media outlet, by any means. They are the sole daily in NO and tend to lean toward the right, at least when it comes to endorsing politicians.
And, for everyone who has said "How could they have known...?" Here's a Times-Pic series from 2002 called Washing Away. I'd also direct you to Mike Tidwell's book Bayou Farewell and the excellent Rising Tide by John Barry about the 1927 floods.
Straight from the horse's mouth: Michael Chertoff says that "Availablility of supplies is not the limiting factor" and tells NPR's Robert Siegal that the reporter that NPR has IN the convention center (who happens to be on the other line) that reporters are spreading "rumors" about the thousands of people without food in the Convention Center. Siegal also cites a 2001 report that a hurricane in New Orleans is in the top three possible natural disasters that the US could suffer.
Word from the extreme right. An editor at the Spectator is perhaps the very first person on the face of the earth to accuse the NOPD of being "PC." He says "New Orleans has been a wasteland of politically correct dysfunction for decades"-- Yes, I agree with some of what he says in here. Both Jas and I have mused on the fact that no one seems to blink an eye at the rising murder rate-- just about one a day-- in New Orleans. Yes, New Orleans has lost its way since the late 90's, when we seemed to finally have lawlessness and police corruption under control. And yes, there have been solid reports of police contributing to looting. But for every right wing pundit that gets his/her knickers in a knot about Jesse Jackson claiming that neglect of our citizens is a "race issue," you have another right wing pundit claiming that the failings of the city fall squarely on the black population. Uh, read Anne Rice's editorial for a less racist POV.
If you read one link, read this one: Open letter to the President, Times-Picayune 9-4-05. For those of you who aren't familiar with the T-P, please note that they are NOT a liberal media outlet, by any means. They are the sole daily in NO and tend to lean toward the right, at least when it comes to endorsing politicians.
And, for everyone who has said "How could they have known...?" Here's a Times-Pic series from 2002 called Washing Away. I'd also direct you to Mike Tidwell's book Bayou Farewell and the excellent Rising Tide by John Barry about the 1927 floods.
Straight from the horse's mouth: Michael Chertoff says that "Availablility of supplies is not the limiting factor" and tells NPR's Robert Siegal that the reporter that NPR has IN the convention center (who happens to be on the other line) that reporters are spreading "rumors" about the thousands of people without food in the Convention Center. Siegal also cites a 2001 report that a hurricane in New Orleans is in the top three possible natural disasters that the US could suffer.
Word from the extreme right. An editor at the Spectator is perhaps the very first person on the face of the earth to accuse the NOPD of being "PC." He says "New Orleans has been a wasteland of politically correct dysfunction for decades"-- Yes, I agree with some of what he says in here. Both Jas and I have mused on the fact that no one seems to blink an eye at the rising murder rate-- just about one a day-- in New Orleans. Yes, New Orleans has lost its way since the late 90's, when we seemed to finally have lawlessness and police corruption under control. And yes, there have been solid reports of police contributing to looting. But for every right wing pundit that gets his/her knickers in a knot about Jesse Jackson claiming that neglect of our citizens is a "race issue," you have another right wing pundit claiming that the failings of the city fall squarely on the black population. Uh, read Anne Rice's editorial for a less racist POV.
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