New Orleans

by **Poppy** » 02 Sep 2005, 12:56

According to the Independent today New Orleans is [was] the poorest urban area in the USA...and money not spent on shoring up levees, etc:

Here's a couple of articles on the subject:

by **Porty** » 02 Sep 2005, 13:00

I rubbed my eyes watching W beg the AMERICAN PEOPLE not to buy gas.

by **Maria** » 02 Sep 2005, 13:17

Doesn't sound as if the situation is getting any better.

Anyone else been sent a begging email yet? I got one this morning from itunes asking for a donation to the American Red Cross. A bizarre situation indeed for the world's last super power

by **Novastar** » 02 Sep 2005, 14:21

by **maureen mclaughlin** » 02 Sep 2005, 21:30

by **Dadaist** » 02 Sep 2005, 22:35

I heartily and throughly recommend anyone and everyone to follow the link I posted to this guy's blog, and check out the 10:46 (yesterday) phone interview transcript from a long-time N.O. resident.

This one is set to run and run. A whole US city turned into a concentration camp for a week, and a coping mechanism that makes the Cubans look good.

Everyone is pitching in now, Jesse Jackson etc. Analysts playing partisan ping-pong.

I just hope they don't decide to invade somewhere, or shoot at clouds or whatever.

by **bearcub** » 03 Sep 2005, 02:01

by **Porty** » 03 Sep 2005, 12:38

by **bearcub** » 03 Sep 2005, 18:33

by **Dadaist** » 03 Sep 2005, 19:30

by **Dadaist** » 03 Sep 2005, 21:27

by **Dadaist** » 04 Sep 2005, 19:33

A final bit of US tv like you've never seen - FOX News journalists normally used to being nice about W go nuts live to camera :

by **ecm** » 04 Sep 2005, 19:45

This from another forum I visit;

Friday, September 2nd, 2005

Dear Mr. Bush:

Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.

Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?

Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!

I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?

And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!

On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.

There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.

No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!

You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.

Yours,

Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.com

P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.

by **moffat** » 04 Sep 2005, 20:37

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle ... temID=8649

by **Dadaist** » 04 Sep 2005, 20:42

by WW » 05 Sep 2005, 02:06

by **Dadaist** » 05 Sep 2005, 07:14

by **Maria** » 05 Sep 2005, 08:05

by **Porty** » 05 Sep 2005, 13:29

Well I feel like taking my comments about W's face back after seeing the pics of him at the weekend. He genuinley looked gutted, devastated and broken, I don't believe he was acting. It was like watching who lives in a bubble suddenly being faced with reality.

A huge percentage of the US Army recruits come from this region. I guess there are going to be long term consequences for the US military. As Dada said earlier this one will run and run. W and his ilk have been caught with their pants down, big time.

by **ecm** » 05 Sep 2005, 15:06

by **ecm** » 05 Sep 2005, 15:32

by **Porty** » 05 Sep 2005, 16:15

by **Dadaist** » 06 Sep 2005, 23:14

by **Porty** » 07 Sep 2005, 15:24

by **ecm** » 07 Sep 2005, 16:13

by **Dadaist** » 07 Sep 2005, 16:23

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