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Hurricane Katrina: Don’t Blame Bush for Local Corruption and Democrat Incompetence
Men's News Daily ^ | 9-3-2005 | Will Malven

Posted on 09/04/2005 5:03:08 PM PDT by Prince Charles

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Secondly of the funds that were transferred to New Orleans over the last decades, were diverted by the local levee boards to buy a Gambling Casino and a private marina. It would appear that the “Big Easy’s” reputation for inept governance and corruption is well deserved.

Bingo. The fools pi$$ed away their levee money buying everything BUT levees.

1 posted on 09/04/2005 5:03:09 PM PDT by Prince Charles
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To: Prince Charles

Bump!!!

Read later.


2 posted on 09/04/2005 5:04:29 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: Prince Charles
Okay....how's the mayor of New Orleans going to spin this?
3 posted on 09/04/2005 5:08:47 PM PDT by pointsal
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To: Prince Charles



bump for later.


4 posted on 09/04/2005 5:08:48 PM PDT by SouthernFreebird
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To: nmh
the dark side will try to make this the campaign issue.
5 posted on 09/04/2005 5:08:57 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (we don't need no stinkin' tagline.)
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To: Prince Charles

Excellent summary of the case. As I've said before, we need to get the word out by every means possible, to counteract the lies of the corrupt MSM. This article and others like it should be emailed to your contacts, wherever you think it will do some good. We need to show up the MSM propaganda campaign that is blaring from the New York Times and the network talking heads.


6 posted on 09/04/2005 5:14:50 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Prince Charles
Of course I am not so naïve as to believe Democrats or 'Liberals will comprehend what I have stated, because their irrational hatred of President Bush blocks all reasoned thinking. They are so blinded by hatred that, for example, I have read in one comment, on a certain liberal blog, criticism of President for hugging and kissing a couple of the young black girls, victims in Mississippi, commenting that it reminded her of a sexual predator. Perhaps Michael Savage is correct, Liberalism is a mental disease.'

That's it in a nutshell. This guy deserves a Pulitzer, but won't get it for doing something that needs to be done regarding incompetent and corrupt (Democratic) elected officials: Telling the truth.
7 posted on 09/04/2005 5:14:53 PM PDT by T Lady (The Mainstream Media: Public Enemy #1)
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To: pointsal

He'll spin it by simply repeating ever bigger lies. He's just a part of the Category 5 'Rat onslaught against Bush & the GOP that I predicted last Wednesday or Thursday. The Pubbies need to take off the gloves and put on the brass knuckles, something which this story does quite nicely, if I may say so.


8 posted on 09/04/2005 5:19:57 PM PDT by Prince Charles
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To: Prince Charles

Watching CCN spin it against Bush all day... it's sickening.


9 posted on 09/04/2005 5:32:17 PM PDT by Blind Eye Jones
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To: Cicero

Good idea, I'll email the original out to my list.


10 posted on 09/04/2005 5:32:45 PM PDT by Prince Charles
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To: Blind Eye Jones

Clinton News Network has ratings that are circling the drain. And rightly so.


11 posted on 09/04/2005 5:33:51 PM PDT by Prince Charles
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To: zot; Interesting Times

Ping.


12 posted on 09/04/2005 5:39:56 PM PDT by GreyFriar (3rd Armored Division -- Spearhead)
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To: the invisib1e hand

"the dark side will try to make this the campaign issue."

But of course!

They have NO solutions so they need to be critical of the opposing party.


13 posted on 09/04/2005 5:45:55 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
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To: GreyFriar

Excellent. Thanks for the ping. This needs to have legs.


14 posted on 09/04/2005 5:47:41 PM PDT by zot (GWB -- four more years!)
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To: Prince Charles

MUST READ BUMP!


15 posted on 09/04/2005 6:07:56 PM PDT by DrDeb
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To: franksolich; commonguymd

Ping! :)


16 posted on 09/04/2005 6:39:14 PM PDT by Repub4bush (------Mark Levin the next supreme court justice! :))
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To: Prince Charles
Secondly of the funds that were transferred to New Orleans over the last decades, were diverted by the local levee boards to buy a Gambling Casino and a private marina. It would appear that the “Big Easy’s” reputation for inept governance and corruption is well deserved.

Bingo. The fools pi$$ed away their levee money buying everything BUT levees.

Do you have references for this? I've seen this posted a couple of times and I've been looking for the citation, but haven't found it yet.

17 posted on 09/04/2005 6:48:51 PM PDT by Phsstpok (There are lies, damned lies, statistics and presentation graphics, in descending order of truth)
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Then these OFFICIALS should pay the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BACK every penny of the money they diverted to casinos, etc that was designated for the levees. Period.

Jesse Jackson, and the STUPID BLACK CAUCUS, and our mainstream press, all that are BLAMING PRESIDENT BUSH, have tried to jump the gun and get out their message to COVER UP what they all KNOW!

It was corruption, lack of FOLLOWNG THEIR OWN evacuation plan set in place in 2001 (which of course called for use of school buses!), being suspicious of President Bush and failing to ORDER a MANDATORY EVACATION...that has caused MANY MANY DEATHS. Many. And THEY KNOW IT. ALL OF THEM.

18 posted on 09/04/2005 6:56:26 PM PDT by Republic (Michael Schiavo comes to mind...ulitimate control is never relinquished with ease)
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To: Prince Charles

Interesting articles about New Orleans leeve systems.


....Federal officials are so stunned by these sorts of findings that they're rethinking their assumptions about New Orleans. Officials in the U.S. Army say, 'There's got to be a way to prevent some of that devastation.' So they'll study whether they should build more levees and build them higher. They'll study whether the region needs new highways, so people can evacuate faster.

Critics say, 'We don't need more construction, we need less.'


Oliver Houck from Tulane University. Photo: William Brangham/NOW with Bill Moyers
Oliver Houck from Tulane University says, "Stop the foolishness of permitting yet more residential development. We are granting permits every week for new subdivisions right in the path of where this stuff is going to go. We're still covering those people with flood insurance, Daniel."

And state and federal officials are asking Congress to launch a massive project to restore the region's natural defenses. They want billions of dollars to try to rebuild some of the crumbling wetlands, which buffer New Orleans from hurricanes raging up from the Gulf. Scientists say that's the best way to save the city: make that ancient shield of wetlands strong again.

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/wetlands/hurricane1.html


19 posted on 09/04/2005 7:09:40 PM PDT by Milligan (Damn the torpedos! Full speed ahead!)
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To: Phsstpok

Get a transcript of Neal Cavuto's show from Sunday morning. One of his guests went through a laundry list of things the levee board wasted money on.


20 posted on 09/05/2005 5:47:48 PM PDT by Prince Charles
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