MSM: Take Note - Clinton's Contribution to the Katrina Disaster ( Must Read )

Source:

The Federal Register ^

People have been talking for years about what would happen should a hurricane this size hit that city, and I'd be willing to bet you there were lots of federal dollars passed from hand to hand over the years to prepare for this.
I will be astounded if some of those reporters don't ask the obvious questions: Where did the money go, why weren't officials prepared? It's not like it was a secret this could happen someday.

Bill Clinton did not sign for the improvements & money requested by the Army Corp of Engineers & LA to make them. Source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474591/posts?page=77#77

Q.3. Why only Category 3 protection?
A.3. That is what we were authorized to do. [Answer by the Corps of Engineers]

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/083005cccawwlunwatering.45718845.html

There are already the accusations that federal money was diverted away from improving NO's levee system for other purposes, likely the war.Yes, Sidney Blumenthal already planted that political urban press using the foreign press to launder out the Clinton fingerprints. The way to shoot it down is to explain that the fed money was there but because LA refused to put up any of the state matching funds that were required by law before the fed money could be spent. Since LA made it clear for several years that they weren't going to provide those matches and expected the feds to pay 100%, the money was diverted to other needs, of which there were many.

Critics Say Bush Undercut New Orleans Flood Control -- Hint to the Liberals --This is NOT a road you want to go down --Shall we open up the books to the BILLIONS of dollars that was sent to NO and what happened to it all?

Even with full funding in recent years, none of the flood-control projects would have been completed in time to prevent the swamping of the city, as Democrats yesterday acknowledged.

Bush Urges People to Flee Hurricane (August 28th)

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What is worse, this danger was known about, and written about, and studied, for years:

The Lost City of New Orleans? (Dec 2000)

NASA Flooding Simulation

2004 Amazingly Precise Prediction of New Orleans Disaster -- This was entirely predictable and inevitable to anyone who has followed the issue.

Hurricane Pam Exercise Concludes [2004]

Corps officials: Funding levels not to blame for flooding

Prophetic: This magazine article foretold New Orleans' doom...four years ago

Click on the thumbnail to open full picture in a new window.

This is a 1998 modelling of a CAT 4 or CAT 5 moving through New Orleans-- Here is what they predicted for flooding....
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/content/katrina_projected_flooding082805.pdf

Apocalypse Live (Description of a category 4 or 5 hurricane from three weeks ago)

Gone with the Water -- Published last fall - eerie...

Drowning New Orleans -- Scientific American ^ | October 2001 |

From Jeff Master's weather blog on http://www.wunderground.com
"I'd hate to be an Emergency Management official in New Orleans right now. Katrina is pretty much following the NHC forecast, and appears likely to pass VERY close to New Orleans. I'm surprised they haven't ordered an evacuation of the city yet. While the odds of a catastropic hit that would completely flood the city of New Orleans are probably 10%, that is way too high in my opinion to justify leaving the people in the city. -- posted on 08/27/2005 8:04:52 PM EDT

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Here are the pictures:

New Orleans under water (aerial photos)

Satellite Images Of New Orleans and Biloxi Before and After Katrina

Hurricane imagery posted Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama (excellent images)

A Helicopter View of the Devastation of Hurricane Katrina

Union Pacific New Orleans Damage Pictures

Sattelite Before and After Pics

Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here (But please, no Getty images)

http://sigmund.biz/kat/index.html has the archives of both the cam and camera shots taken from just before the hurricane to today. (it takes quite a while to load unless you have wide broadband.)

NOAA aerial photo's-detailed coast - Hurricane Katrina

URL of Map of Damage by Street - Marker's telling of damage in the Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia

Complete Aerial Picture Survey of Mississippi Coast Damage

http://alt.ngs.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM

Astounding video of Katrina destruction

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...and here is contact information for those trying to get information:

(Katrina) Gulf Coast Nnews: Survivor-Connector DataBase (Midway down the page)

INFORMATION ON KATRINA ASSISTANCE

Hurricane Katrina Survivor Check-In Sites

Food for the Hungry , is a good solid Christian relief organization with VERY LOW Administration cost. Approx 93% of contributions go to actual relief.

Don't know if anyone has posted this yet, but here is a website for people to leave messages letting loved ones know they are OK or to post the names of people they are in search of: Katrina Check-In

How to Help Hurricane Victims

UPDATES/ LOCAL NEWS LINKS:

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html

http://eyesonkatrina.blogspot.com/

Hattiesburg Community Web board

One Link for All Live Media

Like I said, it's "Mogadishu on the Mississippi"

Hurricane Katrina HOUSING Thread

FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread

Hurricane Katrina Survivor Locator Boards

http://www.createforum.com/phpbb/index.php?mforum=katrinasurvivor.

How to send messages over the Salvation Army SATERN Network

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New Orleans in Anarchy With Fights, Rapes (Blanco gives shoot to kill order?) -- Wow!
When guns are outlawed, only the government and outlaws will have guns.

Tourists Realize They're Afterthought, Band Together

New Orleans radio system flooded -- "I'm absolutely astounded by the degree and pervasiveness of the incompetence and malfeasance at both the municipal as well as state goernment level in this disaster." -- if you've been watching the Governor, the mayor and police chief the past few days ...... to call them "incompetent" is an insult to incompetents.

Instant Haiti.

Water May Linger for Months (New Orleans, "Gone With the Wind?"

Levee repair work has yet to begin (Another Levee Break - 700ft wide NOLA will take 3-6 mos to dry) -- Would the last person to swim out of NOLA please bring the flag?

NOLAntis. The Lost City.

Masques of Death (A sewer of applied liberalism, New Orleans was lawless long before this week.)

New Orleans in Anarchy With Fights, Rapes -- Politicizing a tragedy? No, teaching valuable lessons, if they dare.

Ted Koppel blames Bush for failure to evacuate poor prior to the Katrina hitting New Orleans -- Dateline pretty much did the same thing. ABC has a Meme and it is the new strategy of the Left... use the disaster to crucify the President.

It is obscene.

The Katrina syndrome: What a hurricane can teach -- I didn't really enjoy the article until the end..when he compared how they everyone the warnings about levees and sea levels and hurricanes, etc., until disaster struck....and then it was too late.
And when he then compared that to the border issue, and how the signs are all there, but nobody in the government cares to do anything about it. And when they do, it will be too late.

The Great Society our welfare System has Created.

Gasoline Prices & Katrina

Hurricanes, Hatred and Hypocrisy

Don't blame Katrina

Ford blasts Bush’s handling of Hurricane Katrina -- The Governor of LA is supposed to be coordinating with FEMA, isn't she?

Yep. But she has vanished. She can't go on television without bawling like a baby, so her handlers are hiding her.

You asked, "What in the world is wrong with the governor??"

She's so afraid of doing something wrong that she can't do anything right. You can see her "deer in the headlights" look on television. She's an incompetent political hack thrown into a nightmare situation and she's just frozen.

Rebuilding New Orleans doesn't make sense

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475129/posts

New Orleans, the Tragedy -- This is the article from which Rush quoted in the first hour of his show today.

Shephard Smith "Grandstanding" in New Orleans, showing dead bodies on Fox News. -- "Personally, I don't think the networks should have 'saved us' from the horrors of 9-11 as they did. Perhaps if the reality of that situation had been known then people wouldn't have so easily forgotten."

Amen to that! I agree 100%! If they had show the real carnage, people would be supporting our troops now, instead of low-lifes like Cindy Sheehan.

Mr. Trittin, You've Got Mail! (Response to Trittin's claim that WE caused Katrina - It's GREAT)

The global warming crowd says it's Bush's fault.

The Zionist Christians say it's Bush's fault.

The Islamist Jihadists say it's Bush's fault.

The Democrats say it's Bush's fault.

Millions of idiots can't be wrong.

Thousands Feared Drowned in New Orleans -- I've never seen such poor planning and leadership in my life. the Mayor and Governor should be tarred & feathered. This is just inexcusable, unbelievable incompetence.

Heart of America: Common People Doing Heroic Things

Thought-provoking opinion:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1474387/posts?page=106#106

" In my opinion, the time for optimism has passed. New Orleans did not dodge a bullet, New Orleans suffered a worst case doomsday scenario. But this is far far bigger than New Orleans alone.
By my count, America has lost not one city, but nine of them. "

Looters Strip Stores in Front of Cops

Read this great rant from Pukin Dog then, no typing required --
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1474141/posts

Looters around the city freely cleaning out stores (Amazingly Honest Account)

Mississippi search crews pulling bodies from rubble - railroad tracks about six blocks from beach

LINKS, INFORMATION, VIDEO and PHOTOS on sidebars

Turn Bases into Refineries part 2 -- This is a excellent idea, which will help the LONG term problem (just like building 10 new nuke power plants).
For SHORT term help, suspend taxes on gas for 90 days, suspend requirements for 40 different blends of gas for the nation, pass legislation to end lawsuits against MTBE's (which the enviro-weenies are responsible for in the first place), proclaim closed military bases as "refinery empowerment zones", where they will have a 100 year lease on the land, be shielded against environmental lawsuits, and not taxed for 10 years.

• 1-qt water per person
• Identification (copies of records/cd
• 2-"energy bars" per person
• Dehydrated food pack for one week dried fruit, vegetables, meat flour, oil, salt, pepper, spices vitamins, honey,peanut butter crackers, protein powder, powder milk
• Collapsible 5 ga. Water containers
• "Water washer" filter
• Lightweight cook kit large pot, dishes, spoons, forks knives, cups, non-stick skillet spatula, can opener, large spoon
• Towels
• 2-water proof nylon tarps
• Change of clothes for each person
• Coats,
• 1-thermal blanket
• 1-sleeping bag / person
• Matches, fire starter
• Compass, maps of areas of intended use
• 2-rechargeable/shakable flashlights
• 12v trouble light w/@cig. lighter plug
• First aid kit
• Toilet paper,
• Soap
• 1-pocket knife
• 1-fishing kit
• 1-large bowie knife (western cutlery) (perfectly weighted to serve as both fire knife and hatchet etc)
• 1-small portable mt. Climber's stove
• 1-back pack with frame
• Paper, pencil
• Signaling mirror
• 1-manual flashlight
• Whistle , portable cable saw
• Small bottle of bleach, insect repellent.
• Magnifying glass
• 100 ft. 1/2 dia. Goldline rope,
• 2 pulleys
• 50 ft. Nylon "shroudline" cord
• .22 caliber pistol w/ 500 rds. Ammo.

There are many, many variations of this Bug Out Bag. Some place more reliance on ‘defense’, property, records.

Seems one should prepare according to their own specific needs, location. Here's some info, left over from the Y2K 'scare' and survivalists
FYI …Google Search for Bug Out Bag = BOB

The Bush administration sent Blanco a memorandum Friday evening requesting the federalisation of the LA NG.

Blanco -- well, her keepers at least -- turned it down.

This is all well-documented, right down to the time-stamp:

Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D). Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state's emergency operations center said Saturday.

The administration sought unified control over all local police and state National Guard units reporting to the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request after talks throughout the night, concerned that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. Some officials in the state suspected a political motive behind the request. "Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly.

A senior administration official said that Bush has clear legal authority to federalize National Guard units to quell civil disturbances under the Insurrection Act and will continue to try to unify the chains of command that are split among the president, the Louisiana governor and the New Orleans mayor.

Louisiana did not reach out to a multi-state mutual aid compact for assistance until Wednesday, three state and federal officials said. As of Saturday, Blanco still had not declared a state of emergency, the senior Bush official said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301680.html

Press Release

Date: 8/26/2005

-- it looks like what the staffer told the WaPo (if he really did say what the WaPo says he said -- and I know that is a big if), was wrong on that particular detail See Link

Nagin and Blanco were aware, I imagine, of this study:

Citizen Hurricane Evacuation Behavior in Southeastern Louisiana: A Twelve Parish Survey Released by The Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Taskforce July, 2005

Blanco Refuses White House Request For Federal Paperwork On Friday -- go to the near bottom of the Washington Post article and see how K. Blanco thought it better to avoid Martial Law declared in her state than to save the lives of her people. --and - she is advised by the law firm of Clintoon's ex, former director Witt in how to avoid a "takeover"

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9189916

Hurricane Katrina: Don’t Blame Bush for Local Corruption and Democrat Incompetence --more--

http://mensnewsdaily.com/blog/malven/2005/09/hurricane-katrina-dont-blame-bush-for.html

There is a thread running right now that states that most of the federal moneys allocated for levee security were redirected by the corrupt mayor and city council and used to build CASINOS!

"The more I see, and the more I read, I am beginning to believe that BLANCO should be held CRIMINALLY responsible."

The evident incompetence of this woman is one reason the Democrats are loudly blaming Bush.

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

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Cached Katrina news reports BEFORE landfall (Aug 27-Aug 29) -- Thanks for putting this together. In light of the activity on Saturday the 27th, it is interesting that the New York Times ran not a single article on Hurricane Katrina the day before it struck (the 28th). This, despite the paper's editorial claim that "everyone knew [the disaster] was coming." I have the rather amusing details up on my blog.

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Katrina Live Threads, Part XV -- The good news is that this week, the conservative radio talk show hosts across the country will start getting the truth out there. They are the "ace in the hole."

OK, I thought I was nuts but I just confirmed it with my husband and our houseguest. We live in Eastern Kansas. I grew up in Texas and I know what the gulf smells like. I smell the gulf here once or twice a year depending on the wind and the weather and tonight, I smell Katrina. It's like the gulf only wet wood, and an almost rotten smell. It's not a smell I've ever smelled here. Our houseguest is from Switzerland. He says that they get sand from the Sahara once in a while so he believes me. So if you live in the midwest, go outside and think about it. Only a barbwire fence between here and there.

Blanco Only Asked Fed Money For 6 Shelters B4 Katrina. LA Now has over 75 Open 7 Days Later -- Coordination: $0
Technical and advisory assistance: $0
Debris removal: $0
Emergency protective measures: $ 9,000,000
Individuals and Households Program (IHP): $0
Distribution of emergency supplies: $0
Other (specify): $0

Trying to pin this on George Bush: Priceless""

U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer Dan Langdon, of Bravo Company 2-4 Aviation, 4th Infantry Division out of Fort Hood, Texas, comforts a stray dog after landing his Chinook helicopter, Saturday, Sept. 4, 2005 in New Orleans. The Chinook crew is flying missions in support of relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina and was waiting to begin their next mission.

6,795 posted on 09/04/2005 7:33:56 PM EDT by BurbankKarl (u)

He Held Their Lives in His Tiny Hands -- OK, so now we've got a 6 year old who was more resourceful and smarter than the frikin mayor.

After the Storm blog

"The resolution is in contrast to a recent trip by Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco to Cuba where she had a lobster dinner with Fidel Castro. Governor Blanco's meeting with Castro has come under fire by Louisianans for failing to meet with dissidents, call for democratic reforms, release of political prisoners, freedom of the press, and respect for human rights."
http://www.asambleasociedadcivilcuba.info/CPrensa/CANF.htm

Hurricane Pam Exercise Concludes

Release Date: July 23, 2004

A look at refugee situation around U.S.

I am happy to see that Sheehan witch and Aruba off the air - but would suffer through Cindy witch and Aruba a thousand times over if it would mean Katrina didn't swamp the Gulf Coast as she did.

Timeline:

http://www.miami.com/multimedia/miami/news/archive/katrinatimeline/index.html

Hurricane Relief (Astrodome Slideshow You Won't See on MSM)

N.O. Mayor Resonsible For AT LEAST 20-30,000 Stranded Due To Failure To Issue Bus Demand

Lack of Automobility Key to New Orleans Tragedy

Who's Really to Blame for Katrina Chaos?

Super Typhoon Tip had a diameter of 1350 miles while Cyclone Tracy had a diameter of 30 miles. Which one would cause more damage if it hit land? I bring this point up because Hurricane Katrina was more powerful than the general definition of a Category 4 storm. In fact it was the 3rd most powerful storm to hit the US since the listings were started and the fourth storm to be recorded as a Category 5 storm (about one every 30 years on average).

(Equivalent sizes if placed over the US)

It is important to consider this when we realize that New Orleans was designed to handle a general Category 3 storm. There was no possible way it could have handled a direct hit from a general Category 4 storm. But Katrina was not a general Category 4 storm. It is also important to realize that New Orleans expected a general Category 4 storm or higher to hit on average once every 300 years. For a storm the size of Katrina, it might only hit once every 1000 years

Seems to me that thousands of people owe their lives to the competence and compassion of President Bush.

Why Was New Orleans Evacuated?
Power Line, MN - 2 hours ago
... Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low ...

Looters Take To Streets; Martial Law Declared
New Orleans Channel.com, LA - Aug 30, 2005
... Gov. Blanco said President George W. Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding. ...

New Orleans Mayor Issues Evacuation Order
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Aug 28, 2005
... Blanco said President Bush called and personally appealed for the mandatory evacuation for the city, which sits below sea level.

Nightmare named Katrina bears down on New Orleans
KTBS, LA - Aug 28, 2005
... all flights. Gov. Kathleen Blanco said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying.

Category 5 Katrina barrels toward New Orleans

KansasCity.Com (Knight Ridder)
National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield in Miami called Nagin at home Saturday night and told him: "Get people out of New Orleans. I could never sleep if I felt like I didn't do everything that I could to impress upon people the gravity of the situation," Mayfield said. "New Orleans is never going to be the same."

French Quarter Holdouts Create 'Tribes'

IEM to Lead Development of Hurricane Plan for Louisiana (Well, well, well lookie here..)

An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State -- As God is my witness, I would not have sat stranded on a concrete island for five days hopelessly waiting to die without doing anything to help myself. I really don't get how people could not care enough to want to survive.

Nagin said slow response cost lives (Mayor Nagin slams Gov. Blanco)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477598/posts

George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People ILLUSTRATED

New Orleans Begins Counting its Dead (While Decadence Parade Held in French Quarter) -- And we are talking about rebuilding that cesspool? Once everyone is evacuated out of N.O., I'm really hoping Mother Nature will finish it off with another hurricane. That's right folks, I'm not the least bit interested in rebuilding that cesspool...

Is this a joke?

Nagin to Offer Free Trips to Las Vegas for N.O. Officers -- I've been told that 2/3rds didn't show up when the Mayor put out a belated all hands on deck. Michelle Malkin has an interview with a general who says more than two thirds deserted.

We need one reporter to ask Nagin, "If a 16 year old who has never driven a bus could take ONE of your buses and save 75 people, why couldn't you do the same?"

Dutch anti-flood plans to be reviewed

Start your food storage on $10 a week

What is the best weapon for my wife?


Grim outlook for 4 Gulf Coast refineries

Officials: Its going to be 'ugly' -- On the seventh day, the mayor of New Orleans said he would surrender control of his shattered, nearly abandoned city --The Mayor lost control of his city the minute he chose to condone looting.

MSM: Blamestorming Under the Radar (More proof the NYT is concerned only with blaming Bush) -- Aug. 28th, CNN: Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said that President Bush had called and urged the state to order the evacuation.

SPEAKING TRUTH TO HYSTERIA

America's Pompeii

Special Report: Hurricane Katrina Damage Assessment (of Oil Rigs and Production)

Why Didn't Nagin Follow His Own Plan?

Before & after NO:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/new-orleans-imagery.htm

The Soft Underbelly

Press awe at Katrina aftermath

Police Join Looting of New Orleans

Wow!! Here is an amazing video clip from KSDK in St. Louis taken by two storm chasers at a Holiday Inn on the coast as Hurricane Katrina came blasting its way into Gulfport, Mississippi!

Watch the Video HERE

this video may not be available after September 5th

In case you haven't seen this, somebody posted this to Little Green Footballs (my other favorite conservative site) and I wanted to make sure you have it: Nagin's Security Czar
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2003-03-25/commentary.html

Just what did the billions of dollars in Federal Homeland Security money give to the State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans since 9-11 to manage this sort of disaster for the 72-96 hours FEMA directive tell them it will take for Federal Assistance to reach a disaster zone BUY the Federal Taxpayer's?
Indictments
also here:Dept of Justice

Nov. 30, 2004 Audit

Three state officials were indicted Monday on federal charges of covering up a misuse of federal funds intended to repair and prevent flood damage

Re Clinton and flood control:

I think this is the post I remembered seeing.

I saw this while I was looking: White House Backpedals on Flood Control

Here's a great website to explain the Feds' versus the State's resonsibilities, and also to lay out exemptions to certain things like "posse comitatus."

http://www.homelandsecurity.org/bulletin/Primer_ChallengestoPreventionandPreparedness.htm

Neighbors Team Up To Provide Security (Second Amendment in Action)

Katrina and the Second Amendment -- This is an 'in your face' validation of the Second Amendment. All of America and the entire world saw what the criminals were doing. There are many stories coming out where home and business owners saved their lives and property because they were armed.

New Orleans Police Resting in Atlanta(while the military and others try to save lives and property) -- Mary Landrieu's reaction to the vacationing New Orleans cops:

"If President Bush calls these men back even one day early from their time off, I swear I'll drop kick him right through the goalposts of Louisiana State University. Literally."

Tribes...A Bill Whittle Essay

U.S. Appears to Have Avoided Massive Oil Supply Problems -- What is wrong with this picture: vast areas of the US are off limits to drilling known reserves, yet the Times frets we "depend" on foreign oil. This is illustrative of the type of thinking that spends millions on school buses to achieve racial balance in schools, yet cannot seem to use them to evacuate the parents of those students when necessary to save lives. It is thinking that has been dangerously corroded by liberal ideology.

Thibodaux church sheltering pets

Animals Face Urgent Threat After Katrina Strike, IFAW Responds

They wouldn’t leave without their pets

David Meeks, sports editor for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, poses for a photo with his dog, Carson, outside The Courier’s office

Blanco Administration Caught in Scandal. Dem Website to Fool Citizens -- Not only does the governor have a black mold problem in the Mansion, causing her to live in a rented house for the summer, but her offices in the State Capitol appear to have a plumbing problem, following the embarrassing leak of a confidential memo on how to deal with partisan opposition.

Just ask Kathy how her Lobster Dinners were.

WSJ/Henniger's: Katrina Lesson #1 -- Beaucracy Will Kill Us, Outsource to Private Sector

Higher grocery bills in storm aftermath

By late Sunday, what had emerged was a picture less to do with Washington, and far more to do with incompetence on the state and local level-- http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8699

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478211/posts
Mayor Nagin: Gov. Blanco Delayed Rescue

Hurricane Katrina victim George Talley, 28, of Bay St. Louis, shows a triage ticket emergency personnel have been using to classify the seriousness of victim's injuries

Are you reading Ellesu's posts about the millions of dollars FEMA sent LA, that can't quite be accounted for. This is why the Clintons and their operatives are out there. They're trying to cover up what amounts to grand theft and criminal neglect, if not outright manslaughter.

Remember this post from this week?

To: Seattle Conservative

I did a little research. New Orleans has spent 673 million over the last 10 years on: New basketball arena, New Vintage Trolley Care system and just recently appropriated 315 million for the convention center expansion. Seems they had the money, but chose to spend it on pork projects rather than the poor and helpless citizens of New Orleans. Google search New Orleans basketball arena and trolley rail system.

787 posted on 09/04/2005 2:20:32 PM EDT by Aquahawk

"Anyway, I found it very encouraging because despite the MSM's constant drumbeat of "it's Bush's fault" their message isn't taking. People, including many libs, can see right through it."

I've been finding the same thing. It has taken awhile, but people just ain't buying the MSM agenda anymore. Imagine what this country will be capable of when most of our population isn't brainwashed by the lying media.

3,363 posted on 09/06/2005 1:50:16 AM EDT by Rokke

They're Stealing the Election [LA]-Did voter fraud swing last year's [1996] closest Senate race?
Reader's Digest | August 1997 | Trevor Armbrister

I just found this FR thread in regard to the 1996 election of LA Democrat Mary Landrieu for the Senate. It's easy reading. The first 5 or 6 very short paragraphs are a MUST read! I didn't even need to read the rest. Now we know how she was elected!
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/796352/posts

Baghdad on the Bayou

Louisiana Politics Changed Forever

New Orleans - Murder and rape - fact or fiction?

Some evacuees see religious message in Katrina - distrust of white people dispelled - new life -- Our pastor pointed out the obvious. Federal, state, and local GOVERNMENTS have all experienced a massive loss of credibility. Now it's the Church's turn to step up to the plate...

FYI, FWIW: first hand account from a NOLA resident and volunteer [Hurricane Katrina]

Rapes in New Orleans Chaos Were Avoidable

Checkout this Katrina Timeline, it is VERY interesting: http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2005/09/04/katrina-response-timeline/

SHOW: CNN LARRY KING LIVE 9:00 PM EST
August 28, 2005 Sunday KING: How prepared is the city?
NAGIN: Pretty well prepared. http://tinyurl.com/dmc83

Small Town America Responds to Katrina

This diseased city was sunk by benign neglect

At least 84 held in Harrison County [Miss] on looting charges - face 5 years/$10,000.00 fine -- "One of our residents said, 'if you don't take care of these looting problems, we will,'" said Gautier City Manager Christy Wheeler."


Zoos Weather Katrina Well

Fraud with NO Transit Authority? Where were those buses? -- NO, NO DON'T LOOK THERE! LOOK OVER HERE! IT'S BUSHES FAULT...

Sean Penn on FOXNEWS: New Orleans had no bullhorns to get people out of their houses -- How come you, Penn, didn't put the drain plug in your rescue boat before launching it?? Stupid is as stupid does.
A shortage of bullhorns is responsible for the deaths in NO, in your opinion, huh? EUREKA!!!!! How come nobody has ever thought of that before?
You Hollywoodites just can't seem to comprehend that in the real world, there is no script, no retakes, no editing out. The first shooting is the only shooting and we live with the results.
You people earn excessive wages for pretending. You have portrayed a soldier a time or two for instance, and earned more for your efforts in just one movie, than a real soldier earns in his/her entire lifetime, assuming they live to collect their retirement bennies.
This country and the world would be better off if you pretenders stuck to your pretending, and relaxed in the lap of luxery that your earnings make possible and stay the hell out of the way of those struggling to keep this real world going.

Flood waters displace snakes, rodents, ants

Why Rebuild New Orleans?

A Week After Storm, Levee Break Is Fixed

New Orleans police break out of their 'Fort Apache' -- The more and more time goes by, I am absolutely convinced that FreeRepublic and or the forums, and the bloggers are way ahead of the news and events before every one else is...

Police Looting Walmart (video of police looting, then trying to deny it)

The Big Easy rocked, but didn't roll [Steyn Alert] -- Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.

Half of Damaged Refineries Near Restarting

Bodies found piled in freezer at Convention Center

Gov. Blanco Received Multiple Calls From President Bush before, during and after Hurricane to help. -- As they try to change history, it is time to reflect on what Governor Blanco actually stated on the day of the flood...

Let me help you assign blame:

Katrina Updates Thread

Saving Buildings and Homes After Katrina

Volunteers try to reunite boy with dog

Sad Story of Boy and His Dog Grips Nation

After the Flood -- Robert Rector, of the Heritage Foundation, is probably the greatest authority on Johnson's grandiose scheme - the Great Society, he writes [emphasis added]:

"When President Lyndon Johnson launched the War on Poverty more than 30 years ago, he announced that it was an investment that would repay its cost to society many times over. Since that time, the United States has invested some $7.9 trillion in programs that provide cash, food, housing, and medical and social services to poor and low-income Americans. But while the nation was pouring this flood of resources into the War on Poverty most social problems got worse, not better. A deluge of illegitimacy, crime, drug abuse, and welfare dependency besieged American communities. The war on poverty failed." - Broadening The Reform, The Heritage Foundation, 2000 - Robert Rector

As Rector so rightly observes what we call poverty in the United States today is not classical poverty, today's poor drive new cars, do not go hungry, have access to medical care, own numerous color televisions and often own their own homes which are not in disrepair.

What affects today's poor is entrapment in a culture that encourages "...behavioral poverty...that heavily reinforced illegitimacy, divorce and non-work."

Rush Limbaugh: Katrina's Lessons -- Rush is hitting it out of the park, as usual. The media will never criticize a liberal democrat mayor or governor, and especially a black one. Clinton had 8 years to fix levees but did nothing either, but will never be pointed out.

Lying Senator Landrieu Responsible For Latest Katrina Hoax - Barf Alert

Katrina Reveals Gas Price Folly

Rush Limbaugh Show Thread September 6,2005

MISSISSIPPI: In shattered town, man and dog survive ride of a lifetime

New Orleans floods could have been twice as bad: colonel [Army on levee just after Katrina through]

The dark side of black people

The Mayor Who Failed His City-Ray Nagin shouted obscenities while New Orleans washed away

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