Posted on 09/02/2005 3:35:55 AM PDT by backhoe
Thanks for any help you can give.
Thanks for the kind words- I'll take a look at that link now.
Thank you too, backhoe!
You have put in some work also!
Thank the Lord for Free Republic!
Thanks for the kind words- and you're right, FR is getting the information out days, maybe a week ahead of the TOM ( tired old Media ).
This is probably going to be my last and most complete post on the subject with the possible exception of the column I have prepared for the Daily Illini.
First, we'll start by what three things that aren't to blame and go into what went wrong.
Levee funding cut by Bush
STATUS: Non-issue
The Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for the levees and floodwalls in and around New Orleans. They were designed to protect against a weak category 3 hurricane. There were no plans to upgrade that protection to category 4 or 5. Originally the plan was to have category 5 protection; however, environmentalists sued the district and stopped it. It would have taken 25 years (if it worked) to get the upgrades in to make the levees and walls protect against a category 5. (Source: Riverside magazine by the Army Corps of Engineers).
New Orleans Police Department
STATUS: Two-thirds of the police force is gone
That's correct, over 2/3rds of the New Orleans police department just left and now they are trying to entice them back with taxpayer funded trips to Vegas
The Last Days And Death Of New Orleans Caught On Video -- Saturday night I went down to the famous Bourbon Street to possibly document the last night on the town, ever! People were in a carefree mood, nobody seemed to care what was happening or that the hand of god was about to come down on the big easy.
Congrats, backhoe - another fine list of links.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050906-122931-2126r.htm
The article was posted at FreeRepublic on the 5th.... Don't know how we missed it.... This is the Paragraph -- where the 2000 figure is mentioned.
".......in the early hours after Katrina loosed the deluge on the city that care and good judgment forgot. Ray Nagin, the mayor, ordered a "mandatory" evacuation a day late, but kept the city's 2,000 school buses parked and locked in neat rows when there was still time to take the refugees to higher ground. The bright-yellow buses sit ruined now in four feet of dirty water. Then the governor, Kathleen Blanco, resisted early pleas to declare martial law, and her dithering opened the way for looters, rapists and killers to make New Orleans an unholy hell. Gov. Haley Barbour did not hesitate in neighboring Mississippi, and looters, rapists and killers have not turned the streets of Gulfport and Biloxi into killing fields.
Who's to Blame for Delayed Response to Katrina? (ABC News beginning to get it?)
How the Poor Got Trapped (Even ultra-left AlterNet gets it !!)
SHAME ON LOUISIANA...
You should hear what N.O. residents are saying about their city and state. It's breathtaking...they continue to take about how mean and cold the so-called leaders of Louisiana has always treated them. They've never felt so much love from Houston, Tx. and Texans.
I just got off the phone with my son at Ft Campbell. His fiance is a 3rd Grade teacher. She spent her class time today discussing Katrina. What she thought would be an instructive talk with the students turned into a bad dream for her.
It seems the students had one thing on their mind(s). They wanted to know why President Bush hates black people. She was really shaken up. She couldn't believe they were serious..but after some more talk she learned the words of Kanye West had been imprinted on their young minds.
These are young children- worried their president hates black people. She tried hard to educate them about the facts in a calm way.
I had to post this as I am really speechless...
WWW.USDOJ.GOV: WASTEWATER TREATMENT COMPANY PLEADS GUILTY TO BRIBERY
Payoffs involved in S&WB process, feds say. Executive accused of taking kickbacks,
N. Orleans school funds missing
Audit: More than $100 million over four years
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3341719/
New Orleans: A Wakeup Call For California -- When politicians tell you that only law enforcement and police should own guns in today's "modern society", tell them to go to hell... or New Orleans. There's no difference between either at this point in time.
Rush Limbaugh: NY Times Backed Bush Cut of "Boondoggle" Flood Control Bill (FReepers Mentioned!)
Future reading ping. Note to self--->get back to work.
Thanks, and I appreciate that link.
Where are the tar and feathers for this poor excuse for a Governor!
LEAD, FOLLOW, or GET OUT OF THE WAY!
At least one major media outlet has finally noticed that New Orleans had an emergency response plan for hurricances and evacuations that somehow never got implemented. ABC News yesterday asked why Mayor Ray Nagin not only did not follow the plan, but actively sent non-evacuees to a site that had no preparations to handle them: Perhaps the media might notice this November 2004 analysis of the dry run Hurricane Ivan provided city officials in evacuating the city as a hurricane approached. It would address the meme that only the very poor and infirm resisted the mandatory evacuation, and noted that New Orleans did a poor job in communicating the evacuation order then as well -- Comments (82)
Largess in Louisiana: Money Flowed to Questionable Projects -- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479913/posts
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=17424_A_Funny_Odor&only
"A FUNNY ODOR" (September 7, 2005) -- A federal grand jury has returned two separate indictments charging three members of the State Military Department with offenses related to the obstruction of an audit of the use of federal funds for flood mitigation activities throughout Louisiana...
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THREE STATE OFFICIALS INDICTED FOR OBSTRUCTING FEDERAL AUDIT (Louisiana Levee Money, 29Nov2004)
Gil Gross interviewed Sen. Landrieu...she is STILL blaming Bush, but get this...
She said she is going to introduce legislation that takes ALL $$$$$$$$$$$ out of the hands of FEMA and HS for her state and ALA and MISS...and put all of the Billions of dollars that will go to that region...
INTO THE HANDS OF THE MAYORS AND GOVERNORS AND PARISH PRESIDENTS...
A Tale of Two Shelters -- the GS ( the Good Samaritan ) ministry, without directives, rules and regulations, or any real boss on the ground that I could find, Americans rolled up their sleeves and got to work.
Katrina trapped city in double disasters (How and When the Floodwalls Broke)
THE TRAP THE DEMS SET FOR BUSH
Hurricane Katrina: Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans? -- Man, as the facts keep comming out Bush looks like a saint and the local Gov't looks like they killed a bunch of people...
Nagin, Blanco, Nagin, Blanco, Who the Hell Cares (vanity)
Dean: Race Was Factor in Deaths (Barf Alert!!!)
| Did Blanco attempt genocide at Superdome? -- On Sunday, when they started herding the unwashed masses into the Super Doom, (not a typo), I went to my 90 year old grandmother's house and turned on the TV. I told her we were about to witness the biggest disaster the U.S. has ever seen. I mentioned to her that I knew she lived through the 'Great Depression' but this would be worse and happen faster. | |||
Snipers Firing On Workers Repairing Cell Phone Towers -- The stepped-up evacuation came as workers trying to get into the city to restart essential services came under sniper fire. More than 100 officers and seven armored personnel carriers captured a suspect in a housing project who had been firing on workers trying to restore cell phone towers, authorities said.
Air America: "They were not shooting at helicopters, but just trying to get attention to be rescued" -- Don't forget too that she was inciting the looters to loot last week. She urged them to go loot the good stuff, not loot just at Wal-Mart.
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| Bisbee resident heading to Houston with plans to help animals displaced by storm |
Tancredo: Don't let Louisiana, New Orleans officials touch federal aid -- 
Oh gimegimegimegimegimegimegime
The Story of the Hurricane - After a Period of Self-Suppression, the Horrific Story Spurs the Press
A Civilizational Vacuum (Appalling lack of self-gov't in New Orleans is the one area Media won't...)
Good news photos from New Orleans now online
Animals in the aftermath (Animal Lover Alert)
Hurricane Hillary's In a Whirl -- Psst. Hillary. Did you know that your husband's FEMA Director was criticized by Jesse Jackson during Hurricane Floyd because ONE MONTH after the hurricane there were still people who had not been helped?
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479542/posts
Oh, and Hillary. Did you know that the Bush administration spent slightly more than your husband on levee/flood control for New Orleans?
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479913/posts
From the past: Update: Hurricane Katrina is NOW CATEGORY FIVE! -- The incompetence of this mayor and governor is going to cause many people to be injured and lose their lives. The Director of FEMA said they have studied this scenario for two years and their models called for evacuation 48-72 hours prior to landfall. But he said the decision had to be made by the governor (state) and mayor (city). The evacuation has already been delayed too long. --As an astute FReeper noted last night--on election day, they put all the voters on buses and promise them the moon and stars. now when their lives are in immediate danger, the poor people must fend for themselves. 08/28/2005
Shelter-seekers find long lines, noisy conditions in Superdome Posted on Mon, Aug. 29, 2005 ----About the MRE's before the Hurricane From the Times-Picayune Archives- Monday, Aug 29
In Case You Missed It: Fox News' "Special Report," 9/7/05 (On FEMA)
Environmentalists Partly to Blame for New Orleans Flooding
Rumors of faraway places sway evacuees (the 100,000 + evacuees want to stay in Houston)
Exhausted New Orleans cops battle on-(NO Cops mad at 300 cops that left)
The Three C's of Blogging, What the blogosphere is doing to help (Free Republic Mentioned) -- Compassion, connection, and correction... Finally, correction, as in the sort that follows from accountability. There aren't going to be any secrets in this story, at least not for long. When Fox News's Major Garrett broke a story on Wednesday afternoon that Red Cross senior officials were confirming that Louisiana state officials had blocked the supply of water, food, blankets, and hygiene products to the Superdome, it was only moments later that the story had been picked up on FreeRepublic, and Garrett was booked and interviewed on my radio show. (Transcript here.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479745/posts
Homeland Security won't let Red Cross deliver food" Ann Rogers got it wrong!
True Leaders Emerge In Hurricane's Aftermath
Katrina: Gratifying & disturbing reactions
SNOWBALL HAS BEEN FOUND!!! -- Oh sure, they rescued the WHITE dog. :-)
The refrigerated trucks can collect and bring in about 120-150 people a day. Seventeen trucks came in yesterday. They are collecting lots of bodies... NO: Huntington Beach officer praises FEMA, prays for those displaced
Levee board under federal investigation before Katrina hit: Canada Free Press
http://www.canadafreepress.com/2005/cover090605.htm
Rampant public corruption was doing big business in New Orleans long before Hurricane Katrina ever hit. [And Canada was right in the middle of it.]
"Could New Orleans’s descent into quasi-revolutionary chaos be an indirect result of racketeering, kickbacks and procurement fraud by Democrat insiders with ties to a fast-growing organization called `La Francophonie’?
"...a Montreal-based, racketeering influenced and corrupt organization (RICO) with outlandish claims to represent the interests of the French-speaking world, including such luminaries as the negotiator of America's abdication of its allies in South Vietnam, John Kerry, and the companion to Kofi Annan at the U.N's school for translators in Geneva, Teresa Heinz
"In international relations, Louisiana’s foreign partners include the governments of France, the French community of Belgium, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Louisiana now participates in the sometimes-raucous Sommets de la Francophonie as an observer.
"La Francophonie was funded and re-structured for its dictatorial, syndicalist, racketeering and possibly genocidal goals by insiders of CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) at a 1986 meeting in Paris.
Appears that people and organizations in Canada were/are right in the middle of this corruption, and may be partly responsible for the loss of New Orleans and over 10,000 people.
There's more. Read it all.
EXECUTIVE ORDER KBB 05-31 Emergency Evacuation by Buses (why not before Katrina?) -- He said he has seen changes in them since they started getting posted.
Color me non-surprised.
The segment is over now, but I heard/posted this on the Katrina Updates thread:
Hearing on Tony Snow's radio show that folks behind the scenes in the LA legislature are taking steps to begin impeachement proceedings against Blanco.
Far Left theorizes on conspiracy to breach New Orleans' levees [adjust your tinfoil hats]
Makeshift militia patrols Algiers neighborhood -- This news account has a little for everyone.
Nagin's Failure (Photo of Buses sitting in Water)
Rush Live Thread September 8,2005
Neal Boortz: "... but I do have some random thoughts to share"
Determination of Inability of Statewide Elected Official - How To Suspend Governor Blanco
Louisiana governor should be jailed - Katrina -- A LA Legislator was on TOny Snow's show this morning. He said they are starting up recall petitions to get her out of office.
Pascagoula, Mississippi Area Destruction -- This is an excellent point! They should muzzle EPA and spray DDT on the Gulf coast.
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| GULF COAST CRISIS: GUN PURCHASES Fearful Southerners buy firearms at torrid pace |
STORM WARNING/We have not built a single new gasoline refinery since 1976, mainly because of
New Orleans Lady SHUTS CNN'S SOLEDAD O'BRIEN DOWN!!!
Who's to Blame for Delayed Response to Katrina? (Blanco says most of blame is Nagin's)
Chertoff Draws Fire on Briefing (14 trailers of water/MREs delivered to Superdome Aug 29-30)
Whoa nellie: Pelosi just told the CNN anchor babe to "quit her job and go to work for the Bush WH..
Army’s engineers spent millions on Louisiana projects labeled as pork. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Before Hurricane Katrina breached a levee on the New Orleans Industrial Canal, the Army Corps of Engineers had launched a $748 million construction project at that very location. But the project had nothing to do with flood control. The Corps was building a massive new lock for the canal, an effort to accommodate steadily increasing barge traffic.
Except barge traffic on the canal has been steadily decreasing.
In Katrina’s wake, Louisiana politicians and other critics have complained about paltry funding for the Army Corps in general and Louisiana projects in particular. But over the five years of President Bush’s administration, Louisiana has received far more money for Corps civil works projects than any other state, about $1.9 billion; California was a distant second with less than $1.4 billion, even though its population is more than seven times larger.
Much of that Louisiana money was spent to try to keep low-lying New Orleans dry. But hundreds of millions of dollars have gone to unrelated water projects demanded by the state’s congressional delegation and approved by the Corps, often after economic analyses that turned out to be inaccurate. Despite a series of independent investigations criticizing Army Corps construction projects as wasteful pork-barrel spending, Louisiana’s representatives have kept bringing home the bacon.
Mudville Gazette suggests some areas that should be investigated.
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