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 Katrina: A Point by Point Refutation of the Left's Talking Points (Vanity)

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 What Kind of New Orleans Will Be Rebuilt?(I hope to higher ground this time.)

 

 The New Orleans Chaos, Ayn Rand and a Possible Atlas Shrugged Movie

 

 Rescuers in New Orleans encounter violence, other obstacles - drinking, looting, shooting

 

 Katrina-isms

 

 No Good Deed Goes Unpunished as Today Show Now Frets Too Many Troops in New Orleans

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 Levee upgrade would of taken 20-25 years(my title)

 

 The Big Easy's Style Is Uniquely American(And Gone With The Wind!)

 

 SPEAKING TRUTH TO HYSTERIA

[Rocky]

If this isn't in your compendium somewhere, it should be. The NY Times was against flood control, now they are for it.

"NY Times Ed Board: Fairweather Flood-Control Fans"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477494/posts

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Master list here:

 HURRICANE KATRINA- archive of links

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 Blanco Administration Caught in Scandal. Dem Website to Fool Citizens

[bwteim]

Am bookmarking. Thanks for doing the lifting, backhoe. And thanks to NN for maintaining the XV threads this past week.

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 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

[RebelTex]

Awesome post - great job.  Please take a look at this post To 74 on another thread.   Can you use your organizing skills to put together some type of response that we can all use to respond to the disgusting bias of the MSM?

Thanks for any help you can give.

[LadyPilgrim]

Thank you too, backhoe!

You have put in some work also!

Thank the Lord for Free Republic!

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 Hurricane Katrina: After-Action Report - Where were the breakdowns --

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.

 

 Liability fears delayed evacuation order (Lawyers killed thousands in New Orleans) -- The blogosphere has been wondering what took Nagin and the city so long; Glenn Reynolds has found the answer:

 

 Ghost Plan for a Ghost Town (New Orleans) -- The story of buses has become the seminal tale of dereliction in New Orleans.

 

The current "Live Thread: on Katrina:

  Katrina Updates Thread

 

 US Department of Defense-- Katrina Web Site

 

 Hell Has Frozen Over: NBC Nightly News is talking about the flooded school buses.

 

 Lou Dobbs Blasts Mayor and Governor -- Dobbs spent considerable time blasting Blanco and Nagin regarding the lack of buses to evacuate and failure to implement the evacuation plan that they had rehearsed. Brought up that NO BUSES were deployed either in previous hurricanes.

 

 What is this? Double whammy?

 

 Daily Kos(MSM and Liberal Democrats): Strategies for the Coming Weeks -- On the backs of the blacks they are supposed to love.  This civil war is "going hot."

 

 Would You Leave Your Pet?

 

 BLANCO LAUNCHES FIRST NEGATIVE TV ATTACK AD (2003 Governor's Race)

 

 Anybody watching Nagin on Oprah??

 

 DoD Response Began Before Katrina Made Landfall

 

 FLASHBACK: It took five days for troops to arrive after Hurricane Andrew

 

 Oil companies advance recovery efforts

 

 Water Receding Noticeably in New Orleans

 

 THE CREEPING STORM - (from a June '03 Am. So. of Civil Engineers' Civil Engineering Mag.)

 

 A Gathering Storm for the Media

 

 Survival starts at the household level

 

 New Orleans myths: The numbers tell a different story -- Thanks for posting. This needs to be sent to every talk show host, new commentator and Democrat politico who has been repeating this nonsense as if it's the Gospel truth.

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 Hurricane of Lies (Andrew Bolt)

 

 Katrina, a photographic timeline: Powerful proof federal response was NOT slow (warning, many pics)

 

 5 dead of cholera, 300 cases of Norwalk Virus

 

 Don't forget. Here are the points:

Facts about Katrina
1-The orders were to evacuate. They didn't.
2-Local and State governments by design are supposed to be responsible for the initial response. They Didn't
3-The Federal Government is there to assist Local and State Governments.
4-The feds had to handle the bulk of the problem-then get blamed.

 

These photos are  showing up in everyone's e-mail as they go back to work.

 Hell Has Frozen Over: NBC Nightly News is talking about the flooded school buses.

 I love the way they said "NBC News has obtained a copy of the official evacuation plan." Gee, we're so impressed. We've been reading it for THREE or FOUR DAYS!

 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 !!)

 Not much traction with the abuse (Wes Pruden Rocks!)

 

 Ed Koch on MSNBC: "Where were the buses? Where was mass transit in New Orleans for the poor people?"

 

 Minutes From June 5 Meeting Of Orleans Parish School Board: Using School Buses In Evacs

 

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.

315 posted on 09/06/2005 6:43:48 PM EDT by shield

 

 

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...

324

 

 Thought y'all might want to see some pics from the "forgotten" areas:
Bay Front Road, Mobile, AL
Pascagoula & Ocean Springs
These are pics of Goula (up to pic 266) for the most part, and a few of Ocean Springs (267 - 271). The pic of the lone flag flying in front of nothing is were Senator Lotts' house used to be I believe. These pics were taken while driving east down Beach Blvd, and the others are of Market Street.

 

 Will A Katrina Probe Turn Into A Smear Campaign?

 

 Rumor Sparks Panic Buying (Welfare-recipient mobs damage stores) -- No wonder many of them look like prize hogs. Kennedy and Jesse want US to feel responsible for the poverty of these freeloaders. It would help them to join society if they demonstrated a little civilized behavior.

 

 Photos of Katrina

 

 Blanco Piddles while New Orleans burns

 

 http://www.nononsenseselfdefense.com/

 

 Time to get a gun?

 

 Reno family recalls violence, squalor in New Orleans Superdome

 

 Louisiana Officials in Flood-Money Scam -- New Orleans --- The Big Sleazy. New Orleans has had a corrupt Sewerage and Water Board.

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!)

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...

[PjhCPA]

Future reading ping. Note to self--->get back to work.

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 Louisiana Officials Could Lose the Katrina Blame Game --  By 1998, Louisiana's state government had a $2 billion construction budget, but less than one tenth of one percent of that -- $1.98 million -- was dedicated to levee improvements in the New Orleans area.

 

 New Orleans: Special Emergency Transportation Planning and Massive Evacuation - March 2004 -- the concrete proof that the Mayor should have been responsible, rather than the Feds.  Good find. Nagin thought with the server floating in water no one would ever see this again...

 

 [NEW ORLEANS LEVEES] NEWSROOM for November 27, 2000 -- Just reinforcing the idea that this city's problems was an old issue long before GWBush came on the scene. Hillary's insistance upon an "independent" investigation is once again going to lead to her husband's administration having egg on its face.

 

 Military says "No." to Nagin (Won't take part in Mayor's debacle)-- just stated that the military will not force folks from their homes. "Refusing to force Americans from their homes", said the noticeably British reporter. Further, they will not let residents deteriorate in their own homes. The military will continue to get water and food to those remaining in New Orleans, effectively undermining Nagin's mandatory evacuation order.  -- The US military can not force people to leave their homes. Leave it to a Democrat to not be able to understand the role of the military- and to only want to use them to avoid a personal mess.

 

 No easy task Gulf Coast regaining electricity

 More

 

 How to speak "Katrina"  The pelican has them nailed.

 http://www.thedeadpelican.com/translation.htm

 If you want to hear the local take from an excellant radio show listen live now. Moon Griffon is syndicated across the state and does a great job of informing the public of the sleazy politics that go on in this state.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479258/posts

 

 New Orleans: The Harsh Moral and Political Realities

 

 90 horses, mules retrieved after Katrina

 http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com

 

 Horse aid delayed to due violence in New Orleans

 http://www.jacksonvilleprogress.com/articles/2005/09/04/news/news07.txt

 

 Cats and Dogs

 http://www.lsureveille.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/09/07/431e6fe950d5c

 

 

Landrieu rhetoric hides her inability to deliver for Louisiana

 http://jeffsadow.blogspot.com/ -- Granted, no level of government has distinguished itself in response to the crisis (in part man-made by state and local government) -- and try to make excuses for your brother Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu’s tepid response

 Katrina Updates Thread

 

 MSM loses Blame Game: Only 13% Blame Bush!

 

And in the "Just when you thought you had enough to worry about department," there is this:

 Mystery Bulge in Oregon Still Growing (100 square miles near Mt St. Hellens)

 

 Communities that opened arms are now bearing arms -- interesting conclusion to make. I would have though the extra sales are coming from people who don't own guns, but after seeing what was going on in NO decided they should be prepared. That's why I'm looking into a gun purchase ;)

 

 Survey offers broad view of firearms in the home -- Hey, I think they're right and we should disarm! Everyone should have the same opportunity to get raped, have their throats slits, robbed, looted, just like those unarmed people in New Orleans. Besides, the government will protect you...

 

 Hurricane Katrina: The Dress Rehearsal for a Nuclear 9/11

 

 Rush 9-7 thread

 

Rush exposes NOLA mayor's plan, everyone for yourself!

 

 How many more disasters before we build more refineries, clean coal & nuke plants, & drill more oil?

 

"Hell Freezes Over-- Twice"  Another TOM ( tired old media ) notices the Emporer has No Clothes:

 Katrina: ABC Notices The New Orleans Emergency Plan

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 MSM: In Their Own Words, A Continuing Series (re: Flood Control)

 

 Giuliani: Don't Second-Guess Storm Effort

 

 what should a household emergency kit contain [ 1, 2 ]

 

 Survivors tell horror stories about storm (Ocean Springs Mississippi)

 

 Pelosi: 'September has Become Synonymous With a Lack of Preparedness -- Actually, Nancy, they had a "hurricane disaster plan" the size of a phonebook. Unfortunately for the citizens of NO, the mayor and the Governor threw it in the trash when Katrina blew in and instead did nothing but run away. Just a year ago, NO had a disaster drill and became aware of the problems of moving a non-working, non-transportation population. Once again, they did nothing to remedy that problem. However, they had hurricane plans out the ying-yang but did not implement them. Blank-o was too busy contemplating the political consequences of any decision she made. And Nagin needed to get the "edge off his joneses, if you will". The people know the truth, Nancy.

 

 The Times Lied, Thousands Died -- At the suggestion of writer Michelle Malkin last Friday, I have cobbled together a blogsite called Texas Clearinghouse for Katrina Aid to serve as a clearinghouse for refugee efforts in Texas.

 

 CAPTION: Mules loose in NOLA

 

 FEMA - The Secret Government

 

 FEMA Blocks Photos of New Orleans Dead -- I don't want to see pictures of the dead, but there is one thing worse than the reality of a horrific disaster.

That is to be treated as a child by my government.

 

 Churches Had Plan in Works to Evacuate the Poor

 

 Wal-Mart at Forefront of Hurricane Relief

 

 Blanco still feigns help; protects turf

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 New Orleans: A Green Genocide [BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS]

 

 Money Flowed to Questionable Projects

 

 Victor Davis Hanson: Our perfect storms

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 Anatomy of a flood

 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.

• Self-reliance ping AKA Go with what you got ping: " a shotgun, bottle of bug spray and a can of Pringles at his feet"

• Guard dog ping: "dog, T-Bone, as a lookout,"

• Feed abandoned strays ping: "[Betty] she made rounds through the neighborhood, feeding cats and dogs left stranded on the streets."

• Neighbor ping: " taking turns checking on neighbors"

• Smoker ping: "Stubbs, rocking in the chair, smoking a cigarette."

• Taking care of infirm ping: "men also made daily visits to deliver food and water to elderly neighbors."

• RKBA ping: "five borrowed shotguns, a pistol, a flare gun, an old AK-47 and loads of ammunition strategically placed"

• Real life ping: "But their fears were based on actual experiences"

• Feel sorry for looters ping: "The neighbors, whom Pervel would not identify, shot two of the men"

 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. 

 

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..

 

 Pelosi on CNN (Bush caused more houses to be damaged).

 

 The Mississippi Levee System [Attempts to keep the river from abandoning NOLA]

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 State Rebuffed Security Bid to Put Louisiana Troops Under U.S. Command Amid New Orleans Chaos

 

 Mike Rosen: The rebirth of the blues (Katrina / New Orleans)

 

 Ill wind may not blow to the Whitehouse -- As the full horror of this sinks in, thousands of desperate columnists are asking... blah, blah, blah...

 

 

 

INSURRECTION, NOT -- It seems that everytime we have an emergency in this country the people effected are elevated to the status of "Super Victim." This status means, in effect, they have won the lottery and the government coffers are to be opened up...

 

 Who Calls the Cavalry?

 

 This is from the Louisiana Homeland Securities webpage.

 

 My Letter To The Hartford Courant--Biased Katrina Coverage

 

 Lodging offer turned down REALITY ALERT: READ THIS -- Wow.
Katrina is proving to be an eye-opener in so many, many ways...

 

 Federal Air Marshals: Heroes of New Orleans Airport Evacuation

INSURRECTION, NOT -- It seems that everytime we have an emergency in this country the people effected are elevated to the status of "Super Victim." This status means, in effect, they have won the lottery and the government coffers are to be opened up...

 

 Who Calls the Cavalry?

 

 This is from the Louisiana Homeland Securities webpage.

 

 My Letter To The Hartford Courant--Biased Katrina Coverage

 

 Lodging offer turned down REALITY ALERT: READ THIS -- Wow.
Katrina is proving to be an eye-opener in so many, many ways...

 

 Federal Air Marshals: Heroes of New Orleans Airport Evacuation

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 Daily New Orleans Photos - 9/9/05

 LINK TO PHOTOS

 

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 Interdictor Blogger on NRAnews now -- This whole thing bothers me to no end. ... I can't even fathom what could be in store for us if our own government would disarm us in the face of danger and not allow us to protect ourselves.

 

 Minutes From June 5 Meeting Of Orleans Parish School Board: Using School Buses In Evacs

 

 Hurricane Katrina: Scapegoating the White Guy

 

 Black refugees ask if Utah will really accept them -- This title, and the comments of Larry Andrew in the first couple of paras, say volumes more about the culture of the undeclass in New Orleans than it does about anybody in the entire state of Utah.

 Someone needs to inform these people of the TRUTH about Red State America, instead of the CRAP they've heard from the Jesse Jacksons and Kweise Mfumes of the world: everyone who behaves in a civilized manner in Red State America is welcome, regardless of skin color. Everyone who behaves in an uncivilized manner is not welcome, regardless of skin color.

 

 William F. Buckley Jr.: Post-Katrina Doublethought

 

 Hurricane Katrina Predictions