Posted on 09/02/2005 5:40:24 AM PDT by Dog
President to speak at 9am ...
You hit the nail on the head. When I first heard that the citizens taking refuge in the SuperDome were not being provided cots on the field due to flooding concerns, I felt like this was a huge mistake. It is as if someone said, "Hey, I've got an idea - why not house them in the SuperDome?"
The City of NO should have had basic provisions on the ground. While it is not feasible to have enough provisions for 100k people, a basic load could have minimized some of the tragedy.
Maybe, but I learned that leadership is by example and from the front.
Yes, I agree, there's quite a lot of zot-bait around here..
I've seen numbers from 40,000 to 100,000. Of course, a large number of the 100,000 will include the dead.
bump for a post of reason
Must be the wrong term...because that term doesn't even "google." Maybe I can find a transcript of the press conference and find what they were talking about.
I still doubt that it means that the armed forces could enforce the law. It probably allows them to go in to assist, but don't know how they'd get around posse comitatus.
I'll keep looking for info. This link is from Homeland Security and it doesn't mention it, but does lay out posse comitatus and Insurrection Act.
http://www.homelandsecurity.org/bulletin/Primer_ChallengestoPreventionandPreparedness.htm
Exactly! 9/11 would have been much worse if we New York City residents (I work a few blocks from the WTC on Wall Street) had as ineffectual mayor as Nagin, and as ineffectual governor as Blanco. I was just trying to imagine what 9/11 would have been like if the most ineffectual mayor in my memory, Abe Beame, had been at the helm (and even in my most fevered imaginings I can't imagine any of our previous governors -- including Mario the Pious -- being as ineffectual as Blanco!). In addition, the WTC was in the financial district which had very few residents. The one relatively large complex in the neighborhood, Battery Park City, was home to an affluent population with the resources to temporarily relocate. If the WTC was closer to low-income housing projects, whose residents did not have the means to easily relocate, that situation would not have been the model of "how government should operate"!
I am reminded of Thomas Hobbes's theory of the "state of nature" -- that life in such conditions is "nasty, brutish and short." The intervenor, that is supposed to mitigate the state of nature, is government and the deal is we relinquish a measure of autonomy for a measure of security.
The problem with the "welfare state" (as it existed in New Orleans) is that these recipients have no idea of what "relinquishing autonomy" is -- they do what they want, when they want -- so they want total autonomy and total security. Guess what? Thomas Hobbes had it right close to 400 years ago!
Get over yourselves, whiners, crybabies and girlie men of FR, it was ever thus.
Are you suggesting that he should go to NO and be shot? (sarcasm)
Absolutely
what's scary is that President Bush now has to fight two wars AND RUN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS!
Because the democrats that run the city/state are inept and corrupt to the bone.
My prayers are with him.
Just what is needed now. Alarmism. Yes, Dr. Nash, I'm familiar with game theory.
Then why are you participating in it?
It is useful, often, to try to anticipate what the other guys are going to say, and to have a response ready. This is all I am advising the President to do. It is never useful, however, to bury your head in the sand.
Uh, huh. So you're saying what is most important right now is that he has superb verbal responses to attacks from liberals wanting to play the blame game? I disagree. The politicians who believe that is what is important are the ones who let dropped the ball. The President is acting. The democrats in N.O. are the ones hiding their heads in the sand right now and before it even hit. This is about doing, not saying. Too bad your maturity level is such that you can't see what is really important here.
I'm not sure -- I'll have to look at that.
The weekend before Katrina hit, professionals were all over the television saying "this is going to be bad" and warning people IN ADVANCE to get out, because there were no preparations made for a disaster of this magnitude.
They laid it out in graphic detail, I heard it with my own ears. "People will drown, be washed away, there will be no water, no food, no way out, flooding, substandard living conditions, disease, sewage....the sick, the elderly, the young, will be affected most...many will die."
There were warnings, but they were dismissed. I admit I am guilty also, because I didn't understand what that kind of devastation actually meant.
Good Lord! The National Black Caucus is officially making this a race issue. We all knew this was coming.
PUT ON FNC NOW
Congressman Black is up talking
Friday night the top sustained winds were 115 mph, and NO was still on the far west edge of the projected path. They were talking about a possible landfall on the Florida panhandle. They said that some further strengthening was possible, but no one was forecasting it to become a Cat 5 storm overnight, nor that the track would shift substantially farther west.
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