Posted on 09/03/2005 8:25:08 PM PDT by Yosemitest
What else needs to be said.
Because their Democrat Mayor and their Democrat Governor left them stranded like drowning rats in a flood basin they knew or should have know was a death trap instead of evacuating them.
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.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301680.html
Thanks for the link.
Maybe we can give Louisiana back to the French, that is if they will still take it ! (being sarcastic here, not serious).
Governor Blanco and Senator Landrieu Host the Women's Leadership Conference
Email the Governor or write to
Telephone Numbers: 1-(866) 366-1121
(225) 342-0991 or 342-7015
Facsimile: (225) 342-7099
Amazing clarity ...
Thank you for that information. I think we need only send her the Washington Post article.
And ask her why the President of the United States of America had to urge her to evacuate the City of New Orleans, which she admitted happened when she gave a press conference at 10:30 on Sunday before the storm.
The mayor prefers being a playboy and a glad hander, enjoying the fruits of political position. It is unfair to ask him to perform, especially in a crisis. He reminds me of Bill Clinton. Aren't we fortunate that neither Clinton or Gore were in office for 9/11 and Katrina? Louisiana had Nagin and Blanco, adding Clinton or Gore to that would be cruel and unusual.
Excellent!!!
FOOTNOTES:
F18: given...: Heb. done to him
F19: lead...: or, call thee blessed
Thanks for posting
Thanks Rush Limbaugh!
That's an explosive discussion in the making! However, if you apply it to New Orleans both before AND after Katrina ... it would hard not to find some validity from the hardest of critics.
The Bible always silences the debate.
Oh yes ... when you really apply it ... there is no room for discussion. In our society, everyone is given freedoms to be successful and prosper. Everything is taken for granted and abused in New Orleans - education, crime, sex, drugs, alcohol, gambling, laziness, gluttony, etc
All 7 Deadly Sins could be found within minutes of any starting point in the city, huh?
However... I see the words of old in today's events. Time to rest now ...at least for the night, and peace to all, to ponder these things. Special prayers for Chief Judge Rehnquest's family and for our nation.
If it doesn't already have it, this nugget is entitled to its own thread!
"Governor Blanco and Senator Landrieu Host the Women's Leadership Conference"
LOL. Blanco should be banned from ever using the word "leadership" again.
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