Malik Rahim Eyes Run For N.O. Mayor

Sweetness & Light ^ | December 3, 2005 | N/A

[Sam Hill]

"Design Flaws Seen in New Orleans Flood Walls

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 20 — A surge from Lake Pontchartrain was the catastrophic situation that the corps had been guarding against since Hurricane Betsy 40 years ago. Initially, the corps wanted to build a giant barrier to keep water from the Gulf of Mexico from reaching Lake Pontchartrain and flooding the canals.

That project was delayed by lawsuits from environmental groups that contended the corps had failed to study ecological effects. By the late 1970’s, the corps abandoned that approach and began raising levees along the lake and the Mississippi and adding flood walls on the canals."

http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/blanco-lower-the-levees/

[Enchante]

Thanks for the informative link - now I'm on a bit of a tangent: I am particularly interested in how Blanco and similar 'Rats love to mobilize high school students CAPTVIVE in public schools to engage in political pressure campaigns on behalf of Blanco's idiotic ideas. It's even worse when the 'Rats use public schools to reach down to 8 and 10 years olds for their so-called 'peace' campaigns, but no high school student should see educational resources and time diverted to the political causes of any teacher or Mayor or Governor. This kind of garbage just doesn't belong in public schools, and pretending that it is some sort of "civic education" is just more bullcrap.

[Sam Hill]

Yep, and you can bet it happens all the time.

I can't help but wonder what those kids were thinking about their letter-writing campaign just a few days later.

[Enchante]

oops, that was supposed to read 'captive'..... where do 'Rat politicians and unions get off treating public schools full of students required by law to be there as foot soldiers in their depraved political campaigns????

[Ninian Dryhope]

“There was a group of kids from Boulder, Colorado, who drove all the way here just to deliver supplies, only to drive right back,” Rahim relates.

They probably couldn't wait to get out of New Orleans and back to Boulder.

[Theodore R.]

For many decades the people of New Orleans have demonstrated total and complete faith in the "democratic process" through the Democrat Party. And they will to the last man standing.

[Theodore R.]

Louisiana no longer has Democratic primaries except for President. In LA, it's called the "open primary," followed by the "general election," which could offer two competing Democrats.

[Mila]

"One statistic that I heard during the Katrina disaster...that the
percentage of N.O. residents dependent on kidney dialysis is
10 times that of the national average.

It would be interesting to hear why this is so..."

Although kidney disease is not exclusive to any particular race, I think it may have something to do with the large African-American population in New Orleans. High blood pressure and diabetes are prevalent in that group. Both conditions, if not controlled, can cause kidney disease.