Posted on 12/03/2005 11:22:02 AM PST by Raebie
bump
LOL!
Let us not forget that "Senator" Mary Landrieu once ignored orders to leave Grand Isle before a storm flooded the road out, and she had to be rescued by helicopter (I'm not making this up). She is not exactly a genius, is she?
Well, no, she is certainly not that, but more than that, I think she feels entitled to special treatment. I'm Mary Landrieu, why shouldn't a helicopter be sent for me? I am not one of the "little people" after all.
instead of the incompetent do-nothing Republican bums...I've crossed over to the fact that they're all alike and until we, the voters wake up and take our government back, we're doomed.
ROTFLOL! This is funnier than the blond joke I posted a little while ago.
Surprising to see this in the Times Picayune, they are usually just a liberal mouthpiece. So what if.....
What if we have never seen and heard from the real powers that run New Orleans and Louisiana? That would explain the low calibre of the front men and women who certainly resemble pawns in ability, responsibility, and expertise.
When police chief Compass got too hot to stand by, he was unceremoniously dumped. When Levee Board President Huey got too hot to stand by, he was unceremoniously dumped.
Both firings were preceeded by unfavorable press, led by the Times Picayune. So what if the Times Picayune supports the likes of Blanco and Nagin only by proxy. In other words, as long as the real powers support the front men and women, they receive Times Picayune support, but once the powers that be decide a public face is a liability, the support is withdrawn and firings follow?
This would explain the about face by the Times Picayune regarding Governor Blanco.
But if true, it indicate a couple of disturbing questions.
One, by extension, the real powers in Louisiana must be executing a fighting withdrawal campaign. They know they are going to have to cut off an arm here and leg there to survive. If that's the case, I'm no longer willing to go ahead with reconstruction once Blanco, both Landrieu's, Nagin, Compass, Huey, and Broussard are gone. I want the big dogs, because if we don't get them, then the idiots who replace the strawman idiots that allowed the storm to flood the city will steal and waste just as much reconstruction money as the current crop of grafters and bumblers.
Two, just who is the real power in New Orleans? For starters, who owns the Times Picayune?
10 08 02
Gimme Shelter
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In New Orleans, residents found it hard to believe that emergency officials still had not prepared emergency evacuation alternative routes to overcome the notoriously flood-prone road dip underneath the Southern Railroad trestle at I-10. Moreover, four years after 1.5 million people fled southeast Louisiana to escape Hurricane Georges -- the largest evacuation in the history of the Gulf Coast -- construction of a pumping station for the dip is still 20 months from completion. That's two hurricane seasons away.
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On Sept. 28, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu called a hurricane preparedness meeting of top officials from Orleans, St. Tammany, Jefferson and St. Bernard parishes. Landrieu's visitor, Sen. Jim Jeffords (Ind-Vt.), who chairs a Senate committee that is working on $280 billion national transportation and public works appropriations bill, heard concerns such as the need for multi-million dollar emergency back-up generators for pumping stations, flood protection for evacuation routes, and a light rail system to evacuate the indigent and disabled. The hastily called summit was certainly a good photo op for Landrieu, who is seeking re-election. But it was also a good idea, and it should serve as a model for future regional cooperation on disasters.
Isidore also provided Mayor Ray Nagin his first experience with the city's Office of Emergency Preparedness atop City Hall. Nagin noted that an estimated 100,000 residents of the city rely on public transportation, and he said he hopes federal support for a future light rail system will enable the city to evacuate these residents to Louis Armstrong International Airport and points beyond.
In addition, Nagin deplored the "patchwork of networks among the parishes in terms of [emergency] communications and technology." We expect police and emergency agencies to be talking to each other on the same radio channel during an emergency. Apparently, they were not, at least not during Isidore. Nagin is correct to worry publicly about such a lack of coordination, and we share his concern.
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Landrieu recently won a Senate committee's approval for $9 million in federal funds for two highway upgrades critical for future evacuations: $4.5 million for two-lane Louisiana 1, the only evacuation route for Grand Isle, Port Fourchon and much of Lafourche Parish. An equal amount will fund the construction of the southern extension of Interstate 49, linking the West Bank Expressway to the city of Lafayette. Landrieu's projects come for a vote in the full Senate at a date to be announced, an aide to the senator said. Both measures deserve the bi-partisan support of every Louisianan.
http://tinyurl.com/d8v5s
August 29, 2001
Memento of appreciation from the Sierra Club
http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/PastFeatures/Images%5CSierraClubAwardtoCorps9.JPG
Charles Fryling, chairman of the Sierra Club Atchafalaya Basin Committee, gets a helping hand from U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu in presenting a gift Aug. 8 to the Corps of Engineers for obtaining 50,000 acres of wilderness land for public use. The acquisition was a major environmental and recreational achievement for the Corps in Louisiana. The Atchafalaya Basin, located in south-central Louisiana, extends 800,000 acres between Simmesport and Morgan City. It is the nation's largest river basin swamp.
http://tinyurl.com/9xhah
Tropical Storm Bill drenches Louisiana
Published Tuesday, July 1, 2003
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A fishing vessel was missing in the Gulf of Mexico today, and thousands of homes and business had no electricity in the wake of Tropical Storm Bill, which blew across the South with wind and record rainfall.
Some customers were likely to be without power until tomorrow, utilities said. A quarter of one Louisiana town was flooded after its levee broke - for the second time in less than a year.
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Water receded from the lone road to the coastal sport fishing and beach town of Grand Isle, La., but the road remained closed early today, stranding residents and vacationers, including U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu.
http://tinyurl.com/azjbr
Any attempts to hold those responsible to accountability (notably Nagin and Blanco) will be labeled racist and sexist. No one's going to touch either of them with a 10 foot pole.
You are correct....the Republican bums are the worst.
Duke Cunningham had it all and betrayed his pledge.
Term limits must be invoked.
Republicans do it for money....Democrats do it to destroy America.
Is this what you were asking about on another thread?
Yeah. Thanks.
You are right...Duke Cunningham totally destroyed my faith in Republicans. He symbolized the old time Republican. He was my Congressman...I voted for him countless times. I'm so disgusted I want him to rot in jail.
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