He sure looks the part doesn't he?
Notice how he and John Bolton have taken widely divergent approaches to maintaining a 'stache.
Posted on 01/08/2008 1:07:45 PM PST by decimon
“”There’s an attitude everywhere else that people are smarter than they are in New Orleans and in Mississippi. They’re not,” the 60-year-old general said at his office at Fort Gillem, just outside Atlanta. “What happened in New Orleans could have happened anywhere on the Eastern Seaboard.””
The difference is, sir, I do not and would not wait for your troops and FEMA to save me.
New Orleans has an “Uncle Sugar” mindset from years of welfare handouts. I stayed in Biloxi because my elderly mother and her even older friend needed me to protect them and etc.. The citizens of New Orleans had almost a week’s warning! They could’ve walked to safety!
I’m smart enough not to live or want to live in New Orleans.
I’m smart enough that I could have walked, biked, swam, boated out of NOLA on my own without being told how to or when.
I’ve been there. I don’t want to go back. Even for all the Heneiken in the world. (LOL)
I don’t care if NOLA falls in the bay and never comes back.
I don’t owe NOLA a damn thing. As a matter of fact, NOLA owes me and millions of other Americans some of our tax monies back because of their corruption and stupidity.
Screw em.
Let’s see if he can get the “stupid” unstuck in NO. I wish him luck but he doesn’t have that many lifetimes left to do it.
No andouille for you!
"He wants cities to stockpile food and water so they don't have to rely on the federal government."
Thanks for posting, good read. I’m ready, hope everybody else is. I’ve got..
Land, campers, deep water well, two generators, tractor, 4 wheelers for low fuel consumption go anywhere transportation. Diesel and Gas tanks thou only about 300 gallons. 4 wheel drives, food reserves, livestock and some cash (if it’s worth anything when the time comes) and a fairly large supply of guns and ammo, even a crossbow. And I don’t even consider myself a survivalist!
If he wants to spare people why not push the legislatures to make it illegal to build on a flood plain to start with?
Bullcrap, General. There was and is a culture of dependency and corruption in NO that makes even places like Washington DC and Baltimore look clean, and big ugly hurricanes aren't new.
Still, his emphasis on both collective and individual preparedness is a good thing.
“What happened in New Orleans could have happened anywhere on the Eastern Seaboard.”
Um, are there any other cities on the eastern seaboard that are largely built below sea level in a hurricane zone?
Still, there are other natural (and non-natural) disaster that could happen anywhere.
Much of Norfolk, VA is very near sea level. I've been there during a minor hurricane, and there was a lot of flooding. A Cat4 or Cat 5 would be ugly. Still, there are well defined evacuation routes, and there just isn't the political and social corruption that characterized NOLA.
All true enough but dense shoreline population centers are new. A repeat of a storm like the Long Island Express would indeed require some preparedness to escape disaster.
It's the 'non-natural' ones that pose the biggest threat: the main reason why we can't let an appeasing 'Rat anywhere near the WH.
Thanks for your 37 years of service, Gen. Honore and good luck in your endeavors.
The fact that NOLA residents re-elected the most incompetent boob ever to run a city government *AFTER* the Katrina disaster puts a nail in it, AFAIAC.
Right ... and I agree with him (and you) that preparedness is good.
My point is that NO is unique: an exceptionally corrupt populace, situated below sea level, hit by a really ugly storm. I've seen Virginians and Carolinians preparing for storms, and recovering after. The storms were smaller, and the preparation was better.
I think Gen. Honore is doing a good thing; I just don't want to see him get stuck on stupid.
Ironically...I just bought a house in norfolk.
Oh, well. If it goes under water, I will salvage the bricks.
He sure looks the part doesn't he?
Notice how he and John Bolton have taken widely divergent approaches to maintaining a 'stache.
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