Posted on 09/04/2005 5:38:41 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, September 4th, 2005
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Chertoff; Scientific American editor Mark Fischetti; former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial; author Mike Tidwell.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): pre-empted by U.S. Open (Tennis).
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La.; Chertoff; author and journalist Rick Bragg.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Chertoff; Sen. Trett Lott, R-Miss.; Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Julie Gerberding; Reps. William Jefferson, D-La., Richard Baker, R-La., Charles Melancon, D-La., and Bobby Jindal, R-La.; former Sen. John Breaux, D-La.; American Red Cross President Marty Evans; former Surgeon General David Satcher; the Rev. Al Sharpton.
My comment is not exactly on point, but I questioned the whole concept of sending people to the Super Dome. We were very lucky that the Dome did not take a direct hit. We could have been talking major league loss of life.
I agree. I remember you questioning that on the hurricane thread. They were very lucky there wasn't a direct hit.
Yoi .... for what?
The thought has crossed my mind in the past few days of watching CNN and the print media, that they have become an enemy of society.
Responsible for deaths of our brave heroes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Responsible for excuses horrendous criminal acts which only leads to more horrendous criminal acts.
If they can't report the facts without editorializing, they need to find other work.
The strongest impression I have had from TV coverage is that there were no communications systems. The Superintendant of Police!! was shouting on the television that he needed buses.
One of my neighbors was the it/communications director for a similar sized city. Believe me this is the highest priority. Since when do high level police authorities not have updated commo facilities and have to communicate with higher level of government via Geraldo Rivera? This alone tells me that the incompetence of NO leaders is immeasurable.
The acronym FEMA will be used to mean the federal relief assistance effort, but FEMA has local elements as well.
The authorities that denied relief assistenace to enter NOLA were Louisiana state authorities, who work in local FEMA capacity. The denial of entry was probably appropriate, since NOLA was not is a state of civil order.
And while NOLA is in a state of civil unrest, the mayor and governor were on teevee saying everything was gonna be just fine. They tell the public it is olway, but tell relief workers not to go in because there is civil unrest.
I have never heard such an inept mayor in my life. He is probably quite deep in the corruption and graft of that city and state, but a leader he will never be.
He isn't trying to get the people out now. He's letting a bar open for regular business in the French Quarter - which is a total disregard fo rht e still-effective mandatory evacuation order.
Most disgusting too....... right up there with the giggle/lovefest where Mr. Potatohead Russert kissed Hillary's *ss for an hour!
At first I was a little moved by Broussard's "breakdown", but then it struck me...how was this woman calling? I thought all the phone lines and cell towers were down? And drowned on Friday? Was there an after-shock storm surge we didn't hear about?
Another question to ask the Hysteric Leftists. Why, since the City of NO designates these areas as emergency shelters were their no pre-positioned stocks of food and water and a sufficient security element to mange them? The City PLAN tells them to go there, WHY absolutely NO planning on how to deal with them for the 72 hours it was likely to take Fed help to work thru the devastation zone to GET to them? What did those Homeland Security dollars we gave the Cities like NO to prepare for this sort of disaster ACTUALLY buy if this is the result is of planing on the City and State to be the 1st and 2nd Responders?
Good old Wes Clark.... proving once again he's inept.
Awaiting Ivan in the Big Uneasy
New Orleans Girds For Major Damage
By Michael Grunwald and Manuel Roig-Franzia
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
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The local officials said they could not order a mandatory evacuation in a city as poor as New Orleans, in which more than 100,000 residents have no cars, but they urged people to find some way to escape. "If you want to take a chance, buy a lottery ticket," said Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard. "Don't take a chance on this hurricane."
New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin seemed flustered as he pleaded with his constituents to flee, at one point suggesting that they take shelter in area hospitals. Visitors were also urged to find somewhere else to go -- including 10,000 conventioneers in town for the annual meeting of the National Safety Council.
"This is not a drill," Nagin said. "This is the real deal."
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By evening, the city's few escape routes were spectacularly clogged, and authorities acknowledged that hundreds of thousands of residents would not get out in time. The stranded will not be able to turn to the Red Cross, because New Orleans is the only city in which the relief agency refuses to set up emergency storm shelters, to ensure the safety of its own staff. Even if a 30-foot-high wall of water crashes through the French Quarter -- Maestri's worst-case scenario -- stranded residents will be on their own.
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Most scientists, engineers and emergency managers agree that if Ivan does spare southern Louisiana this time, The One is destined to arrive someday. The director of the U.S. Geological Survey has warned that New Orleans is on a path to extinction. Gregory W. Stone, director of the Coastal Studies Institute at Louisiana State University, frets that near misses such as Hurricane Georges -- a Category 2 storm that swerved away from New Orleans a day before landfall in 1998 -- only give residents a false sense of security. The Red Cross has rated a hurricane inundating New Orleans as America's deadliest potential natural disaster -- worse than a California earthquake.
"I don't mean to be an alarmist, but the doomsday scenario is going to happen eventually," Stone said. "I'll stake my professional reputation on it."
I KNOW. LOL
I was stationed in LA in the mid to late '70's.
It was like a time warp. -- during the start of Edwin Edwards illustrious career!
Good question.
I thought "All politics is local".
One of the women mentioned the Mayor.
Raines is off the deep end - mentioned Carl Rove with a straight face.
Either way, the President was going to take heat: go in and take over (taking criticism for violating State's rights - I can imagine them from this forum) or follow process and wait for disaster (the situation as we have it now).
Was the question "Lives or Constitution?"
These people should be immediately ARRESTED! And I am talking about the MAYOR, not the bar owners!
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