Posted on 09/28/2005 1:11:57 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 09/28/2005 3:09:04 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Hours before New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass announced his resignation, Tony relayed some hot information he had heard from his Capitol Hill sources. It regarded an FBI investigation currently under way.
You can go to the source above and listen to that segment of his radio show.
I betcha we'd be most happy to assist him to return. We'll take care of the refugees (meaning folks seeking refuge) but don't much care for pond scum or bayou scum either.
As we used to say and practice in the Bayou State, "Vote early and vote often"!
But then there was the sheriff of Avoyelles Parish who was re-elected from his jail cell.
Damn crooks! Nagin and Compass belong in jail.
I don't think it makes any sense for a municipality to build/rebuild any municipality with public funds in the current location that is New Orleans.
Given the failings already and the probability of ongoing failures of similar if not duplicate nature in the future, to rebuild the infrastructure seems madnes unless it is relocated to some other sensible geographical location.
The issue about individuals building in harm's way is often discussed and has been (Midwestern floods, earthquake faults, tornado-alleys, coastal erosions and storms, similar) and people should be able to build where they can and want but once they've been rebuilt and bailed out, it's not realistic to anyone to try to continue to repeat the same failed location building. There's a point when people have to get the point that they're not building in a habitable area, and shouldn't be able to in any numbers, if any at all.
And, about insurance, many of these repeat risks can't insure at the same locations for these very reasons. Yet some people insist on rebuilding and doing without certain insurance and then the taxpayers have to bail them out...yet again and again.
Flood-prone areas and coastal storm/erosion-prone areas are the most difficult to understand because they're predictable areas for ongoing destruction.
I don't see what harms are posed by just moving a ways inland and uphill, in the case of New Orleans currently. I can't imagine rebuilding there, beneath sea level, myself...if lost so terribly, seems like it's best to move elsewhere where all the time and money and hardwork could be better protected.
There needs to be some sort of auditor to see where the Federal Money is going after it gets to the states.
I knew it, how else could you afford the vast, rolling estate down there in
"LEO Compound"+++ AKA insert name of you town here.
You watch - the feds almost took over New Orleans PD a few years back. Bet they do now. Big shake up comin.
Good question. Do the nonexistent people who are on the payrolls also vote? Maybe there aren't enough "dead" to vote for dems so they started making up people. This could be big.
Did they ever go to Las Vegas, or was the kabosh put on that?
Western Al Anbar province?
Thanks for the ping--not finding this surprising, having lived there a number of years! Still, this is more blatant than usual!
Federal money! ("100,000 more cops" - Clinton)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA
Better yet, let's just stop sending it. If they stop sending so much, they won't have to TAKE so much.
This may explain why several middle ranking NO officers committed suicide. Official spin is they were overwhelm by the diseaster or they heard that family members were killed by the storm. The more I think about it, the more I think they killed themselves to avoid going to jail.
This may explain why several middle ranking NO officers committed suicide. Official spin is they were overwhelm by the diseaster or they heard that family members were killed by the storm. The more I think about it, the more I think they killed themselves to avoid going to jail.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2005/Sep-09-Fri-2005/news/27178249.html
The suicides of Celestine and fellow officer Paul Accardo, coupled with dozens of officers turning in their badges as the situation in New Orleans became more desperate, convinced New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin that rest and recuperation, or R&R, was necessary if emergency personnel were to be effective over the long haul.On Tuesday, 43 paramedics and firefighters, along with many of their family members, arrived in Las Vegas for five days. Other rescue workers have been sent to Atlanta. Over the next month, other New Orleans police officers, firefighters and paramedics will be sent to the two cities on R&R.
The R&R program, started about one week after rescue workers began their emergency efforts in ever-worsening conditions of despair, death and flooding, has drawn a largely sympathetic response. In Las Vegas, rooms have been provided free by Station Casinos, the Hard Rock, Boyd Gaming, the Palms and Fitzgeralds.
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