Read Anne Rice’s NYTimes OP-ED
Do You Know What It Means To Lose New Orleans?
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And the racial shit hits the fan
This is the summation of failures by a country and administration’s policy history/movement that americans have been and are allowing, splattered all over the facets of this disaster. It isn’t about New Orleans anymore. Bigger questions exist. It is disgusting that it comes to this.
All aboard the USS Clueless. Let’s see how that bone-headed freak we all stuck in the white house digs out of this one. Where’s carl rove??
Failure of governance
A hurricane hit was not a surprise.
What astounds me is the deplorable coordination of response by authorities. WHY is the mayor of New Orleans sending an SOS via CNN??? And why is our president gushing assurances about our oil prices before issuing military directives??? Lootings, gang activities, attacks– this is textbook doomsday script in the wake of disaster, given conditions where authority is not promptly established. WHY is this allowed to happen in the wealthiest nation on earth, when a breach in the New Orleans levy system tops the list of worst-case scenarios???
This event highlights how thinly stretched our resources are, by misappropriation of priorities to neo-colonialism. Nature and weather forecasting technology gave us ample notice to prepare, yet the challenge to our government was met with unforgivable inefficiency, four years after 9-11 and after billions of dollars’ diversion from education, poverty, health care, environment.
Where are our assets if they obviously are not with Homeland Security???
New Orleans was home. At least its loss might prompt the questions that have needed to be asked for so long.
The inevitable fate of New Orleans
New Orleans is now plagued by one catastrophe after another. Repair efforts on the levee breaches, particularly at the 17th Street Canal in Bucktown, have failed and Lake Pontchartrain is draining steadily into the city. Floodwaters are coming into the oak-canopied St Charles corridor. Water main lines are breaking. Martial law is in effect. There is complete anarchy.
The best place for updates is streaming radio on WWL 870AM. Unofficial neighborhood-by-neighborhood assessments, if available, are on NOLA and WWL-TV.
My heart goes out to y’all. God bless.
The Big Easy meets Katrina
Intoxicated fumes of breath and a clammy handshake. Missing teeth in a captivating smile….
N’awlins’ reputation precedes it and this is the first impression, before the jazz and blues spin rhythms with the muggy air, before the Cajun spices mount the offensive. Have you been where elegance and refinement consort passionately with the grit and grime? Indolence is King so strap your principles on and hang tight or lose ‘em. It’s a schizophrenic transvestite full of wit, this crazy town. And you’ll never forget her.
Knock back some Southern Comfort. This show will be painful.