Who's fault is it that so many died in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina? Let me officially point a finger at Ray Nagin. He's not responsible for
the deaths in New Orleans, but 60 busses sitting idle? That goes beyond incompetence.
As a good friend of mine who grew up in the French Quarter recently told me, "There is no city in the U.S. that can even begin to compare with the corruption and incompetence of New Orleans." Indeed.
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Can't blame Nagin Rusty.... He is black. It is never his fault. Didn't you listen to Rev. Al?
Posted by: Filthy Allah at October 04, 2005 03:20 PM (5ceWd)
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One thing not mentioned there is,
where were the bus drivers? Why, they evacuated, of course! There was a mandatory evacuation order in effect.
Posted by: IO ERROR at October 04, 2005 03:33 PM (vhWf1)
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Of course, IO ERROR, they could take care of two problems at once - the bus drivers would be evacuating themselves too, as they're driving the buses out of the city, no?
Posted by: RomeoDelta at October 04, 2005 04:07 PM (Srmrz)
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Well, IQ Error, what would have kept the Mayor, PRIOR to the hurricane, have the bus drivers WHO WORK FOR THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, evacuate people to Baton Rouge? Once the driver's bus got to Baton Rouge the bus driver would be evacuated. Duh?
Posted by: jesusland joe at October 04, 2005 04:08 PM (rUyw4)
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It's actually a legit point. Maybe the cops could have driven the busses. Oh, wait......
Posted by: Rusty Shackleford at October 04, 2005 04:19 PM (JQjhA)
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Screw the buses - where's the Mississippi Queen and God know's how many other like boats berthed in the PORT OF NO.
Posted by: hondo at October 04, 2005 04:50 PM (4Gtyc)
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Blame Nagin? Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton will call on O J Simpson to cut your head off. Oh! forgot, he wasn't guilty either.
Posted by: greyrooster at October 05, 2005 05:42 AM (ywZa8)
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More of his incompetence and bumbling he has proven himself just plain irresponible why dont he just step down before he gets removed
Posted by: sandpiper at October 05, 2005 09:10 AM (XnXsx)
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He will not get removed. He's black in a city that has a black majority. His incompetance doesn't have anything to do with it. Just his race. New Orleans will elect another black idiot after Nagin. Then he will appoint another black police chief, fire chief, school board head, etc: They will then promote other blacks over more intelligent whites in their respective departments. This will continue the corruption and imcompetence prevelant in New Orleans. They would elect a black child molester before a competent white, brown or yellow man. New Orleans is the most racist city in America. Forget them.
Posted by: greyrooster at October 05, 2005 10:43 PM (ywZa8)
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Screw you, Klanrooster-trash
Posted by: Downing Street Memo at October 07, 2005 06:03 AM (A5eqb)
Posted by: greyrooster at October 07, 2005 10:03 AM (M7kiy)
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Beyond the historic architecture, the spice-laden cuisine and the beguiling voodoo underground, live close to 500,000 people, mostly poor (more than a quarter live in poverty), mostly black (more than 66 percent), clustered into 73 distinct neighborhoods.
Crime, even before the hurricane, was high. The murder rate has come down in recent years, but remains 10 times the national average.Last year, researchers had police fire 700 blank rounds in a city neighborhood one afternoon. No one called to report the gunfire.
Maybe New Orleans should be nicknamed The Big Un-Easy, due to a high violent crime rate and a high unemployment rate. There's also a significant number of suicides and divorces.
The city's school system is a shambles. The district almost went broke this past year teachers nearly missed a paycheck and 55 of the state's 78 worst schools are in New Orleans. Dozens of school employees are under indictment for corruption.
But then, corruption in New Orleans is nothing new politicians, judges, the police have all been caught. These government failures are not merely a matter of incompetence.
Louisiana and New Orleans have a long, well-known reputation for corruption: as former congressman Billy Tauzin once put it, "half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment. That's putting it mildly.
Adjusted for population size, the state ranks third in the number of elected officials convicted of crimes (Mississippi is No. 1).
Recent scandals include the conviction of 14 state judges and an FBI raid on the business and personal files of a Louisiana congressman.
In 1991, a notoriously corrupt Democrat named Edwin Edwards ran for governor against Republican David Duke, a former head of the Ku Klux Klan. Edwards, whose winning campaign included bumper stickers saying "Elect the Crook," is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence for taking bribes from casino owners. Duke recently completed his own prison term for tax fraud.
The rot included the New Orleans Police Department, which in the 1990s had the dubious distinction of being the nation's most corrupt police force and the least effective: the city had the highest murder rate in America.
More than 50 officers were eventually convicted of crimes including murder, rape and robbery; two are currently on Death Row.
Two Hundred Billion dollars are about to pass into the sticky hands of politicians in the No. 1 and No. 3 most corrupt states in America.
Worried about looting? You ain't seen nothing yet.
Posted by: anglotex at October 09, 2005 09:48 AM (13lsY)
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Let's start at the beginning, before we decide who's to blame.
#1: http://www.2012.com.au/HAARP.html
#2: http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1207.cfm
#3. http://www.haarp.net/#people
#4. http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/weather/
#5. http://www.weatherwars.info/
Posted by: Harold Eugene Johnson at October 21, 2005 02:53 AM (M5fT6)
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