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postBot - 26 August 2007 03:18 PM

Democrat Barack Obama said Sunday the country cannot fail New Orleans again and that as president, he would keep the city in mind every day. “The wo

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If Obama’s so concerned about not failing New Orleans “again,” then he should demand that Louisiana fulfill its federally-mandated obligation to create a coordinated major-disaster plan and promise to invest in wetland restoration along the Gulf Coast.  Cleaning up after Katrina - which did, after all, hit New Orleans with approximately category one force - will do nothing to prevent a deja vu when the next hurricane strikes the Chocolate City.

Katrina, a Category 3 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale when it hit New Orleans, flooded 80 percent of the city when its storm surge swamped the surrounding levees. A Category 3 storm has maximum winds of 130 miles per hour (209 kph). The storm killed at least 1,300 people and did an estimated $81 billion in damage, the most by a natural disaster in the United States.

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN14308169

It’s been called the storm of the century and a monster. Hurricane Katrina will almost certainly hold the record for the biggest and costliest natural disaster in the country’s history, and its real cost and real toll won’t be known for years.

But what is known now is that Hurricane Katrina was not the lion people thought it was, despite the staggering devastation it inflicted across four states. A report released this week by the National Hurricane Center said that when Katrina hit land early on the morning of Aug. 29, it was a Category 3 hurricane.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/HurricaneKatrina/story?id=1429373

Odette
Did you see the article at nola.com about Sally Forman’s book? I can’t bear to post it here.

Best thing to do with Nawlins: cut it loose and let it drift to sea.

mm43 - 26 August 2007 09:30 PM

Odette
Did you see the article at nola.com about Sally Forman’s book? I can’t bear to post it here.

No. Thanks for the tip!

postBot - 26 August 2007 03:18 PM

Democrat Barack Obama said Sunday the country cannot fail New Orleans again and that as president, he would keep the city in mind every day. “The wo

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A. He’s a ruthless opportunist posing as a naive idealist
B. He’s a ruthless opportunist AND a naive idealist
C. If he was a truely compassionate idealist he would have
bothered to make sure his idealism was based on truth, not
lies.
D. all of the above

I am sick of the opportunists - and others who are just full
of malice - claiming that Katrina was some sort of governmental
plot against black people.

There was no conspiracy.

There was no plot.

White people are not out to get black people.

The federal government is not involved in a conspiracy against
people based on their skin color.

Hard to believe, I am sure.

“Racial discord, poverty, the old divisions of black and white, rich and poor, it’s time to leave that to yesterday,” he said.

“In rebuilding, we’ve got an opportunity to do more than put up a foundation that for too long failed the people of New Orleans,” he told congregants. Some snapped photos of him at the pulpit with their cell phones.

Local officials, including the mayor who pointed the finger at whites and the federal government shamelessly could have prepared for this hurricane. They did not. They were the ones at fault and those who have made Katrina into some sort of racist playing field, are, well, of course, racists.

Racists scumbags interested in dividing this nation so they can feel justified in holding the nasty feelings of malice in their hearts which makes them feel so morally superior to everyone else.

Contrast the moans and groans in MSM about Katrina and NO with the response to Hurricane Wilma in Cancun Mexico. Cancun has roughly the same population as NO and a lot lower standard of living. But if you visit Cancun you won’t encounter crowds of unemployed self pitying jerks as in NO. Mexicans are hard working, industrious and not prone to playing the victim card. They have gotten their tourism based economy up and running and are better off for not having fawning cynical politicians like Obama using a natural disaster as a way to score political points.

“Can’t Fail”?

Fail what?  To give leftist loons photo ops?

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Thresherman - 26 August 2007 06:04 PM

New Orleans failed New Orleans and until they understand that they are doomed to repeat it.

You got that right. I live on the MS Gulf Coast. My house was flooded along with 90% of the city I live in. The difference is after the winds died the local government and people came together and helped one another. The problem with NOLA is you had a lot of people that have been dependent on the system for a long time and when the system failed them they couldn’t do for themselves. Instead of helping one another a lot of them started looting and the local gov. was clueless about what to do. Nagin and Blanco are useless.