The Culture of Blame—on assigning blame for Hurricane Katrina
I receive various newsletters from Federalist Patriot.com. Well, today’s Federalist Patriot Brief (Patriot No. 05-36) included a post by Rich Galen’s column, “Mullings.” In the column, he claims the blame for everything that happened during the Katrina calamity. Why not? Everyone’s looking to blame someone, rather than take the blame themselves. I’ve read Mullings for [...]
A City in the throes of Death
It’s been fifteen years since I visited New Orleans. Our college jazz band was playing an annual jazz festival there and it was a thrilling three days. What was a fun-filled day meeting all sorts of jazz greats was only eclipsed by the nightlife in the French Quarter. It was truly charged with a mystique [...]
Just how valuable is New Orleans to America?
Usually I draw upon this website for global geopolitical intelligence reports, which the catastrophe in New Orleans doesn’t quite qualify (that I’m aware of). However, George Friedman, Founder of Stratfor, has written a very interesting take on the value, the national worth of New Orleans. I’ve never thought about New Orleans this way. Get ready [...]
New Orlean’s Radio System failed in many ways
Here’s an article that talks about how the failure and breakdown of the New Orlean’s police radio system made things worse. This is wrong on several levels, during a storm, but to turn away technicians and not to have fuel for generators is incompetence, at the very least. New Orleans radio system flooded — Operation [...]
Lifting the fog over New Orleans and more things
From the get-go, those who I call the media “pimps” and “whores” have been determined to blame the president. From the moment the sun came up on the aftermath of New Orleans, there they were—they were ready to smear the president’s legacy and his good name. We’ve seen rapper Kanye West show incredible amounts of [...]
On Nagin and New Orleans — Laissez les bon temps roullez
As soon as Katrina had left the New Orleans area, in a nearly “magical” explosion of chatter, media whores and pimps of all kinds began hurling insults at the Bush Administration and W. himself on the lack of order, the lack of pre-planning, the lack of just about everything. Blame as you will, there’s plenty [...]
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