HURRICANE KATRINA- archive of links

various FR links & stories | 09-02-05 | the heavy equipment guy

[backhoe]

I greatly appreciate those links- thank you.

[backhoe]

 FEMA's Response -- Thank you for posting this. Her story and those like it need to be heard and published.

 

 Money that Congress set aside for New Orleans evacuation plan went instead to studying bridge

 

 A Tale of Two Hospitals (Katrina relief) -- The truth IS getting out.  Written by a physician doing hurricane relief work. I thought this excerpt regarding how they ended up in MS instead of LA was worthy of a post.

 

 The Katrina Blame Game: Environmentalists Under Fire -- Enviros need to be taken to the Amazon jungle, striped nekked, handed a knobby stick and told to feed and care for themselves for a six month period of time. I'd love to here their views on modern technology, medicine and sanitation after that sabbatical.

 

 Federal Judge Dismisses Greenhouse Gas Lawsuit -- The reasoning that went into this decision is similar to the reasoning (and language) that went
into this BLAST FROM THE PAST decision out of Florida.

 

 For a ground-level view of what’s going on in Louisiana, here’s a blog called “Cerberus,” written by a cop with one of the big-city Southern police departments. “Cerberus” is currently on detatched duty in the disaster zone, working with deputies in beleagured St. Charles Parish, across the river from New Orleans.

 

 Governor Blanco Delivers Democratic Radio Address

 

 On Mugabe and Katrina

 

 Money Earmarked for Evacuation Redirected -- During the Clinton regime, money went to the State of Louisiana for an evacuation plan, but they spent it on something unrelated. Two years later more money followed, with the same result.

 

 Drowned Out by Katrina, Berger Gets Away With It

 

 More evidence of Louisiana government foul-ups -- I found the page you referred to in your above post. I think it's important to note that the text on the Louisiana Sportsman Magazine site is identical to the one I linked to above and in no way reflects the lying crap that the lefties are posting on their web sites.

 

 The AP: Never Have So Few Kept So Many in the Dark for So Long -- The IEM press release that contains the erroneous information has been disappearing and reappearing, another sign of something suspicious with IEM.

Er, a little elementary Web-sleuthing:

I put the IEM press releases page in the Wayback Machine. it shows that the last three times it captured the page were on June 22, 2004, July 10, 2004 and October 16, 2004.

It also indicates content changes on the first and third of these dates.

Note that on all these pages, and on the current page, there exists a link to a June 3, 2004 press release.

All the ones I looked at contain an asterisk next to James Lee Witt Associates and the disclaimer at the bottom.

However, if you feed the press release's URL into the Wayback Machine, it returns only a date of November 26, 2004, and guess what?

There's no asterisk or disclaimer on that copy of the press release.

And look at the title on the top of your browser window- it's for a previous press release.

I suspect that somebody copied the earlier page, inserted the new release, and neglected to update the HTML title information.

Print 'em now, folks, while you still can.

39 posted on 09/17/2005 5:54:12 PM EDT by George Smiley

 The Impeach Blanco site has a video clip of her admitting she should have asked fo the National Guard earlier. Also lots of other great stuff.  http://www.impeachblanco.org/

 

 Ethnic news organizations find a new angle on the Katrina story -- For more first hand accounts that put the Has-Been Media to shame. This is from Powerlineblog.com which points to Dr. Goodheart's blog. Dr. Stanley Tillinghast is the cardiologist whom John wrote about in "A doctor reports from the front." When Hurricane Katrina hit, Dr. Tillinghast cashed in some miles for a plane ticket to Jackson, Mississippi, rented a car, and started driving until he came to people who needed his help. He is now writing at Dr. Goodheart (as John explained, he means your heart, not his) to record his experiences.

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[Yellow Rose of Texas]

Thank you for this, I have volunteered many times to help with a spreadsheet time line but this is so much better.

[backhoe]

Thanks for stopping by.

[backhoe]

 FEMA Funds to Study NOLA Evacuation Were Diverted -- I just received a call from Kim Fuller in Kansas City, who is the "official spokesman" for James Lee Witt. She called me, and spent about 20 minutes on the phone with me. They are in serious damage-control mode over Witt's involvement in the prior Evacutation-FEMA contracts prior to Hurricane Katrina...

 

 What caused the flood? Take your pick (corruption) -- The (Orleans Levee) board operates an airport, two marinas, and has a private police force that Nungesser says ''wears more gold braid than Gen. MacArthur when he went to the Philippines.'' The board just spent $2.4 million on a Mardi Gras Fountain near Lake Pontchartrain. NBC News reports that the board spent $15 million on building overpasses to a riverboat casino, and paid $45,000 to a private investigator to find dirt on a board critic - followed by another $45,000 to settle the resulting lawsuit. Feeling dry yet?

 

 Big Easy hard on gun rights -- Businesses selling bumper stickers that read "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" also should offer one with the rejoinder "We told you so."

 

As the waters recede (President gives speech at synogogue-MSM doesn't report)

 

 Landrieu: I'll Still Punch Bush

 

 Vanity: Foster Homes Needed (hurricane pet rescue)

 

 Protecting New Orleans to cost billions -- Being a firm believer in States Rights I would ask how much NOLA is willing to pay?

 

 Is Blanco Trying To Rewrite History?

 

 How Katrina Turned me Republican

 

 Threatened With Eviction At Gunpoint, The Big Easy Holdouts Are Now Hailed As Heroes

[SE Mom]

This thread is outstanding:)

[backhoe]

Thanks for the encouragement!

[backhoe]

 Did Loose Barge Cause Levee Break? (Vanity).

 

 

 More rights being violated. I just posted an article that Posse Comitatus is being considered for review to loosen the restrictions on using the military in certain cases.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1486739/posts

 

Gun Grab, NOLA:

 News Articles and Statements in PDF Format (right click and save target as):
seems as if this has been largely quashed - but no one is denying the order.

New York Times

ccrkba news release

Reason Online - Defenseless on the Bayou

nraila.org News Alert

Gunowners.org - Media, Politicians keeping Gun Confiscation Quiet

 

 Hundreds of millions paid to people untouched by disasters

 

 VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: 'A black underclass isolated by poverty'

 

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 Disaster illustrates churches' new role

 

 For Coast Shrimpers, End of a Livelihood

 

 

Read the rest of this incredible disaster - the timeline & the pathetic events the Looney Left Politicos & MSM are hiding:

http://www.northsidejournal.com/special2.htm

 Poor Behavior -- So the next time the poverty propagandists start with the "America ignores the poor" bull, simply walk away. These people are blatantly dishonest and could not care less that America does, indeed, help the less fortunate. The race and class baiters will always ignore the facts...

 Read This With an Open Mind

 LATEST DEMOCRAT DISASTER STRATEGY WOULD BE A DISASTER FOR LOUISIANA - BLAMESHIFTING

 "I'm A Thief"

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 The real cannibalism story out of New Orleans (The left EATS IT'S OWN)

 

 Wash Postie: 'Reasonable' Blacks Believe Levee Plot -- No, they are not. They are far from reasonable, in fact they are just the opposite. They are simply reasoning that this is the perfect time to show their true feelings towards white folks.

 

 16 Survivors Escape Katrina in Odyssey -- Gee, the "schizophrenic, bipolar, severely depressed, obsessive-compulsive and shellshocked from war" did what Nagin couldn't...

 

 Blanco says feds pledged buses

 

 Posse Comitatus Act to be Reviewed/Revised

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 Political Sitrep: Tactical and Strategic

 

 All Is Forgiven (Almost)

 

 FBI Issues Warning About Gangs Transplanted From New Orleans (Katrina)

 

 As a leader, George Bush was a flop..(Liberal logic in an amazing twist)

[backhoe]

 post-disaster musings: footnotes to failure

 

 Drudge: 795 Poor People Die from Heat on Clinton's Watch --

Where was Clinton, Dewitt and FEMA in 1995? During the month of July heat wave of that year in Chicago, in spite of repeated warnings of the impending disaster, all of them stood by and let well over 1,000 (even higher if counting those who were admitted to hospitals and died later) poor, disabled and mostly Black elderly die alone and unaided in one week.

Why did Clinton, Dewitt's FEMA and Chicago Mayor Daley not follow their own heat disaster plan? Why did Clinton and FEMA down play the number of dead? Why were so many of the unclaimed dead stuffed into pine boxes and buried unceremoniously in mass graves? Why was this hushed up in the MSM after several independent studies and resulting reports laid the blame directly upon all of them.

Aftermath postmortem.

http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/pr96/apr96/noaa96-21.html

Picture of mass grave from Slate. (Slate has pulled the original story I was linking to)

http://img.slate.msn.com/media/36/020730_MassGrave.jpg

The warnings:
http://www.emergency.com/heatwave.htm

57 posted on 09/19/2005 12:09:20 AM EDT by Ursus arctos horribilis

 

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 The Unvanquished: A Cop's Story (Katrina - New Orleans)

 

 Louisiana Officials Indicted Before Katrina Hit (New Orleans). -- Mo Money, Mo Money, Mo Money...

Where was Clinton, Dewitt and FEMA in 1995? During the month of July heat wave of that year in Chicago, in spite of repeated warnings of the impending disaster, all of them stood by and let well over 1,000 (even higher if counting those who were admitted to hospitals and died later) poor, disabled and mostly Black elderly die alone and unaided in one week.

Why did Clinton, Dewitt's FEMA and Chicago Mayor Daley not follow their own heat disaster plan? Why did Clinton and FEMA down play the number of dead? Why were so many of the unclaimed dead stuffed into pine boxes and buried unceremoniously in mass graves? Why was this hushed up in the MSM after several independent studies and resulting reports laid the blame directly upon all of them.

Aftermath postmortem.

http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/pr96/apr96/noaa96-21.html

Picture of mass grave from Slate. (Slate has pulled the original story I was linking to)

http://img.slate.msn.com/media/36/020730_MassGrave.jpg

The warnings:
http://www.emergency.com/heatwave.htm

[backhoe]

 Media Just Discovers That New Orleans Was Poor

 

 So, we're going to rebuild New Orleans (Podcaster's blog page)

 

 Katrina's hidden loot -- Is any of this causing concern? Does "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, pappers and effects" ring any bells out there?

 

 FEMA Battered by Waste, Fraud -- Well, it is federally funded. What do you expect?

 

 Oil prices up on hurricane fears, OPEC ($63.75/bbl) -- Homeowners are in store for a price shock this winter with Natural Gas. The October contact's price is currently listing @11.790.Once the severe cold & snow begins we could see 15.000. It is and shall be very $$$ to keep one's home warm. Natural Gas Weekly Update

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 Failed Politics Should Not Control Louisiana Rebuild

 

 Quick Reopening of New Orleans Questioned

 

 Rush LIVE THREAD--Monday Sept. 19, 2005

 

 Impeach Kathleen Blanco

 

 What N.Y. Could Give (Katrina reconstruction $$ vs. pork spending in highway bill)

 

 A FEMA Volunteer Judges The FEMA Response As She Saw It

 

In response to all who have criticized FEMA and
     Bush Offering a Hand Up, Not Handouts    Katrina Exposes Government for What It Is    Agency (FEMA) ignored most cries of fraud

In response to all who have criticized FEMA and
     Bush Offering a Hand Up, Not Handouts    Katrina Exposes Government for What It Is    Agency (FEMA) ignored most cries of fraud

[backhoe]

 An emotional moment and a misunderstanding (Jefferson Parish Prez lied about death of a mother) -- I'm really getting tired of the public being manipulated by a bunch of liars.  CBS had debunked this story on 9/7. It is outrageous that MSNBC has continued showing that deceitful tape.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479653/posts

 

 Oil Prices Rebound Above $66 Per Barrel ($67.45 on Possible Gulf Storm Surge)

 

 FEMA AWOL in 90's Worst Disaster

 

 Miss. Sues to Force Insurers to Pay All Hurricane Damage

 

 Disaster relief? Call in the Marines.

 

 As water ebbs, tallies emerge (MSM suffers loss) As water ebbs, tallies emerge

 

 Sociologists question how much looting and mayhem really took place in New Orleans.

 

 New York Warned to Prepare for Hurricane (could suffer as much damage as New Orleans if it were hit)

 

Tropical Storm Rita Live Thread

-- The difference in the two news conferences I just heard- Jeb speaking with Floridians and Nagin talking down to...everyone.   Jeb giving information and instilling confidence.  Nagin acting arrogant and wishy-washy (an amazing combination) and giving NO information.

 

 Interactive map showing evac routes from Houston.

 http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/05/hurricane/index.html

 

 Here's what you need:

Water
a fill bath tub
b fill all large pots
c several dozen cleaned plastic milk carton / change quarterly

Battery operated radio
Battery operated flashlights (1 per person + 1)

Week worth of batteries for above

Fill propane for gas grill

Fill all cars

Sterno cans and fondue pot for cooking

Matches, lighter, lighter fluid

Several rolls of 6 mil plastic sheets 10’ x 100’

5 boxes of 20 each, large garbage sacks

4 pair heavy work gloves

Axe, hatchet, shovel nails, heavy duty staples, staple gun, hammers, saws, chain saw

6 bread baking pans (to make block ice)

4 large ice chests

Hand operated can opener and bottle opener

Bug spray

1 month of all medicine, gauze, band aids, tape, alcohol, OTC headache, antiseptic

Heavy duty knives, 100 each plastic forks, spoons, knives, paper towels, paper plates Toilet Paper!

Soup, Vienna sausage, peanut butter, crackers, chili, bread, several small jelly, mustard, spam, apples, dried fruit, hard candy,

Stove top coffee pot, 10 lbs coffee, sugar, salt, pepper, tea bags

2 12 ga shot guns – 2 boxes of 00; 1 of slugs; bird shot

 Might as well line them up now:

http://www.wxnation.com/houston/


http://www.skeetobiteweather.com/

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tlh/tropical/

Texas Weather Cams:

http://www.weatherimages.org/weathercams/usa.html#TX

[backhoe]

 Tropical Storm Rita Live Thread  

 

 NBC RETHINKS TIMELINE IN POL'S TV BREAKDOWN... -- More poor people died in Chicago's Heat Wave of 1995 than died in all of Louisiana as a result of Hurricane Katrina. I'm doing my part to get this fact circulated.

 A Lesson from a Survivor

 Deceased Victims Update 9-19-2005 (Katrina deaths now over 950)

 The Elderly: Helpless and Left to Die. Don't know about it? Well it didn't happen in the USA.

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 "Fending for ourselves": Making do in Mississippi

 

 "Dog In Boat" - For Diesel and ....

 

 We Don't Need No Stinking Orders? -- Higher authorities pulled the locals back this time. But it did show a general inclination by the LEOs to go right to confiscation in SHTF scenarios.

 

 Contract details between state, Witt unclear

 

 WE'VE DONE IT YOUR WAY FOR 60 YEARS

 

 Victims Less Angry Than Bush-Haters

 

http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php

Emotional, Misunderstood, Dishonest

The president of New Orleans’ Jefferson Parish apparently lied (and cried about the lie), but MSNBC can summon up no stronger opprobrium than “misunderstanding:” An emotional moment and a misunderstanding. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

WuzzaDem has been pushing this story forward, and so has Right Thoughts.

06:26 PM PDT | link: 75 comments

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 Effort To Recall Louisiana Governor Underway -- Signed and sent to all my friends and relatives last week.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1487355/posts

 Shaw Group Awarded Contract for Hurricane Rebuilding (Blanco's Budies) 300 Million.  

 

 §26. Recall

Section 26. The legislature shall provide by general law for the recall by election of any state, district, parochial, ward, or municipal official except judges of the courts of record. The sole issue at a recall election shall be whether the official shall be recalled.

We also have provisions for impeachment but it would be hard because they are controlled by the dems.

http://senate.legis.state.la.us/Documents/Constitution/Article10.htm

More pictures, these from Hershblogger;

The attention has been on New Orleans and the levees, but here are some pictures of what the storm surge did on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain.

 

 Couric the Green Climatologist Frets Seven Hurricanes "a Lot"; Ignores Historical Data

 

 Black Panthers on Hannity & Colmes -- Another Black Panther in the news is Malik Rahim who Cindy Sheehan's caravan visited in "occupied" New Orleans last week: http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Chapter_History/New_Orleans_Malik_Rahim.html

 

 NO Police LT. tries to justify his desertion during Katrina disaster (CNN transcripts)

 

 Bad News in New Orleans (Townhall column By Freeper) -- When this is all over I hope the media is exposed for the frauds they are. From Aaron Broussard and NBC's attempts to use the death of a elderly woman to CNN and ABC's efforts to discredit FEMA with the lies about their "Convention Center" coverage...the media has deliberately manipulated the events of this catastrophy. -- a tautology. Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes a fact. And a damn good story.

 

 Flooded Buses and the Coffee Lady

 

 David Limbaugh: New Orleans and race -- revisited

 

 Hurricane Rita Live Thread

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 Kathleen Blanco: Beyond Gross Public Dumb -- As usual, this is posted on FR before its Internet or print media publications.  http://www.impeachblanco.org/

 

 Go here, this is a Katrina video tearjerker, very well done!

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/bommer/Praise%20you%20in%20this%20storm.wmv

 

 Cindy’s Hero: “Most Algiers Deaths Caused By Whites”