Another bokkmark for ltr. Many Thanks.
Right on target.
Sounds like a plan...not!
Great paper - Nagin and Blanco must be extremely stupid and ignorant to screw up so badly. Louisiana surely got a twofer at the wrong time.
Most family picnics are better organized. Even with competing Aunt Jessie and cousin Edith, they cooperate to get the job done for the benefit of the whole family.
Nagin and Blanco are a disgrace to the hard earned reputation of American ingenuity.
jmho
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Bunk. Coffins are not generally watertight, and the wooden coffins used in the antebellum South would decompose quickly in the moist soil. The bodies themselves would decompose equally fast. Certainly, the graves tended to be shallow, so raging floodwaters could erode the sod from the grave and expose the contents, but this legend of cadavers floating down the canals is hooey.
And above-ground burial of the dead was a French Catholic tradition that was simply transported to the New World when New Orleans was founded. It had nothing to do with water tables and boating boogeymen.
Or so I was assured by the docent at one of the Cities of the Dead. A man who, by the way, had all the appearance of a cadaver himself, and smelled strongly of the same embalming fluid favored by Ted Kennedy.
bttt
Channel 5 Rejects Anti-Bush Ad of Borough President Candidate (Manhattan NYC)
good one ping
"This is why every city must have sharp leadership, and a disciplined, non-corrupt police force that won't melt away into the population when under attack, like Saddam's army."
Ooooh! That's gonna leave a mark!
Well yeah, but New Orleans is going to fuel the U.S. economy more ways than we realize. For example, how much Lysol will it take to disinfect every square inch of the whole area? And, since it will not be possible to clean inside every wall and cavity of every structure, how much air freshener will be consumed annually in New Orleans to mask the smell of death, decay and human waste that will, doubtless, persist for at least the next half-dozen years or so and be nauseatingly amplified by summer heat and local humidity? Will it perhaps be cheaper to strip every building back to it's structural skeleton and clean and rebuild from there? How many landfills will be the final restingplace of all the destroyed carpet and upholstered furniture, or will all of that be properly incinerated to prevent the spread of life-threatening diseases?? How many production facilities will have to run 24/7 to make all of the carpet to replace that which is destroyed? How many acres of forest will have to be harvested to rebuild the thousands of private residences that were lost? How many General Contractors, Ironworkers, Carpenters, Electricians, Roofers, Glaziers -- tradesmen of every stripe will need to work for how long to get Humpty-Dumpty reconstructed?
And...(the sixty-four-dollar question)...
When it's all finally rebuild, clean, and inhabitable, will the City and State FINALLY allocate the money to provide Category 5 Plus protection for New Orleans and craft a REAL Disaster Plan that incorporates preemptive measures, defines authorities and responsibilities of all the major players as well as parameters and procedures for invoking Federal resources?
This is a nightmare of apocalyptic proportions, and it is clear that City and State government officials have been first-party contributors to it being as bad as it is. In the wake, there need to be criminal charges, trials, convictions, impeachments, imprisonment, and maybe some long-term, bona fide, night-in-the-backwoods-around-the-campfire haunting.
Ping.