More on Katrina [Ben Stein]

American Spectator ^ | September 12, 2005 | Ben Stein

[foofoopowder]

Solution to media crap: Cancel all newspaper and magazine subscriptions. Don't watch TV news. Filter all news online. Takes about 5 minutes a day to see if anything happened worth reading about. In fact, 5 minutes may be too much time.

[Rakkasan1]

they make up body counts of 10,000 from thin air in NO and ignore Iraqi mass graves numbering in the thousands. how ironic.

[Gumption]

[IF]

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!

--Rudyard Kipling

[bitt]

don't miss this one ping..

[ChadGore]

The real story is that the mainstream media rioted.

Ben Gets it !

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Kenny Bunk]

Pingabumphello. Stein says it all.

Thank you for the post, Quilla.

[Kenny Bunk]

Ping and I hope this post has legs.

[luvie]

What a fresh breeze after the hot air we've been hearing! God Bless Ben Stein!

[Smartass]

Great Katrina story by Ben Stein...Makes sense.

[Smartass]

Hope I helped this story grow legs...

[potlatch]

Drudge Report;
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05254/568876.stm

The federal response here was faster than Hugo, faster than Andrew, faster than Iniki, faster than Francine and
Jeanne."

It took five days for National Guard troops to arrive in strength on the scene in Homestead, Fla. after Hurricane Andrew hit in 1992. But after Katrina, there was a significant National Guard presence in the afflicted region in three.

So they libel as a "national disgrace" the most monumental and successful disaster relief operation in world history.

WKB has it posted on a thread.

[SandRat]

Below is a real story from the past that sounds all to much like today.

Headline Seen!

"Who Murdered the Vets! 269 War Veterans killed in Hurricane!"

September 1, 1935 - Miami: 269 of 400 WWI veterans, many of them disabled, working on a New Deal construction project to build a highway connecting the islands of the Florida Keys.

The veterans were sent as a result of political expediency by the Roosevelt Administration and out of concern for their care and rehabilitation. Roosevelt knew these veterans would be far less disgruntled if they were employed while recovering in a tropical paradise, 1,500 miles from their Bonus Army cohorts still marching on the nation's capital.

Government officials received regular updates on the path of the approaching hurricane, but ignored warnings to relocate the crews. They wanted to wait until the area was in danger before stopping work on the project and tackling the logistics of a mass evacuation.

Arrangements were made for an 11-car train to rescue the men, but it was too late.

The hurricane came ashore in the late evening with 200 mile per hour winds and 18-foot waves of ocean water, overturning the train, wiping out the camps, and destroying the residential structures within 40 miles. The storm even beached a passenger ship with 400 people on board.

[ntnychik]

The governor's orders were dated Sept. 2???
What was in her order of Aug. 31 that she rescinded?

[RobbyS]

Send this to Bush.

[latina4dubya]

absolutely love him!

[Smartass]

269 WWI Vets needlessly killed -- What a tragic story.

God Bless All Of Them!

[ntnychik]

Great Stein editorial. Thanks for the ping!

[Seadog Bytes]

EXCELLENT! Thanks!

[Grampa Dave]

"I recall seeing video of bumper to bumper traffic leaving New Orleans in the outbound lanes only. I was dumbfounded when reporters stated both incoming and outbound lanes were being used for the evacuation when that obviously was not the case."

I have commented on the picture of I10 outbound with lane to lane traffic jams, and I10 inbound with a few inbound vehicles. There should have been zero inbound traffic all of the lanes should have been outbound.

Of course that was GW's, Rove's and Halliburton's fault.