[texianyankee]

Rush brought up this event on his radio program today. Interesting comparison - happened under Bubba's watch, Hillary didnt call for a govt commission, Democrats rule Chicago. Another hypocrisy.

[camle]

i thought you was talking about mrs. o'leary's cow!

[ncountylee]

More died in Chicago under another democrat government that ignored its plan.

[prion]

Yeah, it generally sucks to be poor. That's why most of us work so hard not to be.

[GaltMeister]

Well, it's still Bush's fault, he should hop in the Halliburton! time machine and go back to 1995 and fix it. /sarc

[TexasCajun]

Federal officials ignored several urgent pleas—from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Army Corps of Engineers, members of Congress, Gulf Coast politicians, and scores of disaster experts—for major infrastructure improvements to prevent catastrophic flooding on the Gulf Coast.

Environmentalist and an Activist Federal Judge derailed just such a infrastructure improvement for New Orleans & Lake Pontchartrain in 1974 that would have saved New Orleans in 2005.

[kx9088]

...especially those concentrated in the city's segregated African-American ghettos, on the other hand, were effectively trapped in lethal conditions. Neither federal nor local agencies did much to assist them. Instead, city patrols cracked down on young people who opened fire hydrants.


Yeah, since the Democrats that run Chicago, forcefully put the black community into it's own little area of the city and then force them to spend their money on things other than a cab ride or bus ticket to somewhere cooler.

And God forbid if the LEO do their job and proctect the city's fire hydrants because everyone knows that during a heat wave, fires never burn out of control.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

The lesson to be learned is that incompetency under a Democrat can be ignored. You can rape, lie, get blow jobs, lie to the juries, get your oppents harassed, etc etc, and no one will care if you are a Democrat. But don't try it if you are a Republican because you won't get away with it.

Hmm, I think I might re register as a democrat. Sounds like I can then get away with more and become rich and then party with TED Kennedy!

[Peach]

Great find and thanks for posting this.

I don't remember Americans condemning the French when 14,800 people died a few years ago of the HEAT.

[TexasCajun]

Slate bitches about Clear Channel Disk Jockey's not being on the air.

I bet the sheople of New Orleans would have preferred their Police Dept. being on the job, protecting them from the gangsta wolves.

[Max Flatow]

I remember the heat wave that struck Chicago in 1995 and especially July 13th, since that day was about 106 degrees. Every one I knew made it through okay. No one died. But the local media went nuts with the deaths attributed to the heat. Any death was labelled as a heat stroke death. It didn't matter if you were a hundred years old, ridden with cancer, vital organs destroyed by drug and alcohol abuse, and drowned in a pool, you were considered a heat stroke victim.

This number, 600 deaths or what ever it was, was hyperbole. You need to understand the news market here in Chicago. This place lives for a big rain, or snow fall, or cold weather. Local reporters are always standing outside O'Hare airport reporting on the snow fall, or by the Eisenhower Expressway videotaping the salt trucks as they ply the area roads.

During the heat wave of 1995, news reports showed dead bodies being lifted in coroner vans. Ten years later, even with all the killings and murders that take place in Chicago, (648 in 2002, fewer now) those scenes don't make it on the ten o' clock news.

[SevenDaysInMay]

I wonder if the majority of the Chicago dead and hospitalized were as grotesquely morbidly obese as many, many living we saw in N.O.?

It doesn't pay to have an extra 200+ 'food stamps' pounds in 90+F heat waves or floods, unless you plan on floating out before you're dead a while.

/cruel blubbery congestive heart failure insight off

[satchmodog9]

It's OK. Bill felt their pain.