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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 08/31/2010 : 13:12:59
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The Rude Pundit hears a thundering silence from the right wing on this, the 5th anniversary of a mess that has yet to be cleaned up. And I ain't heard much, either.
8/31/2010
Right-Wingers Are Conspicuously Silent on the Hurricane Katrina Anniversary:
Michelle Malkin, whose Shih Tzu yips of desperation for relevance have grown hoarse of late, puts the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in context for us all: "[D]on't expect any of these reconciliation-seeking leaders to confront the indelible stain of racial demagoguery left by the left in Katrina's aftermath." Yep, that's right. For Malkin, it's time for the left (especially the black left) to apologize to white people for saying mean things about them because of Katrina. Or implying mean things, as when she slams Jimmy Carter for saying, at Coretta Scott King's funeral, "We only have to recall the color of the faces of those in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans." That bastard.
The conspicuous silence from the right wing punditeratti on the devastation of Hurricane Katrina was almost comical. While MSNBC and CNN did extensive reporting from New Orleans and with their major show host offering commentary, over on Fox "news," it seems like Murdoch garbled out an order to avoid the topic. For, truly, if the best you've got is Neil Cavuto doing an in-studio talk with disgraced FEMA director and horse wrangler Michael "Brownie" Brown, then your network just doesn't give a rat's ass about the subject. Otherwise, a couple of brief reports, a Shepard Smith thing, and we're out. |
Five years of precious little. I've read that the re-built dykes are no better than the washed out ones...... In the Home of the Brave and the Land of the Free, that's a damned shame. Thank you Mr. Bush and your cheap sycophants. It was one "heck of a job!"
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sailingsoul
SFN Addict
2830 Posts |
 Posted - 09/01/2010 : 05:30:39 [Permalink]
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The city is below sea level. A bad location for anything that should stay above sea level. Like every bad idea, the sooner one accepts it, the better. The only thing that is more stupid than building there, is rebuilding there. People should know better but don't.
Two quotes come to mind," Those that don't remember the past, are doomed to repeat it" and " Doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome, is insanity". SS |
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Fripp
SFN Regular
USA
727 Posts |
Posted - 09/01/2010 : 05:45:20 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by sailingsoul
The city is below sea level. A bad location for anything that should stay above sea level. Like every bad idea, the sooner one accepts it, the better. The only thing that is more stupid than building there, is rebuilding there. People should know better but don't.
Two quotes come to mind," Those that don't remember the past, are doomed to repeat it" and " Doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome, is insanity". SS
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Harry Shearer just released a documentary and he addresses this point (as well as many others). Now I'm only repeating what I remember hearing from an NPR interview, so I can't attest to it's accuracy, but...
Shearer states that nearly every port city (especially one at the mouth of a river) is below sea level. Additionally, he states that the sections of the city that experienced some of the worst flooding were actually some 10 feet above sea level. |
"What the hell is an Aluminum Falcon?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. I thought my Dark Lord of the Sith could protect a small thermal exhaust port that's only 2-meters wide! That thing wasn't even fully paid off yet! You have any idea what this is going to do to my credit?!?!"
"What? Oh, oh, 'just rebuild it'? Oh, real [bleep]ing original. And who's gonna give me a loan, jackhole? You? You got an ATM on that torso LiteBrite?" |
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podcat
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 09/05/2010 : 12:27:02 [Permalink]
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Shearer talks about the documentary with Anjali Kamat of Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/8/30/the_big_uneasy_in_new_doc
As for NPR, well....
ANJALI KAMAT: Harry Shearer, talk about the distribution of your film. And your recent post on Huffington Post talks about "NPR—The Initials Stand for Nothing." Explain what you mean.
HARRY SHEARER: Well, NPR announced recently that they’re no longer National Public Radio, that the initials stand for, NPR. After I found out that they were not going to do a story about this film on either All Things Considered or Morning Edition, I decided to buy some time—you know, those enhanced underwriting announcements at the end of each half-hour. And NPR legal told me this language was unacceptable, quote, "documentary about why New Orleans flooded." The only language that they found acceptable was "documentary about New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina." And when I told them it’s not about a hurricane, that was the end of the conversation. |
However, to be fair to NPR, Shearer did an interview with Neal Conan for Talk of The Nation on Thursday, August 26:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129451954
The interview did take place before Shearer attempted to buy the underwriting announcement time for that day.
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| Edited by - podcat on 09/05/2010 12:35:43 |
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Whence Katrina?
