A Rubber Door

Two years later.
New Orleans is still in ruin.
They’ve got football but no levees.
The most powerful man in the world, the President of the United States hasn’t done anything to help.
We should be ashamed.

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I have to admit that I have allowed Katrina to slip my mind. I am ashamed to admit that I haven’t followed the situation the way I wanted to. I sit here in my suburban malaise thankful for what I have, but not having thought about the people from New Orleans the way I should [...]

Everyone should watch the following video and pass it on to their friends.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nf67eueY6pQ
It’s amazing that the White House tonight has said not to read too much into this video. It seems impossible not to. Michael Brown tells President Bush that this is “the big one”, he’s worried about the Superdome as shelter, [...]

So today Michael Brown blamed the governor, mayor, media, Office of Homeland Security, Santa Claus, and a variety of corpses for the failures of the government post Hurricane Katrina. Now yes, he is technically correct that there is blame to go all around, but what kind of leader steps in, says ” I know what [...]

Michael Brown resigned today and has gone back to the actual dog and pony show as opposed to the literal one he’s run for the past few years. If I had just waited two seconds to post my previous message. Of course Michael Brown should have been a per hour laborer.
Check CNN.

So in the middle of the night, FEMA corrected Michael Brown’s bio. As if no one would know. It was a “clerical typing error”. Of course. Some poor, per hour laborer lost their job over this for sure.

I was just watching ABC’s World News Tonight and in it there was a interesting interview with the head of the FEMA employee union. In it he described how the President and Congress were warned of the impending doom because dollars and focus have been shifted away from natural disasters.
That’s when I realized the [...]