New Orleans

George Bush gave a speech yesterday detailing his plans for the future and rebuilding of New Orleans and any who has read my writings here know that I am no admirer of this president.  However; in this case I have inexplicably decided to take him at his word and to believe there is a remote chance he has been converted into a liberal.  His plan seems on the whole to be reasonable and comprehensive if followed through on with thoughtful determined action and good faith.
 
One thing that has often appalled me with George Bush is his ability to turn a word on it's head. Like clear skies, Healthy Forests and etc. to refer to bills which are harmful to both those desirable ecosystems.

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11:50 AM Sept. 4, 2005

    Celine Dion is a wonderful person. I saw her tonight on a special Larry King Show on CNN - How You Can Help - to aide the the people of the world in figuring out how they can help New Orleans. She cried. She sang a song. She donated a million dollars to the Red Cross. She also strongly expressed her rage with 'them' - whoever it is who failed in their responsibility to provide for the welfare of the all the people in New Orleans.
 
    Maybe it was unknowable that the electricity would go out. Maybe it was unknowable that the water would stop and toilets wouldn't flush. I rather think those things were highly predicatable in a worst case scenerio. However, that isn't what outrages me.
 
    Someone put over 20 thousand persons into the SuperDome without provision for food. And this one thing was absolutely knownable. All those people sent to the SuperDome would require food. This one over-sight alone proves to me not just poor planning. It proves to me gross incompetence. And it probably proves to me (if anyone asks me to decide) criminal negligence.
 
     I further think it time we all take a look at what our government has in store for us in the case of some great emergency. I doubt any of us wants to end up in a SuperDome - or worse.
 
'Screaming' Ray 'Get off Your Asses' Nagin, irate Mayor of New Orleans, deserves some credit for calling the cat black. One might call him a 'whistle-blower'. Instead of following the political safe road of wringing his hands and saying in the collective 'we', 'We are doing everything that is humanly possible ... ', Ray Nagin called bullshit bullshit and put it out in the open where it belongs, stinking up the place like it should, and hopefully splashing back on those dumping it.