Hurricane Katrina: Drudge flag
Anyone else think that the tattered upside-down flag image on Drudge Report is in poor taste?
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You’ve heard that Bush cut the funding to protect New Orleans from this, but accourding to the Corps of Engineers in N.O. protection was 25 years off, and of unclear effectiveness.
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The more I hear and read about this, the most I’m disgusted. I really am. They only reason there aren’t more dead is because the hurricane didn’t hit New Orleans head on at full strength. The Superdome? Who’s brilliant idea was that? What we’re seeing is the absolute absence of a plan and any leadership in a significant sense. New Orleans has basically come under insurrection. Southern Mississippi literally has roving bandits that have outright said they’ve taken over the area and any rescuers close enough will get shot and their boats taken. At this point now, nothing short of a 100% National Guard mobilization is sufficient because things have gotten that out of hand. Hospitals and shelters inside New Orleans have no ability to communicate and no one is coming to get them.
There comes a point where this becomes a federal problem. The President ought to start considering heading to Baton Rouge and taking command.
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In this time of national crisis, it is once again shown that there are those who instead of united to help are using the event to push their ideologies and their hate. I present this unfiltered defecation on the United States from the Left.
“And nothing about the president’s demeanor yesterday - which seemed casual to the point of carelessness - suggested that he understood the depth of the current crisis.” New York Times Lead Editorial – 9/1/01 (A day after saying “But this seems like the wrong moment to dwell on fault-finding”)
“Now we are all learning what it’s like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged. Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and–now–Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Bush made the hurricanes! We’ll skip past Prof. Gray and Prof. Emanuel who are experts in the field who say this is crap.)
“Two things happened in one day that tell much about the abysmal failure of the Bush administration to get a handle on poverty in America. The first was the tragic and disgraceful shots of hordes of New Orleans residents scurrying down the city’s Hurricane ravaged streets with their arms loaded with food, clothes, appliances, and in some cases guns, that they looted from stores and shops.” Earl Hutchinson. (Now Bush is responsible for those who choose a life of crime).
“The president’s 35-minute Air Force One flyover of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama was the perfect metaphor for his entire presidency: detached, disconnected, and disengaged. Preferring to take in America’s suffering — whether caused by the war in Iraq or Hurricane Katrina — from a distance. In this case, 2,500 feet.” Arianna Huffington (As opposed to Arianna watching the destruction from a distance of 2500 miles).
“OK, you billionaires who have taken advantage of the very unchristian greed fest that is the hallmark of the Bush administration, it’s time to step up and give some of that money back. CEO’s should pony up and pay for the recovery of New Orleans, Gulfport, Biloxi, and the rest of the hurricane-devastated Deep South.” Robert Smith on why he can’t afford to help because he has to pay for his son’s education at Rice.
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Prof. Bainbridge pointed me towards this recent bit of news about the Catholic sex abuse scandal and the dioceses that have filed for bankruptcy. Namely, the court ruled that all assets are fair game, including those in the parishes (which the Bishop has little control of), and presumably Catholic Charities if run by the diocese.
Stockton attorney Larry Drivon, who represents hundreds of Californians suing the Catholic Church over childhood sexual abuse, said the Spokane ruling sends a warning to other Catholic dioceses considering bankruptcy to avoid payment of multimillion-dollar jury verdicts in sex-abuse cases.
“They are not going to get anywhere in bankruptcy,” he said. “This is exactly what we’ve been saying since Day One, that all of the Catholic assets within the diocese are available to pay these plaintiffs,” Drivon said.
Drivon said the ruling also meant that money held in restricted funds within dioceses for special projects, such as construction of a cathedral, can be used to pay judgments in sex-abuse cases, contradicting what some church officials have told donors.
“They have told their parishioners, ‘Don’t worry about the funds that you gave us for the cathedral, because these funds are separate and cannot be used for lawsuits.’ Well, they can,” Drivon said.
I want to be sympathetic, I really do. They do deserve just compensation. But this no longer appears to be an issue of compensation; it appears to be an attack to eliminate the very existence of the Church in those areas. Never mind money that was meant to feed the homeless or money that was donated for specific reasons; now the plaintiff lawyers want it all.
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Along with the rest of the blogosphere, I’m asking you to please donate to Catholic Charities or another relief organization of your choice.
Check the TTLB Katrina Relief page and log your donations.
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