Nagin Suspects a Plot To Keep Blacks Away – washingtonpost.com New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin has suggested that the slow recovery and rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina — which has prevented many black former residents from returning — is part of a plan to change the racial makeup and political leadership of [...]
Posts under ‘Katrina’
Screw the Big Easy; Cheney Shot a Man!
via Non Traffic Santa: According to the data the Committee itself examined, 56 hours prior to landfall, Katrina was a relatively weak Category 3 storm, heading west in the Gulf of Mexico. Over the next few hours, it began its turn north, but where the storm was going to make landfall along the Gulf Coast [...]
Katrina Aftermath: Nagin Puts The Big Easy on the Auction Block
Mayor: New Orleans will seek aid from other nations I know he’s facing some heat in his re-election campaign, afraid he’s gonna get tossed aside in favor of a member of Louisiana’s version of the Kennedy clan (minus, it seems, the venality and debauchery), but I don’t see how saying something like this is gonna [...]
Katrina Aftermath: Hit Them Again
They are STILL playing asshole games: The New Orleans City Council on Monday unanimously passed a resolution calling on the Saints to hire Doug Williams as the team’s new coach. Yeah, we’re gonna shovel a gabillion dollars into the hands of this train wreck, who’ve already taken care of that whole “our city got wiped [...]
Another Bullet in the Old Grey Lady’s Ass
Actually, this is a double-barreled load. First up: Howie Carr of the NY Times gets caught trying to blame Fox News, talk radio and the ‘Net for the media’s hyperventilating over violence and various atrocities alleged to have occurred in Katrina’s aftermath, without really backing the accusation up with, you know, that little thing called [...]
Katrina Aftermath: Birth of a Putdown
Lt. Gen. Russel Honore steps in front of press gaggle, slaps the reporters square in the face and coins a new warning/putdown for J-schooled idiots nationwide to heed: …You’re asking last storm questions for people who are concerned about the future storm. Don’t get stuck on stupid, reporters. We are moving forward. And don’t confuse [...]
The Puppy Blender Rips Aaron Brown a New One
BROWN: “I shouldn’t say this but when you see the pictures on the ground and you go to these towns in Mississippi and Louisiana and you see what’s going on there now, still and you hear the official sound bytes, they sound a little lame.” Evil Glenn: Brown apparently thinks that it’s “lame” for authorities [...]
Hurricane Katrina: The Song
Cop alarms ring out in the bayou night Enter Raymond Nagin from the City Hall. He sees New Orleans washed away in the flood, Cries out, "My God, Bush killed them all!" Here comes the story of the Hurricane, Now watch the authorities try to blame Each other, for what they should have done. It’s [...]
