I don’t have anything very original to say right now. But “stay the course” writing on DailyKos, who survived the Bangladeshi floods and was in NYC during 9/11 does.
For example:
“President” Bush, to Diane Sawyer: I don’t think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees.
(compare this with the following:)
New Orleans Mayor Roy Nagin: We told everybody the importance of the 17th Street Canal issue. We said, “Please, please take care of this. We don’t care what you do. Figure it out.”
Interviewer: Who’d you say that to?
Nagin: Everybody: the governor, Homeland Security, FEMA. You name it, we said it.
Or FingerInEveryPie’s poignant post on writing in and loving the New Orleans she visited only a few weeks ago. A city I never got the chance to see.
We have to seek wise words and support from the blogosphere, ladies and gents, because it just so happens that the leaders of the federal government are all either literally, or mentally, on vacation. Here’s a rundown on where they are, and what they’re doing when we really need them.
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Chameleon – might be time for you to get out of there and come to OZ! Check this one out:
http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2005-04-29/cols_ventura.html
I can’t believe they weren’t ready for most of this. We have been struggling with formulating a terror plan that somebody in higher government can actually tell me they had not formed a committee on what happens if a level-5 hurricane hits New Orleans??
I would be in government if I weren’t busy doing something important instead of twiddling my thumbs! (Gosh, it gets me so mad talking about this–this is why I am not posting about it).
Yes, Wrick– and an invitation to all my international readers: find me a job and I will move to your country!
Matt– I know. I think it exposes the Homeland Security and FEMA as clearly not being ready for any kind of disaster. Apparently the gov’t sent terrorism kits to NOLA: packs containing medicines for use in chemical attacks. Because that is the type of diaster they were preparing for. So they have these packs of meds and the only thing they can use is the cipro. The rest is irrelevant.
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