September 3, 2005 at 9:13 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Obsidian Wings: Rebuild quotes the following from George Friedman:
New Orleans is not optional for the United States’ commercial infrastructure. It is a terrible place for a city to be located, but exactly the place where a city must exist. With that as a given, a city will return there because the alternatives are too devastating. The harvest is coming, and that means that the port will have to be opened soon. As in Iraq, premiums will be paid to people prepared to endure the hardships of working in New Orleans. But in the end, the city will return because it has to.
How likely is the smirking boss of the Federal Government to offer the needed, absolutely necessary monies, in a politically-charged year like this?
September 2, 2005 at 10:08 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
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Welcome to Einstürzende Neueküchen, (formerly redshoes.000k.net) a virtual cookbook of recipes contributed by the worldwide society of supporters and fans of Einstürzende Neubauten.
(Via Mimi Smartypants — who I must thank effusively here and evermore for making a pretty bad day better.)
September 2, 2005 at 1:09 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Something appalling here about the private Baton Rouge firm that was hired as a government contractor last year and given responsibility for emergency relief plans for southern Louisiana and New Orleans. And ultimately responsible,as well.
What’s the role of an actual government, again? I forget.
September 2, 2005 at 8:13 am · Filed under Uncategorized
I’ve struck the essay I wrote on this subject in its entirety.
Feel free to write your own. You may want to draw analogies based on historical precedents from both local US history and that of other nations, both recent and distant.
You may want to refer to some of the recent links posted here and elsewhere to Katrina’s aftermath, but this one in particular may push a button or two.
September 2, 2005 at 7:43 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Go read::
So that’s the way it is in America on September 1, 2005: one of the nation’s major urban centers is plunged into the dark ages, tens of thousands are suffering, the government is paralyzed, and some large portion of the country (who knows how large?) is bonkers, vindictive, delusional, or gloating. God Bless America…since He hasn’t blessed the victims.
And also this [and downstream links]:
“It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay,” Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana told the Times-Picayune in June of last year. “Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us.”
And also this from PZ Myers.
And also almost everything posted here:
“Look at the reporters who are “incensed” by the rampant looting. Look at the smugness from those distant from the situation who chastise the dumb southerners for not evacuating when they had the chance. It blows their minds how many idiots stayed to wait it out. It makes them shake their heads and make “tsk-tsk” noises into their shiny microphones.
Well, fuck the lot of them.”
Brad DeLong has collected a wide-ranging list of important facts to remember in the coming weeks.
Food and water is being delivered, we are told. It just may not be to people who are thirsty or hungry. Maybe it’s going to a warehouse somewhere.
The real nature of the Culture of Life, summed up well here.
And finally, do not neglect this important resource, from which the subtitle of this post comes.
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