Little rebuilding money has reached individuals displaced by the storm. The levees are still a mess. Major portions of New Orleans and surrounding coastal areas are still deserted ruins. And now Dear Leader is going to New Orleans to talk about how, two years after he left them to die, Mission Accomplished:
It's no wonder the ratbastard isn't announcing his itinerary in New Orleans. Given how people feel about him down there, there ain't 'nuff Secret Service agents on the planet to keep him safe if there's even one sniff of his evil smirking ass in the air.
-- Badtux the Louisiana Penguin
he'll probably be held to a flyover of the rebuilt parts, mostly i'm sure of the reliably redstate votin' parts of mississippi, touch down briefly for a staged photo-op, most likely they'll have found some musicians that are hungry and homeless enough to blast through "saints" a couple of times, just for him. aaron neville still can't go home because the mold's effect on his asthma would fuckin' kill him.
ReplyDeleteratbastard is just the beginning of my invective for that beady eyed son of a bitch.
rebuild - oh like we did in iraq?
ReplyDeletenaa, he'd rather give the money to his cronies and let the people rot
I've heard rumors that he's planning on pulling Heckuva Job Brownie up on stage during one of his events and awarding him the Medal of Freedom.
ReplyDeleteHa, I hadn't thought of that. I knew they said he was going this week some time, but not when. You're probably right about their reason for not saying exactly when. They'll fly him in, get a group of people together, he'll hug one of the kids and swoosh, he'll be gone.
ReplyDeletePlant his ass down there and make him live out his live in the ruins.
I would like to see another big storm finish the place off, then maybe they would have sense enough to relocate being as they were advised not to build a town there in the first place.
ReplyDeleteNature needs that area, and it's stupid for the rest of us to keep saving them and rebuilding their town for them.
Uhm, BBC, any nation would put a seaport at the mouth of its biggest river, it would be stupid to *not* have a seaport there, the Port of New Orleans is the biggest seaport in terms of tonnage in the nation because of all the wheat coming down the Mississippi and all the coffee and bananas and etc. coming back from Central and South America.
ReplyDeleteBesides, New Orleans was 50 miles inland when it was built. It is Big Oil and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who managed to destroy the coastline via their levees and canals until the waters are now lapping at New Orleans' doorstep, and it was the Corps of Engineers' MRGO canal that funneled the storm surge into the East End and Lower 9th.
In short, BBC, you may be right about the stuff downriver from New Orleans. Probably the river should be allowed to run wild over that area to rebuild it because with the coastline gone, it's too difficult and environmentally fragile to protect. But for economic reasons it simply is impossible to abandon New Orleans. You might as well talk about abandoning the Port of Oakland, which sits on a bowl of jello between two nasty faults, or any number of other port cities that are sited where they are because of the necessities of commerce rather than because geologically they're the bestest place for folks to live.
Or, for that matter, most of the nation of the Netherlands is below sea level. I suppose you think the Dutch should abandon their country? They don't think so. Instead they have built a system of layered seawalls capable of holding up against a thousand-year storm. The US Army Corps of Engineers' levees didn't even hold up against a weak Category 3 storm, which is about a 50 year storm (you can expect one to hit New Orleans about once every fifty years).
In short, the economy of the entire Midwestern part of the nation requires a port there, so rather than view the people there as expendible slaves to the national economy, we ought to treat them like Americans and provide them with proper protection.
- Badtux the American Penguin
I like "ratbastard"!
ReplyDeleteAs a native you should find a few Cajuns to give the Shrubbery a boat ride in the bayous, the real Louisiana experience with a pot of gumbo at the end. They could teach about trolling for 'gators and collecting cottonmouth venom.
ReplyDeleteThey will "insert" him into the zone and then stand-by for a "dust-off." It'll look like McCain's trip to Baghdad without the smiling faces.
He'll probably go to Keesler AFB in Biloxi, if he's going to make a speech. Keesler and the casinos are about the only things that have been rebuilt.
As for rebuilding New Orleans - maybe we should raise the "Bonnie Blue Flag" and bring back the Republic of West Florida which was designed to control the mouths of every major river into the northern Gulf. With few years of collecting port fees and oil revenue from the Midwest the Gulf Coast could gold plate the reconstruction.
Coming to the aid of NOLA......
ReplyDeleteLiberating Iraq......
Bringing OBL to justice.......
Our government is so effective these days...........
That should by dirty stinking rotten motherfucking ratbastard(s)