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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I will concede that I have not spent quite as much time watching the news, etc., in the last week as I normally do -- I did buy some really nice cabs in Napa Valley yesterday, though -- but I have not seen anything in the coverage suggested that Nagin or Blanco fucked up. I am entirely willing to believe it, but you and your photo-shopped images have zero credibility to me at this point -- Chicken Little is on line 2 -- so the case is, to my mind, unproven.
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the pictures of the submerged buses speak for themselves. The plan put into place after Hugo speaks for itself. Why do deny this? Common sense says, start evacuating in mass using public trasnport, i.e. buses, on Saturday before the hurricance hits. If uou are worng you have expended the cost of excess preparedness. You bring everyone home. Why do you fight this?
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
No one has even bothered to explain to me what Blanco failed to do that she could have done, except that nonono thinks she should have had a more masculine, steely determination on TV, which is entirely possible, but to me misses the point that in the first days after the city was flooded, what was really needed was water and helicopters and trucks and helicopters and food and helicopters and ice, and that the marooned residents of New Orleans probably weren't as interested in masculine, steely determination as nonono is on the grounds that they didn't have any electricity to power up their televisions, which were submerged anyhow, and therefore would have missed the tough words and big talk. I hope all y'all enjoyed that sentence as much as I did.
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She didn't lead, she followed and she looked for an out (she also refused to work with both th eFeds and Nagin), that is not what we elect or pay leaders to do.
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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
In any event, I care more about federal malfeasance (or nonfeasance) than I do about local or state mal- or nonfeasance, since the federal government is my government, too, while the state and local governments there are foreign bodies operating off the Napoleanic Code that we somehow inherited from France, NTTAWWT. And because I expect corruption and low performance from the municipal government of New Orleans specifically and any city which is 80% submerged generally. And because I live in the Bay Area, and when the Big One hits, I'm expected DHS and the feds to save my ass, not the state of Louisiana. And because the federal government has the big checkbook and the big helicopters, and, in my experience, the more competent and professional employees, at least relative to state government.
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the problem with this is each of our individual states are the frontline of defence and public safety and no matter how much you want to transfer their responsibilitry to the Feds, it ain't what's in place now and it ain't likely to be in place when the big one hits. And your rationale still does not absolve the state and local govts in LA for what happened that set up the Feds hand.
