Hurricane Gustav is churning and burning its way toward US landfall somewhere between east Texas and west Florida. That’s a lot of landfall exposed. So where would you put your Secretary of Homeland Security and your FEMA Director? New Orleans of course.
Why New Orleans? Well there are the levies of course and the fact that sits about six feet below sea level. There’s also the fact that the good people there – a great many of whom were not smart enough to get out of the way of a cat 5 hurricane moving at 12 mph with five days notice - reelected Mayor Ray School Bus Nagin. Nagin presided over the Katrina disaster. Also, three years and billions of tax payer dollars later, Crescent City leaders and dwellers are still bitching about the government not doing enough for them. And, NO that’s NOT after they acknowledge and thanked the American people for their generosity.
I was supporting the local Class A minor league team one night not too long ago. I sat down with Lex jr and heard the couple next to me talking. I turned to them and said, “It doesn’t sound like you’re from around here. Where you from?” They said, Louisiana. I said, “Oh New Orleans.” They were offended. “No! We’re not from down there. We can take care of ourselves.”
So yeah, focus on New Orleans and take care of the people who have demonstrated time and again that they can’t take care of themselves. It’s probably cheaper. It’s like if there’s a fire in your house. You have two teenaged sons and a three year old daughter. Your first reaction is going to be to help the three year old first.
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So much for rebuilding a "chocolate city". How about a "federally-funded, perpetual city-construction project"? It could be the semi-permanent, illegal alien, US homebase. Is it called flooding if it happens on a regular basis or is nature running its course? I would that say to all the hardcore environmentalists we should let it revert to a tidal basin swamp. Some are saying that this is Gods way of showing displeasure with republicans as Gustav will conflict with the convention. I think that He may be saying that He destroyed it once and will again until we understand that there was a city called Sodom that was less corrupt and debauched than this one. He is hoping the convention will divert resources away from trying to save it. I just heard Mayor Nagin say that if you stay now you are on your own. How different this time. Let's all hope God has Gustav lose steam, fizzle out, and we get his message to quit attempting rebuilding a screwed up and crooked city . But if we don't get it there is another hurricane called Hanna on the heels of Gustav. The Griffin
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