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Tag: Katrina and post-Katrina

  • Paintings – Betsy McCall, in post Katrina Nola Series

    Paintings – Betsy McCall, in post Katrina Nola Series

    Betsy McCall, in post Katrina Nola, Wondered How Her Life Would Have Been Different Had She Been Brenda Starr 35 by 19.64 in Digital Painting 2007 Click on the image for overlay enlargement. Enlargement Detail. [clear]

  • Back. And tired, tired, tired.

    Back. And tired, tired, tired.

    We are back–and no we didn’t listen to Jackson Browne. Sorry. We don’t have any of Jackson Browne’s CDs. Co-adult says there are some he’d like to get but I have to admit I’m not very familiar with Browne’s music. Need to get an USB cable for the camera I was using the first couple…

  • Raise your hands if you saw the pics of all the looted televisions and microwaves piled up at the convention center

    Since Hurricane Katrina I’ve returned several times to look at the Pentagon’s study, published 2003, “An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its Implications for United States National Security”. The paragraphs I’ve been drawn to are the following:

  • Psychological violence against the survivors

    I began the below post on Saturday but never published it. I’ll publish it now but first this: Plan to Move Astrodome Evacuees on Hold By JIM VERTUNO, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 52 minutes ago (9/6/2005) AUSTIN, Texas – A plan to move some Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the Houston Astrodome to cruise ships…

  • Lady Laura’s multiple choice dilemma

    President George W. Bush (R) and first lady Laura Bush walk across the south lawn of the White House as they return from a day trip to the hurricane-affected areas along the Gulf Coast, in Washington September 5, 2005. Bush, who has faced fierce criticism for slow relief response, visited dozens of Hurricane Katrina victims…

  • FEMA cut emergency communication lines to Jefferson Parish

    Over at Stonebridge, Aaron Broussard, the president of Jefferson Parish, on Meet the Press: Yesterday — yesterday — FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards and said no one is getting…

  • The supreme violence of the privileged is to close its doors and windows to the truth

    My husband remembers when he was a young boy and Dr. Martin Luther King was going to be going through Jackson, Mississippi in the “Freedom Ride” across the South. He says this is when he realized how crazy people were. People all over the neighborhood, the schools, the church were saying that Dr. King’s buses…

  • Quick, tell me who wasn’t grateful for the water and MRE’s that partnered Bush into New Orleans on Friday

    More Help On The Way For Katrina Victims WBEN Newsroom – Saturday, September 3, 2005 07:51 PM New Orleans, LA (CBS/AP) – Thousands more bedraggled refugees were bused and airlifted to salvation Saturday, leaving the heart of New Orleans to the dead and dying, the elderly and frail stranded too many days without food, water…

  • The president tours the devastation

    Alice is thrown with the force of a hurricane through a glass darkly, steps up to national television cameras and screams for help. She is half a decade into the 21st century, the grotesque, false face of lies selling a compassionate land of opportunity under strong leadership’s hand is torn away and drowning in the…

  • Look, Scott, there's our soup kitchen

    MR. McCLELLAN: The President pointed out this one church that was still standing, but all the homes around it there were completely wiped out. Right. God goes bowling. Does this look like a man who wants to punch you out before you remind the public that he drastically reduced funding for southeast Louisiana’s chief hurricane…

  • Friendly neighborhood gas update

    Gas. Exxon at Piedmont and Ponce de Leon was totally sold out of gas today because of the run on it caused by rumors that Atlanta’s gas would be cut off because of Katrina. There were probably 30 cars still at the gas station across the street (at 10 PM) and officers still out trying…

  • Increasing panic over gas in Atlanta

    The AJC reports that “the possibility of shortages of gasoline at area stations had metro drivers waiting at pumps to fill up this morning. And prices rose accordingly.” My husband just called from the gas station (where our water pump was apparently, mistakenly replaced when only some hoses needed replacing) and he was told by…