Daily Archives: November 15, 2009

While I was sit­ting in a rented house in Shreve­port, LA I heard an NPR broad­cast that blew me away.

Because ear­lier I was sit­ting in a Motel 6 in Boissier City, LA, watch­ing CNN as the announcer said that Hur­ri­cane Kat­rina had jogged to the east at the last moment and wouldn’t hit New Orleans after all.  Then, in a “I’m-going-to-change-your-life moment he held his hand to his ear, paused,  and then said that the lev­ees were collapsing.

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The NPR broad­cast said that some peo­ple in a New Orleans neigh­bor­hood, Buck­town, had com­plained that water was com­ing up in their front yards and they blamed it on the water and sewer com­pany.  The sewer and water peo­ple said it wasn’t them and had a study done which con­cluded that the water was com­ing from the 17^th Street Canal.  Under the levee.

That is bad.  Very bad.  When water trav­els it takes stuff with it (for an exam­ple see the Grand Canyon).  So this water going under the levee was tak­ing with it the very stuff which was hold­ing the levee in place.

About the same time a partier down in New Orleans French Quar­ter got bel­liger­ent with the bounc­ers at a bar there and one of them put him in a choke hold which ended up killing him.

That would have been it but he was black.

So the buzz was out and Al, Jesse, and the NAACP responded immediately.

Pre­sented with the two events, that the levee pro­tect­ing New Orleans was in jeop­ardy and that a bel­liger­ent, intox­i­cated partier was inad­ver­tently killed by a bouncer, you will prob­a­bly be able to pass this sim­ple test:

1. a com­mis­sion was formed to inves­ti­gate the sound­ness of New Orleans’ lev­ees, or
2. a com­mis­sion was formed to inves­ti­gate whether or not black peo­ple were being over-charged for drinks in the French Quarter.

Those of you who have never heard of Al Sharp­ton, Jesse Jack­son, or the NAACP are excused from this test.  Those of you who used to have houses in New Orleans already know the answer.

You who think that the gov­ern­ment can make med­ical or any other kind of deci­sions free of polit­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tion — fore­warned is forearmed.

In case all the blather is get­tin you down here’s a singing CW dame to put it all it per­spec­tive.  I think I’m in love.

Wher­ever there is cor­rup­tion the media will fol­low it and when they find it they will ruth­lessly expose it.  Daily.  Espe­cially when it involves us or one of our allies.

Hamid Karzai.  Hamid Karzai.  Hamid Karzai.

Abu Ghraib. Abu Ghraib. Abu Ghraib.

This is why it took two kids work­ing on spec to pub­li­cize what ACORN was up to.

And why every day we read and see reports cov­er­ing every penny that was given by us to Arafat, the PLO, the Pales­tin­ian Author­ity, and Hamas.