Just as after Katrina and THE FEDERAL FLOOD, the New Orleans newspaper has done a terrific job with their local team in reporting on the oil gusher, the resulting damage, the negligence and incompetence of BP, and all matters relating to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
As you see, oil has already arrived in Louisiana on the beaches and in the marshes shown in the locations marked in black on the map, showing not potential damage, but real damage, with worse almost certainly to follow.
Myers apologized for his idiotic and repulsive comments, but only after Mayor Mitch Landrieu fired off a letter to Faux News:
In his letter to Goren, Landrieu called Myers' comments "offensive and unacceptable." Saying the "hearts and prayers" of Orleanians go out to flood victims in Tennessee, Landrieu wrote: "This is not Nashville versus New Orleans. And anyone who dares to draw such a comparison is being divisive and reckless."
Landrieu added that "faulty construction caused the breach of (federal) levees, ... forcing the people of New Orleans to 'stand on rooftops.'" He adds that "almost every levee" built by the Army Corps of Engineers failed, leaving 80 percent of the city underwater and claiming 1,464 lives in Louisiana.
Go get 'im, Mitch!
Of course, no one in New Olreans helped anyone else, Chris, and when you're standing on a rooftop surrounded by water, it's not easy to help yourself, much less anyone else, Chris. But folks did help one another, and some lost their lives helping others, Chris.
I had great difficulty in restraining my language when speaking of Chris Myers.
What is it about Louisiana these days? First hurricanes, and now a huge oil spill, and on top of that, some moralizing ass dissing the hurricane victims.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you would like to see less exciting news in the Times Picayune these days.
Counterlight, I can only assume that the people of Louisiana have been very wicked, and the wrath of God is being visited upon us. Thus says the bible according to Pat Robertson and his ilk.
ReplyDeleteIt's all that spicy Cajun cooking. God does not approve, especially since God is a Calvinist white male, as we all know.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I'm on the highway to hell in the fast lane because I love a good plate of jambalaya.
We're wicked in ways beyond counting.
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