Internet INSIDE New Orleans

[Gavin Allan]

Interesting link from inside New Orleans:

 

[Rodger Tellefson]

Interesting, thanks.

 

[Rich Stern]

Been reading that blog this evening. Fascinating, heartbreaking and uplifting.

 

[Donavan Davis]

wow............nothing more just .wow:blink:

 

[Sed Thompson]

For all the people who said we did enough in the beginning, that's whats up!:angry:

 

[Fer Echegaray]

Mayor to feds: 'Get off your a**es'

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Nagin speaks:

NAGIN: I need reinforcements, I need troops, man. I need 500 buses, man. We ain't talking about -- you know, one of the briefings we had, they were talking about getting public school bus drivers to come down here and bus people out here.



I'm like, "You got to be kidding me. This is a national disaster. Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their ***** moving to New Orleans."



That's -- they're thinking small, man. And this is a major, major, major deal. And I can't emphasize it enough, man. This is crazy.

like, ain't, you got, man, man, man....



Now I understand why N.O. had no good disaster plan.



You gets what you votes for! (using his slang).



TJR

 

[Travis Munday]

In English that doesn't make much sense, but when read in Cajun, it makes perfect sense. The language down there is very unique and interesting, but that doesn't mean the people who speak it aren't good leaders.

 

[John Mastrocco]

The Mayor's interview is heartbreaking, if you want my opinion.

 

[Thomas Rogers]

Tiger, I kinda doubt that's cajun slang. Sounds like ghetto urban illiteracy to me.



Nagin doesn't SOUND like a good leader and has proven to NOT BE a good leader.



TJR

 

[Travis Munday]

NO had missed the bullet lots of times...as a result, many, MANY people had a mindset that "it'll never happen to me" when it came to NO being hit by a substantial disater. The Mayor included. Should've had a better plan? Yes, but no matter how good a plan is, it comes down to people following the plan, and many people didn't follow the mandatory evacuation...should people have been forcefully moved from the city? How are you supposed to respond to losing a city? Not a building or few, but a whole city? How are you supposed to respond to looting and civil unrest when you have almost no police force? The National Guard is simply protecting gov't buildings. Of course, he is the mayor, so he will get blamed for everything, from not getting people out of the city, to not preventing to looting, to people shooting each other and at rescuers.

 

[Thomas Rogers]

The buck should stop with Nagin. Nuff said!