Tuesday, September 6, 2005
Katrina, p.p.s.
Update: If what this articles says is true, heads shouldn't just roll, they should be displayed on proverbial spears and spit upon. (Referred by Riehl World View.)
Update: Interesting germane articles here and here.
We might well keep in mind that U.S. involvement in the Kyoto Accords was rejected by the Senate when Clinton was president and environment-Al Gore was veep, voting it down in a real squeaker. At least if you call a unanimous vote of 99-0 a squeaker. (In other words, it wasn't the administration now in office, the aliens with three heads and devious plans to wreck the country and the world, if they can, who caused all this awfulness.) This disaster has been warned about for decades. Plus, it seems to me that a city below sea level with eroding delta silt is self-evidently unsafe. Yet the Louisiana Governor never authorized money for more law enforcement personnel or regenerating the delta or even for thorough preparedness drills. She will not relinquish her state's jurisdictional authority over the National Guard (one wonders what part of 'national' she disagrees with) and had delayed calling them in until Wednesday while poker-facedly allowing the feds to take the rap for the delay; she argued publicly with the mayor about who had jurisdiction over relief specifics (while New Orleans burned, so to speak) and she continues to argue with the feds about the same thing. I respect her passion for her state's right to autonomy, but these circumstances demand the powerful organization and strength that the federal government can provide quickly and efficiently.
Update: Interesting germane articles here and here.
We might well keep in mind that U.S. involvement in the Kyoto Accords was rejected by the Senate when Clinton was president and environment-Al Gore was veep, voting it down in a real squeaker. At least if you call a unanimous vote of 99-0 a squeaker. (In other words, it wasn't the administration now in office, the aliens with three heads and devious plans to wreck the country and the world, if they can, who caused all this awfulness.) This disaster has been warned about for decades. Plus, it seems to me that a city below sea level with eroding delta silt is self-evidently unsafe. Yet the Louisiana Governor never authorized money for more law enforcement personnel or regenerating the delta or even for thorough preparedness drills. She will not relinquish her state's jurisdictional authority over the National Guard (one wonders what part of 'national' she disagrees with) and had delayed calling them in until Wednesday while poker-facedly allowing the feds to take the rap for the delay; she argued publicly with the mayor about who had jurisdiction over relief specifics (while New Orleans burned, so to speak) and she continues to argue with the feds about the same thing. I respect her passion for her state's right to autonomy, but these circumstances demand the powerful organization and strength that the federal government can provide quickly and efficiently.
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