The New York Times’s Dan Barry paints a picture of the scene on the streets of post-Katrina New Orleans:
That a corpse lies on Union Street may not shock; in the wake of last week’s hurricane, there are surely hundreds, probably thousands. What is remarkable is that on a downtown street in a major American city, a corpse can decompose for days, like carrion, and that is acceptable.
Welcome to New Orleans in the post-apocalypse, half baked and half deluged: pestilent, eerie, unnaturally quiet.
Scraggly residents emerge from waterlogged wood to say strange things, and then return into the rot. Cars drive the wrong way on the Interstate and no one cares. Fires burn, dogs scavenge, and old signs from les bons temps have been replaced with hand-scrawled threats that looters will be shot dead.
The incomprehensible has become so routine here that it tends to lull you into acceptance.
youd think moveon.org would save their money and stop blaming judge roberts for what is clearly the fault of the swift boat vets.. where are there damn boats now????
Michael Moore will pass over the corruption that has gone in New Orleans for decades, the lack of plans for disaster, the mayor and the city officals dropping the ball, the governor and the state dropping the ball!
It will be all about Bush! The guy is totally a nut job…..
I recall that many hundreds of bodies and parts of bodies were forced to lay in the middle of a downtown block in the heart of Manhattan for months on end.
If Dan Barry finds this unacceptable, then he can put down his pen, pull on a hazmat suit, commandeer a vehicle and go get that body.
No? Then he needs to get the hell off the backs of the tens of thousands of grownups that are trying to arrange food, water, medicine, shelter, power, communications, etc., etc., mail, social security checks, etc., etc., etc., fuel, public order, reunions with family, etc. etc. et-frickin’-cetera for the million plus people affected by this storm that are spread over 90,000 square miles of the southern United States.
Yes, this sucks, Dave. Tell us something we don’t know.
No, it’s not acceptable. The New York Times saw fit to print that such atrocities are acceptable, but that’s their editorial position. It is not my position. However, the care of survivors takes priority over the burial of the dead, and there are a lot of survivors scattered all over the country. What is remarkable are the great numbers of people donating and working to help the survivors back on their feet.
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September 8th, 2005 at 8:26:39 am
Don’t worry–Michael Moore is going to make a movie about Katrina. All will be better soon.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9246111/
September 8th, 2005 at 9:16:25 am
It’s all Judge Roberts fault
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-09-07-roberts-civil-rights_x.htm
Amazing, isn’t it
September 8th, 2005 at 9:28:54 am
Don’t worry. According to Barbara Bush, most of these people are underpriviledged so it’s all working out for them…living in a shelter and all.
September 8th, 2005 at 9:30:49 am
No…it is all the fault of gays and lesbians!!
September 8th, 2005 at 9:34:51 am
youd think moveon.org would save their money and stop blaming judge roberts for what is clearly the fault of the swift boat vets.. where are there damn boats now????
September 8th, 2005 at 9:46:57 am
BLAME CANADA!!!
September 8th, 2005 at 1:04:54 pm
Brendan-
Actually the Canadians got to New Orleans before the U.S. did.
http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20050908104058142
Another embarrassing chapter in this fiasco.
September 8th, 2005 at 3:34:41 pm
Michael Moore will pass over the corruption that has gone in New Orleans for decades, the lack of plans for disaster, the mayor and the city officals dropping the ball, the governor and the state dropping the ball!
It will be all about Bush! The guy is totally a nut job…..
September 8th, 2005 at 3:47:11 pm
Angrier and Angrier and others who want to play that tired old blame game…and blame Bush……you’re opening a can of something you want no part of……..
Some good articles to read- ENJOY!
http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110007219
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/7/134914.shtml
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/9/7/90925.shtml
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20050908.shtml
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/7/235423.shtml
September 8th, 2005 at 5:23:46 pm
One more time:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/forms/printThis.html?id=110007219
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/7/134914.shtml
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/9/7/90925.shtml
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20050908.shtml
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/7/235423.shtml
September 8th, 2005 at 5:44:14 pm
I recall that many hundreds of bodies and parts of bodies were forced to lay in the middle of a downtown block in the heart of Manhattan for months on end.
If Dan Barry finds this unacceptable, then he can put down his pen, pull on a hazmat suit, commandeer a vehicle and go get that body.
No? Then he needs to get the hell off the backs of the tens of thousands of grownups that are trying to arrange food, water, medicine, shelter, power, communications, etc., etc., mail, social security checks, etc., etc., etc., fuel, public order, reunions with family, etc. etc. et-frickin’-cetera for the million plus people affected by this storm that are spread over 90,000 square miles of the southern United States.
Yes, this sucks, Dave. Tell us something we don’t know.
September 9th, 2005 at 12:17:38 am
No, it’s not acceptable. The New York Times saw fit to print that such atrocities are acceptable, but that’s their editorial position. It is not my position. However, the care of survivors takes priority over the burial of the dead, and there are a lot of survivors scattered all over the country. What is remarkable are the great numbers of people donating and working to help the survivors back on their feet.