drydem Why not? VomitAn Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State Robert Tracinski It has taken four long days for state and federal officials to figure out how to... Better than that ol' "racism!" tune they keep peddling. jesse jackbutt and al sharpie are african american con-men, pure and simple. EXCERPTS Jesse Jackson...said the squalor in New Orleans "looks like the hull of a slave ship." ... That looters ran unchecked after the hurricane isn't surprising when you consider that criminals have had the run of the city for years. ... New Orleans, with fewer than 500,000 people, had almost half the liquidates of New York, which had 570 homicides last year in a city of more than 8 million. Put another way, if New York had New Orleans' liquidate rate, we would have more than 4,200 liquidates a year. ... Then there's Mayor Ray Nagin, a Democrat, who has blamed everybody but himself. Maybe he has forgotten his plans for dealing with Katrina. Last July, his office prepared DVDs warning that, if the city ever had to be evacuated, residents were on their own. According toa July 24 article in The Times-Picayune (spotted by the Web's Drudge Report), "Mayor Ray Nagin, local Red Cross Executive Director Kay Wilkins and City Council President Oliver Thomas drive home the word that the city does not have the resources to move out of harm's way an estimated 134,000 people without transportation."
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