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Rather weeps over “climate of fear”

Posted by Richard on September 20, 2005

With his lip quivering and fighting back tears, Dan Rather told a Fordham University audience Monday about the horror of being a news reporter in George W. Bush’s Amerikka (emphasis added):

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather said Monday that there is a climate of fear running through newsrooms stronger than he has ever seen in his more than four-decade career.

Rather famously tangled with President Nixon and his aides during the Watergate years while Rather was a hard-charging White House correspondent.

Addressing the Fordham University School of Law in Manhattan, occasionally forcing back tears, he said that in the intervening years, politicians "of every persuasion" had gotten better at applying pressure on the conglomerates that own the broadcast networks. He called it a "new journalism order."

He said this pressure — along with the "dumbed-down, tarted-up" coverage, the advent of 24-hour cable competition and the chase for ratings and demographics — has taken its toll on the news business. "All of this creates a bigger atmosphere of fear in newsrooms," Rather said.

It’s funny how different people cry about different things. I get weepy over this and this and this. Dan Rather gets blubbery when he thinks about how he and his pals have lost their monopoly on the news and can no longer cite anonymous sources, tout forged documents, and control our access to information with impunity.

Later that evening, Rather attended the News and Documentary Emmy Awards show, where he and his fellow MSM stars congratulated each other for being so superior to the rabble on cable, gave each other awards, and eulogized Peter Jennings. Oh, and they all still insist that the National Guard fake memo story was accurate:

   “It was Peter Jennings’ legacy to cover foreign news as aggressively as possible, and he forced us and his competition to do that for years,” said “World News” executive producer Jonathan Banner.

   While Jennings, who died last month from lung cancer, received sentimental attention, Rather’s tributes were more pointed.

   He spent the earlier part of the night excoriating newsrooms across the country for what he termed a climate of fear during an appearance at Fordham University Law School. He complained that politicians are applying pressure to the big companies that own the broadcasters, resulting in softer reporting. He also ridiculed cable news. 

   Rather was forced out from the CBS anchor chair after last year’s botched “60 Minutes II” report on President Bush’s National Guard service. He has insisted that the report was right, and last night several of those who paid tribute to him agreed.

   “Nightline’s” Ted Koppel praised Rather and gave a slap at CBS for not standing behind him. Harvard’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy senior fellow Marvin Kalb said he thinks the Bush story was correct.

Dinosaurs. Clueless about the warm, furry mammals taking over their niche in the ecosystem.

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It’s not the size of the gift…

Posted by Richard on September 20, 2005

I almost missed this story. Thanks to Kevin at The Smallest Minority for posting it. If this doesn’t bring a tear to your eye, you’re pretty cold:

TAJI, Iraq, Sept. 9, 2005 — Iraqi soldiers serving at Taji military base collected 1,000,000 Iraqi dinars for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Iraqi Col. Abbas Fadhil, Iraqi base commander, presented the money to U.S. Col. Paul D. Linkenhoker, Taji Coalition base commander, at a Sept. 5 staff meeting.

“We are all brothers,” said Abbas. “When one suffers tragedy, we all suffer their pain.”

The amount of money is small in American dollars – roughly $680 – but it represents a huge act of compassion from Iraqi soldiers to their American counterparts, said U.S. Army Maj. Michael Goyne.

“I was overwhelmed by the amount of their generosity,” Goyne said. “I was proud and happy to know Col. Abbas, his officers, NCOs and fellow soldiers. That amount represents a month’s salary for most of those soldiers.”

And this one touched me in the same way:

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and Foreign Minister Anura Bandaranaike, who are presently in China on a state visit, have conveyed messages of sympathy to the government and the people of the USA, following the devastation caused by hurricane Katrina, in states of Mississippi and Louisiana.

On behalf of the people of Sri Lanka, the Sri Lanka Government is making a token contribution of US$ 25,000 through the American Red Cross, towards providing relief to those affected.

Expressing her sadness at the extent of the death and destruction, President Kumaratunga said “having experienced the fury of nature ourselves during the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004, the people of Sri Lanka and I fully comprehend the grief and the sense of loss experienced by the victims of the hurricane.”

Recalling the spontaneous US response in the wake of the tsunami that helped to mitigate the effects in the immediate aftermath of the disaster and in the recovery process, the President further extended profound sympathies and condolences on behalf of Sri Lanka to the families, who have lost their loved ones and expressed solidarity with the victims.

Sometimes the small gestures are the most meaningful because of who makes them.

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Carnival of Liberty #12, Watcher’s Council’s latest

Posted by Richard on September 20, 2005

For your reading pleasure this week, check out the latest Carnival of Liberty and  the posts that the Watcher’s Council voted as the most link-worthy pieces of writing around. Here is the most recent winning council post. The most recent winning non-council post is by Bill Whittle, and I’ve been meaning to recommend it strongly; like everything Bill writes, it’s a must-read.

For more Watcher’s Council favorites, check out the list of results for the latest vote. Or take a look at the initial posting of all the nominees that were voted on.

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Are Dems smarter than they seem?

Posted by Richard on September 20, 2005

Steve at ThoughtsOnline had a novel theory — maybe the best theory ever — to explain Democratic behavior. He’d noticed Ace’s prediction of how Bush would address the Katrina recovery:

…  Bush will do what he always does when he feels political heat. Spend, baby. Spend like the wind.

Anyway. That’s Bush. Everytime he gets caught politically flat-footed, he opens up our collective wallet to buy himself out of trouble.

So, Steve thought about this and had a truly awesome idea (emphasis added):

…which got me thinking. What if the Democrats aren’t attacking Bush because they dislike him, or because they’re really opposed to regime change in Iraq, or because they equate him with Hitler, or because they really oppose the FBI looking into library records, or because they are really dissatisfied with the federal response to Katrina, but because they know that his Pavlovian, knee-jerk response to criticism is to throw money at anything and everything around him?

In fact, Steve suggests that maybe the Dems nominated losers the last two elections because they didn’t want to win:

Think about it for a second. Bush, a REPUBLICAN, has presided over one of the largest, if not the largest, expansions in federal spending of any President in recent memory. Federal expenditures are far higher than the Democrats ever could have dreamed of with Gore or Kerry in the White House. There’s so much money flowing out of Washington that the Democrats would have to be crazy to want anyone else in the White House. Were there a Democrat President, then the GOP majority in Congress would be up to its usual obstructionist self, and there would be a whole lot less money getting spent. But with Bush in the White House, the last thing the GOP will do is try to stand in the way of a damaged President trying to redeem himself.

OK, I realize this is pretty far-fetched. The Dems would have to be pulling off some gigantic conspiracy orchestrated by someone who makes Karl Rove look like a half-wit. But ask yourself this: How would our current domestic political situation be different if Steve’s theory were true? Doesn’t it explain just everything??

I hereby declare it false but accurate.

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Kidnapped, beaten, and drugged

Posted by Richard on September 20, 2005

A suicide bomber captured in Baghdad claimed he was kidnapped, beaten, drugged, and forced to undertake his mission to blow up a Shiite mosque. He fled the mosque without blowing himself up and was quickly captured:

Mohammed Ali, who claimed to be Saudi-born and appeared to be in his 20s, said he managed to flee after another suicide attacker set off his bomb, killing at least 12 worshippers Friday as they left a mosque in the northern city of Tuz Khormato.

In confession broadcast on state television later that day, Ali told Iraqi interrogators he did not want to bomb the mosque and hoped to go home.

Results from medical tests on Ali were "consistent with his story and characterization of his treatment," Col. Billy J. Buckner, a U.S. military spokesman said Sunday.

Ali said insurgents kidnapped him from a field near his home earlier this month, then drugged and beat him.

Hat tip to McQ at QandO, who noted wryly:

Seems to me when you have to kidnap your recruits for homicide bombing out of the fields of another country, and drug and beat him to do your bidding that perhaps things are getting a touch desperate.

Yep. Although this sort of thing has been going on for some time. Back on June 20, I posted about Colorado’s Col. Jim West, who told the story of one suicide car bomber who seemed less than enthusiastic (emphasis added):

"He was trying to drive into a busy checkpoint and the Marine guards wounded him and disabled his car before he could reach the intersection and activate the bomb," West wrote. "When they opened the door to remove him, they found him chained to the seat with his hands taped to the steering wheel. He had an activation switch on his body that he could use but they also found a remote-control activation device under the front seat. It was hidden in the floor of the car so he probably didn’t know it was there… He was going to die whether he wanted to or not."

A guard activated a radio-jamming device immediately so the bomb couldn’t be detonated, West wrote.

The driver was "yelling and very agitated and had a glazed look," West said in a telephone interview. It turned out he also was heavily drugged, West said.

A few days later, commenting on an AP story about suicide bombers, I recounted this incident, correcting AP:

The AP story does add breadth and detail to the story of foreign suicide bombers. Of course, some of the details aren’t presented as accurately as one might wish:

There have been a few exceptions.

On election day Jan. 30, a mentally handicapped Iraqi boy, wearing a suicide vest, attacked a polling station.

The poor kid didn’t "attack" a polling station. The jihadists strapped explosives on him and made him start walking toward the polling station. The kid didn’t know what was happening, but he became confused or scared and turned around. Started walking back where he came from.

They remotely detonated him.

Attacked a polling station, my ass.

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Aarrr!

Posted by Richard on September 19, 2005

Avast! Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! This unusual holiday is the brain-child of John "Ol’ Chumbucket" Bauer and Mark "Cap’n Slappy" Summers, who are just a bit weird. It’s been tirelessly promoted by famed Libertarian humorist Dave Barry and Republican blogger and talk-show host Hugh Hewitt.

Go ahead, check it out and talk like a pirate yourself. I bet you could use some more silliness in your life.

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Join Porkbusters!

Posted by Richard on September 19, 2005

Porkbusters logo Glenn Reynolds and N.Z. Bear have a plan to "mobilize the blogosphere in support of cuts in wasteful spending to support Katrina relief." I’ts called Porkbusters, and here’s how it works: Bloggers everywhere identify pork in their states or districts, post about it, and add it to the Porkbusters list. Then, everyone — bloggers and readers — calls or writes their senators and representative asking them to cut those specific expenditures to fund Katrina relief. Letters to the editor calling for those cuts would also be a good idea.

So, here are a few Colorado projects I’d put high on my list of pork to cut. They’re all "earmarks" or other additions made by a senator or congressman that weren’t requested or recommended by the relevant agency:

  • The 2005 highway bill gives the Denver Regional Transportation District (RTD) $3 million for a bus maintenance facility, $4 million for bus replacement, another $1.67 million for bus replacement, $2 million for Union Station "Multimodal Renovations," and another $4.6 million for a "Union Station Inter-modal Center." No, I can’t explain the distinction between multimodal and inter-modal. Let’s just tell RTD they need to fund this stuff from their farebox and tax revenues.
     
  • The highway bill allocates smaller amounts for buses and bus facilities to Aspen ($585,200), Snowmass Village ($250,800), and the Roaring Fork Transit Authority ($627,000). Folks, all three are in the Aspen area, the most expensive and exclusive ski resort in North America. The local joke is that the billionaires are driving out the millionaires. I think those billionaires and millionaires should build and maintain the bus system that brings their hired help to work, don’t you?
     
  • The highway bill also has lots and lots of highway "earmarks" (pork). Let’s just pick a few egregious ones: $4 million for a Wadsworth Bypass (SH 121) railroad grade separation, $1.6 million for the SH 121 – Bowles Ave. intersection, $3.2 million for SH 83 – SH 88 interchange reconstruction, and $3.2 million to improve and widen SH 44 from Colorado Blvd. to SH 2. I picked these out because "SH" means "State Highway." For the moment, let’s not even mention all the pork projects involving US highways and interstates. Can we at least draw the line here, and declare that a State Highway is the state’s responsibility?
     
  • Enough highway bill pork. The Defense appropriations bill includes $6.5 million in "Operation and Maintenance" funding for "OEA – UCHS – DCH Fitzsimmons (sic) Medical Center." This is money not requested by the Defense Dept., so I’ll bet the "Operation and Maintenance" classification is a joke.
     
  • The Energy appropriations bill includes $1 million for something described as "Council of Renewable Energy Resources Tribes (CERT) [Intergovernmental Activities]" — whatever a renewable energy resource tribe is, I don’t think I want to fund its intergovernmental activities. Sounds like meetings and conferences.
     
  • Labor and HHS appropriations bill includes $2.5 million to Colorado Springs Junior Achievement to fund an "Enterprise Village." Mind you, I like JA’s goal of teaching young people about business and entrepreneurship. But should one of their lessons be "go to the government with your hand out whenever you need something"?

OK, that’s a half-dozen recommendations (some involving multiple line items) — I’d better quit there. If you’re a Colorado resident, write or call Sens. Allard and Salazar and your congresscritter and ask them to all agree, on a bi-partisan basis, to forgo these specific spending items (and other "earmarks") in order to fund Katrina relief. You can get contact information for your representatives by going to this page and entering your ZIP code under Elected Officials. Write a letter to your local newspaper about this, too, encouraging others to join your effort.

If you’re from some other state, you can find state-by-state lists of transportation pork at this page and search CAGW’s "Pig Book" by state at this page.

If you’re from some other country, wish us luck and don’t gloat. I bet you have the same problem.

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Sheehan: “occupied New Orleans”

Posted by Richard on September 16, 2005

Cindy Sheehan, the moonbat mom who’s disgraced the memory of her late Marine son, has a new screed at The Huffington Post. It’s kind of hard to follow because it careens all over the place. For instance, here’s part of one paragraph (emphasis added):

… I was prepared to be shocked by what I saw in Louisiana, but I guess one can never really fully prepare for such devastation and tragedy. After living in a country your entire life it is so difficult to see such callous indifference on an immense scale. When I reflect on how the mother of the imbecile who is running our country said that the people who are in the Astrodome are happy to be there, it angers me beyond comparison. The people in LA who were displaced have nice, if modest homes that are perfectly fine. I wonder why the government made them leave at great expense and uproot families who have been living in their communities for generations.

See what I mean? One instant, there’s all this devastation, and the next, all the displaced people’s homes are fine and she wonders why they were forced to leave. Can you say "fruitcake"?

But here’s the money quote (emphasis added):

… George Bush needs to stop talking, admit the mistakes of his all around failed administration, pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans and Iraq, and excuse his self from power. The only way America will become more secure is if we have a new administration that cares about Americans even if they don’t fall into the top two percent of the wealthiest.

Occupied New Orleans. Occupied New Orleans.

OK, there’s a glimpse of how the left might have reacted if Bush had acted quickly, pushed aside the dithering Governor Blanco, and rushed in the 82nd Airborne. They would have screamed about an "army of occupation." Some would have compared the snipers shooting at relief personnel to "minutemen" and "freedom fighters." The Astrodome and other evacuation centers would have been described as "internment camps."

You see, to the left, it doesn’t really matter whether Bush sends in troops or doesn’t send in troops, whether the feds are slow or fast, whether people are evacuated or allowed to remain. Bush — and Rumsfeld, and Cheney, and Halliburton, … — they’re all eeeevilll. So whatever they do must have a malicious intent and must be opposed and denounced.

Occupied New Orleans. The mind of today’s left.

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Ongoing criminal enterprise

Posted by Richard on September 16, 2005

Someone emailed this to me. I don’t know the source and can’t vouch for the reliability of the statistics, but it’s too good not to share:

Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees and has the following statistics:

29 have been accused of spousal abuse

7 have been arrested for fraud

19 have been accused of writing bad checks

117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses

3 have done time for assault

71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit

14 have been arrested on drug-related charges

8 have been arrested for shoplifting

21 are currently defendants in lawsuits

84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Can you guess which organization this is?

Give up yet?

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It’s the 535 members of the United States Congress.

The same group of Idiots that crank out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us in line.

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Alvaro’s photos are back!

Posted by Richard on September 16, 2005

Last Friday, I raved about Alvaro Morales’ photo essay, "Five Days with Katrina." Unfortunately, it quickly became unavailable. Today, Alvaro’s sister Silvia notified me that the stunning Katrina essay is on line again. In fact, it’s been joined by several other collections of Alvaro’s wonderful photography at the new site, Alvaro’s Gallery. I’m looking forward to viewing those also.

If you haven’t seen "Five Days with Katrina," you must not have read what I wrote Friday:

The essay contains 197 photos, and Alvaro has a marvelous eye for photography. Many are stunningly beautiful, yet also disturbing. If you go to look, allow enough time to go through them all (at least 30-45 minutes). Don’t just skip around; there’s a story being told, and you really should read and see the whole story.

I can’t recommend
Alvaro’s photo essay highly enough. Great big thanks to Left Brain Female for recommending it.

And great big thanks to Alvaro for making it available again, and to Silvia for letting me know!

So, now will you go look already?  

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Congressman puts National Guard to personal use

Posted by Richard on September 14, 2005

According to an exclusive story on the ABC News website, on Friday, Sept. 2, Rep. William Jefferson of New Orleans asked the National Guard to take him on a tour of his flood-ravaged district. He was assigned six soldiers and a 5-ton truck. During the tour of his district, Jefferson asked the truck to swing by his own home in an affluent uptown neighborhood, and that’s when things got interesting (emphasis added):

The water reached to the third step of Jefferson’s house, a military source familiar with the incident told ABC News, and the vehicle pulled up onto Jefferson’s front lawn so he wouldn’t have to walk in the water. Jefferson went into the house alone, the source says, while the soldiers waited on the porch for about an hour.

Finally, according to the source, Jefferson emerged with a laptop computer, three suitcases, and a box about the size of a small refrigerator, which the enlisted men loaded up into the truck.

Unfortunately, the truck became stuck in Jefferson’s yard:

The soldiers signaled to helicopters in the air for aid. Military sources say a Coast Guard helicopter pilot saw the signal and flew to Jefferson’s home. The chopper was already carrying four rescued New Orleans residents at the time.

A rescue diver descended from the helicopter, but the congressman decided against going up in the helicopter, sources say. The pilot sent the diver down again, but Jefferson again declined to go up the helicopter.

After spending approximately 45 minutes with Jefferson, the helicopter went on to rescue three additional New Orleans residents before it ran low on fuel and was forced to end its mission.

The Louisiana National Guard then sent a second 5-ton truck to Rep. Jefferson’s affluent uptown neighborhood home, and it returned the congressman, his laptop computer, three suitcases, and a box about the size of a small refrigerator to the Superdome. The story doesn’t tell us what happened to Jefferson and his retrieved belongings after that.

It does continue, however (emphasis added):

In an unrelated matter, authorities recently searched Jefferson’s property as part of a federal investigation into the finances of a high-tech firm. Last month FBI officials raided Jefferson’s house as well as his home in Washington, D.C., his car and his accountant’s house.

Last week, Jefferson set up a special trust fund for contributions to his legal defense in light of the FBI investigation. A senior federal law enforcement source tells ABC News that investigators are interested in learning if Jefferson moved any materials relevant to the investigation. Jefferson says he did not.

Unrelated matter???

Item A: Rep. Jefferson retrieved a laptop computer, three suitcases, and a box about the size of a small refrigerator from his house and declined two offers of a helicopter ride, apparently in order to remain with his retrieved belongings.

Item B: The FBI raided Jefferson’s two homes, his accountant’s home, and the Maryland residence of Nigeria’s Vice President as part of a bribery and corruption investigation, and law enforcement officials speculated about whether Jefferson removed materials relevant to their investigation.

Yet ABC News assures us that these two items can’t possibly be related and doesn’t air the story at all. No one else in the mainstream media pays any attention.

By the way, William Jefferson is a black Democrat. I mention this for only one reason: Try to imagine how the news media would have handled a story about a white Republican, under suspicion of corruption, who diverted several National Guard soldiers, two trucks, and a helicopter from their relief and rescue work in order to retrieve his personal belongings, some of which may be relevant to the corruption investigation. Picture the headlines, the clamoring reporters chasing after his car, the expressions of outrage from Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Dick Durbin, Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson, Joe Biden, Al Gore, Kanye West, …

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Why AmeriCorps?

Posted by Richard on September 14, 2005

On the news this morning, I heard that additional AmeriCorps workers from Denver are leaving today to help with Katrina relief. According to the news story, they’ll be doing everything from distributiing supplies to staffing call centers. I have two questions about this story.

First, in the fifth year of a Republican administration with unemployment at 5%, why the heck does this kind of WPA-style socialist anachronism still exist?

Second, why aren’t workers to distribute supplies and work in call centers being recruited from among the Katrina refugees? Hundreds of thousands of people have no jobs at the moment. I’m sure a significant number would jump at the chance to work at even minimum wage instead of sitting helpless in a shelter. Why bring in and house people from Denver?

And by the way — yes, they are refugees, despite the criticism of the term by demagogues looking for an excuse to take offense. The people who flee from hurricanes have been called refugees since forever (some blogger actually hunted down news stories about refugees for every major hurricane in the last 40 years, but I don’t recall who). That’s because it’s the appropriate word. A refugee is someone who’s seeking refuge. Not a foreigner seeking refuge, or a black person seeking refuge, or a "second-class citizen" — just someone seeking refuge. Got that?

I won’t discard half the words in the dictionary just because some people willfully misunderstand them.

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Bloggy goodness

Posted by Richard on September 13, 2005

Looking for lots of good reading on a wide array of topics? Target Centermass and the Watcher of Weasels can point you to more bloggy goodness than you can click a mouse at. Target Centermass is hosting Carnival of Liberty #11, and it’s just chock-full of interesting and provocative posts.

When you’re all done there, check out the posts that the Watcher’s Council voted as the most link-worthy pieces of writing around. Here is the most recent winning council post, and here is the most recent winning non-council post. Or check out the list of results for the latest vote and the initial posting of all the nominees that were voted on.

So go read up a storm, comment on what you read, and tell them I sent you. 😉

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Katrina: what went right

Posted by Richard on September 12, 2005

After Mike Brown resigned (good riddance), I started to write a recap of what went wrong. There are certainly plenty of legitimate criticisms to be made of everyone involved — federal, state, and local officials, and even individual facility managers. How in the world can someone fail to evacuate all the patients in their hospital or all the residents in their nursing home?

But I’ve scrapped that post. A hundred other people have written it already, and a hundred more will do so soon. They all have their own take on who’s most to blame for what went wrong (I vote for the state officials, FWIW) and how to "fix" the process (no, please don’t federalize it even further!).

I scrapped that post because I decided that — although there are certainly things that could have been done better — all in all, the response really wasn’t that bad. In under two days, over 80% of the population of New Orleans — 400,000+ people — safely evacuated inland, as did I-don’t-know-how-many hundreds of thousands of others in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. I don’t know if there has ever been such a rapid and complete evacuation of a major American city.

Of the 100,000 who remained in New Orleans, virtually all survived. The death toll, once breathlessly predicted to top 10,000, now looks to be a few hundred. The people who gathered at the Superdome may have been terribly uncomfortable for three days (more uncomfortable than they needed to be, according to the Red Cross), but virtually all of them survived.

Don’t forget that this was an intense, cataclysmic storm, worse than anything to hit that part of the country in recorded history. And it caused the complete inundation of a major city — a city that’s largely below sea level.

No other country in the world could have responded to a similarly intense weather event even remotely as well. I’m not talking about third-world countries. I’m pretty certain that if Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Japan, or Korea had faced a comparable catastrophe, there would have been tens of thousands of deaths. And the survivors would have been waiting for the U.S. military to help out.

Sure, let’s talk about what went right and what went wrong, and let’s try to learn how to do it even better next time. But let’s stop the carping and finger-pointing long enough to salute:

  • The people of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama — both those who evacuated and those who helped the evacuees. 
     
  • The first responders who remained on the job and did their duty under the most adverse conditions.
     
  • The troops who restored order, brought in supply convoys, and by their can-do attitude and organizational efficiency once again demonstrated that the United States military is a remarkably effective institution.
     
  • The Coast Guard chopper crews who plucked thousands from rooftops, day and night, day after day. Simply amazing.
     
  • The corporations and individuals who’ve helped raise three-quarters of a billion dollars and who-knows-how-much more in in-kind contributions.
     
  • The people of Texas — and especially Houston — who’ve shown a remarkable willingness to step forward and help their neighbors, doing far more than their share in this regard.

All these people deserve a great big pat on the back and our gratitude.

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Never forget

Posted by Richard on September 12, 2005

Never forget that there is a large, powerful, well-financed international movement dedicated to destroying Western Civilization.

 

(Image is from DailyPundit. Don’t know where he got it.)

Never forget.

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