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Do the Math

After reading this entry from the day of the hurricane, on the Times-Picayune web page.

Confirmed: FEMA BANS HOUSE SEARCHES

ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER – the only reason Edgar Hollingsworth was rescued yesterday, hours from a certain death, is because someone saw his foot through a window. Make no doubt about it whatsoever, FEMA’s knock-only policy is killing Americans right now, this minute, who are still alive in the 50% of New Orleans that is still […]

Chertoff Delayed Federal Response

Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau:

But Chertoff – not Brown – was in charge of managing the national response to a catastrophic disaster, according to the National Response Plan, the federal government’s blueprint for how agencies will handle major natural disasters or terrorist incidents. An order issued by President Bush in 2003 also assigned that responsibility to […]

GOP Senators Block Katrina Commission

Party-line vote, 54 to 44. Jeffords voted with the Democrats to form the 9-11 style commission.

160 Dead In Over 12 Iraq Explosions

AP Oh, and by the way “Zarqawi” declares all-out civil war.

Blanco Steps In to Solve Crisis

Times-Picayune:

Kenyon, which worked at the World Trade Center site in 2001 and retrieved bodies of Australian citizens in Thailand after last year’s tsunami, arrived here nine days after Katrina under a short-term agreement with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to support the state’s Department of Health and Hospitals direct the recovery of corpses.

Under […]

A Recipe for Death

FEMA did not order buses until two days after the hurricane hit.

Scandal in Body Recovery in New Orleans

Bush’s friends at Kenyon International want to quit and are not sending enough people in there to remove the bodies.

UPDATE: THERE IS STILL NO CONTRACT TO REMOVE THE BODIES with Kenyon. It appears to me that FEMA is trying to stick Blanco with the job, which contradicts FEMA’s National Response plan. In other words, […]

Great Racial Divide?

CNN Poll info:

But according to the poll broken down by race, blacks were more likely to blame Bush for problems in New Orleans, with 37 percent holding him most to blame for the fact that many residents were trapped inside the city after it flooded.

Twenty percent of blacks primarily blamed New Orleans Mayor […]

Survivors Speak: Trapped in New Orleans

These people must be heard. Each of these segments is great; I believe the first one may be the most informative of all.

Convention Center Survivor Denise Moore.

EMS Technicians-(the same people whose story was posted in “The Heroes of New Orleans” below)

Smeared by Bill O’Reilly, an 18-year-old survivor speaks for herself.

Listening to […]