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We had a 2nd home in Crystal Beach that is now gone and your comments about “whites there living and enjoying the good life” in Bolivar because no blacks were there looking for a new ghetto is probably the most IGNORANT yet hilaroius statement I’ve heard this week. Yep, there were whites there driving up and down the beach acting like fools, flying there confederate flags, and blasting rap music. How GHETTO and utterly ridiculous is that?? We are African-Americans who are doing extremely better than most of the whites we met during our many weekends in Bolivar so your comments are sad to say the least. Don’t believe everything the media shows you about non-white people. Not all blacks, or Mexicans, or even low income whites are as you describe them to be. Your comments are just another very sad portrayl of the vast amount of racism and bigotry that consumes the minds of obviously undereducated individuals such as yourself. I’ll keep you in my prayers.

I’m certain that if Rick and Anita Perry were actually living on an inflatable mattress in a gymnasium alongside 200 additional refugees with limited bathing facilities and no hot meals, they would be eager to return home. Being separated from friends, jobs for income and schools for their children is an extreme hardship. But can Perry seriously compare this experience to his own temporary living arrangements in a 4,602-square-foot house with a swimming pool and nearby PGA golf course that is costing Texas taxpayers $9,900 a month?

While refugees escaped the devastating hurricane with few belongings, Governor Perry left the mansion for renovation purposes and had the luxury of moving and storing belongings to safety, which thankfully prevented much of our Texas history from being damaged during the later mansion fire. The more than 45,000 Galveston residents who evacuated are uncertain what destruction they will return to find in their own neighborhoods. Governor Perry should be more thoughtful before comparing his mansion renovation to the trauma suffered by the thousands of refugees who have lost homes, pets and memories.

They did not want news choppers flying over Bolivar peninsula until the Coast Guard was sure the rescues were complete. Houston has about 10 of those news choppers and I have seen then swarm over a news story. They didn’t need them in the way of all the CG and military choppers. The peninsula is going any where, it will look just the same in a month and they can get their pictures.

I lived on Bolivar for yrs and it wasn’t a RICH white peoples enclave, it was white folks living and enjoying the good life because there wasn’t a large Government social network that attracts Blacks looking for a new ghetto. No public housing to foster gangs or thugs. You could leave your door unlocked, walk at night, expect your neighbors to help you with out being ask, no break in your house to rob, rape and murder.

DOLCEFINO: They don’t control that area.

PERRY: Last time, the state of Texas doesn’t even.

DOLCEFINO: So it’s the federal government?

PERRY: I don’t know. You are delving into issues — I don’t control federal airspace.”

Gov. Perry fails to mention that he, as Texas governor, lost control of Texas, and became governor in name only, as soon as George W. Bush declared an emergency upon Hurricane Ike’s approach. Local officials don’t have any say. State officials don’t have any say. Basically, DHS head Chertoff’s in charge.

You see, after the former Democratic governor of Louisiana, Gov. Blanco, repeated refusal during Hurricane Katrina to surrender control over her state’s national guard units, and state security, to BushCo, about a year later BushCo got their lapdog Republican pals in Congress to pass a law stripping all of our nation’s governors of their authority in case there was a declaration of a state of emergency by BushCo (or whomever may be in the White House next).

All fifty state governors, both Democrats and Republicans (including Rick Perry), vigorously protested this usurption of their authority as governor of their state, but to no avail.

So, I can understand Perry’s seemingly obtuse answers. He knows that he is just a figurehead and has no real authority over Texas anymore, now that BushCo has declared a state of emergency in Texas following Hurricane Ike. Just as Jindal of Louisiana lost all of his authority over Louisiana during Gustav. Just as the Midwest governors lost all authority over their states during the recent flooding.

On a side note, the Texas Governor’s Mansion got firebombed recently. A skeleton security crew was assigned to guard it while it was undergoing renovations. One security guard was on duty when the arson happened. Multiple security monitors were down. Someone got close enough to throw something flammable against the front door.

Gov. Rick Perry, during renovations, had moved out to the lake, into another mansion, paying $10,000 a month in rent. He took a DPS security detail with him out to the multi-million dollar lake house, to guard him and it. (No one has yet reported on the size of this DPS security detail, especially in relation to the skeleton crew left to guard the governor’s mansion.)

Plus, last Fall, the Governor’s Mansion security office recommended that during renovations there should be one supervisor and four DPS security personnel on duty, guarding the governor’s mansion, at all times.

The security office was overruled. No one has yet said who did this. It had to have been someone high up in Gov. Rick Perry’s chain of command. Odds are, with Gov. Perry being the one moving, he would have been consulted…making it highly likely that he was the one who overruled the Governor’s Mansion security office, saying that why have that many security personnel on guard at the governor’s mansion since he was going to be out at the lake.

Poor guy. Having his authority stripped from him during Hurricane Ike (and who knows for how long) while committing a knuckle-headed “security lapse” that resulted in the governor’s mansion being torched…with the second part, the “security lapse,” strangely reminding me of the “security lapse” committed by the Bush administration before the 9/11 attacks.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/091608dnbusrefineries.18bb9c2.html

http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=47d67de20539ea2c

From another report:

Entire subdivisions obliterated. Oil and chemical slicks in the surf where vacationers once frolicked. Longhorn cattle roaming desolate streets. But, most stunning of all, no more deaths.

Officials warned people to stay off the beaches and out of the water after spotting what appeared to be floating oil or chemical slicks offshore.

They had no flood insurance because their home on the outskirts of Bridge City supposedly wasn’t in a flood zone. Although the water had receded, the floors, walls and furniture were coated with a foul mixture of mud and refinery oil.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/us/16galveston.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

I recall a refinery in Jefferson Parrish spilling lots of crude oil after Katrina. Murphy Oil spilled 1,000,000 gallons of oil.

http://www.allbusiness.com/legal/litigation/993450-1.html

Texas City (in Galveston County) has lots of refineries. I used to play soccer in a public park at the foot of those facilities.

Not far is the Texas City dike. If Ike did the same thing as Katrina, there could be lots of oil spread around the Galveston Bay. That the island has a toxic mix means the receding surge could have oil products mixed in.