Neal Boortz: If New Orleans is rebuilt, the ‘debris that Katrina chased out’ will return.
Neal Boortz: If New Orleans is rebuilt, the ‘debris that Katrina chased out’ will return.
As the fourth anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster approaches, hate-radio talk show host Neal Boortz mocked President Obama’s pledge to rebuild New Orleans, calling the victims human “debris.” This weekend, President Barack Obama told the New Orleans Times-Picayune that he “remains focused on rebuilding New Orleans and the Gulf Coast,” and anything less “would be a betrayal of who we are as a country.” Boortz responded on Twitter by attacking the “debris that Katrina chased out”:
Boortz has also called the overwhelmingly black, poor victims of the Katrina disaster in New Orleans “human parasites” and “deadbeats,” even suggesting that a victim of Hurricane Katrina consider prostitution instead of “sucking off taxpayers.” Although Katrina’s devastation cost this nation $80 billion, killed thousands, and displaced a million people, Boortz believes “Katrina cleansed New Orleans.”
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From a republican point of view Katrina did cleanse New Orleans. Fewer poor black people voting. Now if they could just do that for the rest of the country.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:42 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
I thought they were still enjoying their upgrade to the Astrodome, per Babs Bush. You mean that luxury gig is over and they have to go back to NOLA?
/snark off.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:44 pmWhy do they keep rebuilding on Florida beaches?
August 26th, 2009 at 4:45 pmIf there were only some justice in this world, Neal Boortz should get what he deserves. Here’s hoping he gets it.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:45 pmYour modern right wing, folks. There it is.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:46 pmNew Orleans was built in 1718. It’s the fifth largest port in the world. The answer is to fix the levees so it won’t flood, not to blame the geography for ones racism and misanthropy.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:46 pmGood point. Let’s bring that up the Dutch, too. Those irresponsible bastards built a whole country below sea level.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:47 pmElBruce, GMTA
August 26th, 2009 at 4:47 pmBoortz has also called the overwhelmingly black, poor victims of the Katrina disaster in New Orleans “human parasites” and “deadbeats,” even suggesting that a victim of Hurricane Katrina consider prostitution instead of “sucking off taxpayers.”
– - And suddenly, Glenn Beck’s reign as of Lord of the Idiots is severely threatened.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:47 pmTundra says:
While I feel bad that New Orleans got hit and feel sorry for anyone who was lost or lost everything. Why would they rebuild a city below sea level?
Ever hear of Holland? They’re doing just fine.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:47 pm“To every person who has served and sacrificed in this emergency, I offer the gratitude of our country. And tonight I also offer this pledge of the American people: Throughout the area hit by the hurricane, we will do what it takes. We will stay as long as it takes to help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives. And all who question the future of the Crescent City need to know: There is no way to imagine America without New Orleans, and this great city will rise again.”- George W. Bush September 15, 2005
I don’t remember Neal Boortz complaining about Bush’s pledge to rebuild New Orleans. Maybe he knew Bush was lying.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:48 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Tundra I have a question: How many places have flooded, that werent built below sea level that have been rebuilt?
August 26th, 2009 at 4:48 pmWe’re just swimming in a sea of conservative class today, ain’t we, folks?
August 26th, 2009 at 4:49 pmHate is stylish in right wing circles.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:49 pmThat’s funny. “Human parasite” is a term I commonly apply to hate radio talkers like Neal Boortz.
As for the “why rebuild a city below sea level” crowd, I dunno, why don’t you ask the Dutch? They seem to deal with that pesky water pretty well.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:49 pmYeah, but they are socialists. Hey, wait a minute.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:49 pmThose whacky compassionate conservatives, never at a loss for someone to denigrate and/or dehumanize. Who really are the parasites, deadbeats and Debris???
August 26th, 2009 at 4:50 pmWhy do they let that piece of human filth continue to spew his hate over the airwaves?
August 26th, 2009 at 4:53 pmElBruce says:
Ever hear of Holland? They’re doing just fine.
– - Tourism is doing pretty well in the waterlogged city of Venice, Italy, too.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:53 pmIf only Boortz and the rest of the psychic leeches that pass themselves off as Right Wing commentators could be washed away never to return.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:53 pmThat’s ok – it’s just a few bad apples. I know this because white folks tell me so.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:54 pmNeal Boortz is a piece of human debris – like shyte floating in a sewer. It’s time to get his advertisers to cancel.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:55 pmGoing to contact Color of Change!
..the ‘debris that Katrina chased out’ will return.
Boarcrap is not holding back expressing his racism is he? This only reinforces what the radical racist, Christians hiding behind a flag draped cross have become.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:55 pmThe Mississippi River broke out of its levee system in 145 places and flooded 27,000 square miles (70,000 km2). The area was inundated up to a depth of 30 feet (10 m). The flood caused over $400 million in damages and killed 246 people in seven states.
The flood affected Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Arkansas was hardest hit, with 14% of its territory covered by floodwaters. By May 1927, the Mississippi River below Memphis, Tennessee, reached a width of 60 miles (97 km). [2]
August 26th, 2009 at 4:55 pmWhat an idiot! What a racist! New Orleans is a treasure. It needs to come back better than ever. There is another word for the “debris” that he is talking about, and that would be human being. No matter how rich or how poor any of us are, we are all human, and deserving of respect and dignity.
August 26th, 2009 at 4:55 pmBoortz, Limbaugh, Hannity, et al are the REAL “human parasites”, shilling for the “human debris” that pays them to try and destroy everything thats decent and good about this country.
Who’s calling who a prostitute?
August 26th, 2009 at 4:58 pmNever should have rebuilt that 27,000 square miles, right Tundra?
August 26th, 2009 at 4:58 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Paraphrasing toooodra: Why would they build a city…
…on a KNOWN faultline?
…near an active volcano?
…where it ALWAYS floods?
…in Tornado Alley?
…where blizzards hit?
…anywhere coastal where tsunamis could hit?
August 26th, 2009 at 5:00 pmralph the wonder llama says:
Tundra says:
While I feel bad that New Orleans got hit and feel sorry for anyone who was lost or lost everything. Why would they rebuild a city below sea level?
Good point. Let’s bring that up the Dutch, too. Those irresponsible bastards built a whole country below sea level.
To be fair, the Dutch spent an astronomical amount of money building a system that works, including during 100 year storms.
$1.5 billion every year for maintenance. How much do you suppose the US has spent, or is willing to commit?
At the risk of being pummeled with insectoid brickbats, I think it’s a very good question. Is this country willing to spend the money to protect the city, or just rebuild the levees and pray they work? The Dutch system, like the storm surge barriers on the Thames, IIRC, are far more complicated than just big walls.
If I was from NOLA, I’d insist that the people building the new levees move their families into the city to prove their confidence in the work.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:01 pmThis from the same a$$hole that calls homeless people urban outdoorsmen.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:02 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
It should be obvious that Neal Boortz is a racist azshole. I wish a tornado would hit his house so we could refuse to rebuilt it. I’d like to see Neal get stranded on a small boat to the middle of the ocean. Maybe the sharks would like to visit with him. I’m sure I would enjoy watching him struggle when a great white decided to have him for dinner. Man if only dreams really came true. I’d post the video on you tube for everyone to see. Remember in the Godfather when Pauley said: “Luka Brazzi sleeps with the fishes”. Where is Pauley when you need him.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:03 pmThis just boggles the mind. But let’s pretend Boortz’s comment wasn’t completely offensive and disgusting (NOBODY is “debris” — except perhaps hate-show hosts), and look at it from a logical viewpoint. Just where does Boortz think all this human “debris” went? They weren’t swept out out to sea (at least, most of them weren’t — although Boortz probably wishes the body count among the “debris” was higher). They’re still citizens of this country and those who haven’t returned to NO are living elsewhere in this country. Katrina acted more like a leaf blower than a vacuum cleaner. So it’s kind of unclear what Boortz’s point is — “debris” isn’t welcome in NO, but it’s perfectly OK in the rest of the country? WTF??
Oh. Right. Boortz’s audience doesn’t require the crap that spews forth from him to make actual sense.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:04 pmYou know, there is a reason they call it the UNITED states.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:05 pmI think approximately 27 percent of the Netherlands is actually below sea level. 60 percent of the country’s population of 15.8 million people live there. They used to protect their land with windmill driven pumps, but more recently devised the best dikes in the world.
Why didn’t the US take the offer of advice and support in re-building New Orleans? They couldn’t — they had to let the city drown, and take it a political advantage for the powers that be and for the wealthy bastards who saw an opportunity for profit. That was mindset of Bush&Co.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:07 pmBush went to a birthday party for McCain while people were drowning.
Bush finally went to see the damage on the ground and brought generators and lights for his broadcast – then he took everything back with him and left the city in flooded darkness.
That’s the kind of action favored by Boortz. He should be ashamed to speak his thoughts aloud – but repugs have no shame, they are emboldened moreso than ever — the rest of us should never forget that they revealed their true selves.
Tundra says:
While I feel bad that New Orleans got hit and feel sorry for anyone who was lost or lost everything. Why would they rebuild a city below sea level?
Good question, Tundra. As a native of New Orleans, I’ll think about an answer to give you.
In the meantime, maybe you can think San Francisco and Los Angeles– and give an answer to me about why, after major earthquakes take place there, they rebuild cities located on an active fault line.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:07 pmralph the wonder llama says:
We’re just swimming in a sea of conservative class today, ain’t we, folks?
Could not believe what I was hearing from Laura Ingrham this morning. Ted Kennedy is not buried yet and she was working him over with her classless nasty bitter sour tonal quality she has. That woman is a pig – like most representing the GNOP.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:08 pmHmmm…didn’t the Nazis refer to Jews, Poles, Slavs, Roma, and anyone else they didn’t like as vermin and pests in order to dehumanize them? Hmmm…
August 26th, 2009 at 5:08 pmTundra says: “Having the taxpayer pick up the tab for “ocean front prime reality” is where my problem lurks.”
You really don’t know anything about New Orleans do you?
Do you know it is about 45 miles from the mouth of the Mississippi? It is not “ocean front prime” property.
It is one of this country’s major seaports. It is a working man’s city. It is a city of culture and history that cannot be matched anywhere else in this country.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:11 pmAnd yes… It IS worth rebuilding, preserving and protecting.
I see, your on the path to being a bitter old person yelling at kids to stay off his grass?
August 26th, 2009 at 5:12 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
George says – Hehehe, New Orleans, I was gonna rebuild it, but thought I would just rebuild my buddies places instead. I mean, things worked out fine for them, they were poor anyway, that’s what mom said. I loved my fly over, all the bodies floatin’, the have-nots a waving from their roof tops, water just everywhere, had the pilot fly real low so they could see me waving and laughing. But Dick told me if we came of some kind of terrorist plot of some sort we could make people forget about this shit and we could get back to raiding the treasury…what you think Dick?
Dick says – I need fresh blood from cute kittens and puppies.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:14 pmI suspect you’re capable of better than this, Tundra, and you’ve just found yourself caught in an unsupportable position so you’re trying to fling shit everywhere to distract.
You suggested that it was foolish to rebuild a critical port city at the mouth of the nation’s mightiest river system because it was below sea level and flooded.
Others have pointed out that 1) flooding is not uncontrollable, even with development below sea level and 2) the nature of the Mississippi River is such that even areas upstream, well above sea level frequently flood, and they routinely get rebuilt, with significant aid from the federal government.
The thing to keep in mind about New Orleans is that is a vital port for the whole interior of the nation and thus plays a critical part in our economy. Investment in rebuilding and upgrading the levee system there is the kind of federal spending that conservatives love to sneer at, but which provides abundant returns through the years to follow.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:14 pmThe history of New Orleans is rooted with famous black people many honor today. Neal has issues that only prayer and forgiveness can help. I find it interesting how people like Neal spend anyone amount for the music talent that comes from the famous black music artist of New Orleans while attacking blacks as debris and parasites. I guess Neal needs listeners to his radio station.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:15 pmMy homeowners insurance covers tornado and hail damage, but flood insurance has to come from the federal government. And I think you have to live in a flood zone to be eligible to purchase it.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:15 pmUnfriggin believable! Who is he to judge who is debris? Who is he to judge who is worthy? What a dirt-bag!
August 26th, 2009 at 5:16 pmGuys, you just don’t understand Boortz.
He says sh!t all the time that he really doesn’t believe, he just spouts it because it stirs up the rednecks that listen to him.
He delivers to his advertisers a ready made audience of gullible idiots that will believe anything they hear on the radio. It makes it easier to sell adjustable beds and reverse mortgages to them that way. Advertisers on right wing radio shows don’t want intelligent audiences because they won’t fall for their advertising.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:16 pmWHAT? Following the Great Flood of 1927, the Army Corps of Engineers was again charged with taming the Mississippi River. Under the Flood Control Act of 1928, the world’s longest system of levees was built. Floodways that diverted excessive flow from the Mississippi River were constructed.[4]
The reason for the levy was because of the great flood of 1927 that flooded 27k square miles, SpoutFlaw.
BTW where did you get those reasons you posted?
August 26th, 2009 at 5:16 pmWhat’s really funny is, these idiot rednecks think that NOLA is all black people, hence their lack of concern for it.
They don’t want facts like NOLA being a major port getting in the way of their blatant racism.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:17 pmThe levys were built to stop the FLOODING of places that were NOT below sea level.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Mississippi_Flood_of_1927
August 26th, 2009 at 5:18 pmXisithrus says:
The Mississippi River broke out of its levee system in 145 places and flooded 27,000 square miles (70,000 km2). The area was inundated up to a depth of 30 feet (10 m). The flood caused over $400 million in damages and killed 246 people in seven states.
And Bush is on video BEING TOLD of the possibility of the levee breaking and on that video is his blank could care less stare.
Some interviewed after the levees broke claimed they heard an explosion before the breakage.
Do we really know the true death toll? As the response was too slow, maybe purposely slow,I will always wonder just how many bodies were not recovered.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:19 pmAnd Bush is on video BEING TOLD of the possibility of the levee breaking.
Yes, I recall him denying being told of it before the video was released.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:20 pmThere you go, getting all facty on outhouse
Didn’t you know? Redneck pansies like outhouse are allergic to facts and reality.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:20 pmIt’s worth mentioning here that the NO levees failed because they weren’t up to their own construction standards. Nothing particularly complicated would need to be done, just do it right like we were supposed to the first time.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:21 pmHey Tundra — where do you live? On the Atlantic coast, where we’re subject to hurricanes? On the Pacific coast, where they’re subject to earthquakes and firestorms? In the midwest where they’re subject to tornadoes? In the northwest or north central where they’re subject to springtime flooding?
The point is, EVERYONE’s abode is prone to disaster, no matter where it is. Katrina was a once in a generation or two disaster, and it struck a vulnerable area. But so did Hurricane Hugo; so did the SF/Oakland earthquake of 1989; so did the Johnstown Flood; so did the blizzards of 2008-09 in Boston.
And guess what — we all helped to rebuild every one of those towns, cities or areas. Why? Because one day it will be our town, city or area that gets hit by a natural disaster. That, and just a little human compassion for our fellow Americans and fellow human beings.
But then I guess that last part is lost on heartless right-wing talk machines like you, isn’t it?
August 26th, 2009 at 5:21 pmPBS Frontline produced a very moving documentary this year called ‘the Old Man and the Storm.” It is the story about an 89 year old black man, a resident of the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, who went back and rebuilt his flooded out home, less than a quarter mile from the spot where the Industrial Canal levee broke. And he did it primarily through his own efforts and resources– without government assistance.
He was also featured in articles in National Geographic and an HBO special that served as a fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina rebuilding efforts.
Y’all should see the reruns or the show or the online versions if you haven’t already. I did, even though I didn’t have to. I already knew it quite well, because the protagonist in the story is a close relative.
I would pay any amount of money to see Neal Boortz face this man and tell him that he is human debris sucking off the taxpayers. It would be worth it to see that 89 year old black man beat the s**t out of him. Or better yet, to see him exercise his 2nd Amendment right and use Boortz to water the Tree of Liberty.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:21 pmMy Bad. =P
August 26th, 2009 at 5:23 pmBoortz rides a motorcycle on occasion
The guys that change his tires make fun of him because of his “chicken strip”
(the chicken strip is the part of a motorcycle tire that never sees wear because the rider never leans over far enough to touch it)
I lean over enough that I tend to throw sparks off my foot pegs when I ride. But then again, I’m not a redneck pansy.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:23 pmAnd who was it that said in so many words:
August 26th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Neal “KKK” Boortz needs to wear his rob in public so the people can see him for exactly what he is. Apparently he’s too coward to do that so he hides behind a microphone and spreads hate to his racist listeners. This man probably claims to be a evangelical too. I hope he liked Hilter and Sadam Hussein because they have reserved a place in Hell for him. The people who listen to his show are “Debris” and they should be swept out to sea with him. I hope he hears about my comments because like him I mean every word of what I said.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:24 pmracism takes a stroll down main street USA and no one says a word.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:26 pmExactly right, Tommy.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:26 pmI wonder what happened to the sheriff who held back fleeing New Orleanians at gun point?
This is one of chimpy’s legacies. Great going junkie-lush.
boopy can kma.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:27 pmBoortz’ audience of inbred hicks don’t mind govt assistance in putting their trailer parks back together after yet another tornado sweeps through “tornado alley” and rips them up.
We have a different definition for “flipping a house” in the city – it means buying a place, fixing it up, and selling it for profit here.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:27 pmA city that has been around since 1718. Longer than DC. Longer than NYC.
And beyond that, it is a city in the USA. If we decline to help NO, who is next?
August 26th, 2009 at 5:29 pmRantingTommy says:
Guys, you just don’t understand Boortz.
He says sh!t all the time…
Well, this is some sick sh!t.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:30 pmO, I agree, Boortz is a tool. He says all kinds of stupid crap just to get the rednecks yelling “hell yeah! it’s the darkies’ fault I’m not better lookin’ and smarter!”
He doesn’t care if he hurts America as long as it gets him ratings and a paycheck.
He also pushes that bogus “fair tax” crap, that any real economist will point out is totally unworkable and based on assumptions of assumptions that have no evidence to back them up.
He’s just another snake oil salesman, entertaining the rubes
August 26th, 2009 at 5:33 pmMiami. Charleston. Jacksonville. Galveston. Houston. Norfolk. All are susceptible to hurricanes.
Lets see, the government (by Republican practice) gets to decide which city gets assistance. Have any of the states rights types noticed that most of the places that have sucked up federal aid for rebuilding as a result of natural disasters are southern?
Maybe it is time we rethought the Civil War. Those southern people just have no sense about getting out of the way of hurricanes.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:34 pmFIFTH LARGEST PORT IN THE WORLD. That “ocean front property” serves the entire nation and much of the world, so go to hell with what you’d “rather” and “rather not” do. Who GAF?
August 26th, 2009 at 5:35 pmOnce again, the flooding was caused by the ACOE’s failure to maintain the levees to their own standards.
One can bloviate all day about river directions, flood plains and relative elevations, but the fact is we knew what was necessary to protect the city, and we failed to fix it.
Blaming the victims of a disaster is about as vile as it gets.
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The Dogfather says:
The point is, EVERYONE’s abode is prone to disaster, no matter where it is.
Great point. I am strangely reminded of Bobby Jindal scoffing at Volcano monitoring…
August 26th, 2009 at 5:36 pmrednecks have this macho concept of “self made men” because they are too myopic to understand the role society plays in anyone’s success.
a successful businessman depends on an educated pool of employees and customers, protection by the military, enforcement of contracts, protection from crime, protection from fire, employees and customers having access to transportation, standards and regulations regarding formats of everything from plumbing part sizes to airplane parts, and many more too numerous to list
there is no such thing as a self made man
we each got one life, and we all ride on the same rock, hurtling through the universe
right wingers just cannot admit that
they believe the running back scores touchdowns with zero help from the blockers, much less the people that built the stadium, keep the grass green, feed the spectators, or print the tickets to the game
August 26th, 2009 at 5:40 pmTundra says
August 26th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
While I feel bad that New Orleans got hit and feel sorry for anyone who was lost or lost everything. Why would they rebuild a city below sea level?
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That’s a question that’s been asked by a great many people since New Orleans got slammed by Katrina. I guess it’s because the mouth of the biggest river in the country seems like a natural place to put a shipping port, and there are a ton of people in that general area who depend on long-established shipping business there for their livelihood (remember, even though Katrina caused a great deal of damage, it didn’t wipe out the entire city of NO, nor did it eliminate all of the surrounding populated area).
But let’s say that building a city in an area prone to disastrous acts of God should be banned. Where do we draw the line? Building anything near a river or an ocean would be out of the question, because of floods and hurricanes. Building anything in Tornado Alley would be out. Many places in California would be off-limits because of wildfires. The whole Pacific coast (including Alaska) is subject to earthquakes AND volcanoes, so nobody should live there.
My point is that there are many places in our country subject to disaster, and most people would no doubt bristle if you told them they would have to pick up stakes and start their lives over elsewhere if their home got leveled.
I live in a state with a coast that gets slammed regularly by hurricanes, and some areas get wiped out again and again. Yes, it’s galling when rich people erect mansions on the beach and expect taxpayers to foot the bill to rebuild their palaces every two or three years. And for areas that are frequently trashed (Topsail Island, NC — you’re at the top of the list!), it might make sense to tell people they build at their own risk.
But that’s not the case in New Orleans. They have actually done better against floods and hurricanes over the past century than the coastal areas of North Carolina. Or earthquakes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Or wildfires in southern California. They deserve a chance to rebuild.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:40 pmFortunately I had never heard or heard of Boortz until today.
Apparently his politics reflect his experience as a speechwriter
for Lester Maddox in the 70’s.
Professional parrot feeders know how well that cracker talk sells.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:41 pmLets just back up the train a bit. In the last 100 years, how much disaster assistance has been given to southern states as a result of hurricanes?
How much to the rest of the country for disaster assistance?
Lets go one step further…which states rely more on federal assistance in general?
Once you answer those questions, ask yourself, what have those states contributed to the general benefit of the US that might warrant such assistance?
August 26th, 2009 at 5:43 pmIs Boortz the GOPuke “Neil” who broke his cherry phucking a stump-broke heifer?
August 26th, 2009 at 5:44 pmok peeps, time to go work out, gotta keep the body strong in case some redneck right winger ever gins up the courage to back up their threats
peace
August 26th, 2009 at 5:44 pmHere’s a short bio about Boortz:
August 26th, 2009 at 5:44 pmBoortz would rather lie than tell the truth!
In the fall of ‘64 Boortz entered college at Texas A&M and at the same time joined the ROTC.His father was a pilot in the Marine Corps served from WW11 through Vietnam.
The Vietnam War was heating up at this time and the best place to be if you didn’t want to be drafted was in school.Boortz stayed in school/ROTC for three semesters then dropped out, never informing the Selective Service about his status in the draft.Returning to school after laying low, he continued in school until June 3 1967 when he either quit,flunked out as a Junior after 4 years. This is were the big lie one among many start flowing from Boortz’s lips.
From June of ‘67 till Sept of ‘05 he told everyone that would listen to him that he was in fact a graduate of the Class of 1967! His employers,in radio station bio’s, at his home radio station anywhere he thought it would enhance his lowly stature in life. He never graduated from any college and is still only a high school graduate!
Now comes the good part, on May 26,1967 he purchased a Class of 1967 ring and in a photo on his web site he can be seen wearing the ring sitting next to then Gov. Maddox. whom he worked for. The Office of the Registrar at Texas A&M confirmed the ring buying,and failure to graduate at anytime.
Now for the draft dodging which besides being a confirmed liar, he’s also a card-carrying Yellow-Chickenhawk too boot!
From 1967 till he was also outed as a draft-dodging chickenhawk he told the world he was 4-F unfit for any military service anytime! A FOIA to the Selective Service confirmed that he carried a 2-S college deferment or (Registrant defered because of in study.)from July ‘64 till Feb ‘68.
Remember Boortz had dropped out of school but never told the Sel. Ser. however he carried his 2-S deferment from July’64 to Feb of ‘68! He dropped out of college completely June 3,1967, but again never informed the Sel. Ser. till Feb of ‘68 when his daughter was born, What a man, now he uses his daughter to escape serving again in the Vietnam War!
But wait there’s more, Boortz told the whole listening world that the he wanted to serve, but was 4-F because of either asthma or bad eyes!
That’s the type of Republican Boortz is!
rednecks have this macho concept of “self made men” because they are too myopic to understand the role society plays in anyone’s success.
crackers reject the social contract because if they were to acknowledge it, they’d have to admith they stand on the same geound as blacks, and other despised, “undeserving” others…
August 26th, 2009 at 5:47 pmWhen this guy called them “human parasites” he meant black people, right? Just to be clear that we know a racist when we see him.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:48 pmLet the South secede. From Texas to the Carolinas. Let them indulge their pitiful fantasies about states rights. The Red States are a drain, a horrible anchor on the US. Let them deal with the hurricanes. Let them deal with the things they depend on the federal government to supply.
I bet the experiment lasts all of 5 years.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:49 pmOne might well ask, why rebuild at Ground Zero in Manhattan? Island’s already crowded enough.
And Oklahoma city? What’s couple of blocks more or less in a dinky city in te middle of nowhere?
Tundra, if you have to ask why we should rebuild New Orleans, you truly have no idea what makes America tick.
9-11 may have scared Americans, but Katrina shamed them.
If there’s a part of the mythology that both liberal and conservatives hare, it’s that we always go in. We always help. WE rebuild. We don’t give up.
One of the most popular tight-wing tropes is that we give all this money in foreign aid, and the rest of the world is ungrateful.
Regardless of its accuracy, it shows that right wing folks are proud of that–if a little whinier.
What America fully expected to happen when the levees broke is that America would go in. the National Guard would be called in from all over the country–every resource would be mustered. And President Bush would have been down there with the responders, sleeves rolled up, distributing bottled water to the victims.
That’s what Americans do.
And when it turned out diffrently–when the republicans started screwing up and blaming it on everyone else–that’s when the Republican Party went down to 30% and never bumped up again.
Forget the practical aspects–that it’s the principle port on America’s greatest river, and the access to the American Brreadbasket.
Leet’s talk about pride in America.
We’re supposed to let one of America’s cities die because it’s hard? WE’re supposed to abndon an American citu–for the longest time the only big city in the South, the birthplace of Jazz, a part of our heritage–because it would cost money?
Boortz is just nakedly racist–and I don’t think you are, Tundra.
But at long last, sir–have you no pride?
August 26th, 2009 at 5:50 pmmisscoleopteramolly says:
Many places in California would be off-limits because of wildfires.
I was about to type a response to Tundra but you beat to it. It defies logic to think you should only build in “safe” places -there is no such thing.
In the case of California, where I live, not only would it be off-limits due to wildfires, but (if you follow Tundra’s logic or lack thereof) the threat of earthquakes should keep people out of Los Angeles, San Jose, Oakland and San Francisco: The San Andreas fault runs through or close to all these cities.
Yet, here we are, rebuilding after every earthquake…
August 26th, 2009 at 5:52 pmSpeaking of katrina effluvia, you’re gonna wanna read this piece by Greg Palast just about the only really hard-boiled, polemic-flinging, mean-mouthed muck-raker writing in the Colonies anymore. Also on Democracy Now today. Free film download here.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:56 pmWhen this guy called them “human parasites” he meant black people, right? Just to be clear that we know a racist when we see him.
August 26th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Mostly, but not exclusively. he was referring to all the “undeserving” others, including but not limited to blacks. Immigrants would be in there. Mexicans. Hippies. Druggies. Gays. etc…
August 26th, 2009 at 5:58 pmXisithrus
August 26th, 2009 at 5:59 pmThey have straightened the flow of the mississippi and by doing so that is why katrina had done so much damage up river.
Boortz would feel at home in Germany circa 1939.
August 26th, 2009 at 6:01 pmMaybe Pat Robertson wants to “bless” the area so whites will populate it with all that magical GOP spending money.
Then again, Pat sure doesn’t give a crap where or whom gives to him when God needs some coin during all those prayer drives for the 700 Club’s hedge fund.
August 26th, 2009 at 6:01 pmThe thread is about racism. Focus.
August 26th, 2009 at 6:03 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Why does Outhouse always wind up yakking about his impotence?
August 26th, 2009 at 6:11 pmAt least I know what is going on. Can’t ever say the same for you. you seem to be in a perpetual daze. put down the pipe.
August 26th, 2009 at 6:12 pmOutlaw284 says:
They have straightened the flow of the mississippi and by doing so that is why katrina had done so much damage up river.
And who would “they” be, exactly? People in New Orleans? I don’t think so.
The “straightening”, meaning the projects to stabilize the banks of the Mississippi and to make the river navigable, were undertaken by the Army Corps of Engineers by federal mandate.
I am really not sure what point is it you are struggling to make here…
August 26th, 2009 at 6:17 pmOutlaw:
I posted this downstairs but you ran away and didn’t bother to reply, so I’ll try again.
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One week ago you confessed that you were a convicted felon and have served time in prison.
I am curious, are you a registered sex offender or just a common run of the mill criminal?
August 26th, 2009 at 6:26 pmXisithrus
They have straightened the flow of the mississippi and by doing so that is why katrina had done so much damage up river.
U.S. government scientists determined in the 1950s that the Mississippi River was starting to switch to the Atchafalaya River channel because of its much steeper path to the Gulf of Mexico. Eventually the Atchafalaya River would capture the Mississippi River and become its main channel to the Gulf of Mexico, leaving New Orleans on a side channel. As a result, the U.S. Congress authorized a project called the Old River Control Structure, which has prevented the Mississippi River from leaving its current channel that drains into the Gulf via New Orleans.[26].
August 26th, 2009 at 6:30 pmYes, they cut the necks of horseshoes in the river but its to reduce flood heights, not increase it.
August 26th, 2009 at 6:39 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Outlaw284 says:
Xisithrus
By taking the necks and bends out of that river they allowed katrina to keep her strength farther up river then she would have. That is why we saw so much damage across so many states
Boy, I know it’s a joke to ask (since according to Outlaw284’s rules of debate it is now up to us to prove wrong any lame a$$ assertion you care to make) but… where’d you read that?
August 26th, 2009 at 7:37 pmMy god. That spew is beyond vile.
August 26th, 2009 at 7:46 pmThat’s nonsense, the destruction of the salt marshes is the main reason Katrina, which was category one when it hit New Orleans, was so devastating.
August 26th, 2009 at 7:46 pmIf the dikes were properly built and maintained the New Orleans would have survived the storm with a fraction of the damage it received.
late again… this belongs here, in case you missed it earlier:
Katrina, Four Years Later: Expert Fired Who Warned Levees Would Burst
By Greg Palast
http://crooksandliars.com/greg-palast/katrina-four-years-later-expert-fired
check it out. really…
August 26th, 2009 at 7:49 pmTundra says:
Because it is an important Port for the middle of the country. Almost half the nations pork exports go through there a large part of its corn and wheat. Ports are a national resource.
August 26th, 2009 at 7:53 pmPerhaps Mr. Boortz and his reichwing fellow haters would prefer that all that “human debris” was simply herded into concentration camps and gassed…
August 26th, 2009 at 7:55 pmOutlaw. You do know you are an ignorant piece of filth dont you? Do you even remember what it was like before your soul dried up and blew away.
August 26th, 2009 at 7:57 pmOutlaw284 says:
HA with your bone chilling level of stupidity you couldnt keep up with a reasonably bright six year old. You are a MORON. THAT on your best days
August 26th, 2009 at 7:59 pmNeil who?
August 26th, 2009 at 8:03 pmRepublicans are so totally repulsive human beings– although human beings is stretching it. No love for others, just hatred. Sick, sick people.
August 26th, 2009 at 8:07 pmOutlaw284 says:
Xisithrus
By taking the necks and bends out of that river they allowed katrina to keep her strength farther up river then she would have. That is why we saw so much damage across so many states
Removing a bend in a tube would increase flow.
Increasing the amount of bends in a tube decreases flow.
When you increase the flow water levels upstream would be lower and the faster the flow the faster it can get to the gulf. Katrina was a deluge and flooded places like Galveston as well because the waves crashed over the seawall.
August 26th, 2009 at 8:16 pmThe former residents of New Orleans should sue Boortz for describing them as worthless folks like teabaggers. What he is saying is what I think of teabaggers.
August 26th, 2009 at 8:35 pmXisithrus says:
You are of course correct Xisithrus but you dont really expect a moron like outlaw to understand logic do you?
August 26th, 2009 at 8:42 pmToo bad there wasn’t a personality with the heft of Chuck Yeager to say “It was the goddamned levees!” and put an end to all this excuse making.
August 26th, 2009 at 8:52 pmIt amuses me?
August 26th, 2009 at 9:02 pmOutlaw was kinda right the other day when he talked about the Iraq thing 1998 and Clinton, the odder day, except he left out the fact it was a republican majority in congress.
August 26th, 2009 at 9:04 pmI’m certainly not one to argue that NO shouldn’t be “rebuilt”, but I don’t see the harm in considering alternative development strategies (there or elsewhere) after a tragedy. While there certainly aren’t any completely safe locations, it is absurd to ignore the fact that many places are safer than others. You don’t have to go far from the Mississippi River, Lake Pontchartrain, or the coastline to be MUCH safer if a hurricane strikes. Why wouldn’t we want to think about where we put our homes when we have a much better understanding of the risks posed to them than people had in the 1700 and 1800s when they settled an area? Isn’t that just common sense? This kind of discussion and developmental planning will be of increasing importance in the future – not just in regards to disasters, but also resource use. Water is likely to become more scarce in some parts of the country. Many of those areas are among the fastest growing in the nation. It doesn’t make any sense for a population to grow where water has to be brought in from farther and farther away. In my opinion, the key is not telling people where they can and can’t live, but involving people affected in the process of developmental planning so they are part of the solution.
August 26th, 2009 at 9:10 pmLest we forget:
The Bush flooding of New Orleans: an unnatural disaster.
To the Editor (of the Berkeley Daily Planet):
“We don’t care, we don’t care” was the chant of pro-war, pro-Bush hecklers across the street from the Camp Casey peace vigil in Crawford, Texas in late August, 2005. This “we don’t care” chant pretty much sums up the attitude of the Bush Syndicate (B. S.) towards the rest of us in America. Actually, Bush, Cheney and the rest of this idiotic neoconical government believes that the only true function of the federal government is to create private money-making opportunities for themselves, their friends, and their corporate contributors. Any activity other than waging aggressive war to steal and colonize other countries’ natural resources falls into the category of “we don’t care.”
The Bush flood of New Orleans happened after the massive Hurricane Katrina had passed the city. It was both predictable and preventable. The Bush flood and the slow-as-molasses-in-January Bush response to it has ripped off the facade of the inept Bush Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its subsidiary, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The upper echelons of both of these massive federal bureaucracies have been staffed by incompetent and uncaring Bush buddies, cronies, hacks, frat brothers, former roommates, horse attorneys, contributors and other miscellaneous nincompoops. In making his appointments to the executive management of DHS and FEMA, Bush gave little if any thought to their actual qualifications in the field of emergency management.
Over the last several years, Bush and the GOP-controlled House and Senate have poured over one hundred billion tax dollars into “Homeland Security.” What did we get as the federal response to Hurricane Katrina? We got homeland stupidity. After the massive flooding of New Orleans, which initially covered about eighty percent of the city, thousands of residents were herded to the Superdome where they denied water, food, medicine, bedding, toilet facilities and police protection for several long days, meanwhile the Bush gang partied and carried on with their “business as usual” and “let them eat cake” imperial attitudes. George strummed his guitar, raised campaign funds, cut cake with Senator McCain, while Connie Rice did her Imelda Marcos imitation, shopping for expensive shoes in New York City before going to a Broadway play, while Cheney went on vacation, first fishing in Wyoming and then mansion shopping in Maryland, and Rumsfeld went to a professional ball game.
In the first several days of the flooding of New Orleans cable news reporters had to point out the severity of the suffering of thousands of people in the Superdome to the heads of FEMA and DHS. These two had apparently followed the lead of the ever-clueless Bush by not watching the unfolding disaster being revealed on television.
The searing images of human suffering that were shown on television in the first several days after the flooding of New Orleans showed thousands of poor people herded into the Louisiana Superdome and the New Orleans Convention Center without any water, any food, any medicines, any toilet facilities, any bedding or any police protection.
The conduct of the inept corrupt Bush regime in this unnatural disaster (the Bush flood and the slow spastic Bush response of flood relief) is nothing short of criminal. Since the illegitimate Bush regime came to power in January 2001, they have allowed and encouraged massive developments in the natural low-lying wetlands around New Orleans. The presence of these wetlands traditionally helped to protect New Orleans from the storm surges which accompany hurricanes.
The first actions of FEMA after Hurricane Katrina and Flood Bush struck New Orleans was to try to stop almost all of the volunteer, state and federal help from coming into the disaster area. FEMA blocked volunteer help from WalMart, the Coast Guard, the Red Cross, AMTRAK, hundreds of airboats from Florida, the City of Chicago emergency teams, Loudoun County (Virginia) sheriffs, the Nevada police, the New Mexico National Guard, fire-fighting planes from the U. S. Forest Service and even the U. S. Bataan, a hospital ship stationed in the Gulf of Mexico. FEMA also stopped or ignored offers of help from foreign countries including Canada, Cuba and Venezuela, over twenty European counties and Asian countries including Iran and India.
One supposes that volunteer help and aid undercuts the Bush Syndicates system of private corporations making bags of money off of the Bush war on Iraq and the Bush expedited flooding of New Orleans.
It is troubling to see many no-bid federal contracts being given to large corporations for reconstruction along the Gulf Coast. The terms of “no-bid contracts” mean that the corporations get to charge their profits as a percentage of costs incurred, so there is no incentive to be thrifty; in fact, it is the opposite, the more money that the corporate contractor spends on construction, the higher their corporate profits. Add to this the fact that Bush just signed an executive order that suspended the traditional requirement that federal contractors must pay labor the prevailing wages, instead the federal contractors can now pay workers as little as minimum wage. So the folks who are the poorest, get kicked again by Bush. He kicks ‘em again when they’re down.
New Orleans should be rebuilt on a cooperative local basis. Habitat for Humanity should be the model used for the reconstruction of the many flood-damaged homes in New Orleans. As many physically-able local residents as possible should be quickly trained and employed in the reconstruction of their neighborhoods. All of the poor renters in New Orleans whose houses suffered flooding should be given title to their new homes and the land beneath them, after the landlords have been properly compensated for the pre-flood fair-market value of their properties. We owe these people a lot as some compensation for the years of neglect that they have suffered at our hands.
Yours truly,
James K. Sayre
11 September 2005
End.
August 26th, 2009 at 9:36 pmThanks Oval. It’s like the administration had to have every flavor of evil and get everyone behind them. The drowning of New Orleans is so like the bombing of Baghdad in my mind. That Americans watched and cheered fills me with shame. Writing off our own city and blaming the people who died and those that suffered from the aftermath is pathological. Racism is a monster.
August 26th, 2009 at 10:52 pmOh, I see, wall street and AIG is too big to fail and this coastal, of many coastal cities isnt.
Bail out the gamblers..right-o. Something is bad wrong here.
August 26th, 2009 at 11:03 pmRadidiowhore plays the blame the victim card. Who does Boortz think he is? Pudge Limpdiddler? If anybody gets bailed out, everyone gets bailed out. Every level of government screwed the pooch in one way or another and should make some sort of contribution to restoration.
Additionally, there ought to be an independent engineering agency funded out of the Corps of Engineers’ budget with the authority to audit and conduct engineering analyses of the levees and other strutures for which the Corps is responsible. There’s no point to rebuilding squat if the same thing is going to happen again. And throw in a bunch of lower delta wetlands restoration while they’re at it.
August 27th, 2009 at 12:58 amI think the number of deaths in New Orleans should equal the charges of manslaughter filed against the Bush administration.
August 27th, 2009 at 1:05 amNew Orleans has always been a dump and it reputation the worst. But I wonder if these people who think Katrina “cleansed” New Orleans would say different things if the population had been WHITE?
August 27th, 2009 at 3:10 amXhagast says:
Do you wonder? Because for a whole bunch of them like Boooore I dont wonder at all. Lets just say if the flooding had been at Kennebunkport they would have been dropping Champagne, cavier Filet Mignons within hours.
August 27th, 2009 at 3:13 amdropouts, draft dodgers, phonies; add to the list of qualities (like drug addict) of top GnOP / rightie supporting radio talkers.
August 27th, 2009 at 4:00 amI heard, on Fox News of all places, this morning that Tropical Storm Danny is heading to Long Island NY. They said that could be a problem because Long Island is below sea level.
How could those people in the Hamptons build in such an unsafe area?
August 27th, 2009 at 8:53 am126. aliveli sez:…
You’re busted, dude.
August 27th, 2009 at 12:36 pmfracking robospammers
August 27th, 2009 at 12:36 pmI want to thank all 6 of you arse-wipes who voted down my comment @ 5:44 yesterday afternoon! It gives me great pleasure in knowing that at least 6 readers can’t handle the truth,even when it’s laid out for the whole world to read!
August 27th, 2009 at 2:51 pmThis comment has NO chance of surviving for more than 15 minutes.
You don’t know Neil Boortz. This man has donate the proceeds of his books to charity … more than $600,000. He has given away no less than three cars to familes in need. Two of them to black families. He flies children with medical emergencies to medical appointments in his private airplane. Very few of you could hold a candle to him.
Now .. vote this comment down, as I know you will.
August 27th, 2009 at 8:00 pm130. Sanchez sez:… You don’t know Neil Boortz. …
eh, nope, I don’t know Neil Boortz. He isn’t in my rolodex or in my address book. And now I know why I’m not going to be listening to him on the ray didio, dude. He may be a fracking saint in his private life, but in the public forum he’s a trash talker and an incendiary.
If you do not understand that his comments are one of the variations on “blame-the-victim”, or in this case, “blame the folks that the US Army Corps of Engineers failed and who were then crapped on by the Shrub’s FEMA idiots”, then you just weren’t been paying attention to Katrina and its aftermath. Shrub wasn’t the only politician to screw the pooch on this, and it wasn’t just Republicans, but at least the other politicians had the common sense to try to set things right.
In this particular case, Neil Boortz seems to want to keep things wrong. People had their homes and livelihoods destroyed, they’ve had to move out and stay out, and Mr. Boortz wants to keep it that way, so just what’s the deal with that, Sanchez?
August 28th, 2009 at 1:10 amCan’t speak for Boortz on that. Can suggest, though, that the people who stayed in NO and rebuilt and the kind of people who returned and rebuilt are just the kind of people NO needs. But if the government steps in and rebuilds all of the welfare and government subsidized housing and the people who made NO the largest welfare and crime basketcase in the nation come back it’s not going to be a good thing.
August 28th, 2009 at 5:52 amSanchez says:
But if the government steps in and rebuilds all of the welfare and government subsidized housing and the people who made NO the largest welfare and crime basketcase in the nation come back it’s not going to be a good thing.
August 28th, 2009 at 5:52 am
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So true. Seriously. I mean, what were all those people thinking, being born poor like that?
August 28th, 2009 at 7:46 amAs the fourth anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster approaches, hate-radio talk show host Neal Boortz mocked President Obama’s pledge to rebuild New Orleans, calling the victims human “debris.”
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Yes, folks — in one word, Boortz has managed to convey exactly how he and his fellow neoconservatives collectively view any and all human beings who aren’t like them (which at least in this case basically means being a “normal” white upper-middle-class resident of Stepford, USA)…
They view them as scum. As filth. As trash. As having no value and therefore no right to any compassion or assistance whatsoever. Nobody — repeat, nobody (no, not even Boortz) deserves to be treated that way. What makes this particularly ironic is the fact that so many neoconservatives claim their values are based on religious beliefs when it’s obvious to anyone who’s paying attention that their values blatantly contradict the beliefs they claim to espouse. Where in the New Testament does it say that contempt, indifference, and dehumanization are good Christian virtues?
Did Boortz ever go to New Orleans prior to Katrina? If so, does he not understand that some of the people whom he so callously and nonchalantly dismisses as “debris” were probably the same people who prepared his food and served his drinks and cleaned his hotel room? Those are jobs which need doing, after all — we can’t all be stockbrokers — but all too often, those jobs don’t pay well and don’t get much appreciation. Many of the people who lived in New Orleans were poor, but just because someone is poor doesn’t mean that they don’t work or don’t contribute any value to society — and people who are poor don’t necessarily have the money to leave their homes (especially if that might mean losing what little they have).
If referring to other human beings as “debris” doesn’t prove that Boortz is very much a Social Darwinist, I don’t know what could. Yes, strictly speaking, human beings are animals — but that doesn’t mean that we necessarily have to live according to the Law Of The Jungle as he and others of his ilk seem to believe we should. If we’re going to live that way, where’s the point in trying to be civilized — or even trying to pretend that we’re civilized? Even Freud believed that the more civilized a society becomes, the more it requires its citizens to sacrifice (or at least suppress) the greedier and more selfish parts of our animal nature.
One thing is certain (and I know that I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating)…if you remove the last two letters from Boortz’s last name, it describes him perfectly. And no, I’m not being a hypocrite by criticizing him. I may disagree with and attack his words, his values, and his character (or what I see as his lack thereof) — but unlike Boortz, I’m still able to see him as a fellow human being. If nothing else, he deserves respect for that much — but at the same time, it’s very difficult (if not impossible) to feel much warmth or compassion for someone like him when his words clearly show that he has little or none to spare for other people.
August 28th, 2009 at 11:26 amI know rednecks…I live in western Kentucky. This type of attitude isn’t confined to the south. I received an email from one of my husband’s friends(?) about how during a snowstorm in Michigan they “didn’t need FEMA, they didn’t need debit cards, they didn’t need trailers, they didn’t loot, nobody got shot etc.” ad nauseum. Despite the obvious lack of logic in comparing a snowstorm to raw sewage rolling down the street, they actually thought they had a case!! This attitude permeates everywhere in the country in pockets of people that think they have some sort of God-given right to superiority. Believe me, if NO had been filled with drowning white people the story would be different. Usually this sort of attitude is also coupled with the attitude of being a “good Christian” and please note, that there is always the word “good” in front of Christian, which seems rather redundant to me, if you really subscribe to Christlike virtues. I sent this guy the link to an article that I found on Buzzflash about the conditions in the NO hospital that led to the alleged euthanasia of patients. This article was heartbreaking, to say the least. I haven’t heard a peep from him since.
August 30th, 2009 at 10:15 amOn December 30, 1977, U.S. District Judge Charles Schwartz Jr. issued an injunction against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lake Pontchartrain hurricane protection project, demanding the engineers draw up a second environmental impact statement, three years after the corps submitted the first one. In one of the most ironic pronouncements of all time, Judge Schwartz wrote, “it is the opinion of the Court that plaintiffs herein have demonstrated that they, and in fact all persons in this area, will be irreparably harmed if the barrier project based upon the August, 1974 FEIS [federal environmental impact statement] is allowed to continue.”
If the Greens prevailed, it was not because the forces of common sense did not make a compelling case. SOWL’s account reveals that during the course of the trial the defense counsel, Gerald Gallinghouse – a Republican U.S. Attorney who acted as a special prosecutor during the Carter administration – felt so strongly that the project should continue that he told the judge he would “go before the United States Congress with [Democratic Louisiana Congressman] F. Edward Hebert to pass a resolution, exempting the Hurricane Barrier Project from the rules and regulations of the National Environmental Policy Act because, in his opinion, [this plan] is necessary to protect the citizens of New Orleans from a hurricane.” Despite this, the judge ruled in favor of the environmentalists. Ultimately, the project was aborted in favor of building up existing levees.
and you all claim that the levee break was caused by the racist repubs. and MR Bush. wow this is news to me i did not know any of them where in office back in the 70’s,
this disaster was caused buy you panty wasted libs, AKA environmentalistic bunny huggers, so in short you saved some fish but you killed how many thousand people– we should charge you with all that manslaughter.
August 30th, 2009 at 7:57 pmvery thanks for article!
August 31st, 2009 at 11:23 amThe facts cannot be ignored.
In Houston, a city who openly welcomed Katrina evacuees, reported less than a year after Katrina hit multiple series of high-profiled crimes involving Katrina evacuees. Houston police stated evacuees have been victims or suspects in about 20% of the city’s homicides, more than DOUBLE their percentage in the population.
Remember…more than 100,000 of New Orleans’s displaced residents flocked into Houston alone in late August and early September. Now, in all fairness, Houston’s murder rate was up 23% for all of 2005, but it spiked 70% in November and December compared to 2004 levels…all stemming from the presence of Katrina evacuees.
Could you think that these are the animals that Boortz was referring to?
As for rebuilting this city at the expense of people that don’t work or live there, it makes no logical sense!
New Orleans is probably the worse spot to locate a metropolis in all of North America.
New Orleans is surrounded by two large flood-prone bodies of water and it is as much as 10 feet below sea level in some places, and is sinking deeper every year. Unlike Holland and their army of Dutch boys, New Orleans sits in the bull’s eye of hurricane alley…Remember…hurricanes that appear in the Gulf of Mexico do not go away (as in many cases with the Atlantic). Hurricanes actually intensify in the Gulf’s warm waters and do you want to spent U.S. tax dollars on a city that is sinking and below sea level with what we know now??
Please take some basic Geology 101 before you waste billions upon billions of dollars for a city that is sinking each and every year!
August 31st, 2009 at 4:00 pm