tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852689.post5827285732917806360..comments2007-12-04T20:37:16.767-08:00Gateway Pundithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17121297616038595622noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852689.post-79196913229802725272007-11-27T03:26:00.000-08:002007-11-27T03:26:00.000-08:002007-11-27T03:26:00.000-08:00"New Orleans had a much higher violent death rate in 2006 than Iraq did!"<BR/><BR/>zzzzzzzzzz....<BR/><BR/>And to the above, South Africans will say Johannesburg is more dangerous than Rwanda during the genocide, they're not the most reliable observers. Jo'burg's worse than New Orleans though, quite easily.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852689.post-11702918927316820872007-01-08T00:15:00.000-08:002007-01-08T00:15:00.000-08:002007-01-08T00:15:00.000-08:00A South African told me Johannesburg also has a higher murder rate than Baghdad. <br /><br />I wonder how many international cities have a higher murder rate than Baghdad.Arizona Real Estate Notebook .comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15706263246078706241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852689.post-14390496901502564812007-01-07T08:31:00.000-08:002007-01-07T08:31:00.000-08:002007-01-07T08:31:00.000-08:00FYI - The National Guard is here!Brian Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11370000834122707971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852689.post-476068595092755472007-01-05T19:02:00.000-08:002007-01-05T19:02:00.000-08:002007-01-05T19:02:00.000-08:00That part of the continent has been <a href="http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/03/geophysics-for-common-man-pt1.html">subsiding for about 10,000 years</a> or so. So NOLA sinking isn't really much of a surprise. What is interesting is that with all the splendid changes put in by the Army Corps at the behest of various groups, no one bothered to measure the rate of that sinking since the 1970's until right after the flood. The rate <a href="http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/03/one-last-thought-on-new-orleans.html">had doubled</a>. Spending tens of billions of dollars to protect sinking land from flooding, when some of it is already under the watertable is just a bit strange, to say the least. A goodly portion Federal Tax dollars. Now, knowing that, what will your answer be the next time NOLA floods and <a href="http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/03/and-what-did-you-do-when.html">you are asked</a>: why didn't you do something different to prevent this?<br /><br />There are alternatives to save the vital culture of NOLA, and part of the City a bit longer. A <a href="http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/02/new-orleans-and-new-new-orleans.html">new city</a>, inland, for example, with high speed rail and restricted access for security. Or a <a href="http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2006/03/ship-of-new-orleans.html">new heavy industry</a> that will put the entire population safely from harms way and give more possibilities than anything currently devised can offer. Then open the Atchafalya cut-off and let the mighty Mississippi flow as she wants to and start to replenish the delta which is dying at an enormous rate and losing ground to the Gulf Currents continuously. Make the outlying parts of NOLA a memorial to our hubris to continue building on sinking land, so that we can always be reminded that things can go very wrong when politics is put ahead of good engineering.<br /><br />Because it is Your money that will get put in to building flood defenses.<br /><br />Around sinking land.<br /><br />And even the Dutch require real bedrock for their flood defenses, which that part of the continent does not have until you get 300' or so through the muck that slowly slides through there. Remember, the last set of 'good ideas' doubled the rate of subsidence. Which the politicians didn't bother to fund anyone to keep watch on.<br /><br />There are other ways beyond folly.A Jacksonianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04232937155558935257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852689.post-71849097736826981092007-01-05T16:51:00.000-08:002007-01-05T16:51:00.000-08:002007-01-05T16:51:00.000-08:00IgnorantInfidel is correct. The NOLA flood problems have been going on for years; the big flood was predicted years ago. Actually, the levee was leaking BEFORE Katrina even ever formed; it had been reported to various bodies supposed to be responsible for the upkeep, and ignored. That levee was going to break, it was a matter of time, and it may well have happened without an evacuation in place, thus killing even more than were killed.woodie4827http://www.blogger.com/profile/05490882236164973298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852689.post-56731793510921080552007-01-05T14:04:00.000-08:002007-01-05T14:04:00.000-08:002007-01-05T14:04:00.000-08:00Hey Chucky do a little research!<br />The flooding problems in and around NOLA {that's New Orleans Lousiana} has been going on since about 1927. The politicians in and around NOLA and Lousiana have not lived up to their responsibilities. Check with the Times Picyunne(sp?) for their aritcle regarding the levies before Katrina. There were numerous articles and editorals regarding political corruption and lack of proper wrok on the levies.IgnorantInfidelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13850203417115215449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852689.post-66761983872895740142007-01-05T07:43:00.000-08:002007-01-05T07:43:00.000-08:002007-01-05T07:43:00.000-08:00chuck, you are brainwashed.<br /><br />Wow, isn't it interesting how simply saying that about you doesn't make it any more or less true than you saying it about the folks here?<br /><br />Although, I have to question how someone who can't even admit that this article puts things into perspective can call ANYONE brainwashed with a straight face. America as a whole would be less 'brainwashed' on issues of Katrina/Iraq/what-have-you if the media bothered to put things in perspective like this.Yashmakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07972152418093299501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852689.post-58376053381156802842007-01-04T19:42:00.000-08:002007-01-04T19:42:00.000-08:002007-01-04T19:42:00.000-08:00Chuckie, you need an education. I live right down the road from New Orleans. I was here. I lived it, before AND after Katrina. New Orleans is its own worst enemy. It was a mess before Katrina. No one would wish a Katrina on any city anywhere - but it did offer a golden golden golden opportunity for New Orleans to fix itself. Isn't going to get done. Any money going in is going to be wasted. As far as how much has been spent trying to fix New Orleans compared to Iraq? The rest of the state subsidized New Orleans for years. Superdome? State taxpayers, and New Orleans got and kept the tourist bucks. Superdome repairs immediately after Katrina when the hospitals still are not ready? Again - taxpayer funded, and New Orleans keeps the bucks. Thus the leadership of the city and the state are wasting the good wishes and help the rest of the country is willing to give.woodie4827http://www.blogger.com/profile/05490882236164973298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852689.post-57467430573195963162007-01-04T16:32:00.000-08:002007-01-04T16:32:00.000-08:002007-01-04T16:32:00.000-08:00Yea - I know, It is all the black Democrats fault - blah, blah, blah. You should be in <a href="">Iraq helping America complete the mission,</a> instead of sitting on your ass blogging. btw - how much have we spent trying to fix New Orleans compared to Iraq?? Awww - nevermind you people are brainwashed...Chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15874682287187942642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852689.post-21165225912252129952007-01-04T16:22:00.000-08:002007-01-04T16:22:00.000-08:002007-01-04T16:22:00.000-08:00Gee <b>Chuckie</b>, let me guess, you are suffering from an excess of political correctness, right?<br /><br />Well regarding nitwit Nagin and his Chocolate City nonsense, this homicide rate just shows me that Robert Tracinski's <a href="http://www.intellectualactivist.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1026"><b>An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State</b></a> is more and more precient as time goes on...juandoshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07311282872343552802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8852689.post-76648267357742642802007-01-04T12:37:00.000-08:002007-01-04T12:37:00.000-08:002007-01-04T12:37:00.000-08:00You bunch of wing nuts should move to Iraq, since it is such a secure, bastion of freedom...Chuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15874682287187942642noreply@blogger.com