What does The New York Times and CBS have in common?
Purporting lies and inaccuracies in their reporting, without a shred of conscience. That's what!
The New York Times Lied.......Twice!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3018505.stm
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001181535
CBS Lied
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4276489
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
What can we learn from the problems in New Orleans?
So, what can we learn from the Katrina damage to New Orleans, and the response from the Government, at all levels?
It should be obvious. If you depend on the government to meet all your needs, they will let you down.
You can only depend on yourself. Less government in your life is a good thing.
Unfortunately, many people made a decision on their own to stay in the storms path, and now they're causing many folks to risk their lives to save them. So maybe government should be helping them, since they can't make informed decisions on their own.
It should be obvious. If you depend on the government to meet all your needs, they will let you down.
You can only depend on yourself. Less government in your life is a good thing.
Unfortunately, many people made a decision on their own to stay in the storms path, and now they're causing many folks to risk their lives to save them. So maybe government should be helping them, since they can't make informed decisions on their own.
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
The Blame Game, and other silly notions
There’s a lot of accusations flying now about who’s at fault for the problems in New Orleans.
Lot’s of folks are jumping right to the top, blaming the President. Didn’t the levee’s need to be updated while Clinton was President? How about Carter?
I suspect it’s because they think Bush is at fault, or they hate him and this is just one more thing they can use to fire people up.
Here’s some proof. The following link is for the New Orleans Emergency action plan. It clearly states that the Mayor is responsible for issuing an evacuation, and the city government is responsible for providing transportation, shelter, and food for evacuees where needed.
http://www.cityofno.com/SystemModules/PrintPage.aspx?portal=46&tabid=26
Did they do their job?
“Nagin and local pols can't say they weren't told. In a watershed article published in Risk & Insurance in December of 2000 by Lori Widmer, Shea Penland, geologist and professor at the University of New Orleans, reveals himself to be a veritable Cassandra: "When we get the big hurricane and there are 10,000 people dead, the city government's been relocated to the north shore of Lake Ponchartrain, refugee camps have been set up and there are $10 billion plus in losses, what then?" he queries. Penland laments the Francophile city's laissez faire attitude, which in the end proved fatal: "These are things I've been preaching for a number of years. This town has never planned ahead. They've always reacted and not pro-acted." Notice what Penland does not do — blame the feds for a localized problem. Ultimately, there's no getting around the fact that New Orleans is responsible for itself.”
(Hurricane Katrina: The Blame Game; By Karen H. Pittman, MichNews.com , Sep 6, 2005)
Well, you read the Plan, and make your own decision.
As far as FEMA? They have to be requested by the state.
The military, those “horrible” folks from Abu Ghraib & Guantanamo lore? They’re restoring order, saving lives, rescuing people, and fixing levees. They are helping even those that complained about them.
Lot’s of folks are jumping right to the top, blaming the President. Didn’t the levee’s need to be updated while Clinton was President? How about Carter?
I suspect it’s because they think Bush is at fault, or they hate him and this is just one more thing they can use to fire people up.
Here’s some proof. The following link is for the New Orleans Emergency action plan. It clearly states that the Mayor is responsible for issuing an evacuation, and the city government is responsible for providing transportation, shelter, and food for evacuees where needed.
http://www.cityofno.com/SystemModules/PrintPage.aspx?portal=46&tabid=26
Did they do their job?
“Nagin and local pols can't say they weren't told. In a watershed article published in Risk & Insurance in December of 2000 by Lori Widmer, Shea Penland, geologist and professor at the University of New Orleans, reveals himself to be a veritable Cassandra: "When we get the big hurricane and there are 10,000 people dead, the city government's been relocated to the north shore of Lake Ponchartrain, refugee camps have been set up and there are $10 billion plus in losses, what then?" he queries. Penland laments the Francophile city's laissez faire attitude, which in the end proved fatal: "These are things I've been preaching for a number of years. This town has never planned ahead. They've always reacted and not pro-acted." Notice what Penland does not do — blame the feds for a localized problem. Ultimately, there's no getting around the fact that New Orleans is responsible for itself.”
(Hurricane Katrina: The Blame Game; By Karen H. Pittman, MichNews.com , Sep 6, 2005)
Well, you read the Plan, and make your own decision.
As far as FEMA? They have to be requested by the state.
The military, those “horrible” folks from Abu Ghraib & Guantanamo lore? They’re restoring order, saving lives, rescuing people, and fixing levees. They are helping even those that complained about them.
Friday, September 02, 2005
New Orleans education
It's amazing how we allow the media to lead us, like sheep. Even intelligent folks fall prey to their emotional prattle, without one honest, intelligent thought about what they are saying.
So, let's step back and take a look at how the media is reclassifying the people in New Orleans, and Mississippi (but mainly New Orleans). The media has labelled these folks as "refugees," when in truth, they are "victims." There's a difference, and the media knows it, but the term "refuge"' carries a more emotional meaning.
Go back to the previous hurricanes, or any tornado, and the media refers to these displaced people as victims, and rightly so. Not once did they call them "refugees."
A "refugee" is a person fleeing persecution due to religious, political, or war related reasons. None of these people fit that description. They do fit the description of Victim.
This is nothing new for the media, though. For years they've referred to people with bombs attached to themselves as "suicide" bombers. That's just crazy. These folks are homicide bombers. Their intent isn't to just kill themselves, their mission is to take out as many other people as they can -- that's homicide.
So think about what you're being told, and what it really means, before you repeat it.
So, let's step back and take a look at how the media is reclassifying the people in New Orleans, and Mississippi (but mainly New Orleans). The media has labelled these folks as "refugees," when in truth, they are "victims." There's a difference, and the media knows it, but the term "refuge"' carries a more emotional meaning.
Go back to the previous hurricanes, or any tornado, and the media refers to these displaced people as victims, and rightly so. Not once did they call them "refugees."
A "refugee" is a person fleeing persecution due to religious, political, or war related reasons. None of these people fit that description. They do fit the description of Victim.
This is nothing new for the media, though. For years they've referred to people with bombs attached to themselves as "suicide" bombers. That's just crazy. These folks are homicide bombers. Their intent isn't to just kill themselves, their mission is to take out as many other people as they can -- that's homicide.
So think about what you're being told, and what it really means, before you repeat it.
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