This entry of Fr. John Whiteford’s reminds me not to let Senator Mary Landrieu’s stupid remarks go unmentioned. In an interview on Fox News, she snippily responded to questions about the slow response in New Orleans by saying:
I am not going to level criticism at local and state officials. Mayor Nagin and most mayors in […]

Some days don’t have much importance attached to them. This date might have too much. It’s the fourth anniversary of the attacks that I can still remember as if they happened yesterday. And we’re all still reeling from the reports from the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. In the Orthodox Church calendar, this Sunday is […]

… nobody.
According to this CNN/Gallup Poll (which you definitely won’t be reading in the NYT anytime soon), only 13% thought George Bush was “most responsible for the problems in New Orleans after the hurricane”. Nearly twice that — 25% — blamed state and local authorities. But the big winner at 38% was the answer “no […]

No real reason to put the morning glories in there, but they represent a tiny triumph. I’m sloooowly getting in touch with my inner gardener, and these were some late-bloomers I didn’t think were going to make it. It doesn’t have anything to do with hurricanes and horror and death and bitter partisanship, but everyone […]

Summing up the whole sordid mess, this article via Drudge Report on what we know went wrong and the spin that’s not getting any traction.

Ray Nagin, the mayor, ordered a “mandatory” evacuation a day late, but kept the city’s 2,000 school buses parked and locked in neat rows when there was still time to take […]

Some stories that don’t fit the Legacy Media’s perceptions of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

While some people have been losing their humanity, other people have been finding theirs.
“Some people became animals,” Vasilioas Tryphonas said Sunday morning … “We became more civilized.”
Read about it HERE. (by way of Drudge Report)
But why is it such a small […]

What in the world happened in that city? Why is it that the local and state authorities bungled the job so incredibly that we are left with pictures like this one of buses that should have been deployed to help in the evacuation, leading to pictures like this one of a makeshift grave […]

The devastation of this disaster is still too incredible to be contemplated. I can’t imagine what the final toll will be in life and property. And I don’t know what will happen not only to New Orleans, but the entire region laid waste by the hurricane. I’ve never seen anything like it. Like a friend […]

I hadn’t been tuning in constantly to news about Hurricane Katrina, because it didn’t seem like the kind of story where that works. The effects are far too enormous, and there was never any of it that was going to change. Seeing endless footage of reporters trying not to get blown down and shots of […]