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2005-09-06 International-UN-NGOs

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Posted by anonymous5089 2005-09-06 00:34|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 (The French, for the record, don't blame Bienville for founding New Orleans below sea level in the first place.)

Oddly, the French Quarter is on relative high ground. Google Maps has a "Katrina" feature that shows a photo from last Wednesday; the Vieux Carre looks dry to me.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-06 08:55|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-06 08:55|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder if the French drew the proper conclusion from the fact that the Third World part of the US is the only part that was colonized and administered by the French.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-09-06 09:08|| 2005-09-06 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 Sticks and stones...

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-06 13:35|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-06 13:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Wonder if they'll remember all of this nonsense when the US has rebuilt New Orleans in record time. They've already plugged the levee and the water is draining.

Things get broken all the time, the difference between first world and third world is the ability and willingness to clean up and restore things.

Posted by rjschwarz 2005-09-06 16:32|| 2005-09-06 16:32|| Front Page Top

#5 It's not just furriners. Huffer Hooman Majd (who really needs to get a new picture taken; he looks like a sunburnt Igor) is displaying a truly unseemly glee over "The End of Empire". I'll bet he needed a cigarette and a kleenex after writing that.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-09-06 18:21|| http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]">[http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2005-09-06 18:21|| Front Page Top

#6 If there was a Third World city in the US it was "Nawlins" in the first place. Did we see unbridled looting in other areas hit by Katrina. While I am sure there was some I doubt it met the scale in NO. Lets face it there are plenty of heads to place the blame on in this. From the local to the federal level. But as the buck gets passed it will eventually get passed up the chain to the Feds. Who incidently were buying boats for this in Wisconsin on Friday befor it hit.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2005-09-06 22:16|| 2005-09-06 22:16|| Front Page Top

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