If I write anything else this afternoon I’m going to blister the paint in my house. I’ll let you do the ranting for a while.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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My wife has an online friend who lives in NO. Someone is going to pick him up since he has not been able to get transportation to a shelter. They have setup a paypal account for him to help with living and medical expenses (he’s diabetic)
I’m currently trying to verify who controls the account and to make sure the money gets to him. After that I donate some money. Should I post it here as well?
I vote yes.
Okay. My wife has known him and the person that setup the account for a couple of years, so I’m confident it’s legit.
Here’s some info:
His name is Don Boyle. A vietnam vet that was born and raised in Gretna, LA. He was in Jefferson Parish, LA when Katrina hit. He was unemployed when Katrina hit and was unable to evacuate. He’s currently in St. Charles waiting for another friend to pick him up and take him back to TN.
The paypal account is greenbacksforgrobeck at yahoo.com.
where in Tn are you? Or where in Tn is your friend?
I am telling you, I was in Memphis working this past few days and they are on alert to be getting ready for future patients of this disaster. As you know I am a dialysis nurse. I normally do not owrk in Memphis. There is a shortage of dialysis nurses, well all nurses for tha tmatter, an dI was required to go down there to work and will be going there for the next 2 weeks. One Dr. of this unit told me that they will go into a certain mode for taking in lots of new patients in the acute sector, where they will work 24/7 and only run pts for 2 hours at a time. They are getting ready for this. If this is any indication as to the preparediness of things. He said they had to do this type of thing in the past during a disaster of some sort, of which I did not hear what he called it, but they have done it before.
This is something in all of my “civilian” career I have never seen the dynamic of such a thing. It is almost sureal! I simply am so frustrated as the leadership of this nation as a whole, that I will be personally out there screaming the shit that this government is doing to our nation.
My wife knows which area TN he is headed for, but she just left for work.
He’s has been trying to get help from FEMA for the past week with no luck, so they gave up and went to get him. It’s been a complete disaster.
I’ll be sure to get a first hand account from him once he is settled and can share it here.
thanks and if there is anything I can do to help, just you let me know. My email address is at the bottom of this comment.
How about doing a diary about this story? It will get much more attention that way since the front page posts are moving so rapidly down the page.
But I’ll wait a few hours for my wife to get home so I can get some more info and incase there are any other questions.
I vote yes also. I’d be delighted to kick in a few bucks to an individual human being. (I’ve contributed to the Red Cross and “hoping” they’re doing good with. But so far no Red Cross on TV, WTF?)
I don’t use paypal. Not for or against, just don’t use it. So how about a snail mail address?
Great! I can email it to you tonight when my wife gets home if you post it or send it to my email – sgilm0n at gmail.com
Will do. Later today, when I return to the city. This 33K out here in the country ain’t cuttin’ it.
My computer is still smoking from your earlier piece, which was excellent! It is exactly what needs to be said. I want the Democratic leadership to do what they should be doing: Lead. Not be silent.
Bush can always smell your money
Okay. I have to let this out somewhere, so this place is as good as any: I’m sick and tired of reporters asking people why they or their relatives didn’t evacuate. At this point, who cares?? Just rescue them and help them.
Mail us your mortgage payments even though you just lost everything in the hurricane.
National Guard played cards while people died
New Orleans deputy police commander W.S. Riley launched a bitter attack on the federal response to the disaster though he praised the way the evacuation was eventually handled.
His remarks added to controversy over the government handling of the crisis as New Orleans descended into anarchic chaos after Katrina swamped the city’s flood defences. Thousands are feared dead in the disaster.
National Guard commander, Lieutenant General Steven Blum, defended his force saying it had been slow to move into New Orleans because it did not anticipate the collapse of the city police force.
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“We expected a lot more support from the federal government. We expected the government to respond within 24 hours. The first three days we had no assistance,” he told AFP in an interview.
Riley went on: “We have been fired on with automatic weapons. We still have some thugs around. My biggest disappointment is with the federal government and the National Guard.
“The guard arrived 48 hours after the hurricane with 40 trucks. They drove their trucks in and went to sleep.
“For 72 hours this police department and the fire department and handful of citizens were alone rescuing people. We have people who died while the National Guard sat and played cards. I understand why we are not winning the war in Iraq if this is what we have.”
Holy shit.
I sense a great distrubance in the Blogosphere.
I have tried for an hour and a half to post a article to my blog on blogger about the 70 foreign countries who have offered help to the U.S. and about the dithering that is taking place in the White House in place of a response.
Blogger keeps rejecting the post. I suspect that there are many in the blogosphere who are similarly attempting to express their anger at the current idiots who claim the administration.
I notice that WalMart and Al Gore could perform effective post-hurricane actions, but FEMA still doesn’t seem to have a clue. We will be very lucky if the death toll in New Orleans alone does not exceed 10,000 people.
Had New Orleans been flooded ten years ago, the poor would still have been those hardest hit, but there would have been fewer of them. Katrina has exposed the breadth and depth of poverty in New Orleans, and, one hopes, elsewhere.
When Hurricane Camille struck the Mississippi Gulf Coast more than thirty years ago, the Coast was far less built up than in 2005. Its growth since Camille has been fed in part by hearty helpings of federal pork; and by tax policies which encourage expensive housing, such as a home near a beach. Forbidding beachfront development would mean saying no to the rich who can make big campaign donations.
Comforting the comfortable while afflicting the afflicted may be good politics but it is bad policy.