And now the levees have breached. Again.
This is like a slow-motion train wreck.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.
Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.
We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.
We’re not going back!
Russia bombs Ukraine’s maternity hospitals; Republicans in the House can’t sort out supporting Ukraine.
Nikki Haley, who can’t acknowledge ‘slavery’, is a pathetic shill.
The republican speaker is a slippery little devil.
A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals
Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.
Trump makes a mockery of the legal system and cowardly judges just sit back and let him.
Please don’t feed the bears.
Motown is Joe-Town!
The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.
An unpunished coup is a training exercise.
Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.
Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.
Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.
Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.
Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.
The gop couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.
Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.
Republicans do not pay their debts.
Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.
The words do not have to be perfect.
ET
A little OT but a friend forwarded and though y’all might be intereted. It is the Times Picayune series in 2002 on LA and hurricanes.
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/?/washingaway/
KC
Makes me doubt rebuilding NOLA is the way to go. Totally sucks.
ppGaz
This was not expected, or anything.
TallDave
Time to rename the city “Lake New Orleans.”
jg
That is sooooooooo funny TD.
Defense Guy
From the article:
This kind of stupid is hard to overcome, and if things get real bad will soon be changing it’s tune to ‘save my ass’. It’s almost as if some people live their lives with blinders on.
As to the last line. Yes, yes you can you crazy person.
sean
forget blaming Nagin, Bush or the Levee board. i blame the Japanese mafia
TallDave
I blame John Quincy Adams.
Defense Guy
What does the outdoorsy guy with the bear friend have to do with anything?
summr
From the Guardian
If the scientific reports are accurate, hurricanes are going to be affecting
a lot more than New Orleans and Texas in the near future, since skeptics
refuse to do anything about global warming (and by the time the evidence is completely irrefutable, parts of the east coast could be completely under water).
John S.
You can run from a hurricane.
You cannot run from the power of God. If He wants you, there isn’t a damn thing you can do about it.
And if you think otherwise, you are a crazy person.
(This is all predicated by the fact that you do believe in God.)
Lines
Believing in God gives him/her/it power?
So did God create man, or did man create God?
docG
The leader of the free world has already committed “whatever it takes” to rebuild NO, without any kind of debate, planning, or identified outcomes. The mayor of NO facilitated returning citizens long before anything resembling safety was in place. The governor of Lousiana can’t find her ass with both hands and a map. When this rebuilding (multibillion dollar disaster in the making) comes to its inevitable fruition of massive fraud, waste, and poorly executed housing, levees and transportation, I want to see politicians lead off in handcuffs.
ET
This just makes me cry.
How much more can my hometown get dumped on literally and figuratively?
What is worse – the hurricane season still has about 2 months to go.
Defense Guy
John S
I suppose I was attempting to refer to the idea that assuming that the Hurricane is remote controlled by G-d, rather than just a naturally occuring phenomenon of his creation (ie part of the system) seems crazy. Further, resigning yourself to whatever fate befalls you when you have it within your power to do something, seems outside of the teachings and, well, crazy.
G-d helps those that help themselves. Not biblical, but still wise.
Doug
Blame it on Cain.
Don’t blame it on me.
Oh, oh, it’s nobody’s fault,
but we need somebody to burn.
John S.
DefenseGuy-
For once, I agree with you 100%. In fact, I would have penned your post myself.
Great catch on the “G-d helps those…” not being biblically derived. A lot of people think it is, but in fact it came from Aesop.
physics geek
I mentioned to my wife, as the flood waters receded from New Orleans, that the worst possible scenario was another killer hurricane hitting the devastated city before any real repairs could be completed. I’m sick that it’s actually come to pass.
Gamer
More like an oblivious person. You’d think that one hurricane after another might just be God’s way of saying, “Leave”.
DougJ
Solid Elvis Costello reference there Doug. Here’s another for you, apropos of GWB: “He was a fine idea at the time, now he’s a brilliant mistake.”
Gratefulcub
Neither, man created hundreds of gods. Dismissed a few every century, created some new ones, combined a few together, stole a few ideas from other cultures, most settled on one god, and then we created sects to fight each other.
After global warming kills most of us, those left will create some new gods to explain what the hell happened.
goonie bird
A levee breach becuase the eco-green nuts at the EARTH JUSTICE and SIERRA CLUB LEAGAL DEFENSE FUND STOPPED THE LEVEE REPAIR TO SAVE THE INVISIBLE LEVEE GUPPY
CaseyL
There is an old joke that illustrates that point to a tee:
A pious man refuses to leave his home when continuing storms threaten to flood the city. “The flood is a sign from God, a test of my faith. God will protect me,” he says.
The flood happens, sure enough, and the waters rise enough that the pious man has to close up his front door and seal his basement to keep the water from coming into the first floor.
Another fellow in a rowboat comes down the river-that-used-to-be-a-street. “Hey! Mister! Swim over here to the boat and I’ll take you to higher ground.”
“No,” the pious man says. “The flood is a sign from God, a test of my faith. God will protect me.”
The waters keep rising, and the pious man has to go up to the second floor of his house.
A National Guard patrol boat goes by. “Hey, Mister! Get on board; we’ll get you to safety!”
“No,” the pious man says. “”The flood is a sign from God, a test of my faith. God will protect me.”
The waters keep rising until the pious man has to climb onto his roof. A Coast Guard helicopter shows up, circling overhead. The crew offers to drop a rope and haul him up. He again says no, that the flood is a sign from God, etc.
Well, he drowns. And he finds himself at the Pearly Gates, and for once he demands answers of God.
“I had faith in You! I trusted You to save me! What happened?”
And God says, “I tried to save you. I sent a rowboat, a Coast Guard cutter, and a helicopter! What more were you expecting?”