Back to reality...

[eowyn_wannabe]

Well, I've missed you, f-list! I came back from my trip to Houston and New Orleans last Tuesday evening. My sister stayed until Friday morning, so we had lots of visiting time, during which she became acquainted with and in love with Firefly and Serenity. I don't think I have found anyone yet who didn't absolutely love it...except for my mother-

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[stufsocker]

Having watched three of the four parts of the documentary, I'm going to have to agree with you. While he took some pains to not make it look like he was only making a doco about the entire city, it really was quite propagandist in scope. While the whole event and the months after are still horrifying and it's appalling to think of what happened, it didn't specifically happen b/c "President bush hates black people" but rather a widespread government FUBAR that affected an entire city. The blame falls on all sorts of shoulders and the miscommunications between people who, i guess, were trying to be more professional or beurocratic than they should have been in this situation. They needed emergency thinking and no one wanted to step up. The thing that I did hear about that I hadn't heard until this point was that government officials in the Jefferson parish sent police with shotguns to man all the bridges so that no one from New Orleans could come into their land. They actually forced people to stay back several more days when they could have started evacuating and getting food and water. I had heard something about police shooting at people trying to cross bridges but didn't know the context at all. Really it's indescribable how awful and what a major major screw-up the whole thing was from start to finish.

[eowyn_wannabe]

I place the blame with: (a) The Army Corps of Engineers, (b) The Orleans Parish Levee Board, (c) Mayor Nagin, and (d) Governor Blanco.

[stufsocker]

I would add Bush, Condi, and Brown to that list as well.

[stufsocker]

In terms of emergency services, care, and lack thereof on both counts.

[eowyn_wannabe]

Oh, geez...don't get me started on FEMA. As for Condi - ya know, women and shoes...it's a love affair...(I'm being facetious, of course) and as for Bush - not as much of a villain as Spike says (they all probably think he placed the alleged order to blow the levees), but not at all a leader in the relief and recovery. In the meantime...look at the pretties!