our september 16 erace meeting focused on spike lees documentary on katrina when the levees broke. a recent review by timespicayune media columnist dave walker claims that lees film ignores the experiences of new orleans white lakeview residents and as a result tells only half the story. or rather 67.3 percent of it. in his own review of the documentary however mark moseley disagrees with walker...
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fox warned us that this would happen. but nooo you wouldnt listen.failed levees are indeed breeding terrorist symapathizerists on the internet. let the list making begin.backstabbing impureofessence americahating appeasenik whiners1. harry shearer 2. mr. clio3. spike lee4. these hippies5. boyd blundell ... and who knows how many otherssince the divine march of global freedom necessitates doing the...
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1. read my new after the levees column. dont be skeered to comment either.2. then go to the rising tide conference blog read about it get excited register to attend and pass the link to all your friends.easy peasy......
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there is an interesting and thoughtprovoking piece over at tpmcafe by boyd blundell about new orleanians perception of their place in america. it brought to mind a discussion i had recently regarding whether or not the federal government has a moral obligation to the people of new orleans and the gulf coast at large. this goes beyond the reality that the destruction in new orleans was in fact ca...
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so we finally did something fun last night i had heard that the storyville stompers were going to be playing at the red barons game and mike has been talking about going to see a barons game so i figured last night would be perfect since i really hate baseball it gave me something to look forward to it was pretty fun and everyone entering got mardi gras beads to promote the concert on saturday fro...
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an interesting post by lois dunn addresses the issue of official death tolls and how inaccurate they can be. she also links to some great stuff about the army corps of engineers at congressional hearings admitting that there were design flaws in the levee system that lead to the system failing. read louisianas katrina death toll jumps 22 afterthele vees......
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