New Orleans Stories post, rev. 1
September 3, 2005
Rather than write a whole bunch of little posts, I will add to these lists as I run across items of interest.
Heroism – Inspiring stories of people who wrote a chapter into their lives that marks them as rising above fear, danger, and horrible conditions to help their fellow man.
- HCT:A Hero in New Orleans… The amazing story of a doctor in New Orleans for a conference, who stays to give medical aid to victims. A makeshift hospital is created from a commandeered hotel and drugstore… go read!
- The Interdictor, keeping lines of communication open.
- More as I find them. There will be plenty before it’s all over.
Incompetence – the equally amazing story of how it took a week to get serious help to New Orleans:
- Vitamin Sea: Memo to Christian Zealots, people who say “they got what they deserved,” people who have never been through a hurricane, FEMA, etc.
- CJR-Daily: Tip of the hat in which FEMA director Michael Brown is grilled by Ted Koppel
- Scripps-Howard: Where was FEMA?
- A question: why didn’t the mayor of New Orleans send every city bus and city school bus out in circulating routs to evacuate people before the hurricane? Save the people AND the busses? Don’t tell me ‘he didn’t think of it.’ That is what an evacuation plan is for, and he’s had years to come up with one.
- Here’s another: I saw many photos of highways gridlocked leading out of the city, with the inbound lanes completely empty. Why did it take so long to reverse the flow of the inbound lanes?
- More as I find them. There is plenty to go around here.
Absolute Freaking Idiocy
- Eve’s Apple: I did not make this sh*t up”
- Agape Press: It’s the gay’s fault, but God was merciful
Categories: News
I’m saving all political analysis and such for later and doing whatever klittle bit i can to help, be it spreading information via the instapundit blogburst or raising finds with a group of bloggers by donating to a variety of relief charites for every comment made on our sites today 9/3/2005.
I have no ties to new orleans (except a vacation there a few years back) and have no missing friends or loved ones. However if a disater of that magnitude ever happened to my area and my life, I’d hope people would do the same for me. Sadly, most of the rich suburbanites my area is populated are too busy bitching about the cost of gas to fill SUV’s they don’t need rather than thosands of refugees right in the middle of the US
Dear Old Fool: You referred me to this site so don’t get upset if I quote from it.
“Rev. Bill Shanks, pastor of New Covenant Fellowship of New Orleans, also sees God’s mercy in the aftermath of Katrina—but in a different way. Shanks says the hurricane has wiped out much of the rampant sin common to the city.
The pastor explains that for years he has warned people that unless Christians in New Orleans took a strong stand against such things as local abortion clinics, the yearly Mardi Gras celebrations, and the annual event known as “Southern Decadence”—an annual six-day “gay pride” event scheduled to be hosted by the city this week—God’s judgment would be felt.
“New Orleans now is abortion free. New Orleans now is Mardi Gras free. New Orleans now is free of Southern Decadence and the sodomites, the witchcraft workers, false religion—it’s free of all of those things now,” Shanks says. “God simply, I believe, in His mercy purged all of that stuff out of there—and now we’re going to start over again.”
The New Orleans pastor is adamant. Christians, he says, need to confront sin. “It’s time for us to stand up against wickedness so that God won’t have to deal with that wickedness,” he says.”
Think back, old fool. The epicenter of the California earthquake was Northridge, which was also an epicenter of pornography production. Think back some more. The tsunami slammed Thailand, famed for its homosexuality and cross-dressing.
Is it any wonder that some folks think maybe God is fed up? But I don’t expect you think there is a God or that there is anything that is a sin.
Speak to your auntdottie.
Dottie, your comment is too good to leave buried here at the bottom of a post. I’m moving it, along with my response, to an entirely new post of its own: God did it.