Category Archives: Katrina
Today’s Quote – 2007.09.29
“This is a song called, “Living In The Future,” but it’s really about what’s happening now, right now. It’s kind of about how the things that we love about America: the cheeseburgers, french fries, the Yankees batting in Boston, the Bill of Rights, v-twin motorcycles, Tim Russert’s haircut, trans fats and Jersey shore. . . We love all those things in the way that the womenfolk love Matt Lauer. That’s right. But over the past six years we’ve had to add to the American picture: rendition, illegal wiretapping, voter suppression, no habeas corpus, the neglect of our great city New Orleans and the people, an attack on the Constitution and the loss of our best young men and women in a tragic war. And this is a song about things that shouldn’t happen here, happening here.”
—Bruce Springsteen*
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*During an appearance on the Today Show, September 28, 2007
Today’s Quote – 2007.08.30
“I don’t want to alarm everybody that, you know, New Orleans is filling up like a bowl. That’s just not happening.”
–Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), Aug. 30, 2005
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Remembering Katrina
A stunning vocal performance by Mary Gauthier accompanying a heartbreaking video directed by Demetria Kalodimos.
Do watch, Jersey Guy recommends it, but do keep a tissue handy.
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Hat tip to D. R. Scott at Brilliant at Breakfast
Remember Katrina
The caption at whitehouse.gov reads: “President George W. Bush shares a laugh with Myrtle Jones during a Conversation on Medicare Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, at the James L. Brulte Senior Center in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.”
The caption at whitehouse.gov reads: “President George W. Bush joins Arizona Senator John McCain in a small celebration of McCain’s 69th birthday Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, after the President’s arrival at Luke Air Force Base near Phoenix. The President later spoke about Medicare to 400 guests at the Pueblo El Mirage RV Resort and Country Club in nearby El Mirage.”
New Orleans, Lousiana, August 29, 2005
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Credit for the New Orleans image to Wikimedia Commons
Today’s Quote – 2007.08.28
“FEMA is not going to hesitate at all in this storm. We are not going to sit back and make this a bureaucratic process. We are going to move fast, we are going to move quick, and we are going to do whatever it takes to help disaster victims.”
