Tuesday, September 06, 2005
The Secretary of Duct Tape gave good advice
The mocking of Ridge undoubtedly undermined the credibility of Homeland Security's suggestions. Did we teach them in the schools? Probably not, since teachers and school administrators undoubtedly as a class thought Ridge was a dope. Indeed, I was pretty casual about it myself, and admit that we have our water supplies only because my wife insisted.
If the activist left (including the African-American activist groups) had endorsed instead of mocked Tom Ridge's advice, would more people have been prepared when Katrina hit? As my co-blogger pointed out last week, it is not hard to follow Homeland Security's advice. While everybody can't afford everything in Homeland Security's recommended 72 hour "go pack", even most poor people could round up three days worth of non-perishable food (beans, canned food, peanut butter) and some jugs of clean water.
3 Comments:
By 
, at
Tue Sep 06, 01:43:00 AM:
Read a few days ago an email
send by a lifelong NO resident. He said that even
in grade school every year the children are taught that
they and their families must be prepared. The children go home and say
"Hey Mom, smoking is bad. Please stop it and make sure
we have a three day supply of water for you and me and dad and sis and Spot. Radio
stations, newspapers and local TV EVERY YEAR at beginning of Hurricane season remind all of what to
have on hand.
His point was that anyone
who lived in New Orleans knew exactly what they should be doing to prepare.
But you are absolutely correct that the Left's ridicule of Ridge only added
to the attitude of the
Big Easy.
Ledeen goes deep into the psyche of NO-not pretty:
The Doomed Cities
The Heart of New Orleans
By Michael A. Ledeen
Posted Sept 1,2005
"Moreover, Venice prefigured the most likely cultural and political destiny of New Orleans, no matter whether the long-anticipated catastrophe came or not: a slow slide into monotonous ritual, a city transformed into an historic theme park, more frequented by tourists than defined by the energy of its inhabitants, an anachronistic curiosity like Florence, where one focuses on things past, not present or future."
Click here: AEI - Short Publications
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.23118/pub_detail.asp
Read the whole things and people not having prepared
becomes less surprising.
By 
Papa Ray, at
Tue Sep 06, 08:54:00 AM:
In Harm's Way is worth reading. Not sure of publication date.
Papa Ray
West Texas
USA
By Catchy Pseudonym, at
Tue Sep 06, 09:07:00 AM:
I remember everyone mocking Ridge... when did it become just a Left thing?
