Comments on: Deluge for a Deluge http://benpollock.com/brick/2008/06/25/deluge-for-a-deluge/ Muse on News by Ben S. Pollock Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:27:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: doctorj http://benpollock.com/brick/2008/06/25/deluge-for-a-deluge/comment-page-1/#comment-20237 doctorj Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:28:46 +0000 http://benpollock.com/brick/?p=438#comment-20237 Cathy, My heart bleeds for your suffering. Cathy,
My heart bleeds for your suffering.

]]> By: cathy gillentine http://benpollock.com/brick/2008/06/25/deluge-for-a-deluge/comment-page-1/#comment-20236 cathy gillentine Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:20:07 +0000 http://benpollock.com/brick/?p=438#comment-20236 If you really want to get angry, come to Houston and see the thousands of former Louisianans who have never worked for a living and never will, living off your tax dollars on welfare and supporting the cajun gangs who have upped all the crime statistics, especially the one for murder. When they first arrived at the Astrodome, some volunteers who are friends of mine went out with free sandwiches and received complaints because there was not a hot meal available that day. I did not go to New Orleans because I could not bear to be in the same room with Ray Nagin, who is only one of many politicians known for their crookedness. If you really want to get angry, come to Houston and see the thousands of former Louisianans who have never worked for a living and never will, living off your tax dollars on welfare and supporting the cajun gangs who have upped all the crime statistics, especially the one for murder. When they first arrived at the Astrodome, some volunteers who are friends of mine went out with free sandwiches and received complaints because there was not a hot meal available that day.
I did not go to New Orleans because I could not bear to be in the same room with Ray Nagin, who is only one of many politicians known for their crookedness.

]]> By: New Orleans News Lad http://benpollock.com/brick/2008/06/25/deluge-for-a-deluge/comment-page-1/#comment-20235 New Orleans News Lad Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:51:36 +0000 http://benpollock.com/brick/?p=438#comment-20235 Ben, I posted your lede onto today's Ladder. I appreciate your consideration, and your pain, like God you got to go home from the Crucifixion. Yeah, it was hard. It is hard. It has been 3 years and you folks are still ensconced on a mythical 4th Estate while your country floods to death. I want my readers to see this. I saw your colleagues in town that first week of the flood. I wanted their water...maybe even their ride out of town but I'm not God not even close. Now, the allegedly "Repaired" 17th Street Canal Levee is leaking more each day. The leak today is about 50 yards long by 30 yards wide. Now, I and the rest of the country, have all the water we can stand but where are you folks? Indeed the country drowns while do faux 2nd lines. I understand your shock. I am sorry for your lack of place. I am truly sorry that you think you may have found it in the loss of ours. However you have to look a bit upstream, or perhaps in your own back yard to see the doppleganger of our grief. Everyone lives in a dangerous place in America now as America is in danger. We are in danger from the clods who built our flood control structure. We are in danger from the bullies to whom your profession has handed our Press without even a punk whimper. We are in danger of simply killing each other, but the Corps will remain. Out of your entire heart string, you never got that the city was flooded by engineering maleficence, criminal negligence by our Federally mandated Civil Engineers. You did not get it that New Orleans past and future are far from ambiguous, as you attempted to bias it. You did not get it that we are here to stay. Yeah, God got to go back to Heaven and y'all got to go back to America. And the world is going to Mall in a hand basket. That is ok. We live in New Orleans. We live with New Orleans. We live because of New Orleans, Sinn Féin. Thank you, Editilla~New Orleans News Ladder Ben, I posted your lede onto today’s Ladder. I appreciate your consideration, and your pain, like God you got to go home from the Crucifixion. Yeah, it was hard. It is hard. It has been 3 years and you folks are still ensconced on a mythical 4th Estate while your country floods to death. I want my readers to see this. I saw your colleagues in town that first week of the flood. I wanted their water…maybe even their ride out of town but I’m not God not even close. Now, the allegedly “Repaired” 17th Street Canal Levee is leaking more each day. The leak today is about 50 yards long by 30 yards wide. Now, I and the rest of the country, have all the water we can stand but where are you folks? Indeed the country drowns while do faux 2nd lines.
I understand your shock. I am sorry for your lack of place. I am truly sorry that you think you may have found it in the loss of ours. However you have to look a bit upstream, or perhaps in your own back yard to see the doppleganger of our grief. Everyone lives in a dangerous place in America now as America is in danger. We are in danger from the clods who built our flood control structure. We are in danger from the bullies to whom your profession has handed our Press without even a punk whimper. We are in danger of simply killing each other, but the Corps will remain.
Out of your entire heart string, you never got that the city was flooded by engineering maleficence, criminal negligence by our Federally mandated Civil Engineers. You did not get it that New Orleans past and future are far from ambiguous, as you attempted to bias it.
You did not get it that we are here to stay.

Yeah, God got to go back to Heaven and y’all got to go back to America.
And the world is going to Mall in a hand basket.
That is ok.
We live in New Orleans.
We live with New Orleans.
We live because of New Orleans, Sinn Féin.

Thank you,
Editilla~New Orleans News Ladder

]]> By: doctorj http://benpollock.com/brick/2008/06/25/deluge-for-a-deluge/comment-page-1/#comment-20234 doctorj Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:24:02 +0000 http://benpollock.com/brick/?p=438#comment-20234 There is no way to describe the hell the people of the Gulf South have endured the last three years, just as there is no picture or video that can capture the scope of the devastation. Is it that the press did not do its job or that the American people did not want to listen? I don't know. All I know is that, at best, I have no feeling at all for a country I use to love. And I mourn that lose. That said, New Orleans is rebuilding, even if some of my countrymen think that is not such a great idea. The Gulf South is rebuilding also due to the courage, resilience, and yes DEFIANCE of the locals that refuse to let their communities die from neglect. America to me is just an address I send my taxes to. With them is a note asking "Why?". There is no way to describe the hell the people of the Gulf South have endured the last three years, just as there is no picture or video that can capture the scope of the devastation. Is it that the press did not do its job or that the American people did not want to listen? I don’t know. All I know is that, at best, I have no feeling at all for a country I use to love. And I mourn that lose. That said, New Orleans is rebuilding, even if some of my countrymen think that is not such a great idea. The Gulf South is rebuilding also due to the courage, resilience, and yes DEFIANCE of the locals that refuse to let their communities die from neglect. America to me is just an address I send my taxes to. With them is a note asking “Why?”.

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