Year: 2005

Yesterday, I was listening to Rush Limbaugh talk to a black caller who said — and he was being completely serious, this wasn’t hyperbole — that he thought George Bush wanted black people to die in New Orleans. Rush wasn’t surprised by that, but he was disappointed and so am I — because this guy […]

Lieutenant General Russel Honore Lived Up To His ‘John Wayne Dude’ Nickname, Blasting Complaints That Red Tape Or Poor Security Were Snarling Relief Efforts As “B.S.” Multiple Failures Caused Relief Crisis FEMA Pilot: Rescue Began Just Hours After Flood FEMA Accused Of Flying Evacuees To Wrong Charleston 22 Bodies Found Tied Together In Village As […]

Over the Labor Day week-end, I was sorry to hear about the death of William Rehnquist. Unfortunately, not everyone feels the same way. Take for example, the comments you’re about to read from denizens of Democratic Underground who participated in a mind-numbingly insensitive thread called “I Shall P*ss On The Grave Of William Rehnquist.” Although […]

Since Katrina hit, the left has been pumping out wacko commentary practically non-stop. However, I don’t think I’ve run across anything that tops this: “The lecture comes down to this: BUSH CAUSED THIS DISASTER. And YOU caused this disaster, you southern soft-heads, because you voted for that ape. Bush caused this disaster by ignoring global […]

Hey, Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans: After hurricane Katrina, your police officers looted, stood by while stores were sacked, and were run out of the Superdome by an angry mob. Because of the incompetence and ineffectiveness of your officers, people were menaced, raped, beaten, murdered, and rescue efforts were significantly hampered. Now, even as […]

Steve Sailer, whom I didn’t much care for in the first place, wrote a nasty, offensive, & racist column about what happened in New Orleans that contained the two following quotes among others: “What you won’t hear, except from me, is that “Let the good times roll” is an especially risky message for African-Americans. The […]

“Journalists who are long on opinions and short on knowledge have no idea what is entailed in moving hundreds of tons of relief supplies into an area the size of England in which power lines are down, no gasoline is available, and roads and airports were covered with water or debris. Yet this was done […]

After you finish up with Right Wing News today, make sure to head over to my other blog, Conservative Grapevine, to see what the right side of the blogosphere has to say about hurricane Katrina. If want to keep up to speed with what’s going on, make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today for […]

“If, as a nation, we want the federal government to assume the role of first-responder in our communities, then I imagine its size and power will have to be massively increased for it to have the capacity to respond to local and regional natural disasters in this way — even if it could. The federal […]

Hurricane Katrina Mayor: Katrina Death Toll May Hit 10,000 City To Offer Free Trips to Las Vegas for Officers (WHAT? NOW???? Free NYT Reg Req) New Orleans Police To Be Pulled Off Streets 10,000 Still Refuse To Leave New Orleans Kuwait Pledges $500m For Hurricane Relief Major Gap Closed In New Orleans Levee Katrina Medical […]

I will be taking Labor Day off, so RWN will not return until Tuesday. Until then, enjoy the links to other blogs below and consider this an open thread. Have a great week-end! The Baseball Crank Conservative Outpost The Foretelling Of A Deadly Disaster In New Orleans. Originally Published On Dec. 1, 2001 Nicole Gelinas: […]

— As each day passes, the staggering incompetence of the local government in New Orleans becomes more and more glaringly apparent. From the very beginning, it was obvious that they were either unwilling or unable to enforce order after the hurricane. Now, it has also become apparent that they had massive numbers of buses that […]

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Dennis Hastert has gotten a lot of flack for some comments he made about New Orleans: “It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that’s seven feet under sea level, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said of federal assistance for hurricane-devastated New Orleans. “It looks like a lot of that place […]

In these days and times, when you actually have people claiming that to be compassionate, you’ve got to be pro-looting, I’d say that opposing price gouging laws would definitely be considered an “alternative view.” But, rising prices caused by a disaster are nothing more than the result of supply and demand. If the demand for […]

Fears increased today among hundreds of thousands of refugees from the hurricane-ravaged gulf coast as they faced a Labor Day weekend with little hope of an eloquent speech from President George Bush. As today’s New York Times editorial indicated, the president “gave one of the worst speeches of his life yesterday, especially given the level […]

Well, this kills another meme going around on the left…. “The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday that a lack of funding for hurricane-protection projects around New Orleans did not contribute to the disastrous flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina. In a telephone interview with reporters, corps officials said that although portions of the flood-protection […]

Apparently they don’t make those bleeding heart liberals like they used to… “I’m not going to post the piece I started to write. My original reaction to the Katrina catastrophe was going to be: “NOT ONE DIME.” For an hour or so, I contemplated the idea of turning it into a crusade: No-one in the […]

Hurricane Katrina Katrina Damage Could Hit $50 Billion Hastert Questions Rebuilding New Orleans Gunmen Target Medical Convoy Relief Workers Confront ‘Urban Warfare’. Violence Disrupts Evacuation, Rescue Efforts In New Orleans

This is just surreal… “Police say storm victims are being raped and beaten inside the New Orleans Convention Center. About 15,200 people who had taken shelter at the convention center to await buses grew increasingly hostile. Police Chief Eddie Compass says he sent in 88 officers to quell the situation at the building, but they […]

“This President is never gonna do the right thing. I think somewhere deep down inside him he takes a lot of joy about losing people, if he thinks they vote Democrat or if he thinks they’re poor, or if he thinks they’re in a blue state, whatever his reasons are not to rescue those people…” […]

At the Drudge Report, there’s a big, splashy headline that says, “BUSH VOWS TO SAVE NEW ORLEANS.” Here’s a basic question that needs to be asked: should we “save” New Orleans? Keep in mind that the damage done to New Orleans isn’t a surprise. To the contrary, people have known for decades that the city […]

Here’s a fascinatingly nutty take on hurricane Katrina: it’s God’s revenge for America’s support of Sharon’s plan to remove the Jews from Gaza. No, seriously! Here’s an explanation from a kook named Stan Goodenough at a website called Jerusalem Newswire (which incidentally, I’ve never heard of): “Yesterday, we in Israel watched as American officials, including […]

In her latest column, Peggy Noonan defends looting for necessities, but she thinks looters stealing non-essentials should be shot. From my perspective, that’s sort of a “glass half-full” sort of argument. But, let’s focus on the empty half of the glass. From Noonan’s column: “There seems to be some confusion in terms of terminology on […]

“Katrina has nothing to do with global warming. Nothing. It has everything to do with the immense forces of nature that have been unleashed many, many times before and the inability of humans, even the most brilliant engineers, to tame these forces. Giant hurricanes are rare, but they are not new. And they are not […]

If you’re looking to donate some money to help the victims of hurricane Katrina, may I suggest the Salvation Army? They’re a well known, reputable charity and they actually hand out 83 cents out of every dollar, so you know they’re not frittering away a lot of money on overhead. So, if you’re looking to […]

Hurricane Katrina Katrina May Have Killed Thousands New Orleans Mayor: “We Are Looking At 12 To 16 Weeks Before People Can Come In” Officials Helpless Against Looters New Orleans Declares Martial Law To Crack Down On Looters Levee Repair Work Has Yet To Begin. Engineers Plan To Intentionally Breach Some New Orleans Floodwalls At Least […]

My buddies over at Ankle Biting Pundits ran across what appeared to be quite a scoop from Cindy Sheehan. In Cindy Sheehan’s “Last Post From Crawford,” she posted “thank-you’s” to a number of politicians. Most of them were standard, run-of-the-mill, ultra-lefties. However, there was one name that really stood out… “George Bush for not meeting […]

Looting stores for any reason, for food, for water, for diapers, for baby food, is wrong and it should not be condoned. There are very good reasons for that: — Looting is theft of somebody’s else’s goods pure and simple. That’s not OK even after a hurricane. — Usually, a window or door has to […]

Just because I find this line of thinking to be surprisingly perverse, even for a bunch of liberals at the DU, here are more quotes from patrons of the Democratic Underground who’ve spoken out in favor of looting: manic expression: 1.) Getting necessities, or very near necessities (as in having something to wipe their asses […]