Call It A Comeback
The Liberal Blogging Network is joining together with an coordinated effort to raise money for the Red Cross–I’ll be featuring the ad at the right for the next 2 weeks at least. Please consider giving–if it’ll help, I believe I can track money from my site, and I could set a goal. Tell me if you think that’s a good idea or not in comments. Or just give at the Red Cross site. Just give really.
First, help by donating to the Red Cross, then celebrate New Orleans musical history by seeing Kermit Ruffins on Saturday.
Obviously check and see if Kermit is actually going to make it, though the with all of the stages–something will be worth it.
UPDATE: For those that have been there, I haven’t been able to get Tipitinas or Le Bon Temps Roule out of my mind. Strangely, Mark Brown mentions Tipitina’s in his column. Perhaps odder, both are probably in relatively good condition given their location in Uptown.
From the Univerity
We want to alert you that from now through September 16 we will admit and enroll qualified students who have been displaced by colleges that have closed as a result of Hurricane Katrina. UMSL will waive its application and late registration fees, work to place students in classes that will transfer to their home college and possibly provide some scholarship aid to students in need. Students should call admissions at 516-5451 for more information. Most of the students are undergraduates from universities like Tulane, Loyola, and other universities in Louisiana and Mississippi who are from this area. There are also a few graduate students. Some may come here for a semester or two, but others may want to fully transfer here and graduate from UMSL. Some of this depends on what happens in Louisiana and Mississippi, of course.
I’m stunned by the news in New Orleans and frankly, I think what I’ve heard on the national news is downplaying the tragedy not understanding the sheer enormity of what is happening. This isn’t a storm story with anecdotal stories of bad things happening, but an unfolding disaster still in New Orleans. Either tonight or tomorrow I’ll be back to local news–which has several fascinating stories going on….
As for the looting fetish on the tv news–given the city is continuing to be submerged, who the hell cares? A city in a developed nation is being wiped out. Wiped out.
If you want to worry about violence, think about the problems in refugee camps and temporary housing for all of these people for the next 3-4 months the Mayor of New Orleans has suggested is the period before people can come back (and that doesn’t include rebuilding housing).
I swore I wouldn’t post on this, but just minutes ago, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (who is doing an amazing job) announced that the 17th Street Levee that breached earlier in the day was unable to be plugged and the water in the area around it will now rise rapidly again 9 feet or 3 feet above ground water–the vast majority of the city is below sea level and only very few areas are above 4 feet of sea level.
There is very little you can do, but what you can do, is found in one place.
It seems likely that there are still thousands left in the city.
ArchPundit and Blog Saint Louis were 3 years old on the 26th….
Thanks to all of my readers.
Slow for the early part of the day, but I have several posts on the way
1) Daley and Patronage
2) Why Edgar May Take a Pass
3) The flipside of The Governor’s issues
4) Summary of Missouri-Iowa-Illinois Big Congressional Races
And more…
I’m not sure that was a DC pundit, but the larger point in an important one about how to run large races. The argument is fleshed out for better and worse in the comments. I’ll leave you to read mine for my points.
And, of course, Congrats to Tod and Claire–It’s a very good hire. I don’t know his position yet, but I’m sure he’ll do a great job.
Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher pardoned, well, everyone, but himself. Kentucky had a similar incident when former Governor Patton issued some cronies a pardon as he was about to leave office concerning official misconduct.
Fred Phelps further demonstrates his worldliness by claiming he’s going to picket the King of Sweden in Stockholm on Labor Day (link offensive). Of course, in Sweden that’d just be September 5 because they celebrate May Day.
Now those who have followed Dipnuts and family know he can’t afford to get to Stockholm so this is bogus, but if you are going to claim you are going to do it, have some clue about the stated nation’s holidays.
Dirtbag also shows us his pictures from the protests in East Peoria and Zion.
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