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calendar   Saturday - September 10, 2005

What Was The Pentagon Doing?

In catching up on reading the posts from the last week, I came across an explanation from BobF about military logistics and the amount of preparation that must go into any military deployment. If you’ve ever served in the military you know what he was talking about. It takes time and the military doesn’t have time, in most situations, to “get ready” instantly. For that reason, there are entire departments in each branch of the military that do nothing but prepare for the next mission. So what was the Pentagon doing prior to Katrina? Here’s a little insight from Daniel Henninger at the Wall Street Journal from an editorial entitled ”Who Calls The Cavalry” ....

The popular impression left the past week-- that the government was wholly unprepared for Katrina--is not true. Significant U.S. military assistance was on alert throughout the week prior to Katrina’s landfall. Why those highly trained and drilled assets did not move into New Orleans sooner is a question that should now sit at the center of a debate over who should have the authority--the states or the federal government--to be the “first mover.”

According to accounts provided by several sources involved with preparations for Katrina, the Pentagon began tracking the storm when it was still just a number in the ocean on Aug. 23, some five days before landfall in Buras, La. As the storm approached, senior Pentagon officials told staff to conduct an inventory of resources available should it grow into a severe hurricane. Their template for these plans was the assistance DoD provided Florida last year for its four hurricanes.

And a week earlier than this, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld issued an executive order delegating hurricane decision authority to the head of the Northern Command, Adm. Timothy J. Keating. Four days later, as the tropical storm soon to be named Katrina gathered force, Adm. Keating acted on that order.

Before the hurricane arrived in New Orleans, Adm. Keating approved the use of the bases in Meridien, Miss., and Barksdale, La., to position emergency meals and some medical equipment; eventually the number of emergency-use bases grew to six. And before landfall, Adm. Keating sent military officers to Mississippi and Louisiana to set up traditional coordination with their counterparts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. As well, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England ordered the movement of ships into the Gulf.

By the Pentagon’s account, it carried out these preparations without any formal Katrina-related request from FEMA or other authorities. The personnel behind the massive military effort now on display in Louisiana--airlift evacuation, medical, supply, and the National Guard--was on alert a week before the hurricane. According to Assistant Secretary McHale, “The U.S. military has never deployed a larger, better-resourced civil support capability so rapidly in the history of our country.”

So where were they on the two days of globally televised horror? Why, for instance, didn’t DoD fly all this help close to New Orleans as soon as it saw Katrina coming? The answer, in military argot, is that you don’t deploy troops beneath a bombing run; Katrina predictably would have wiped out any help put in her uncertain path, just as she rolled over the Big Easy’s wholly unprotected “first responders.”

Then there’s American history, tradition and law. Once disaster arrives, several federal laws designed to protect state sovereignty from being swept aside by a Latin-American-style national police force dictate that a state’s officials, specifically the governor, is supposed to phone the federal government and describe what they need. If asked by Homeland Security, DoD will send in the cavalry. But this is one audible at the line even Don Rumsfeld doesn’t get to call.

Post-mortem investigations will surely re-create, minute by minute, how Louisiana Gov. Blanco and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff idled away their time last week. But it appears now that Gov. Blanco did not make that crucial, early, legally mandated call to the President. Absent that, Fox and CNN became the call to the White House. The media message was “do something!” In fact, the president does have “do something” authority. It’s called the Insurrection Act, which is what John Kennedy used in 1963 against Gov. George Wallace, ordering the governor’s own National Guard to turn against him and forcibly integrate the University of Alabama. As to the looters, who were breaking no evident federal law, the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 explicitly forbids using the military (unless a governor uses her National Guard under “state status") in a domestic police function.

The question raised by the Katrina fiasco--and by the Pentagon’s new Homeland Defense Strategy to protect against WMD attack--is whether the threat from madmen and nature is now sufficiently huge in its potential horror and unacceptable loss that we should modify existing jurisdictional authority to give the Pentagon functional first-responder status. Should we repeal or modify the Posse Comitatus Act so homicidal thugs have more to fear than the Keystone Kops? Should a governor be able to phone the Defense Secretary direct, creating a kind of “yellow-light authority” and cutting out the Homeland Security or FEMA middleman? Should presidential initiative extend beyond the Insurrection Act?

Instinct says the answer is forever no. Survival suggests we had better talk about it.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/10/2005 at 10:45 AM   
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A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Wurds

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/10/2005 at 08:35 AM   
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Whining Terrorist Alert!

Munich Terrorist Hits Out At Spielberg
(BreakingNews.ie)

Steven Spielberg has been criticised by the only surviving Palestinian terrorist behind the massacre at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, because the director failed to consult him over his new movie dramatisation of the tragic events.

Mohammed Daoud was a member of terror group Black September in the early 1970s and was responsible for the deaths of 11 Israelis in Munich’s Olympic Village. He has been on the run ever since.

But Daoud is so angry with Spielberg’s supposedly pro-Israel stance in new film MUNICH, he contacted news agency Reuters to put forward his side of the story.

He said: “If someone really wanted to tell the truth about what happened he should talk to the people involved, people who know the truth. Were I contacted, I would tell the truth.

“(Israel) carried out vengeance against people who had nothing to do with the Munich attack, people who were merely politically active or had ties with the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organisation).”

Memo To Mr. Daoud: Mossad would very much like to hear your side of the story. They will be in touch shortly ....


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/10/2005 at 07:16 AM   
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Chicken Little Retraction

Death Toll in New Orleans May Be Lower Than First Feared
NEW ORLEANS (NY Times)

The first organized effort to scour the city for its dead has turned up far fewer bodies than expected, officials said Friday. That raised hopes that the death toll from Hurricane Katrina might be much lower than the 10,000 that the mayor and others had predicted. As the floodwater continued to recede, police officers, National Guard members and members of the 82nd Airborne Division of the Army began to canvass street to street and house to house in the first phase of a hunt to find, remove and identify the dead.

“There’s some encouragement in what we found in the initial sweeps,” Col. Terry J. Ebbert, the city’s director of homeland security, said. “The numbers so far are relatively minor as compared with the dire predictions of 10,000.”

The specter of a five-figure toll was raised this week, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency ordered 25,000 body bags flown to a temporary morgue in St. Gabriel. The official state death count stood at 118. Mississippi reported 211. Colonel Ebbert, who would not provide figures for New Orleans, said it would take two weeks before the search for the dead here could yield a reliable assessment.

What? You mean it’s not really the end of the world? Hold the presses! We need to find gloom and doom elsewhere!

Mayor C. Ray Nagin of New Orleans went to Dallas, touring shelters and visiting family members who had evacuated there. He joined Dallas leaders in announcing a citywide relief fund and denouncing the federal emergency agency for what they called its continuing slow response to the crisis.

“It’s a doggone shame that these survivors had to wait in the hot sun for FEMA yesterday, and FEMA didn’t arrive,” Mr. Nagin said.

Still playing that same old tune, Mayor Negligent? Keep blaming FEMA. That way no one will place the blame where it really belongs, namely on your corrupt head!

Perhaps the most promising development to emerge was the first detailed timetable for draining New Orleans. The Army Corps of Engineers said a new computer model showed that all areas of the city would be pumped dry by Oct. 18, about 40 days from the estimate.

The corps had previously said only that the work would take 24 to 80 days. And for the first time since the hurricane slammed into the Gulf Coast, government and utility officials offered a time frame for restoring electricity to the New Orleans downtown business district. They said they hoped to have power turned on and much of the debris cleaned up by the end of next week.

Amazing, isn’t it? All those dire predictions by the mainstream media seem to be drying up .. along with the city of New Orleans. The Katrina Katastrophe is subsiding too quickly. Look for the MSM to go hunting for another way to attack the Bush administration real soon now. The MSM reminds me of a two-year-old child with an extremely short attention span and a tendency to throw temper tantrums when they don’t get what they want.

Folks along the Gulf Coast will still be trying to put their lives back together years from now but the MSM will have completely forgotten about them. The recovery efforts will continue in a sharply reduced media vacuum. The MSM had their fun, rushing to the area long before FEMA could get mobilized just so they could point the finger of blame at FEMA while the local leaders got a pass on their negligence and failure to respond.

I don’t know about you but I’m quite fed up with this farce.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/10/2005 at 06:41 AM   
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Bring Out Your Dead!

FEMA Accused of Censorship
WASHINGTON (Reuters)

When U.S. officials asked the media not to take pictures of those killed by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, they were censoring a key part of the disaster story, free speech watchdogs said on Wednesday. The move by the Federal Emergency Management Agency is in line with the Bush administration’s ban on images of flag-draped U.S. military coffins returning from the Iraq war, media monitors said in separate telephone interviews.

“It’s impossible for me to imagine how you report a story whose subject is death without allowing the public to see images of the subject of the story,” said Larry Siems of the PEN American Center, an authors’ group that defends free expression. U.S. newspapers, television outlets and Web sites have featured pictures of shrouded corpses and makeshift graves in New Orleans. But on Tuesday, FEMA refused to take reporters and photographers along on boats seeking victims in flooded areas, saying they would take up valuable space need in the recovery effort and asked them not to take pictures of the dead.

In an e-mail explaining the decision, a FEMA spokeswoman wrote: “The recovery of victims is being treated with dignity and the utmost respect and we have requested that no photographs of the deceased be made by the media.” Efforts to recover bodies continued on Wednesday. Out in the city’s filthy waters, rescue teams tied bodies to trees or fences when they found them and noted the location for later recovery before carrying on in search of survivors. Rebecca Daugherty of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press found this stance inexplicable.

“The notion that, when there’s very little information from FEMA, that they would even spend the time to be concerned about whether the reporting effort is up to its standards of taste is simply mind-boggling,” Daugherty said. “You cannot report on the disaster and give the public a realistic idea of how horrible it is if you don’t see that there are bodies as well.” FEMA’s policy of excluding media from recovery expeditions in New Orleans is “an invitation to chaos,” according to Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a part of Columbia University’s journalism school.

“This is about managing images and not public taste or human dignity,” Rosenstiel said. He said FEMA’s refusal to take journalists along on recovery missions meant that media workers would go on their own. Rosenstiel also noted that U.S. media, especially U.S. television outlets, are generally reluctant to show corpses. “By and large, American television is the most sanitized television in the world,” he said. “They are less likely to show bodies, they are less likely to show graphic images of the dead than any television in the world.”

There is also a question of what the American PEN Center’s Siems called “international equity,” noting that American news outlets cover stories around the world showing the effects of natural disasters and wars in graphic detail. “How is the world going to look at us if we go into their part of the world and we broadcast these images and we do not allow ourselves to look at such images when they’re right in our own midst?” Siems said. Mark Tapscott, a former editor at the Washington Times newspaper who now deals with media issues at the Heritage Foundation, said the FEMA decision did not amount to censorship.

“Let’s not make a common decency issue into a censorship issue,” Tapscott said. “Nobody wants to wake up in the morning and see their dead uncle on the front page. That’s just common decency.”

Common decency? That is asking a bit much from the US media, isn’t it? They’re too busy chasing their next Pulitzer, dont’cha know.


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/10/2005 at 06:27 AM   
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Feels Like Home

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/10/2005 at 06:23 AM   
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calendar   Friday - September 09, 2005

A Voice From The Wilderness

I just woke up. That 14-hour drive back from the Florida panhandle to St. Louis wore out these old bones. I am about to crash out again and try to catch up on some more lost sleep. I’ll be back in good shape tomorrow and ready to tackle the e-mails and comments here. Frank and Ronnie did good. Let’s hear a round of applause for both of these righteous guys.

I will be working on my first-hand glimpse at the devastation and problems in Mississippi and Alabama and should have that for you tomorrow too. In the meantime, I was shocked to find in my e-mail Inbox a message from a long lost BMEWS member .... Oink! We haven’t heard from him since March or April. I had heard from OldCatMan that he dropped out because he was so bummed when the partnership here split up (never mind - don’t ask). He saw the piggybank on a diet picture and was offended that anyone would portray an Oinker like that. So he sent me this picture below of himself out on the town recently at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch .... wherever that is .... makin’ bacon, I presume ....

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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/09/2005 at 04:11 PM   
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Relieved

FEMA Chief Relieved of Katrina Command

WASHINGTON - Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown is being relieved of his command of the Bush administration’s Hurricane Katrina onsite relief efforts, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced Friday.

He will be replaced by Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad W. Allen, who was overseeing New Orleans relief and rescue efforts, Chertoff said.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 09/09/2005 at 02:10 PM   
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Stick a fork in them, will ya?

Gutfeld at his best.  I can’t decide if I laughed more at the article, or the comments.

Here’s how it starts:

Do you often find yourself fantasizing about becoming a Huffpo blogger? Do you love to read other blogs, digest their info, and then expel pre-chewed nut-bag assumptions into a concerned and earnest post? If so, you might be perfect for this blog!
So… how do you get the job?

Just tick the boxes!

SECTION ONE: WHO ARE YOU?

Are you famous?
- Do you know someone famous?
- have you ever brushed up against someone famous?
- Was it Warren Beatty?
- Did you think he’d be firmer?

Is your husband famous?
(check one of the following)
- Yes I am Rebecca Pidgeon.
- Yes I am Laurie David
- Yes, I am Shiva Rose
- No, but my wife is rich AND famous, I am Brad Hall
- Other lady of leisure:____________________

Where did you spend your summer vacation?
- French Riviera
- Camp Casey
- Deepak Chopra’s Seducing the Spirit Retreat
- working as Sean Penn’s personal photographer

Which of the following countries have you threatened to move to (check all
that apply):
- France
- Canada
- Monaco has no taxes, right?


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 09/09/2005 at 12:51 PM   
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This Can’t be Right, Can it?

via Michelle Malkin and Real Clear Politics

They’ve unveiled the design for the Flight 93 Memorial for rural PA.  Here’s the mock-up:

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Notice anything?

The red crescent moon is the symbol of the The Red Crescent Society, the arm of the International Federation of The Red Cross dedicated to serving Islamic countries and the crescent moon with a star is the internationally-recognized symbol of the faith of Islam. It is featured prominently in some variation on the flags of most Islamic states:

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*Updates*
Here’s the website for the memorial and this is the five finalist’s page.

From Michelle: This is the designer’s “Statement of Philosophy”

“A primary task of this generation is to create new patterns of development that sustain human habitation on this planet. Towards this end, the principles adopted for our practice are intended to ensure that each project contributes to an overall goal of environmental responsibility while striving for design excellence.
As architects, we are uniquely qualified to help formulate and translate policy into tangible form; mitigating pressures of urbanity with the need to heal the natural environment. Each design solution is seen as a contribution to the human condition; as it exists today and evolves into future generations.

Our goal is to define and study problems both in terms of clients’ direct needs and relative to long term effects on natural and man made surroundings. More than problem solving however, we aspire to emotionally affect and uplift our lives through poetry and beauty.

It is through these transcendent qualities that we optimistically strive for ways to enrich life and fulfill our original purpose for engaging in the practice of architecture.”

By the way, it’s title is: ”Crescent of Embrace


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 09/09/2005 at 08:41 AM   
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Holdouts

Holdouts on Dry Ground Say, ‘Why Leave Now?’

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 8 - Ten days ago, the water rose to the front steps of their house. Four days ago, it began falling. But only now is the city demanding that Richie Kay and Emily Harris get out.

They cannot understand why. They live on high ground in the Bywater neighborhood, and their house escaped structural damage. They are healthy and have enough food and water to last almost a year.

They have a dog to protect them, a car with a full tank of gasoline should they need to leave quickly and a canoe as a last resort. They said they used it last week to rescue 100 people.

“We’re not the people they need to be taking out,” Mr. Kay said. “We’re the people they need to be coordinating with.”

Scattered throughout the dry neighborhoods of New Orleans, which are growing larger each day as pumps push water out of the city, are people like Mr. Kay and Ms. Harris. They are defying Mayor C. Ray Nagin’s orders to leave, contending that he will violate their constitutional rights if he forces them out of the homes they own or rent.

This is one line from the story that I would like your comment on:
“To reduce the risk of violent confrontation, the police began confiscating firearms on Thursday, even those legally owned.”
[emphasis mine]

So, if you were dry, safe, stocked and secure, and a cop showed up to force you out, demanding you turn over your weapons, what would you do?  Jump to the forum to discuss.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 09/09/2005 at 07:27 AM   
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A Nice Story

I generally don’t like posting anecdotal stories, but this one sounds pretty legit.  Besides, we need some feel-good now and again.

Herc Driver’s Report on Katrina Rescue Ops

I just returned from New Orleans on a hurricane relief mission in the C-130.

Let me just start by saying I was awed. Not in what I saw in destruction and devastation because I had/have already seen enough of that on TV. What really hit me hard was the absolute determination and willingness of all those involved in the relief effort. I just want to quickly tell you what I was a part of and what I witnessed as it just really filled me with pride and reminded me again why we are such an amazing and successful country.

It started when I showed up for the flight in Nashville. Instead of the flight planning I would normally do (the other pilot did it), I was tasked to call all 60 or so of the pilots from the 105th Airlift Squadron (my squadron) and find out their availability to fly hurricane relief missions.

Now, don’t forget these are all Air National Guard men and women and most all have full time jobs outside of flying for the Guard. Almost without exception, every pilot offered whatever assistance was needed. No surprise.

As they say, go read the rest.
(posted on the “Professional Pilots Rumor Network")


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 09/09/2005 at 06:59 AM   
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Who’s In Charge?

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Day By Day -by- Chris Muir


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Posted by The Skipper   United States  on 09/09/2005 at 06:05 AM   
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calendar   Thursday - September 08, 2005

Photos Du Jour

Skipper is on his way back to St. Louis from Florida today and will be back on the blog tomorrow (hopefully). In the meantime, I thought I’d put together the following from stuff I found on the web. It is not pictures from Katrina. These shots are from Gulfport and Pass Christian, Mississippi at the end of August, 1969. The Skipper and his family were in the middle of that one and I’m sure he’s glad to have been out of Katrina’s path this time.

Remember that FEMA wasn’t created until 1979, but in 1969 the Gulf Coast was sparsely populated (casinos and condominiums would come much later) and the Army Corps Of Engineers hadn’t started tearing up the Mississippi delta wetlands and building canals that increased the possibility of storm surge damage. All that would come a long time after 1969 when Camille tore through the same area with much higher winds than Katrina. Yet, much fewer people died than it seems did in Katrina. Why?

Is it possible we have made matters worse down there by removing natural barriers, building multi-million dollar resorts and hotels and increasing the population? Maybe we’re all to blame for sitting back and ignoring the past for the last 45 years, eh? (And don’t give me any of that “if only we’d signed Kyoto” or “global warming” crap!) Stoopid humans moved to the beaches, drained the swamps and wetlands, bought homes in a city below sea level, built flimsy wooden houses right on the beach and forgot what a beeyatch Momma Nature can be when she decides to PMS all over our efforts.

Go ahead. Click below to see what it looked like 45 years ago along the Gulf Coast ....

See More Below The Fold

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Posted by Ronald Reagan's Ghost   United States  on 09/08/2005 at 01:47 PM   
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