September 2005 Nine posts

• 17-Sep-2005
  Lyrics of the Week A beautiful song, so simple, so serene: TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN Brian Eno. We climbed and we climbed, Oh, how we climbed My, how We climbed Over the stars To top Tiger Mountain Forcing the lines through the snow. We climbed and we climbed, Oh, how we climbed My, how We climbed Over the stars To...
• 08-Sep-2005
  New Orleans Must Be New Orleans: A Geopolitical Prize (Stratfor): …it was geography — the extraordinary system of rivers that flowed through the Midwest and allowed them to ship their surplus to the rest of the world. All of the rivers flowed into one — the Mississippi — and the Mississippi flowed to the ports in and around one...
• 07-Sep-2005
  Will Reed and Astrodome Internet An email from my friend Susan, about a friend of hers who is doing great work at the Astrodome: A friend of mine, Will Reed, runs a program in Houston that sets up community tech centers. When Will heard that evacuees were coming to town, he immediately went to work to set up a tech...
• 07-Sep-2005
  White House authorized FEMA on 27 Aug 05 Blame Game, Set and Match On Saturday, August 27, 2005 — two days before Hurricane Katrina made landfall — President George W. Bush assumed responsibility for the coordination of “all disaster relief efforts” in the State of Louisiana. This is the specific, undisputed language of Bush’s declaration of a State of Emergency, issued that day...
• 06-Sep-2005
  Breathing for People EMS & Hurricane Katrina: Hurricane Katrina – Our Experiences: We also suspect the media will have been inundated with “hero” images of the National Guard, the troops and the police struggling to help the “victims” of the Hurricane. What you will not see, but what we witnessed,were the real heroes and sheroes of the hurricane...

  respiratory-therapy
• 06-Sep-2005
  Moorpark Packers The Moorpark Packers website: (www.moorparkpackers.com) has gotten a facelift. Devon is helping work on the PHP backend, I did the minimal styling, and Tony and Ty are on one of the actual teams. It’s a family affair. In a few days it should even be the #1 hit for a search on google for moorpark...
• 06-Sep-2005
  More Katrina Links Keith Olbermann/MSNBC: Editorial comment on Katrina and failed government. City of New Orleans, Disaster Preparedness: Hurricanes Bush’s cynical photo ops on the Gulf Coast New Orleans Times-Picayune keeps on keeping on. Some Astrodome Pix First hand hurricane account: Mayhem. FEMA timeline: yuck Satellite/aerial photos of Katrina damage (links from Rafe Colburn) LiveJournal of a Nurse...
• 06-Sep-2005
  Long Weekend Long weekend. Getting back in the swing. Rock on. More later today. I have another dose of KatrinaLinks today.
• 02-Sep-2005
  New Orleans and Katrina Damn difficult to blog about my drawings as a 15 year old with New Orleans underwater and in apocalyptic chaos. In addition to work going into this 3-day weekend, here’s what I’m looking at lately with regards to New Orleans. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Missisipi Valley Region Wikpedia: FEMA (I teared up as...