Photo courtesy of Ruffit at Flickr It never ceases to amaze me that we keep seeing additional allegations of abuse, fraud and waste come to light as a result of the Katrina hurricane, and it's aftermath. Brian Beutler of the Media Consortium (courtesy of AlterNet ) wrote a pretty telling article of the abuses dealt to laborers, who went to New Orleans to assist in the reconstruction/clean-up effort. Brian reports: In the two years since the disaster, there have been thousands of testimonials... Read Full Story
CONSERVATIVE TALKBACK RADIO HOST NEAL BOORTZ IS NOT THE KIND TO TAKE TOO KINDLY TO THE LOWER CLASSES IN PARTICULAR, especially such forced out of New Orleans thanks to Hurricane Katrina in 2005: Media Matters for America has duly noted where Mr. Boortz suggested that a Hurricane Katrina refugee in Atlanta consider Mrs. Warren's Profession as her meal ticket out of State welfare, and has dismissed the Lower Ninth Ward diaspora as "worthless parasites" (yes, he did use that phrase; hear the... Read Full Story
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Objectives. We analyzed the response of the Chicago Department of Public Health with respect to its effectiveness in providing health care to Hurricane Katrina evacuees arriving in the city.
Methods. Between September 12 and October 21, 2005, we conducted a real-time qualitative assessment of a medical unit in Chicago’s Hurricane Victim Welcome and Relief Center. A semistructured guide was used to interview 33 emergency responders in an effort to identify... Read Full Story
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the United States and the international community watched while a catastrophe displaced hundreds of thousands of Southern Louisiana residents; crime, starvation, and contamination condemned much of the New Orleans area; and minorities and the poor were neglected in one of the worst failures of U.S. government responses in our country's history. Since then, analysis has uncovered only the surface of a bungled and half-hearted response to the... Read Full Story
FEMA AND DUBYA GUMP
"STILL" "PISSING" IN
KATRINA VICTIM'S FACES,
AND TELLING THEM IT'S
"RAINING"!!!
WHERE IS THE F**KING OUTRAAAGE??? FEMA GIVES AWAY $85 MILLION OF SUPPLIES FOR KATRINA VICTIMS!!!
Story Highlights Bureau of Prisons, Postal Service and other agencies get "FREE" KATRINA GOODS. FEMA spokesman: Giveaway is "not news"; agency unaware people still need goods.
{UNAWARE KATRINA VICTIMS "STILL" NEED SUPPLIES??? THIS IS TOTALLY "BULLSH*T"!!! AFTER THREE YEARS... Read Full Story
Dear Missnexus.com readers,
Three years after Hurricane Katrina, there’s finally a bill in Congress that will give Katrina survivors a fair chance to rebuild their lives. But it won’t become law if enough representatives don’t stand up to support it.
The Gulf Coast Civic Works Act would hire 100,000 Gulf Coast residents and evacuees, providing them with training and jobs to rebuild their homes and communities. It started as nothing more than a good idea, but after thousands of... Read Full Story
I sat down to write a post on the two year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina just as I did for the one year anniversary , but I was too mad to write anything that day. I wanted whatever I would write to be more than a rant. I decided to take some extra time to evaluate the progress, check some sources, and make sure that I was providing accurate information. This may be late, but it is no less heartfelt. And yes, I'm still mad. The community in which I reside, some 60 miles inland from the... Read Full Story
from LazlosBasement We’ve had a few requests for a review of K-Ville . Since we covered the show earlier , we figured why not. So here’s a little quiz from the Basement, which just happens to be located down south in New Orleans. - Truth or Hollywood - The Opening – The series follows two police officers policing New Orleans two years post-Katrina (hence, K-Ville). One of the officers was on the force during the storm, and was deserted by his partner in the middle of the storm’s mayhem. Did... Read Full Story
Officials asked visitors to leave the Florida Keys on Sunday ahead of Tropical Storm Fay, which forecasters said could strengthen to a hurricane. See Video of the Kite Surfer brave enough to take on Tropical Storm Fay. Fay could start pelting parts of the Keys and south Florida as soon as Monday. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said a hurricane watch was in effect for the Florida Keys from south of Ocean Reef to Key West, and along the mainland from Card Sound Bridge west to Bonita... Read Full Story
Meet Pamela L. Lewis, a homeless 4.0 GPA student at Griffin Technical College that was displaced by Hurricane Katrina and is presently sleeping in a '95 Ford Explorer as a resident of Riverdale, Ga. without a source of income. The student, a Katrina survivor, was recently denied food-stamps by Clayton County-DFAS in Jonesboro, Ga. because she is not working at least 20 hrs/wk while attending school. And to top things off, a FEMA representative informed the student that her case was closed... Read Full Story
From Spain's Princess Letizia to Italy's Mara Carfagna, the game of politics is no stranger to beautiful, powerful women. Following is a list of women whose influence is matched only by their sheer hotness.
We've rounded up the fifty most infamous female teacher sex scandals the Internet has seen, and ranked them from most famous to least. We do it because we care.
