I just posted this comment to Making Light

To reiterate: The germane fact is not that [the president of Jefferson Parish] breaks down crying on Meet The Press, but that he breaks down crying after describing how FEMA refused his stranded community water and fuel, and then, in an astonishingly chilling flourish, cut their emergency communication lines. [The italics were quoting pnh quoting China Miéville (thanks for the correction, Patrick).]

I don't know details of Louisiana law, but in New York, that's not just vandalism, it's depraved indifference to human life, and murder charges against the people who did it, and whoever gave the orders to do so, if anyone died of hunger or thirst in that parish after that point.

I believe the New Orleans district attorney should be preparing indictments against the heads of FEMA and Homeland Security on charges of at least criminally negligent homicide--the image of them trying to bargain it down to manslaughter is darkly amusing--and possibly depraved indifference. They withheld food and water from hungry, thirsty refugees. They knew, or should have known, the effects of that.

There are witnesses--many of them relatives and neighbors--who can testify to those deaths, to the identities of those who died, and to when they died.

No wonder Bush doesn't want us seeing the bodies: they're evidence of crimes by his cronies.

I just posted this comment to Making Light

To reiterate: The germane fact is not that [the president of Jefferson Parish] breaks down crying on Meet The Press, but that he breaks down crying after describing how FEMA refused his stranded community water and fuel, and then, in an astonishingly chilling flourish, cut their emergency communication lines. [The italics were quoting pnh quoting China Miéville (thanks for the correction, Patrick).]

I don't know details of Louisiana law, but in New York, that's not just vandalism, it's depraved indifference to human life, and murder charges against the people who did it, and whoever gave the orders to do so, if anyone died of hunger or thirst in that parish after that point.

I believe the New Orleans district attorney should be preparing indictments against the heads of FEMA and Homeland Security on charges of at least criminally negligent homicide--the image of them trying to bargain it down to manslaughter is darkly amusing--and possibly depraved indifference. They withheld food and water from hungry, thirsty refugees. They knew, or should have known, the effects of that.

There are witnesses--many of them relatives and neighbors--who can testify to those deaths, to the identities of those who died, and to when they died.

No wonder Bush doesn't want us seeing the bodies: they're evidence of crimes by his cronies.

Gym

I was a bit tired and had a sore throat by mid-afternoon, but I also knew that my mood needed weight-lifting, so I went. It's a balancing act between the direct physical health of not pushing my body too hard, and the physical and mental benefits of lifting my mood by shoving metal around. ( Read more... )

Gym

I was a bit tired and had a sore throat by mid-afternoon, but I also knew that my mood needed weight-lifting, so I went. It's a balancing act between the direct physical health of not pushing my body too hard, and the physical and mental benefits of lifting my mood by shoving metal around. ( Read more... )