An appropriate choice of music
Almost by accident I put one of my favourite CDs on the sound system at home this evening: Grasshopper, by J.J. Cale. He is the king of laid-back. And of course it suddenly hit me – he is one of the great popularisers of Cajun blues, the music one associates with the area in and around Louisiana and New Orleans.
The debt we owe, musically, to this part of the world is immense. Let’s hope the people of that hurricane-lashed place make it through this hell and can return to what they do best – chillin’ to the blues.
Comments are off for this postHurrricane Katrina charity blog drive
Instapundit has round-up of all those people who are participating in this worthy endeavor, as well as a list of charities. Truth Laid Bear has organised this event and created a page for the cause. Blogs from across the spectrum are raising funds for those affected by Hurricane Katrina.
This blog is encouraging you to give to the American Red Cross. I would ask that once you do you head to the contribution round-up page.
If you need any encouragement to realise how dire things are please read the post below from a doctor on the ground in New Orleans. Below is a collection of posts on this terrible storm.
I shall be keeping this post at the top of the page all day.
Update: Gulf Coast News has a searchable database for helping to find loved ones and friends in the area they cover. If any of you good readers can donate server space they would appreciate it as it is getting quite a bit of traffic.
So far $ 571,303
Read more 2 commentsLive from Katrina’s ground zero
The Evil We Face
See him and hear him…Its war he says. I hope those who are against the WoT head his words.
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In a word: No. Arachoix has written the definitive retort to Its Bush’s fault. Its in the comment section to this post.
Here is another case of someone, Robin Burke explaining the federal vs state situation in this kind of disaster.
Comments are off for this postIs there hope for the BBC?
The BBC regularly comes under fire for alleged bias in its political coverage.And the area that has prompted the most serious complaints lately is the Middle East, with many accusing the corporation of having a pro-Palestinian agenda.
Who can forget the broadcast by BBC correspondent Barbara Plett last year, in which she admitted to crying as she saw a dying Yasser Arafat airlifted from his home?
So it is perhaps timely that the BBC is to conduct an investigation into its coverage of Israel and Middle East affairs.
“BBC governors are for the first time commissioning a review of the impartiality of its Middle East reporting,” reveals today’s Jewish Chronicle.
“No terms of reference or names of panellists have been announced yet, but the corporation is said to have been stung by allegations of lack of balance from both Israeli and Palestinian supporters.”
From: Spy
Comments are off for this postClassy…
ROPMA retard, aka a Senior Kuwaiti official, calls Katrina divine wind. You knew it was coming.
Comments are off for this postWalkin’ To New Orleans
i’m going to need two pair of shoes
when I get through walkin’ to you
when I get back to new orleans
New readers (one or two must trickle in occasionally—I can dream, can’t I?) might be wondering about my silence on the most important story of the last few days. Nothing to worry about. I routinely neglect big stories, not out of lack of concern, but because I rarely have anything to say that hasn’t been said by someone else, quicker and better.
Having no specific knowledge of New Orleans or its environs; nor of hurricanes, rescue operations; nor of . . . much, really, now that I think about it—I’m reduced to offering platitudes that however genuinely intended, always sound at least to me banal and trite.
So at least post links to charities and government pages and NGOs? I could do that. It’s a mechanical process that I don’t enjoy much, though, and in the time I could cobble together some half-assed list, the real pros like Glenn Reynolds and Michelle Malkin would have slapped up twice the information, with the usual extensive commentary to boot.
Also, I am supported in this by a Higher Authority: James Lileks:
Read more 1 commentGood news from Hurricane area
Michele is your source for encouraging news from the area.
Michelle Markin has excellent coverage of the aftermath.
Andrea has a nice lament for New Orleans.
Truth Laid Bear is organising a Hurricane Relief Blog Day for 1 September.
Colby has a good piece on Hurricane Katrina. He examines those who wish o use this disaster as an excuse to make political points. Has a second post on the subject of stupid assertions about N.O. Dean has a round-up of Loiusiana politicians and what they have or have not done.
You deal with looters (no I am not talking those getting food) the same way you deal with zombies…one bullet in the head… Read more
Comments are off for this postMitch’s New Video
Everything Sounds Like Coldplay Now
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Ok, I’ve made through a few more posts and I want to correct an idea, not that I expect Jeremy to believe me.Jeremy wrote: “4) 911 was a response to American interventions in the Middle East and the US support of Israel. Its churlish not to admit that”
More likely 911 was a delayed reaction to Qtub visiting the United States in 1949 and seeing (horrors) men and women dancing together in a Church!
That’s when he decided that America was the great unbelief that was a temptation to the young and the greatest threat to the morals Muslims.
9/11 was caused by the jitterbug
Posted by: Joshua Scholar at September 1, 2005 04:19 PM
From this thread at Harry’s
Course the sad thing is numbnut loons like Pat Robertson and Fred Phelps would probably agree.
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