Thursday, September 01, 2005
FEMA boss Michael Brown was the goat du jour on Nightline. He made a disgraceful appearance. Brown began passing off blame on New Orleans for lacking buses, but Koppel cut him right off mid-sentence. Then Brown started to say Convention Center refugees were being fed & Koppel had to stop him again - Nightline had just reported the misery there a few hours ago at sunset. It's a disgrace all the way up & down the leadership ladder. The aid workers & military on the ground are doing what they can with what they have. Most of what was accomplished today could have been done yesterday, & what was done yesterday on Tuesday. Where was that 24 hours of disaster response lost? Right at the very top, with the only person in America who had the power & resources at hand to coordinate it. He also had the warning. Instead, he chose 24 more hours of vacation. In an interview this morning he said "They didn't expect a breeching of the levees. They didn't didn't expect such a serious storm." Italics are mine. Remind us again, Harry. Where does the buck stop?
Update: DJ Dave The Spazz reports Fats was seen at Superdome, but Alex Chilton & Ernie K. Doe's widow are still unaccounted for.
From Roger Friedman at Fox News
Antoine "Fats" Domino, has not been heard from since Monday afternoon. Domino, 76, lives with his wife Rosemary and daughter in a three-story pink-roofed house in New Orleans’ 9th ward, which is now under water.On Monday afternoon, Domino told his manager, Al Embry of Nashville, that he would “ride out the storm” at home. Embry is now frantic.
Also not heard from by friends through last night: New Orleans’s “Queen of Soul” Irma Thomas, who was the original singer of what became the Rolling Stones’ hit, “Time is On My Side.”
Last night, Allen Toussaint was one of the 25,000 people holed up at the New Orleans Superdome hoping to get on a bus for Houston’s Astrodome. I know this because he got a message out to his daughter, who relayed to it through friends.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Update: DJ Dave The Spazz reports Fats was seen at Superdome, but Alex Chilton & Ernie K. Doe's widow are still unaccounted for.
From Roger Friedman at Fox News
Antoine "Fats" Domino, has not been heard from since Monday afternoon. Domino, 76, lives with his wife Rosemary and daughter in a three-story pink-roofed house in New Orleans’ 9th ward, which is now under water.On Monday afternoon, Domino told his manager, Al Embry of Nashville, that he would “ride out the storm” at home. Embry is now frantic.
Also not heard from by friends through last night: New Orleans’s “Queen of Soul” Irma Thomas, who was the original singer of what became the Rolling Stones’ hit, “Time is On My Side.”
Last night, Allen Toussaint was one of the 25,000 people holed up at the New Orleans Superdome hoping to get on a bus for Houston’s Astrodome. I know this because he got a message out to his daughter, who relayed to it through friends.
