Nagin calls Ground Zero, “hole in the ground”

August 26, 2006 by Joe

Well the mayor of Chocolate City is at it again. Once again, the wonderful public figure has opened up his mouth and jammed his foot inside of it.

He was interviewed by 60 Minutes this week for a segment that is scheduled to air this Sunday night, CBS however has posted a video clip and text from the interview on their website.

When confronted by accusations that the post-Katrina clean up effort is taking too long Mr. Nagin defended himself by attacking New York City. Very classy.

During a walk through of New Orleans’s Ninth Ward, when CBS News National Correspondent Byron Pitts mentions the flood-damaged cars and a house washed partially into the street, the man who months ago made an idiot of himself with his Chocolate City comments has done it again with yet another idiotic statement.

“That’s alright. You guys in New York can’t get a hole in the ground fixed and it’s five years later. So let’s be fair.”

So let’s be fair? Mr. Nagin you know nothing about being fair.

You say that them guys in New York can’t get “hole in the ground fixed,” I’m sorry Mr. Nagin but that “hole in the ground” wasn’t just any hole. It was the site of the tallest buildings in the United States where almost 3000 innocent civilians died in the most sickest and disgusting terrorist attack perpetrated on the US ever.

It is one thing to criticize the rebuilding effort I can understand that, it is also all right to criticize the different plans that have been created for what to do with the Ground Zero site.

But calling Ground Zero a “hole in the ground” is just disgusting.

I do not understand how this totally and utterly inept man who makes the most ridiculous comments whenever there is a camera in front of him has been re-elected. Especially since a lot of the problems with the evacuation could have been alleviated by him.

Rudy Giuliani was a shining example of courage in the face of horror and became America’s Mayor post 9/11. Ray Nagin on the other hand well… “Excuse my French everybody in America but I am pissed.”

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Where have all the real feminists gone?

August 26, 2006 by Joe

I just came across a great editorial by Pamela Bone in The Australian. She brought up a peaceful demonstration this past summer in Iran, where a group of Iranian woman were calling for changes in Iranian Law hoping to give the testimony of a woman in court the same value as does the testimony of a man. The demonstrators, who were mostly women, were beaten with batons and attacked with tear gas by Iran’s State Security Forces.

Not only has this story not been reported in mainstream Western media outlets, but as Ms. Bone points out it hasn’t garnered a peep of attention from feminist organizations in the West either. You would think that feminists in the West would be up in arms over this, but they have been too busy rallying against Bush and Tony Blair to rally against the treatment of their sisters in the Mideast.

There is still some hope out there however:

Thank goddess, as they used to say: a few Western feminists have begun to wonder why women who once marched for women’s rights are marching alongside people who would take away even the most basic of those rights.

The latest is Sarah Baxter, a former Greenham Common protester, who in Britain’s The Sunday Times had this to say about a recent demonstration in London calling for a ceasefire in Lebanon: “Women pushing their children in buggies bearing the familiar symbol of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament marched alongside banners proclaiming ‘We are all Hezbollah now’, and Muslim extremists chanting, ‘Oh Jew, the army of Mohammed will return’.

“I could never have imagined that many of the same crowd I hung out with then would today be standing shoulder to shoulder with militantly anti-feminist Islamic fundamentalist groups whose views on women make Western patriarchy look like a Greenham peace picnic.”

The question is why so many Western feminists do not speak out about the cruelty that blights the lives of millions of women in Islamic countries and would do the same to women everywhere else should the Islamists succeed in their stated aim of creating a worldwide caliphate. “On the defining issue of our times, the rise of Islamic extremism, what is left of the sisterhood has almost nothing to say,” Baxter writes. Says Chesler: “Women’s studies programs should have been the first to sound the alarm. They did not.”

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