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BUSH LIED, WHITES DIED

How inconvenient for self-important libs and the MSM. And who would have guessed from all the hysterical coverage that the body count came in under 1,000? No matter, just don't report anything that exposes the bias.

In other news, I listened to Kathleen Blanco testifying on Capitol Hill last night on C-SPAN Radio. Talk about the Peter Principle! She was terrifically unimpressive. I don't think she answered a single question specifically -- all generalities, platitudes, evasion, denials, and finger-pointing. It is clear she is in way over her head. Say what you will about Mike Brown, when he testified, he gave names, dates, documented facts, and his own professional opinions. At least you knew what he was saying.

What's funny about these hearings, and all congressional hearings, is that the congresspersons don't really care how, or whether, the subject answers their questions. They just want to get their stilted, harassing questions on the record. One of the Republican congressmen was most concerned about Blanco pronouncing his name correctly, and constantly interrupted her replies. A Democrat congresswoman asked a lengthy, four-part question that no person could have answered without taking notes. She used almost all of her time asking the question. All the questions were political and it was all posturing on both sides. Why must we go through this silly, tedious exercise? Isn't that what Hannity & Colmes is for?

Statistics Suggest Race Not a Factor in Katrina Deaths

By Nathan Burchfiel CNSNews.com Correspondent

December 14, 2005

Statistics released by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals suggest that fewer than half of the victims of Hurricane Katrina were black, and that whites died at the highest rate of all races in New Orleans.

Liberals in the aftermath of the storm were quick to allege that the Bush administration delayed its response to the catastrophe because most of the victims ere black.

Damu Smith, founder of the National Black Environmental Justice Network, in September said that the federal government "ignored us, they forgot about us ... because we look like we look." Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan in October said that the Federal Emergency Management Agency wasn't fit to help the storm's victims because "there are not enough blacks high up in FEMA" and added that, "certainly the Red Cross is the same." Rapper Kanye West used his time on NBC's telethon for the hurricane victims to charge that, "George Bush doesn't care about black people."

But the state's demographic information suggests that whites in New Orleans died at a higher rate than minorities. According to the 2000 census, whites make up 28 percent of the city's population, but the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals indicates that whites constitute 36.6 percent of the storm's fatalities in the city.

African-Americans make up 67.25 percent of the population and 59.1 percent of the deceased. Other minorities constitute approximately 5 percent of the population and represented 4.3 percent of the storm's fatalities.

Overall for the state, 658 bodies have been identified. Forty-seven percent were African-American and 42 percent were Caucasian. The remaining bodies were either non-black minorities or undetermined. An additional 247 victims have not been identified, so their demographic information has not been released.