{"id":28,"date":"2005-09-02T19:56:03","date_gmt":"2005-09-03T03:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/unfathomable\/"},"modified":"2005-09-02T19:56:03","modified_gmt":"2005-09-03T03:56:03","slug":"unfathomable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/unfathomable\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfathomable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like things are improving somewhat today, but this week and the events unfolding in New Orleans are just incomprehensible. I watched two things this morning on CNN.com that everyone should see and since they prudently decided to start allowing free video again, it&#8217;s possible. Two disclaimers are that you need Windows Media Player and that these are only good for a week from posting date.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New Orleans Mayor Nagin gives an interview unlike any other I&#8217;ve ever heard from a public official. You can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/09\/02\/nagin.transcript\/index.html\">transcript<\/a>, but it&#8217;s more effective if you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/player\/player.html?url=\/video\/us\/2005\/09\/02\/wwl.nagin.intv.affl\">listen to him<\/a>\n<li>We keep hearing about the people at the convention center and the Superdome, but who knows how many people are in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/player\/player.html?url=\/video\/us\/2005\/09\/01\/sanchez.swift.boat.rescue.cnn\">this situation<\/a>?\n<\/ul>\n<p>And, as usual, <a href=\"http:\/\/rudepundit.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/totally-black-in-new-orleans-before.html\">Rude Pundit tells it like it is<\/a>. He <a href=\"http:\/\/rudepundit.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/mr.html\">shows us<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/rudepundit.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/even-mr.html\">Mr. Bill is smarter than Shrub<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/rudepundit.blogspot.com\/2005\/09\/empty-vessel-as-president-heres-rude.html\">proposes a constitutional amendment<\/a> that I can get behind.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update with more stuff:<\/b><\/p>\n<p> The <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/shared\/spl\/hi\/americas\/05\/katrina\/html\/satellite.stm\">BBC<\/a> has some good before and after aerial shots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/gene-stone\/for-bush-katrina-is-the-_b_6654.html\">This<\/a> is an interesting take on the poor response of the federal government. I give it marks for originality anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like things are improving somewhat today, but this week and the events unfolding in New Orleans are just incomprehensible. I watched two things this morning on CNN.com that everyone should see and since they prudently decided to start allowing free video again, it&#8217;s possible. Two disclaimers are that you need Windows Media Player <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/unfathomable\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-2-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}