Part of the art of blogging is finding things that people want to read about and better yet, talk about. So I often check other blogs for what is news in the blogsphere. Tonight I found a post by Weicker Liker on Connecticut Local Politics (CLP) which linked back to MyLeftNutmeg (MLN). And the comments following that post were less than happy over the post appearing on MyLeftNutmeg, which is an interesting reaction to what seemed to me a fairly interesting post. Roiling debates with people that have differing views is a good thing, but at MLN, it’s batten down the hatches time, and attack the dissenter. For me at least, I prefer the dissent and debate, it’s what makes watching the British Parliament way more interesting than watching C-Span. But I digress … the post for your review:

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One thing that strikes me about the debate about the budget cap is that there’s even a debate. When the Tsunami flooded Indonesia and Thailand, the world rose to the occasion of helping the victims. When Katrina, Rita and then Wilma swept in from the Gulf sea, again the world recognized that we all needed to help out. I’m not saying that the flooding in Norwalk is as significant by any means. But the failure of the levies in New Orleans bear a similarity in that those New Orleans levies failed because the investment in improving them was not made. And here’s Norwalk’s little Katrina moment, because parts of Norwalk is flooding, increasingly each month. Norwalk’s flooding is not a mystery.

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