Fuck you, Denise Bollinger. Fuck you.

Yes, exactly! What, she tourists into a disaster area to gawk and take pictures of people who just lost everything and then has the balls to talk about class?

I thought this was a sophisticated city. I guess not.

That doesn't even make sense.

Kudos to the wire reporter for catching that, though. He's thinking the same thing we are.

eta: the article is here: [link]

It's an Associated Press report, Cindy.

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I keep thinking about looting.

I can understand the impulse I think, the stuff is RIGHT THERE. It is likely to be garbage if you don't pick it up. I'm confident I'd fight that urge, however.

But if I were broke, and my house was destroyed, and all my clothes and the like were gone, and God alone knew when and if I'd have a job again, and I had kids... it makes sense to grab what you can in order to survive hell.

As freaked as we are we at least have information, the poor souls there know even less. Last night on the news they mentioned there was no PA in the Superdome -- the rain starts coming in and there's no efficient way to tell people that the structure is still sound. There was no good way to tell them what neighborhoods are underwater. That's just one example and those are people in a SHELTER.

Yes, exactly! What, she tourists into a disaster area to gawk and take pictures of people who just lost everything and then has the balls to talk about class?

It reminds me of the complaints about the vendors selling swag at the WTC. The VENDORS? What about the people buying the crap? The vendors are largely poor folks who, at least initially, had just lost their already shitty jobs. The purchasers are TOURISTS buying SOUVENIERS. Ugh.

If I were in that sitch, I'd raid the grocery store for bottled water, canned everything, tampons, antibacterial everything, and maybe hit a pharmacy for amoxocillin. Then I'd hit a gun shop for a pistol and as many bullets as I could handle.

This I know about me.

Survival rawks.

As freaked as we are we at least have information, the poor souls there know even less. Last night on the news they mentioned there was no PA in the Superdome -- the rain starts coming in and there's no efficient way to tell people that the structure is still sound.

No PA, no Jumbotron, no communications methods. All the news they're getting is from the refugees that the Guard and police are hauling into the dome.

Word is that the TV stations are working with the city to see if there's any way they can get power to the PA and Jumbotron so that they can broadcast some of the images, but apparently the Superdome's backup generators are being threatened by the rising water, so they may not have any power at all soon.

A top casino executive is calling on the Mississippi Legislature to enact emergency legislation to keep the state's coast gaming industry alive.

Isn't that what insurance is for?

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A friend of mine had some vision problems as a child that her doctor attributed to her not blinking properly. She had to practice blinking. There was even a pamphlet.

I gotta admit, when she told me that, I blinked a couple of times.

Anyone else hoping Denise Bollinger gets stuck on an isolated patch of concrete as the floodwaters rise?

Go team Fay!